second indictment in virginia. and almost immediately flipped rick gates. and then four months later they go before a jury because of the rocket docket in virginia that moves cases along. and lo and behold, he s convicted of eight counts, that prosecutors then go ahead full speed into the d.c. case and, bang, the white flag goes up and manafort gives up, unconditional surrender basically. what it shows, what we re seeing is trump is really scared of this guy. if you notice, trump hasn t tweeted about manafort, right? it is so fascinating, i am obsessed with this. tweeting about people of puerto rico don t exist. he s in puerto rico looking for the real killers but he s not tweeting about manafort. he ll tweet about jeff sessions like black twitter will tweet about mclemore, but he s not tweeting about manafort. that shows how frightened he is of manafort. whatever manafort knows, he knows and he s scared of that. here s the other timing
seeing where top christian right leaders were saying, what they were thinking and saying about judge kavanagh. they aren t projecting this outwardly. they are preparing for plan b. nobody knows what plan b is at the moment. robert. real quick, my senate republican sources tell me a week is a long time between now and monday. they wonder if senators are going to get cold feet about kavanagh coming to the hill having that kind of testimony, having dr. ford come forward with her testimony. that is a scene republicans don t want two months before the election. robert costa, that was ill luis palomino nating. appreciate that. coming up, caught on tape bragging about assaulting women has yet another me too meltdown on his hands. a look at kavanagh s accuser and what changed since the last time we were here with clarence thomas and anita hill. it s time to get out of line with upmc.
this. why don t they meet? they want to protect the president. this is a fragile nomination at this point. they re standing by kavanagh, but he s in damage control mode, crisis modin side the white house. the president is letting kavanagh defend himself. he s issued his statement of support at 2:15 at that press pool. swin, you had some reporting this weekend. the president believes there is a conspiracy to torpedo the kavanagh nomination. tell me about that. absolutely. i must add in the past year, this isn t even the first time this white house and this president has gone into full-blown damage control over a trump endorsement involving teens. this is an example of that in the past year or so. the president has told people close to him according to sources we ve spoken to, there is a conspiracy to smear brett