Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced
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Michael, your chasing this story, huge controversy when comedians go too far. Comedian, Kathy Griffin was in a bunch of trouble. She was recently fired by cnn and drop by a number of things including squat tea party after a photo of her holding what was a decapitated, blood he had of president donald trump, many people said it was out import taste. Hello everybody. I sincerely apologize. Im just now seen the reaction, im a comic, across the line. The image is too disturbing, i understand how it offends people. It wasnt funny. I get it. I made mistake and i was wrong. Archie stress governor christie about the situation at a press conference on thursday afternoon. Any reaction to the Kathy Griffin photo and apology quest mark. Shes disgusting. I could go on if you want but. She is disgusting. I dont think anybody should hire a get her again for anything. Joining us it is something knows a bit about politics and comedy, joe piscopo. [applause] joe, you have done this for a long time. You
Structures in our political system as envisioned by the founders that sometimes are going to disadvantage democrats. The truth of the matter is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align. And i guess, i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we look for one explanation or one Silver Bullet or one easy fix for our politics, then were probably going to be disappointed. There are just a lot of factors in whats happened not just over the last few months, but over the last decade that has made both politics and governance more challenging. And i think everybodies has raised legitimate questions and legitimate concerns. I do hope we all take some time, take a breath thats certainly what im going to advise democrats to just reflect a little bit more about how can we, how can we get to a place where people are focused on working together bas
Are going to disadvantage democrats but the truth of the matter is that if we have a strong message, if were speak to go what the American People care about, typically the popular vote and the Electoral College will align and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silverbullet or one easy fix for politics, then were probably going to be disappointed. There are just a lot of factors in whats happened not just over the last few months but over the last decade that has made both politics and governance more challenging. And i think everybodys raised legitimate questions and legitimate concerns. I do hope that we all just take some time, take a breath, thats certainly what im going to advise democrats, to just reflect a little bit more about how can we how can we get to a place where people are focused on working together based on at least some common set of facts, how could we have a conversation about policy tha