amounts to verbal abuse. republicans complained about how kavanaugh was treated but was this different? you know, look, the entire process of selecting judiciary nominees is just broken. and tainted. and look, victor, in the last day, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has acknowledged that he may not bring up any nominees if he s majority leader begin. there is time to talk about how tainted and dirty the process, but this should be a day of joy for all americans. think about not just the black boys and girls seeing ketanji brown jackson but the white kids growing n growing up in a world where a supreme court justice could be a black woman and that is their framing and notion of what the supreme court looks like. so it is a horrible process now. consider that she only got three republicans supporting her. it is just a couple of years ago john roberts had 22 dpemocrats
allison barber is live on capitol hill where a new memo from mueller is sparking more outrage. the senate judiciary committee executive business meeting was postponed for second week in a row, a dozen judiciary nominees once again on hold as the republican standoff continues, legislation protecting robert mueller, republican majority on the judiciary committee 11-10, if one republican senator defects that poses a problem when it comes to advancing nominees, republican senator jeff flake allowed to vote against the administration of judicial nominee until the senate votes on legislation protecting mueller in the russia probe. when asked if the judiciary committee is goes into voting on nominee senator flake said this. i don t know, i hope so. let s have a vote. you can vote against it, vote
jeff flake refuses to vote until his measure makes it. carley: a new memo from mueller is sparking more outrage. reporter: the senate judiciary committee executive business meeting positive for second week, 2 dozen judiciary nominees on hold as the republican standoff continues over legislation protecting robert mueller. the republican majority owned judiciary committee a split 11-10. if one republican senator defects that will be a problem when it comes to advancing nominees. republican senator jeff flake vowed to vote against the judicial nominees until the senate votes on legislation that protects mister mueller and the russia probe. when asked if the judiciary committee is closer to voting on his nomination senator flake said this yesterday. i hope so. we can solve this easily, let s just have a vote.
law. the justice department has asked the supreme court to intervene on daca. the ruling comes on the heels of donald trump s trip to paris, set to meet with world leaders as they mark 100 years since the end of world war i. he will be joined by the first lady on a 3-day trip. the president says he will not meet with vladimir putin there. the two are expected to sit down at the g 20 summit at the end of the month. after holding the senate republicans are full steam ahead of donald trump s judiciary nominees. the president has done an excellent job picking young men and women who believe the job of the judge is to follow the law and we intend to keep confirming as many as we can as long as we are in position to do it. heather: can they flood the courts with conservative judges? here is gail trotter, spokesman
democratic congressman would be running the house judiciary committee and in that capacity, he has already said in a number of interviews he would pursue an investigation of brett kavanaugh when he gets the gavel. what we don t know is what that means, what is an investigation of what and into what? harvard law professor and author of the case against impeaching trump, alan dershowitz with that alan very good to have you. thank you. neil: what do you make of what he s getting at here? what would he investigate? well i think it would be a good investigation and a very dangerous investigation if he looked at the process of confirmation, of judiciary nominees, to try to improve it. that would be a good thing. if he looked at trying to increase the scope of background checks on nominees, for example, have them check much more extensively before they re nominated and an ongoing process during the nomination to avoid surprises that would be a good thing but if this is an attempt