decision. i m very close to making a decision. i have not made it official yet. have not made it final. teasing tonight s prime time supreme court announcement. say it s the four people, they re excellent, everyone, you can t go wrong. they are praising the candidates who includebred kavanaugh. republicans are holding four lottery tickets and they re all winners. mitch mcconnell has been urging president trump to choose kettlidge or hardamin. i think he has to think about who is the easiest to guest p
president would do and i think a past president would god with brett kavanaugh. he is tried and true. it would give the administration confidence based on his past record. but i just cannot predict president trump based on past presidents. i don t think it will be judge barrett if is a tough one. she might be worth saving for down the road. i m not betting money on this one, but to answer your question, i would i would say it s hard to say it out loud. i don t want to, you know, i would say judge kavanaugh would be the traditional pick. let s say that. be this is an area where we have seen trump really keep his
trying to handicap this. there is a fair amount being made of a recall pusal push. people saying let s go the path of at least resistance. that s right, it comes down to credentials and confirmability. in the last few weeks, it has all been about who is the splashy candidate that trump will pick. but now he has to think about who can he get throughout without too much political capital. and i would say erica and john, it goes into two categories here when we get to those four. brett kavanaugh and amy comey barrett. kavanaugh has the largest
president can t resist the reality show u frame for something as serious as this. kavanaugh is using his experience against him. we all get the risk of having a long record, but usually it s good for this. the downside is that he is a bush guy. a big defender of him. a real solid credential make it s a big lift for the president. joan, you do so much reporting for this. if you had to put your chipped in one basket, what would it be? it s funny you say that. i was thinking about what a past
everyone coming from the top law schools in the country. a couple things come to mind for me this morning. look how he handled the nomination. this was was he did by the conservative book. he went with intellect and pedigree. someone who clerked for him as well bhap is interesting about kavanaugh is he worked for kennedy as well. inside the legal world, the dc circuit court of appeals is the feeder to the supreme court if is so high profile. folk that s have gotten on this court are they have been confirmed and they have gone through a pretty rigorous test in the congress. remember the dc circuit handles something that they really care about which is government regulation. so this is where ka vanaugh hasa