sf r roe v. wade. and also said that the list that the president put out during the election was a list that was put together by special interests, which is true because it was conservative groups who handed the president a list of people and said, well, these judges would be okay by us. they pass our litmus test. so the democrats are going to fight. but chuck schumer is a real list here. and he knows that all he can do is make hit political arguments right now because he doesn t have the filibuster. laura, what do you think? all politics is local here. and when the federal congress is essentially hand wringing and perhaps conceding that they don t have the votes, they are still trying to signal to people that these will return to states issues. if there is an overturning after a lengthy process to get it in front of the supreme court to overturn precedent on this level as opposed to narrowing it, he
say that hillary clinton yes, she was one again under investigation and he repeatedly asked himself whether he was influenced by the assumption widely report that had hillary clinton was going to win the election. according to new york times it is entirely possible that because i was making decisions in an environment where hillary clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation boar agreeder weight than it would have in the election appeared closer or if donald trump were ahead in all the polls, but i don t know. spare me the wringing of hands. the fbi has a tradition that the director could have stood behind. we do not talk about ongoing investigations, i don t care if it s a presidential candidate or the dogcatcher. the mistake jim comey made was in the summer when he raised the investigation later closed. he said i made the initial
morning, an explosion was called in to the police department. it occurred at the facility at 9935 duer lane. members of the schertz police, fire and ems responded and determined that in fact an explosion had occurred. shortly thereafter, members of the san antonio police department bomb unit, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, and the fbi arrived as well. a package had been traveling along the automated conveyor when it had exploded. one employee that was standing near the explosion later complained of wringing in the ears, she was treated and released. we were very fortunate that there were no injuries. it is very early in the investigation, obviously. but we re confident that neither this facility, nor any location in the schertz area, was a
you know how you get security clearances and the like and all the wringing you go through to get that. i m sure you dealt with the same. but obviously something fell through the cracks here, that will prompt a lot of americans whether republican or democrat orphans of this president, that the process itself might have problems. what do you think? i don t think the process itself has problems. no. neil, what typically happens, most applicants get cleared. the only thing that really slows it down is if there s something that lived abroad in 10 or 15 countries and it s hard to track down whether you re an american or whether or not you re neil: i m sorry. when you say cleared, cleared to handle sensitive material, right? no. you get a final clearance. you don t neil: would anything else come from the fbi or whoever is doing the clearance process,
in the post-trump era, the governor s race in virginia, polls have been closed an hour, the early results are showing. ralph north ham with 51% of the vote. ed anggillespie with 48% of the vote. too close to call, 43% of precincts in. if you look at a lot of bellwether precincts, at turnout projections, our own steve kornacki has been carefully looking at this, comparing apples to apples. right now ed northam appears to, in terms of turnout and margin, outperforming where he would need to be to the margins hold. encouraging early set of return for ed northam and the democrats after a lot of anxiety and wringing of hands about that race. we ll have more from virginia else and-where later in the show. we begin tonight with what has become a ritual for people closely associates with the president. long-time trump aide going to