little bit of political darwinism. there are 92 house opponents. that s a real challenging place for republicans to be in and defend these seats. that s a different situation. if you look at john than allen had a great piece where he showed where the president was going and how the states and how it tied into congressional distric districts. from that standpoint, wherever i see the president goes into a state like montana for instance, and it has a big impact on matt rosendale s numbers against john testra. matt rosendale will be the senator if president trump goes to montana the weekend before the election. it s like nothing i ve seen before. obama didn t have that effect or george w. bush didn t have that impact. when he goes into a state or an area in certain states and certain areas. the president certainly does wi very well in areas that are not, shall we say, densely populated. he does well he s not doing
we had different perspectives. and, you know, as long as you were honorable, as long as you re honest, as long as you didn t leave anybody behind, as long as you treated people with dignity, you always got on with john, even if you strongly disagreed with hill, like i did in the war in iraq. give him some space. but, in fact, you didn t have those basic basic american values, then you didn t have a lot of respect for you. what do you think of the president s reaction? i don t have everybody knows who the president is come on, you guys all right, you just heard it from the vice president himself. he s here, this is one of the largest labor day parades in the country. he s here obviously campaigning with democrats nine weeks before the midterm elections. he s going to be very active. he s one of the most sought after democratic surrogates in these midterm elections. whether it means anything in
now, sir, talk about what this means in terms of your political future here. is this an audition for 2020? i ve known these guys my whole life. i d go anywhere with these guys. these are the guys that brought me to the dance as the saying goes. royalty. mr. vice president let s move down the hill, give him some space. mr. vice president. you re a former chairman of the judiciary committee. what is your advice about how to handle this going forward? stay in the room, demand answers and keep pointing out that you have they have not given them the material that was expected of committee. mr. vice president, you were part of the mccain services all week. you gave a very moving tribute to him. what message was he trying to send to the country with the services and what do you hope the country picked up from that? look, john s whole career john was like a brother to me. we had the same value set.
undercut kavanaugh s status to win confirmation in what is a republican-controlled senate. remember, gone is the 60 vote barrier setting a vote for supreme court nominees. so republicans could, they could confirm kavanaugh without any democratic votes, chris. all right, jeff, thank you so much. i want to bring in my panel. a.b. stoddard. john than allen for nbc news digital. so a.b., we heard what senator klobuchar had to say. it s not normal to withhold these documents. it would bring up interesting questions. chuck schumer went beyond that, calling that a friday night document massacre. is it going to make any difference what might be in those documents? do we have any idea? well, the democrats are going to argue that in previous nominations, like justice