While working full time. He has an unparalleled worth he cannic and passed down the passion for playing and watching sports. The lead republican Mitch Judiciary and meanwhile, these four red states. They were invited to attend the event at the white house tonight but declined. We know that Susan Collins and lisa mur you could ski declined invitations. All six of the folks considered critical votes that republicans in their case need to protect and the democrats need to keep on their side. Importantly, they both voted the two republican women did for kavanaughs confirmation to the d. C. Circuit court in 06. Now earlier tonight, Senator Collins of maine released a statement that highlighted judge kavanaughs extensive experience and read, i will conduct a careful, thorough vetting of the president s nominee to the
Supreme Court, as i have done with the five Previous Supreme Court justices whom i have considered. I look forward to judge kavanaughs public hearing and to questioning him in a
Lets bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. Franco ordonez, White House Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. The New York Times katie benner, pulitzer prizewinning reporter who covers the Justice Department. And yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for news hour on pbs. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Katie, let me start with you. We have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. You cover the Justice Department, the legal end of this. It sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that Executive Order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. How clear is that now . Absolutely. So as you say, this was another selfinflicted wound by the Trump Administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. So we saw a lot of confusion last night.
Recent allegations, are you willing to have this do it . The Witness Testimony is before you. No witness who was there supports that i was there okay, im going to take that as a no. Did you watch dr. Fords testimony . I did not. I plan to. Thank you. I plan to, but i did not. I was preparing mine. At the end of the day, donald trump sent this out. Quote, judge kavanagh showed america exactly why i nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest and riveting. Democrats Search And Destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham, an effort to delay and resist. The senate must vote. White house Deputy Press Secretary raj shaw added this. The president was thrilled with his testimony. He was strong. He was passionate. He was very convincing because he was telling the truth. The president stands firmly behind judge kavanagh. Judge kavanagh is the white
houses nominee for this open seat. Hes going to get confirmed. Let us bring in our lead off panel on a thursday nigh
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york, day 393 of the trump administration. This day was different because this is what we learned today. We learned that russia interfered with our election, we learned how it helped the Trump Campaign and how it hurt the clinton campaign. Russia took advantage of our society, our First Amendment and our social media and our deep divisions. This was an asymmetrical act of information and psychological warfare and it never stopped. They came into our country physically and they reached in electronically, they changed what we read, what we saw, and what we heard, and in some cases they changed our minds. And with a few hundred people and a few Million Dollars they proved it was an astoundingly successful attack by a hostile nation on our own soil. And while we are used to our president s protecting us, today the president talked about how this affected him. It should be stressed tonight, no one was vindicated today, no on
Clinton campaign. Russia took advantage of our society, our First Amendment and our social media and our deep divisions. This was an asymmetrical act of information and psychological warfare and it never stopped. They came into our country physically and they reached in electronically, they changed what we read, what we saw, and what we heard, and in some cases they changed our minds. And with a few hundred people and a few Million Dollars they proved it was a successful attack by a hostile nation on our own soil. And while we are used to our president s protecting us, today the president talked about how this affected him. It should be stressed tonight, no one was vindicated today, no one was cleared today. Far from a hoax, the russia case has so far resulted in criminal charges against 18 people and guilty pleas from three. Today we saw an extraordinary and surprise move from special Counsel Robert Mueller who filed a federal indictment charging 13 russians and three Russian Companie