This is what we do. We protest when we disagree and i dont think theres any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they dont believe in it. Im not suggesting support tonights nominee but dont plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. And that is where we are. Were at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening. Thanks, my friend. Thank you for joining us at this hour. This is a big important historic news day. Good to have you here. Thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. Antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow Supreme Court justices. Even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. They loved his company. Justice scalia and Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg they shared
many of us, but he also happened to be my wife s father, my father-in-law, thomas hugh brown, who died tuesday at the age of 75. born in chicago, these photos of him, a seemingly happy kid notwithstanding, tom s early life was difficult. he eventually ended up on his own in his teens. he joined the air force during that time, and he served in vietnam from october 1968 until october 1969. that was a tough period for that war that included the tet offensive. tom last served with the 12th security police department. he didn t talk much about his time in vietnam. he went from managing a supermarket to owning a dollar store in kansas. mott most notably, despite his adversities growing
i would like to take a moment with your permission to mark the passing of an american who was not necessarily the kind of person who would merit an obituary on international news. in that, he was just like so many of us, but he also happened to be my wife s father, my father-in-law, thomas hugh brown, who died tuesday at the age of 75. born in chicago, these photos of him, a seemingly happy kid notwithstanding, tom s early life was difficult. he eventually ended up on his own in his teens. he joined the air force during that time, and he served in vietnam from october 1968 until october 1969. that was a tough period for that war that included the tet offensive.
things and apollo 7 to this day, here we are 50 years later and it is still, still longest, most ambitious, most successful test flight ever. and most people won t even, do not even know that it flew. eric: tells about apollo 7. bless of october 1968. and really, without your work and the work of your crewmembers or could not have, the knowledge built upon that to get us to the moon. well, it is absolutely true. today i would say, former apollo astronauts, they all understand how each of these missions contributed and helped it out. apollo 11 was the fifth manned apollo mission. when we talk about apollo 7, it was the first manned apollo mission but the third attempt to flight the first mission. so things are changing, our attitude publicly is changing.
in 1968, the republicans filibustered linden johnson s nominee for chief justice of the united states, abe fortis. in october 1968, so roughly the same period of time as now. sorry to interrupt you. an investigation would take maybe three days. we re not talking about a huge delay here. the reality is that any change in the midterm elections, that s not going to have any impact until the new year. so bread kavanagh denies this ever happening, right? and says it s a smear campaign against him. he says he looks forward to testifying thursday and defending his good name. but wouldn t an investigation help him do just that rather than this effort to rush the confirmation hearing through as quickly as possible and leave the impression that all of these allegations sort of left hanging basically and essentially a stain against brett kavanagh? it s in his interest. well, if we think of another historical parallel in 1991,