affordable care act ruling. the other thing, i think when we take a step back and look at some of the consequences of what s gone on in the confirmation hearings, the white house may have won because they got the pick they wanted on the supreme court but there are a lot of losers. i think civility is a loser. a question for non-partisanship. i think the fbi is a loser in part because people are criticizing the fbi for doing an unduly shallow investigation. we have to realize that the responsibility for that is not with fbi. it s with the white house. one of the big ticket items we ll have to keep an eye out for now that judge kavanaugh is justice kavanaugh. i think we know where he will go on women s rights and the second amendment. the other thing we ll have to keep an eye on is what does he do if the president is indicted
and that case comes before a judge or now a justice kavanaugh. we know judge kavanaugh is on the academic record saying a president can t be investigating, i diet indicted tried in a criminal case. that will become a big player moving forward if bob mueller seeks to indict the president. you have the russian investigation with the president slamming the fbi and democrats when it comes to this investigation. maybe a lose-lose. betsy, i want to ask you here but as far as lindsey graham here and the dynamics with the president. the new york times column called lindsey graham the saddest story in washington. writing that his fight for brett kavanaugh completed his transformation in a donald trump s slobbering man servant. what do you make of that relationship now given they are chumming it up on the linking
yes vote help keep a crucial senate seat in democratic hands? so, even if he votes yes on kavanaugh and kavanaugh is moves to the supreme court with his yes vote, you ll still vote for joe manchin? that was my thinking as of yesterday. reporter: charleston mayor danny jones is an independent, was a republican, and is a long-time friend of joe manchin. with joe, i think that it s an easy vote for him to vote for kavanaugh. reporter: manchin has voted with the president more than any other democrat. i love west virginia. west virginia. i love west virginia. reporter: president trump won west virginia by 42 points. since taking office, he s been here 7 times. senator joe manchin voted to allow federal funding. reporter: the race here, intense, ad spending by the candidates and outside groups now reaching over $30 million. and some abortion rights
restrained and/or tame on twitter. he has really stuck to messaging. he seems to be focused on the midterms ahead. right. if you think about what he s trying to focus on, trade and the economy, and sort of ticking down his campaign promise list, that s really important. given what these midterms mean to him and his future. take a look, let s put that up as we can. ever since yesterday, the trade deal, having been announced, the markets were very positive about that all day today. just at the beginning of the day, we saw a slight downtick. that s probably a trading anomaly. we ve seen another strong day. another half a percent. so what a lot of people have been concerned about, despite all the noise going on, is whether or not the president was dragging us into a trade war that was going to be inextricable. certainly starting a fight with kavanaugh is, wow, he s prepared for anyone. knowing the relationship with these important allies, now
tell us. if there are names, if there is a list of names he can be given of the lawyers to whom she s referring i think that s fine but i think it s unfair to suggest that an entire law firm should be imputed into the witness s memory when he doesn t know who works at the law firm. at the end coming to the defense of kavanaugh is republican senator mike lee. jeffrey, what do you make of that? well, it was peculiar and frankly i was sympathetic to what mike lee was saying at the end there. if kamala harris had a specific conversation that she was referring to that she wanted to ask him about, it seemed to me she should have asked did you speak to john doe from the kasowitz law firm? or jane doe or more than one person. but just to ask generally did you speak to someone, it s a fairly large law firm, there are a couple hundred lawyers there. i just i found it puzzling.