the shop, made for tv unveiling of the supreme court pick brett kavanaugh. shine controlled details like flattering lighting for trump and the timing. it happened to coincide with the a-block of fox host and trump pal/adviser sean hannity s primetime show. trump s adoration of all innings fox serves as the backdrop of his trip to europe as he consistently bashes any other outlet as fake news. joining me is gabe sherman, vanity fair, eric bowler, senior writer. lillian maxwell, director of progressive programming. jason johnson, politics editor at the root. gabe, i ll start with you. read a little bit from your piece about the kavanaugh rollout. he s benefited from shine s appointment. timed the announcement for the start of hannity s show for monster ratings and he got big ratings. of course. i think this was an early indication that bill shine is
a candidate for this important position who would overturn roe v. wade would not be acceptable to me because that would indicate an activist agenda that i don t want to see a judge have. president trump will announce his pick a week from today on july 9th. nbc news has learned that trump is said to be leaning toward a nominee who went to harvard or yale according to individuals familiar with his thinking. so far at least five names, all of them federal appeals court judges, have emerged from the president s short list. for more i m joined by robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post. zurlina maxwell, director of progressive programming for sirius xm. and susan del perezio, a republican strategist. all are nbc political analysts. robert, let me start with you. we got reporting the president wants harvard or yale perhaps. but there s a number of names that are out there. what is your sense of this? is this a pick where the white house kind of knows where it
that s hard to get used to. you re redoing the post-war alliances only this time we re with the axis powers. joining us now, zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm radio and msnbc political analyst. maria teresa kumar and evan siegfried are back with us. we have the quotes from politico, former president obama talking to a group of democrats last night. the thing that struck me was, he was describing himself, he was describing how democrats reacted to him when he rose to the presidency and he was saying don t be looking for that, don t be waiting for that. but did democrats need that? i think people are waiting for that. but i think barack obama was really once in a lifetime. not just as a historical figure but as someone who has the policy chops and charisma. that s a unicorn. democrats need to focus on turnout. that s what will win the election in 2018 and 2020. you saw in 2016 that turnout was
house took a tough vote and the next day the president called the bill mean. republicans could be left on own to vote for something the president decides later he can t support and then they re out there on their own. thank you from capitol hill. and all eyes continue to be on the first lady and this jacket with the foe graffiti on the back. the phrase i really don t care. do you? she wore that on her trip to texas yesterday visiting an immigrant children s shelter. melania trump said, it s a jacket. there was no hidden message. after today s important visit to texas i hope the immediate dia isn t going to class to focus on her wardrobe. joining me now, director of progressive media for the clinton campaign and is currently the direct of progressive programming for sirius xm and as msnbc political analyst. doing the work for us there. yes. this is overshadowing the trip she took. i remember the notice came she
we need to drive this story giuliani said. you have to go on and take the arrows if you re going to deliver more arrows. not everyone agrees with rudy as the new york times peter baker points out. president trump hired rudy giuliani to speak for him but no less than mr. trump s wife and his chief diplomat spent thursday explaining that mr. giuliani does not always know what he s talking about. melania trump let it be known that mr. giuliani has no idea how she feels about stormy daniels while secretary of state mike pompeo made clear that giuliani has nothing to do with north korea policy. joining me and jonathan and rick at the table, the rev al sharpton, president of the national action network and host of politics nation and zerlina maxwell, former clinton campaign adviser, now director of progressive programming for sirius xm. let s start with your reporting on rudiment how goes it? well i never thought i d see that befo before an american president weighing in on whet