And the president we are told has been said to question at times mcganns loyalty. And as you mentioned, the New York Times report mcgann has been taking to call the president king kong behind his back. Geoff bennett at the white house, thank you. Joining me now, Natasha Bertrand and Franco Ordonez and glenn kercher, former federal prosecutor. Ill start with you and the New York Times report saying mr. Mcgann laid out how mr. Trump tried to control the investigation, giving investigators a mix of information both potentially damaging and favorable to the president. Mr. Mcgann cautioned to investigators that he never saw mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities, though the limits of executive power are murky. Thats in that New York Times reporting. Whats your reaction to that . Right, so what mcgann can offer to the special counsel is an important look into perhaps the president s state of mind, right, he can offer examples of specific episodes perhaps that can show muellers team what t
The last, say, 24 hours . Yeah. Sort of the polls that weve been seeing in the last couple days i think a precursor to what played out yesterday, and what i think will play out today. The polls were showing that it was obviously, a lot of opposition to this nomination. More than anything a polarizing opposition. Almost a nomination, almost a tribalizing nomination and the numbers you say almost matched up with the numbers you see for donald trump. How are the politics of that going to shake out . All the democrats are basically going to be against minus manchin, comes from a state trump won by 42 points and basically all republicans, minus murkowski, lost her republican primary, a writein candidate a few years ago. Prescribe lines ho s tribal lines are holding in the poll and the vote. Is anyone a big winner or a big loser here . Wan of the problem the in american politics. So ugly. The tribalism synced up with party. Its eliminated all the old incentives there to compromise, to come t
Donald trump Michael Schmidt has the details right ahead. Plus leaders gather in new york city with President Trump taking part in several events throughout the day we will bring you the first live right here on morning joe. Mean while, the president s personal lawyer, not secretary of state, Rudy Giuliani says irans government will be overthrown nikki haley reminds everyone that is not u. S. Policy. And with six weeks left, joe, its a 12 point spread, democrats lead republicans by double digits with nearly 60 calling for a significant course correction away from donald trump. We will have all the latest numbers, but the polls are fascinating this morning, joe. They are. Also we have we have the new yorker coauthor of that story on kavanaugh, jane mayer will be here later i want to go to kasie hunt just for one second we have so much in front of us, obviously so much at stake for republicans and democrats this week of course, we want them to do the right thing. We want them to search f
Unearthed or dissected during the confirmation process. Both of them were ultimately rejected by the senate which was a big and embarrassing blow for nixon. So for his third try nixon chose Harry Blackman because he was seen as so uncontroversial he would be hard for anybody to vote against. Judge blackman made a good First Impression and the senators will vote to decide his fate and barring the unexpected his nomination should sail through. Thus far no one has even asked to testify against him. But the unexpected aural has occurred twice, so most senators still are not committing themselves. The find a super uncontroversial guy strategy worked for that nomination. Harry blackmans nomination to court was unanimously approved by the u. S. Senate. On june 9, 1970, he was sworn in to the Supreme Court. And he was seen specifically as the most middle of the road nonoffensive guaranteed noncontroversial guy to stick in that spot, Justice Blackman would go on just a couple of years later to
Nixons first two picks had prosegregation records that got unearthed or dissected during the confirmation process. Both were ultimately rejected by the senate which was an embarrassing blow for nixon. So for his third try nixon chose Harry Blackmun because blackmun was seen so uncontroversial that he would be hard for anybody to vote against. Judge blackmun made a good First Impression on the senators who will help decide his fate, and barring the unexpected his nomination should sail through. Thus far no one has even asked to testify against him. But the unexpected already has occurred twice. So most senators still are not committing themselves. They find a super uncontroversial guy strategy worked to that nomination. Harry blackmuns nomination to the court was unanimously approved by the senate. On june 9th, 1970 he was sworn in to the court. And what ironically for a guy who was chosen specifically because he was seen as the most middle of the road, nonoffensive, guaranteed noncontr