mitch mcconnell has all but said, in the next two years not one year. in the next two years, if he s majority leader, he will not allow a vote on a democratic replacement a joe biden replacement for supreme court justice. so the margin now is about a year and a half. but it could be even shorter than that. now, with all respect to pat leahey, if there is a republican governor in vermont who would appoint his successor, the window for him to leave is extremely small to assure a democratic replacement. maybe, joan, maybe he ll leave next year. but who knows what the story will be next year before the midterms. you know, he is gambling with the future of the supreme court and ruth ginsburg lost that gamble. we ll see what happens with steven breyer.
joining us to analyze the fallout for the times and for journalism mollie hemingway of the federalist, fox news contributor, future of the supreme court. beverly, president of district media group and former state department official under hillary clinton, molly, obviously you coauthored a book of portrayal of justice kavanaugh, what s your view of level of proof in making this accusation of another long ago sexual assault incident and also do you buy the explanation that editors happened to cut that key information from the newspaper story in heist? they omitted the information, went out of their way to omit the information, npr had to edit in a clarification, the idea that we can claim editors for something coming from reporters is inappropriate, we interviewed more than a 100 people, we fact-checked everything, multiple sources for everything that we went with, yes, we do
fallout for the times and for journalism mollie hemingway of the federalist, fox news contributor, future of the supreme court. beverly, president of district media group and former state department official under hillary clinton, molly, obviously you coauthored a book of portrayal of justice kavanaugh, what s your view of level of proof in making this accusation of another long ago sexual assault incident and also do you buy the explanation that editors happened to cut that key information from the newspaper story in heist? they omitted the information, went out of their way to omit the information, npr had to edit in a clarification, the idea that we can claim editors for something coming from reporters is inappropriate, we interviewed more than a 100 people, we fact-checked everything, multiple sources for everything that we went with, yes, we do care of rule of law and
in molli mollie hemingway author of justice on trial. the kavanaugh and future of the supreme court. apparently the trump administration threatened legal action unless within 24 hours they got apology and retraction and they did. what are your observations about what we just saw over on that other channel? just kind of he a minored of whareminderseveral years. blockbuster stories were promised show definitive live that donald trump was a traitor who had colluded with russia to steal the 2016 election. based on anonymous sources. very thin sourcing. stories always fell apart under scrutiny mueller probe concluded not only with no information about donald trump colluding with russia to steal the 2016 election but not a single american. there is no evidence of any american doing. this and, yet, this is what the narrative was. it was so sad to see it for
to their counteroffer for a hearing on wednesday, bringing us closer to a hearing that could decide the future of the supreme court. and you can go ahead and reset that clock on the president showing any restraint. today he unleashed on professor ford and on her parents. in a tone deaf tweet, asking why didn t she report this to the fbi when she was 15? this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. a stunning report out this afternoon, revealing just how concerned at least one top administration official was about the chaos of the trump presidency and the behavior of president trump. the new york times reporting the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, told fbi and justice department officials he was considering secretly recording president trump to try to document the dysfunction he was witnessing and even discuss trying to garner support from cabinet officials to potentially invoke the 25th amendment to the