divisive this battle has been. let s bring in mike viqueira. mike, give us the latest what you re seeing. those protests till look pretty thick. reporter: let s get you up to date. it s somewhat filtered out here. we ve seen the united states capitol police and supreme court police move the bicycle rack cordons across the front marble plaza of the court forcing and getting people to come down off of those steps. everybody s back on the sidewalk now. it s pretty much a status quo. a fraction of the crowd we all here just a few moments ago over the course of the last hour. that remarkable scene as protesters mimicking what had been done across the street swarming the steps to the supreme court rushing up to the enormous brass doors and banging on them. i don t know it was the moment that now associate justice
justices have surprised the presidents who named them once they got onto the court and turned out not to vote the way they were specced. think of suit earn stevens. but that seems highly unlikely, less likely in kavanaugh s case than any justice who has come to the court in that 15-year period that we had a middle. there is no more middle now. shannon, i wonder if in your reporting when you talk to republicans who probably feel very good tonight whether or not they feel that will settling even deep near that binary where the republican party is the party essentially of white americans or conservative and the democrat are the party of the people of color, minorities, immigrants, lgbt, everyone else who doesn t follow under the rubric donald trump says he s out there working for. whether or not settlinging intoing that and dragging the court further into it long-termite be a problem for the republican party. or are they thinking we re driving forward, we own the court, it doesn t matte
largely i want to stress of his own making. and you know, this is what happens when you go on the court with aster risks by your name. it s a very hard situation. the only way for him to resolve it is to be a very rigorous, serious, independence straight shooter over a long period of time. you know, i don t think there s a short cut. it s difficult to do that. i read omarosa s book. she said the way she got the apprentice gig, she became donald trump. there s no way to unring that bell. he has said there s a clinton conspiracy. a case that involves democrats if it comes before court, what does he do? he really did sound donald trumpesque in the hearings when he became i think it s fair to say a little unhinged invoking the clintons and conspiracy theorys. it remains to be seen if he will pull back and use his attention to detail and thoroughness for good or rettory bukz against
that judgment right now. this is an incredibly passionate crowd and culmination to two weeks of protests both outside and inside the halls of the united states senate. joy? and mike, stay with me for one more moment. have you ever seen anything like these kinds of protests tied to a supreme court nomination before? reporter: i have to say, it was the end of the day. the sun starting to go down. crowd was thing out somewhat. i thought they were losing energy and then suddenly, a swarm these protesters running up the steps of the supreme court in almost will identical fashion to how they did earlier in the day on the east front of the u.s. capitol. so a lot of passion. i mean, it goes without saying. look on the faces of these protesters. an extraordinary moment. i ve been a journalist in washington for 28 years. i wasn t reporting during the 60s but i don t recall ever
have you found many protesters upset on behalf of brent kavanaugh? whose court? our court. do we have mike viqueira? i don t think we have mike. let me get hallie jackson back. hallie, we re looking at the protests. we can see them. we now have police heading up the steps of the supreme court. you see a lot of very passionate angry people. i don t know if you ve been down on the capital steps or an up the supreme court steps. donald trump would like the country to believe those protests are people upset what happened to brett kavanaugh, not the fact he was credibly accused of sexual assault and is yet on the court. which of those two things is true in your reporting? . i m looking at exactly what you re looking at, signs that say we believe women. clearly anti-kavanaugh protests. it was notable what the president just said.