can happen for you politically is the win. you know it very well because you wrote the book on him, george h. w. bush. the soviet union closed up shop december 25th, 1991. it should have been the highlight of the bush presidency. you talked about this before. the thing that motivated republicans over the course of generations was when the soviet union disbanded and allowed americans to vote for bill clinton who would never have been elected at the height of the cold car. the republicans got their second supreme court justice. i would be surprised if those who were gloating and winning and spiking the ball in the end zone are less inspired to go vote a month from now than the democrats who lost? well, i think defeat is ultimately more energizing than
fairness and reason. and make no mistake, it is going to turn its back on women. but republicans who are just hours away from confirming their second supreme court justice under president trump are pushing back and weighing just what this confirmation fight will mean for the midterms. we watched what was happening. they were trying to destroy this good man with all the rumors. we need to have the vote in order to bring it to a conclusion. there s two choices. the susan collins way or the protester way. who do you want to run the government? conservatives align with senator collins trying to work toward empowering people, make it safe, more money in your pocket, or do you want to turn your government over to people who just yell and spit on you? providing us reporting this hour, nbc s garrett haake, on capitol hill.
highest court in our land. is he fit to be a jurist? that is our role. when it comes to dr. ford s allegations, and we fell short. we fell short. we did not do her justice. we did not do the american people justice. but republicans just hours away now from confirming their second supreme court justice under president trump. they are pushing back against these claims and what this confirmation fight will mean for midterms. we watched what was happening. they were trying to destroy this good man with all of these rumors and the rest of the stuff. we needed to have the vote to bring it to a conclusion. also new reaction from one of the lawyers representing christine blasey ford in an interview with msnbc last night. there was no effort to leak this letter and have this unfold