the annual yacht club that ted kennedy had sailed in for a number of years. it was late in the summer of 1969. the kennedy family had long been fixtures and he was looking forward to returning. he is there to race, as always and they decided to have union. that s an old political term for those doing the heavy lifting in the campaign. they were a knit group.
i don t think it s particularly fair game to think the recusal should be based upon the political opinions during an interview a year ago. have him step away. harris: you worked at the doj, do you personally know matthew whitaker or know of those who do? i m sure i know people that do. i was probably an assistant u.s. attorney in maryland when he was the u.s. attorney in iowa. as you get to the higher ranks it becomes a pretty tight knit group you begin to know the people that are out in the southern district of iowa, even if you re sitting physically in washington. i m sure a lot of the longtime folks that have been at the department of justice, particularly like the rod rosenstein s are well aware of mr. whitaker and have known him for some time.
shannon: i noticed he said i m going to be a member of the team. i will be a team player. all other eight justices were there tonight. yeah, and this is a very close knit group. they have to be. there s only nine of them. he s going to cast one of those modes. with his wikipedia page begin with this controversy? you bet but it won t end there. he s going to have years of cases, decades, that s called a legacy. it doesn t really matter in the end. he knows that. he will be largely remembered by the cases he writes, and he has decades to do it. shannon: possibly overturning the chevron deference. this check on administrative agency in their power. it s significant. this docket was made for kavanaugh. it s a coincidence but he s starting out in all the areas where he is likely to really take the court in a different direction from justice kennedy. criminal cases, environmental cases, executive power cases.
that story i m now joined by a veteran joanne genest mr van onselen a thank you for joining us so as we ve been saying twenty eight years since the unification but there s an interesting survey which was conducted by an knit group saying that only one in three germans believe that the country has grown more united is a situation really that bad well if you were to travel as a foreigner from west to east germany you wouldn t see any difference there or the country has been rebuilt a lot of progress progress has been made hundreds of billions of euros have been spent to rebuild is germany and the prime minister of the law just east german states that sonia. craig said this is the best germany we have ever had yet there s a big dark cloud over us on this very day and even chance now uncle america had to admit that the process of you and if occasion is not complete and when we look at
way. that is, of course, what the white house is saying, that when you re being accused of something, you re going to go to the mat and try to find everything that can disprove that allegation. but the experts say that brett kavanaugh should not have personally given the position that he s in, be trying to micromanage this campaign to try and essentially discredit debbie ramirez s allegations. susan? that is bad pr 101. it is pressuring a person. he is a federal judge, if nothing else, just take that. if not, it s the white house asking for this information. it is also kind of what we talked about at the top of the hour. you saw that photo. there s six other people in that photo who can all speak to their relationship and it s going back to, this is a close knit group of people. i m shocked to see this, and i think it s really bad news for kavanaugh. it sounds like what the fbi is going to have a harder time doing is confirm what dr. ford s alleged or what debbie ramirez has al