nominating process and he did very poorly. he was mixed up and confused. and people that work for him, you know, a long time in the senate were not nice to him. but he was giving very confusing answers, answers that should have been easily answered and that was a rough time for him. the president saying that perhaps that difficult confirmation process was part of the reason that sessions recused himself from the russia probe. the president says one of his closest allies on his hard line immigration stance is making him unhappy at the border. that s a new criticism. he was also asked about session s future. he has yet to fire him. when he was asked, the president said we ll see what happens. though, it is clear it would be an uphill battle for this white house to confirm a new attorney general because jeff sessions is respected and defended by those on capitol hill. the next question is does he want to fire him or does he want jeff sessions to leave on his
takes place as democrats and as now ford is demanding. this is what murkowski said. i think that an allegation has been made by dr. ford. i think her story deserves to be heard, and the the committee process has been made available to her. so it s a sign that she wants the hearing to take place, not necessarily agree with this effort to reopen the fbi background check. so the question now emerges back to whether or not dr. ford will agree to this process, talk to the judiciary committee in private, then a public meeting. we still don t know. a lot can change as we ve seen over the last few days here. no question. thanks very much. joining us now is senator john kenne kennedy, a republican from the state of louisiana.
sorry. can i please, go ahead. i can tell you what my priority is. my priority is fairness and the truth. i want to be fair to dr. ford and i want to be fair to judge brett kavanaugh. you have to put this in context. the confirmation hearing is over. judge brett kavanaugh testified for 32 hours. we had a private confidential meeting, just the senators and judge brett kavanaugh afterwards to talk about anything nobody wanted to bring up in the hearing. senator feinstein chose not to attend. that s her right. then we had, i think, 48 hours to subject written questions. there were 1,200 written questions submitted, and i think those have all been answered. and then senator feinstein announced the letter. so we re at the end of the process. but why? i mean, that s a self-selected
the fbi are working through. for some of these documents already been made public in part, they re going back and going over, you know, versions of it that would have fewer redactions for these documents we haven t seen publically that will provide redacted versions for the white house counsel. from there there would be more back and forth. he could say i want more redactions and they could go back and haggle back and forth a little bit. but i think the important thing to note is this a normal process you could go through when a president orders something to be declassified and it doesn t happen automatically. thanks very much. we do know the president is speaking on the white house lawn. we will bring you those comments as soon as we have them in a few moments. a quick check of the markets as they get set to open. futures pointing high. the s and p down just slightly. of course all the focus on trade tension between the u.s. and
them. politically, are the republicans in a dangerous political spot here if they proceed with this vote without hearing from ford and granting the fact they have given ford this opportunity on monday. she s not yet comfortable doing that. but are republicans in political danger here if they keep to this time line and say, listen, we gave her a chance. she didn t take that chance. we re going to go ahead and vote. they re in serious danger of being seen as treating her unfairly. and the standard is going to be was she treated fairly? was brett kavanaugh treated fairly? both people deserve that. and at this point, there is a lot of suspicious, a lot of anger among women especially, among suburban women who are already inflamed and want to come out at the polls in the midterms that the whole process of appointing the supreme court justices has been unfair from the beginning. first denying president obama a