sense of a.micability that the rest of the world doesn t share. david swerdlick, assistant editor for the washington post, cnn supreme court analyst that covered the high court 25 years, and former u.s. attorney harry lipman who clerked for justice kennedy. now professor at uc san diego. joe, i want to tap into your wealth of knowledge. fair to say we have never seen a confirmation process like this. put it in perspective. spell out why this was unique. first of all, when you take all of the last century, most of the early supreme court nominees were approved on voice vote. it wasn t a big deal. going back 50 years, and we had in 1968, 1969, the flack where lbj tried to elevate a sitting
different meanings a day in your building. i said this to myself as an editor of a number of magazines, i took meetings with people i didn t know or i sent people to meetings. it wasn t a big deal. he didn t care. someone would come back and say that guy turned out to be a drug dealer. i didn t know he was a drug dealer. he said he wanted to buy advertising. people have meetings all the time. they send their lowly assistance or whoever is around to these meetings. it drives me crazy that this is somehow that some are bigger than an actual candidate. buying dirt sight unseen from the russians through a british spy. getting a 20 minute meeting that you don t give a dam about give a damn about. a lot of people haven t worked in business so they don t understand this. but a reporter will make a phone call to ask you about dirt about your coworker. they are doing the same exact kind of thing. every reporter that s written
remove material to publication, a lot of folks on social media with fake news, they are not laughing at this one, though. if they would have done two minutes of research they would have known it was fake. twitter also says, this what the term fake news exists. i have to say, though, the washington post was writing an article about that what, 14-year-old song because people in the uk have launched a campaign to skyrocket to the number one spot on i tunes and things like that because in honor of the president s visit coming up. rob: look how they retrack, they try to act like it wasn t a big deal in retraction and try to say it in i have a feeling that the former president thought it was a big deal. rob: thanks. jillian: thanks will be page will be missing on capitol hill. is she allowed to just dodge a
same conclusion agreeing with that nunes memo that there was fisa abuse. one of the interesting things about this new memo came out for a year we been told dossier so important and key. strategically leaked by obama people to legitimize it and say it was taken seriously. after a year being so much of our news cycle, adam schiff and other people were reading it into the record, you know, when they would have denial in hearings. now they are saying oh it wasn t a big deal. it wasn t a big deal at all. this is a dramatic turn around which suggests that they do not believe that the dossier is worth standing beside or standing behind and in fact we have been hearing from so many people that it is unverified and that the bulk of it is, you know, other than what was publicly reported had not been confirmed. tucker: am i just remembering this or is john mccain the first one that brought that dossier to the you will fbi. it is misremembering, the dossier was already in the fbi s hands. what
affiliated, even if we didn t know their distinct affiliation at that time. the second piece of this statement i find curious and it came from kellyanne conway as well. nothing came of this meeting. it wasn t a big deal. what if they had given you information? what would you have done with if? the next question. said, uh-oh. this came from a kremlin-backed source. we can t do anything with this or taken that information and done something with it? a great point. and a different way to look at it also is, the question about how politics works. how campaigns work. right. manu, jason miller, who was the communications director for the trump campaign now a cnn contributor, here s what he said about this. the fact that someone s coming forward with information about an opposing campaign would be insane to not at least go and send someone to sit down with them to figure out what they were talking about. okay. so that is true. but i ve heard from republican after republican today on