and lisa motherkowski and kavanaugh said that case was important precedent of the supreme court. republicans are expecting a couple of democrats will come over as well. joe manchin, heidi heitkam and joe donnelly all facing tough reelection bids in states that president trump won and last year all three vote today confirm current justice neil gorsuch, if the timeline goes forward, september 26th is when we ll have the final vote and that will allow judge neil caf brett kavanaugh to be seated on the supreme court before they begin the next term october 1st and that s been the goal all along. exciting two weeks, arthel. arthel: that s for sure, eric, for more on this, we will bring in ed, he s the president of the ethics and public policy center, also former clerk of the late justice antonin scalia, first up, ed, what did you think of judge kavanaugh s overall performance and break it down to areas where he was especially
no connection weather they ll actually comply with this, they may be fighting that subpoena, but that is another challenge for the white house. reporter: that s for sure. the president effectively said his red line when this investigation was going beyond russia and into his family s personal finances. that s why this is significant. it s something that has received a lot of focus and the conversation is centered on for the course of weeks, if not months, but now we re learning about that subpoena of those sort of bank and other financial transaction business dealings as it relates to deutsche bank and the president and his family. remember the president did receive significant millions of dollars, i believe, in loan for ventures of deutsche bank which really hasn t been commenting beyond effectively saying they re going to take this issue very seriously. andrea? thanks so much to you, and ken delaney. mike lauder is executive
agrees with them 100%, they want someone who will at least listen to them and appreciate them. so these races will be watched very closely, and of course there s always governor s races in virginia and new jersey. the legislative races tend to go to the democrats. people will be watching very closely to see what happens this time. at least the factors on the ground would seem to be with the democrats, but we all saw what happened the last time there was a big election. reporter: that s for sure. chris, do you get the sense that the democrats you talked to, i mean are they optimistic it be the democratic party being able to get it together with a local nominee can win the election? it s not what you see the actual national party doing, but more about what they feel on the ground, in their neighborhoods and their communities, that these people are energized to do
for that. and you re worried about words and i m worried about the reality of nuclear weapons. patient diplomacy and this u.n. and sanctions and china and relying on other people has gotten him everything he needs to actually be a nuclear super power. and you re basically saying, stay the course on this. so how at what point do you become alarmed, when he has 180, 200, 300 nuclear weapons and you say, okay, now it s time to change the rhetoric? hold that thought, you guys. we have to get other news in here, as well. this capability as far as cnn knows, has not been tested yet. we know they have the weapons, capability to accurately precisely aim hasn t been tested yet. we also have not heard from the president this morning yet on north korea. he has ripped in, though, to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. let s go to joe johns on that. he s talking certainly taking out mcconnell on health care. reporter: that s for sure. an unusual public feud between the majority leader a
covering donald trump. thank you. now to the clinton campaign. a two-front battle to push back against donald trump and yet another round of stolen e-mails posted by wikileaks, something the campaign has to answer for. and they re trying to our senior washington correspondent joe johns here, they re trying to brush this aside, but it s becoming difficult. reporter: that s for sure. and it s clearly, clearly a distraction to the clinton campaign. they re spending time and energy responding to wikileaks when the clinton campaign admits it s hard enough to get their message out over the daily roar of the trump campaign, charging that their opponents are in cahoots with wikileaks and russia. the latest batch of stolen e-mails released by wikileaks. becoming an unwanted distraction for clinton. the contents offering a glimpse