president trump s pick to fill the vacancy on the u.s. supreme court. correspondent doug mckelway tonight on where brett cavanaugh s nomination stands right now. are you going to make it to the all-star game? i will be there. as supreme court nominee brett cavanaugh resumed his get acquainted sessions with senators, even casual talk about baseball is a loaded topic. the washington post bounty incurred credit card debt to buy washington nationals tickets for friend. a more charged issue is will a more right-leaning court overturn roe v. wade? already some states are laying the groundwork. west virginia has a valid element ballot measure that if agreed to will remove protection rights for funding. another amendment would have them alabama s constitution to give rights to a fetus. indiana will soon decide whether the challenge that s ruled the
participate in the security form. bret: there is no pressure tonight on the deputy attorney general. that s right. two house republicans are urging the justice department inspector general michael lee horwitz to investigate whether rod rosenstein threatened congressional staffers during a january meeting over the request for records about the russia case. fox news first reported the allegations last month after reviewing emails of documents for the incident. congressman matos and jordan said they are concerned rosenstein may have abused his authority. during recent congressional testimony rosenstein said under oath the claims are false. bret: special counsel robert mueller is asking for immunity for five witnesses in the proceedings against the former top trump advisor. the witnesses were not identified. they would be part of a case against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort who is accused of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and tax crimes. a judge has denied
and they could maybe focus on the actions as well. bret: here is congressman tom cole and his reaction to all of this. it was the last president, not this president, who told russian leaders that he would be more flexible after an election. it was the last president, not this president, that side of russia was not a geopolitical threat and chastisement wrongly when he raised it in the campaign and it was the last president, not this president, that drew a redline and then refused to enforce it. bret: matthew, i guess the most that we heard today on capitol hill was that he should, the president should have made those comments in front of vladimir putin to tell him knock it off, or you can t do it again or what we talked about privately i m not going to go over this again here, but we have an understanding that this is over or behind us. we don t know what was said in the private meeting and i think if you looked back at president trump s history of
strong bipartisan support and failure isn t an option. if congress doesn t act, then i think we give a signal to the rest of the world that this is now the new american policy, a policy that embraces putin and all he represents. new hampshire democrat is calling on the foreign relations committee to hold a hearing with president trump s american interpreter. she argues that way lawmakers will know exactly what was discussed and agreed to in the private trump-putin meeting. bret: mike emanuel live on the hill, thanks. president putin s offer to help special counsel robert mueller question russian operatives accused in the election meddling case is being met with a collective eye roll in the intelligence community in the u.s. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has that part of the story tonight. this was absolutely putin capitalizing on his kgb training. he is a master manipulator. former senior intelligence officials like bob gurley, with 30 years of experienc
get more out of your water. no mathere are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? bret: amid the uproar yesterday over president trump s comments over russian election interference you may not have noticed the news, we reported it here, about the arrest of a russian woman in the u.s. connections to the nra and now accused of being a foreign agent conspiring to interfere in u.s. politics. here s national security correspondent jennifer griffin. maria butina is a russian