Court. And everybody started to trying to figure out who theyre going to blame in the reagans white house for the political disaster. President reagan suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat in the u. S. Supreme court when the man he dominated asked that his name to be withdrawn. It was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use. Officials knew he could never win confirmation. The front runner to become the new nominee considers to be judge Anthony Kennedy of california. With or nbc news correspondent robert lloyd. Reporter it happened quickly for ginsburg, less than 48 hours from the time he disclosed that he had smoked marijuana and at the white house calling it quit. I asked president reagan to not forward my nomination to the Supreme Court. Reporter the president commended him for his clear thinking. Late this afternoon, the attorney general pushed hard for the ginsburgs nomination and dodging any blame. Together we provided the information to him and he ultimately made
Country. Ive been more successful than almost any administration. And from from that world body, he has he receives spontaneous laughter at that claim. Even trump, in an unusual moment had to acknowledge it. But its a snapshot of where the United States is right now. The United States has significantly changed its position in my judgment for the worst. We are not seen as the leader of traditional institutions. Trump was bragging about how hes pulling the United States out of them, out of the International Criminal court, out of the Human Rights Commission. He was siting those as advantages of his policy. The rest of the world for the most part feels very differently and thats what we saw yesterday. Interesting, too, sam, the president was jarred by that moment. Hes used to get ago cheer like at that boy. But there he kind of paused and stopped in his tracks and later said well, it was meant to be a joke. But if you look at the content of the speech, it was not unlike the one he made la
Favorability rating since 2011. President trump and the leader of south korea moon jaein signed the u. S. Korea free trade agreement. I have never seen my name in korean. Looks nice. Stayed up night long made our drinks too strong feeling 10 feet tall. Steve weirdly, that song is when what we did in the. Shoot. All night long. Anna all on the record. Brian fox nation is going to be one of the most unique rollouts in the history of television overthetop programming. Anna you are going to be doing a lot of history and cooking. Steve if you want more information about the subscription based fox nation for the super fans go to foxnews. Com. Brian we were not doing the shoot we were buzzing about Brett Kavanaughs interview with Martha Maccallum last night. First time we had a chance to hear from him sings his 30 hours when he was just defending his judicial record. Now he sat down to talk to martha about the three accusations coming his direction. First from high school. The second from col
Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever have the privilege of knowing or meeting. A great intellect, a great gentleman, an impeccable reputation, went to yale, top student. Went to yale law, top student. So weve got to let it play out. Bill peter doocy this morning, and washington. What else is dr. Ford worried about, peter . Her security, bill. Now some democrats have been asking the fbi to research or investigate her allegations of sexual misconduct, asking the fbi to look into threats against her. They wrote a letter to the fbi director. Part of it says this. We are increasingly concerned by reports of alleged Death Threats against her, the hacking of her email, and with the harassment and intimidation that dr. Blasey ford has been facing after being forced into the spotlight late last week. In d. C. This morning, this is a crowd that is very motivated by conservative Supreme Court justices in 2016. A few moments from now, Mitch Mcconnell is going to talk to this c
About this complaint as many americ americans are and or, that they just want to get it over. In the line of fire, donald trump hinting that Jeff Sessions may be in even more jeopardy telling an interviewer, i dont have an attorney general. Im disappointed in the attorney general for many reason, and you understand. Are you going to fire him . Are you going to fire Jeff Sessions . Is we are looking at lots of different things. And flood zone, and right now, President Trump in new bern, North Carolina, handing out meals by those affected by Hurricane Florence, and we will have a lot more coverage coming up. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and while in North Carolina, the president continues to hand out lunchboxes the people in new bern, North Carolina n the flood zone. Where, thank goodness the rains have finally stopped. We will have more coverage coming up. Meanwhile, here in washington, the republicans are pushing back from the requests of Christine Blasey f