It gives conservatives by President Trump a solid grip on the highest court in the planned for potentially a generation. Conservatives are elated, liberals not so much. If he gets replaced by a hardline social conservative, the democratic leadership will have hell to pay. Roe v. Wade is doomed. It is gone, because donald trump won the election. What is important are the issues that will change if a president s nominee will go through to change the voice of our history today. Martha the president said today that Senior Advisor for strategic communication, and thank you for be here. Obviously a big day. Did you have a heads up that this was coming because a lot of people were surprised. Supreme Court Justice kennedy came over to the white house and spoke with the president about his retirement. Obviously that president was incredibly thank thankful for Justice Kennedys distinguished service in the fine work he has done on the Supreme Court. As we know, Justice Kennedy has been one to fig
They named several americans they wanted to question they claimed were involved in bill browders crimes in their terms. It is President Trump open to that idea . There was some conversation about it, but there wasnt a commitment made on behalf of the United States and the president will work with his team and we will let you know if theres an announcement on that front. Martha good evening, everybody. I Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Bill browder was once a successful american businessman working in russia until 2005 when he was suddenly expelled from the country. His company was seized by russian authorities and used then in a massive tax fraud scheme. He then hired russian lawyer sergei make nitschke, a name that you have heard a lot of lately to investigate what was going on. He was then thrown into a russian prison. He died there after being beaten and denied medical care. Ever since then, bill browder has campaigned to punish russia and he says his efforts have made him V
Criticism he believes is wrong. So first of all, the president said he misspoke when he talked about whether or not russia would have been involved in meddling. He said i meant to say that they would have been, not that they wouldnt have been. How does that register with you . Do you think that washes . I thought all along that because we have conflated two sort of Different Things in the Mueller Investigation that the president s reaction is typically because he sees the Mueller Investigation as an accusation of collusion, that somehow the president colluded with the russians and is another aspect of the investigation that has to do with who hacked into Hillary Clintons emails and who released those to the public. I think those are two sort of completely different aspects, but they are in the same investigation. So i think his instinct is to push back and say there was no collusion, i was never involved with russia, which i believe to be true, and i think there has been a partisan wit
Testified against then judge Clarence Thomas at precisely the same juncture in the final lap of his path to the highest court. I did not bring the information forward to try to establish a legal claim of sexual harassment. I brought it forward so that the committee could determine the veracity of it, the truth of it. Martha judge thomas said he was the victim of a high tech lynching in front of the tv cameras. Judge kavanaugh now all these years later says this alleged incident never happened, professor ford is adam that the it did. Back in 1991 judge Clarence Thomas was confirmed. In this me too era, will both sides get a fair hearing . President trump spoke out today. This is something that should have been brought up long before. This they had the information in july as i understand it. Thats a long time ago. And nobody mentioned it until the other day. It will im sure work out very well. You are talking about an individual thats as high a quality individual you will ever see. Marth
Martha weve got a big lineup. Senate judiciary member john kennedy is standing by and judge Andrew Napolitano but we begin to time the chief National Correspondent ed henry who joins us live from the white house. Good evening. Martha, great to see you. First monday in october, the Supreme Court opened its new term but only eight justices. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell revealed late this afternoon he will have an upper or down vote later this week to determine whether or not judge Brett Kavanaugh will be the ninth justice to go to the court and fill it up. That will be determined largely by this fbi investigation that you heard from the president is very much under way. They were working late at night, through the weekend, do you get it done. He said, the president , he is not putting any restrictions on it, despite reports over the weekend to the contrary. In fact, we just learned kavanaugh friend mark judge has talked to the fbi through his lawyer, and his lawyer says the f