precedent, and gave a chilling and sad description of the environment that we re all living in today. it was truly a modern day profile in courage. frankly, i don t know susan collins, and i don t know her well at all, i don t get impressed that often. the speech today, frankly, blew me away. she should be proud. frankly, it had a lot less to do with her decision, although that s very important in all of this. than the pure human decency, fairness, and process that she employed to get to her decision. let s take a look. today, we have come to the conclusion of a could be firmation process confirmation process that has become so disfunctional, it looks more like a character of a gutter level political campaign than a solemn occasion. judge kavanaugh has received rave reviews for his 12-year
precedent, and gave a chilling and sad description of the environment that we re all living in today. it was truly a modern day profile in courage. frankly, i don t know susan collins, and i don t know her well at all, i don t get impressed that often. the speech today, frankly, blew me away. she should be proud. frankly, it had a lot less to do with her decision, although that s very important in all of this. than the pure human decency, fairness, and process that she employed to get to her decision. let s take a look. today, we have come to the conclusion of a could be firmation process confirmation process that has become so disfunctional, it looks more like a character of a gutter level political campaign than a solemn occasion. judge kavanaugh has received rave reviews for his 12-year
today we have come to the conclusion of a confirmation process that has become so dysfunctional it looks more like a caricature of a gutter level political campaign. joining us now, somebody who knows a lot about the history of gutter level political campaigns, john meacham, political historian. did we make history in the animosity, not just partisan divides, but gender divides in this country over the nomination fight of judge brett kavanaugh? i think we reached historic levels of exacerbation of those levels absolutely. one of the things that i find so interesting about senator collins speech is she was voting to confirm a vision of brett kavanaugh that had far more inspect common with susan collins than it does with judge kavanaugh. if you take the first part of
2050. we have to think about this titanic shift. that s what started this up. anthony kennedy, so important on those hot-button issues, abortion, lgbt rights, affirmative action. that is all going to make this court take a hard right turn. and she talked about the process now of the court, and almost not only a rehabilitation the beginning of a rehabilitation for him, but for the court. she said this process has reached rock bottom. it s dysfunctional. it s gotten to a gutter level political campaign. that was real anger about the process. mark, i wonder what you think about what david said. because he hit the nail on the head about this being i don t think people out there who aren t part of the conservative movement, who have been working for this, as you said, for a generation, understand the win here. with justice soon to be, it seems, justice kavanaugh. you re both saying it s not just two supreme court nominations. there are more circuit judges confirmed in the first
this crazy conspiracy theory. i ll read his sons. until pizza gate is proven to be false, it will be a story. the podesta e-mails and the many coincidences tied to it. until we prove every day that martians aren t landing, they are landing. that s a very scary place to be. this is about leadership. the false flag thing. this guy wasn t actually believing this. there is some suggestion to devd devaluate. the gutter level of it and then you have the highest echelon of what this is really about. do facts still matter? of course, the answer has to be, yes. but when you have mike pence with our friend george and he says, look, the president-elect is entitled to his opinion, of course he is. but you ve never been entitled to your own facts. if there is this consistent defense of what the president-elect says when we know it is demonstrousively