this is not aimed at everybody in the country. this is aimed at four people, the four people you showed, manchin, murkowski, flake and collins. and i would say manchin is kind of the fourth out of those four. it s really aimed at those three republicans. the testimony last week was aimed at the guy in the white house. yeah. i think what this op-ed is is you want to try to, to the extent that he hears, he kavanaugh and the white house more broadly hears, there s still some worry about sort of your temperament, the way in which you present yourself. matt damon on saturday night live sort of turned this into a cultural moment. is there any way you can address it. this is the wait to address it. this is the way to say to susan collins, lisa murkowski and jeff flake, i may not have handled myself great there but the fbi investigation doesn t according to republicans doesn t show any corroborating evidence so you can be for me. that s all this is. and tug at some heart strings. i
final vote is with kavanaugh thursday and assured him he would cross the finish line as needed. meanwhile senate judicial committee chairman summarizing the probe, insisting it supports the republican majority s conclusion there s no corroboration of the allegations made. democrats voicing concern over the investigations limited scope. the most notable part of this report is what is not in it. the reality is that is not a full and thorough investigation. sources tell cnn that kavanaugh s surprised op-ed was his own idea. meantime up here on capitol hill many key senators seem to be still actively deliberating over
what is happening to the nuts and bolts, the fundamentals of daily governing. who is there to help? who is there in support of the president of the united states? that s a great question. that s general kelly s role. he s to ignore the flack, ignore the fireworks that comes each day no matter what happens and focus nounts and bolts, make sure they have a system that s operating. it s a system that doesn t really operate, at least not the way the previous white house did. i was talking with some people yesterday. the nec doesn t have regular meetings that they had. they don t get-together at a table in a sit down what they are doing. what they are doing in north korea or syria. big things are happening while everybody focuses on, you know, who is the thoroughfare that anonymous op-ed is. it s a white house that hasn t yet put in place a disciplined organization that functions in a way that gets information the
what s going on in puerto rico. they kind of see it as separate from the u.s. so i think the trump administration, a lot of their voters came from those states that are going to get hit soon with this latest hurricane. and so far they ve kept fema from getting sucked into the dhs in terms of being professional. the people who show up to fema every day, that s their main job. i think people are hoping the president is mindful for not being tone deaf for some of the language he uses like he did after puerto rico. i think some of the people found the comments he made and the throwing of paper towels very disheartening. his own aides were saying, you know, you have to focus, can you tweet telling people to follow those evacuation warnings. trump sometimes gets off topic. now focusing again on trying to find out who the author of that op-ed is.
should resign if the person truly is an appointee who has taken an oath to the constitution. kellyanne conway making a pretty dramatic conclusion about the process that went over by the new york times to allow this person to write the op-ed and give them that space when she has no idea who this person is. so it just shows you how the white house is attempting to try to muddy up the waters as it relates to this problem, but it s a problem that still exists. it s forced 25 senior administration officials to come forward and deny they have had any involvement with the writing of this op-ed. and it s also forced the president to suggest that perhaps the department of justice could get involved. that would mean a criminal act would have had to take place. and that was something that the vice president suggested this morning in that interview, fred. this continues to be something that is dogging this administration. the president said to be obsessed with finding out how the author of the