Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome editor and chief and copresident of the atlantic, James Bennett and the Foreign Policy panel. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome. We have five very strong panelists here, whom i am going to introduce you to in a moment and a really long list of potential initiatives and crises that we could talk about this morning. I am sure we will hit a number of them this morning, including the pursuit of peace in the middle east and ireland, bosnia, the twists and turns in a bosnia, nato expansion, the struggle against terrorism, and that is before we even get to haiti, rwanda, vietnam india pakistan, so on, and any one of these subjects could consume any number of panel discussions, and my hope is that we wont get into these subjects too deeply but we will drive toward an understanding of principles that evolved from them and evolved considerable trial and maybe occasional trial and error. How did the president reconcile the hallmarks of his approach t
President ial powers reproductive choice, all that could last for a generation. Thats why the drama that start this is hour and that you will see here live and runs all week in the Senate Judiciary committee is real. This is not just for the cameras and its why Senate Democrats are furious that just a little 12 hours ago panel t panel received some 42,000 pages worth of documents from Brett Kavanaughs time working in the white house of president george w. Bush. This was before he became a judge. Chuck schumer says that is, quote, an Absurd Development and wants the hearings delayed. That wont happen, lets go to the hearing room. We get a little built of a look at what judge kavanaugh will say as he speaks before the judiciary committee. Any surprises . This is going to be a bitter fight. Brett kavanaugh wants the seat of Justice Anthony kennedy. Andy was so key on important social issues abortion, lgbt rights, affirmative action. Brett kavanaugh is not only more conservative but much y
Theyre central to everything youre going to hear discussed today. Questions about executive privilege, the extent of president ial power, are at the heart of the mueller investigation. If things keep going the way theyre going, it may be up to the Supreme Court ultimately to decide whether the president himself can be charged with crimes. Democrats and republicans want to know exactly where kavanaugh stands on these questions. We have assembleled a great team. Including Stephanie Ruhle who is here with us in our studio, whose hour we are trampling on by being here live today. Kacie hunt is our correspondent on the hill. A lot of us just saw the event democrats in the Senate Outside on the steps. Emblematic of what their role is. The clout compared to the republicans in charge. Thats right. Thats very little democrats can do to slow down the process of this lifetime appointment of Brett Kavanaugh because the republicans do have all the power in the senate. Theres a reality that the Demo