the potential of a new world order and where the u.s. fits into this. we talked a lot about the so-called mad men theory of foreign policy. you re so unpredictable and provocative, that you make enemies think you are capable of anything at a given moment of time. the president is increasingly employing the strategy not just with north korea, which he talked about fire and fury and total destruction, but he is also using it with allies. he is driving a wedge now through the eu with this pipeline talk. yup. this is an issue that is contentious there, as we just talked about. this is a chancellor in angela merkel who is not very popular right now. who has her own problems. pitting allies against one another in nato in order to get some concessions is apparently the strategy here. it comes with all the downsides, the potential downsides of the mad men strategy. annie, very quickly to you. let s bring it back home here. talk through not just how this
doesn t fight this footh atooth nail is going to find themselves in trouble. take the red staters out of it. if you are a democrat in a blue state, do you need to do something other than pounding on the nominee? i don t know. i mean, i think it was very notable that when we first saw judge kavanaugh, he talked about his mom. he talked about his wife. he talked about his girls. he talked about how many clerks he had, the majority of who i am were women. what does this mean on the democratic side? i think on the democratic side, again, taking those red state democrats out of the equation, this is going to be a chance for the democrats to continue to energize their base. i think that they are looking at the republican playbook and beginning to realize that they need to start using they need to start using these sorts of things to get their base energized on courts. i think that this is going to be step one in the process. annie and aaron, thank you for sticking around. appreciate th
sit on the united states supreme court. these are the same kind of scare tactics that democrats have been using against conservative, judicial appointments for decades now. it has not changed roe v. wade. we ll nominate conservative justices who believe in the law as it is written. this administration is pro-life. there is no way around that. they are. they will continue to be. but when it comes to judicial appointments, they re looking for the type of jurist they re going to be, and not have a litmus test about specific cases. mark, appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you for coming on the program. thank you. with less than four months until election day, how will the overall battle for the supreme court affect the mid-term landscape? i have two great people joining me to help answer that question. aaron blake and annie linsky. aaron, i ll start with you. is that what we ll hear from the lot of republicans, is that we don t know how judge kavanaugh is going to vo
meeting. actually, it was reported as incredibly good and my performance, you know, someone dauld a performance, i consider it work, but had great reviews. whoa. anyway, what accounts for the president s shifting views on daca, on his new found interest in bipartisan? let s bring in the roundtable for that. donna edwards from maryland, chris wilson is a republican pollster and former executive director of the texas republican party and annie linsky. what s he up to? he has to show he s mister i listen to all sides, he doesn t. he acted reasonable. he made a show. he made a joke about it. this is post modernism. he calls it a studio. he s calling his cabinet room a studio because it s all for show. he talks about his performance. i don t think there s any real strategy here. what i do believe is president
somewhere else, they make that decision. ear marks, the president started talking about bringing back an earmark. what s an earmark? it s a pet project that members of congress and you attach it to a bill. like a purse museum or something like that. and the interest thing about earmarks is conservative groups tried very hard to get rid of them and they succeeded. their biggest ally in that fight was a congressman from indiana known as mike pence. and his chief of staff at the time, who was mark shoc short, the legislative director at the white house. i think it helps the president to bring in, if it s a close vote in the house, he can get a couple votes with ear marks. thank you, donna edwards, chris wilson, and annie linskey. you re watching hardball. i work overtime when i can get it.