Lets go to springer from montana with the president and his campaign speech. An indication how important the speech was given all that is going on in washington dc. And as expected a lot of high points on how strong the economy is and how democrats took control of congress, they would reverse those gains. Spent a lot of time attacking john tester, democratic senator in montana and a lot of time talking about the Supreme Court. Tester is running for reelection against matt rosen day or, staunch supporter of donald trumps, the second rally held by trump for rosendale who trailed tester in early polls but narrowed the gap and according to the latest poll has a lead. We can for more justices like neil gorsuch and Brett Cavanagh, people that will uphold the constitution and defend your Second Amendment rights. Reporter tester is running an ad that highlights several bills he sponsored that were signed by donald trump but tonight trump set on issues that matter like tax cuts, border security
court judge who went like this, i am paraphrasing. if you want to know what kind of judge somebody is going to be, that is the best record to make a determination. this gentleman on the circuit court for the best way of knowing whether to be on the supreme court. heather: did this backfire? ethan bearsman and pat vincent, welcome to you both. most of my day trying to run down what senator booker knew and when he knew it.
told by the senate committee staffers, you heard from the chairman himself it by 4:00 am, were told these things are for public consumption meaning you won t be in danger of being kicked out of the senate but here s what he said knowing that. i will say i did willingly violate the chair s room on the confidential process. i take full responsible for violating that because i sincerely believe the public deserves to know the nominee s record. neither he nor his staff knew what he knew when. what do you make of it? with the senate there are theatrics that happen in the world of politics and he played it to his advantage but with this information it may not be as much to his advantage but it is important that the american people get access to the documents that senator booker is releasing.
i m spartacus! i m spartacus! senator booker s release of emails was far from spartacus moment because he didn t break any rules. republicans on the judiciary committee had worked with george w. bush library to clear the emails was a lawyer for president bush that we were surprised to learn about senator booker s histrionics because we had our he told him, using them publicly. byron dowd tweeted i asked cory booker if his remarks were a stunt. he told me i was violating the constitution by being in his way. white house to be press secretary called booker s comments, quote, embarrassing and it turns out the emails were not damning at all, they showed brett kavanaugh was against racial profiling telling colleagues he favors, quote, effective security measures that are race neutral which prompted this, brett cavanagh did not
rules, i cordially invite and accept the consequences. reporter: not a spokesman for the senator nor esther booker, when the documents were ready for public release. rather than praising bipartisan efforts to get documents released booker told us this. the governing their own process, they rush to release them. reporter: brett cavanagh continues to field questions on hot button issues. roe v wide recognized abortion rights and reaffirmed many times. reporter: and the mueller investigation. the question is will you commit to recusing the judiciary requires they commit to the case and issue a commitment on discretionary recusal issue. in either direction. reporter: after the email