letter, she could have done this anonymously through the process they have. they do whistle-blower stuff all the time where people s names are anonymous. i could have started the process. not only that, but democrats have their own investigators on the judiciary committee that they pay for. they could have tracked down mark judge angela beauchamp. they could have done whatever they wanted. none of that was done. bill: chuck grassley said that we can t learn anything from the fbi that we can t learn ourselves. bret: that is his point. obviously democrats are hanging their hat on the fbi and their ability to do this. that is their argument. i think people looking at it, even though we always get caught up in process in washington, this process really is on trial in this moment because it could have been handled a lot differently. without a corroborating witness
martha: democrats on the judiciary committee fighting until the last minute to delay this scheduled vote on judge kavanaugh supreme court vote nomination which is scheduled to start in about 10 minutes. let s bring in our d.c. group, bret baier, marie harf, shannon bream, and learn and grow standing by. great to have everybody together here this morning. let me start with you. what to expect as we look at this? starting to file in the room. a lot of speculation about jeff flake it, who has been very noncommittal. appears to be leaning towards a yes, is that what you are hearing? it is tough to guess, just based on what he said last night, how he is leaning. he did have a meeting after the hearing yesterday. that is the person you re looking at in this committee
a circus. then he is supposed to have an asterisk after his name. so i reject this. in the minds of people who believe the supreme court is just a super legislator, may be, but in the minds of people who actually know the law and know the real role of the judiciary committee, which is limited to this application, they know what the truth is here, and it is about time that we gave everyone a civics lesson on what the branches are supposed to be. i hope this actually moves people to understand a little bit more about what is intended. it was not this. it was a mess, and i agree with lindsey graham. it ended up being a complete disgrace. bill: we have seen so many stories about how they got the news, watching it on their smartphones now.
i thought the president told me i could keep the insurance i have if i lake it. these turned out to be false promises and untrue. bill: it seems people are confused. i think everybody can agree with that. they don t know how their lives are going to change. with uncertainty for seniors comes fear. young people are worried they will face penalty or more expensive insurance. other exception is the healthcare exchanges that have not been quick to set up and the number of options offered is more limited in a lot of states. bottom line, uncertainty creates fear and fear creates political turmoil. bill: can you explain this away saying it s growing pains of a
what can you do? a 25 percent tax on china i could have one man, we will tax you 25 percent and i can say to another, listen [blank] we . i have never seen a presidential or potential presidential candidate include the f-word so we wanted to find out from our viewers in a poll whether this straight talk . it is not a mike slip. how many lake it, it is an overall poll. you did not break it down between republicans and democrats and when you do, it is not that balanced. it comes out more republicans didn t like it. and the bottom of the screen from april 25 to april 27th before the f bombs were dropped, let us know what you think; that presidential?