to russia, by maligning the attorney general, by proclaiming that he has an absolute right to do what he wants with the justice department, an absolute right to pardon anybody, including himself. he s not somebody who believes in the rule of law. to me, you can applaud this choice, say it s the right choice, the choice that any other republican president would have made, but you have to acknowledge that donald trump is not another typical republican president. he s somebody who s actually a threat to the very values that conservatives claim to champion. i wish that conservatives would at least acknowledge the trade-off that they re making by rooting for donald trump and the huge cost of getting the judges that they want. to my mind, that cost is unacceptably high. all right. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. what has kavanaugh said in the past about roe v. wade? we ll discuss that when we come back.
not only among the candidates that the president had. it s hard to theoretically imagine a better nominee than brett. i m just delight the the president picked him. how well do you know him? pretty well. we worked together in the white house counsel s office in the beginning of the bush administration. when he talked tonight about running out of the gate at the white house on 9/11, i was doing the same thing. we worked together during that time. so i ve seen first hand his work ethic, his integrity, his dedication to public service, his brain. he s a great person, a great lawyer, great judge. rach, we ve been discussing here how he feels about executive power. you may have heard our coverage. i m sure you ve heard people wondering about how he feels about this because he may be in the position to rule on key questions pertaining to the russia investigation, if it gets to the supreme court. and he s known to give great deference to presidential power. do you have any concerns abou
that is not in the raid. we just don t know the answer. got to run, dana. also, according to sources, it s being reported that cohen supposedly asked to speak with mueller. the source is saying that never happened. never asked to speak with mueller. thank you, both. great reporting today, gloria and dana, on the cohen stuff. appreciate all of you for joining us. when we come back, president trump s pick represents a political deal he made with conservatives. if they backed his candidacy, he would fill the courts with judges of their choosing, someone who would go with what they wanted. who is getting the better end of this deal? we re going to discuss that. that s next. i woke up in memphis and told. (harmonica interrupts) .and told people about geico. (harmonica interrupts) how they could save 15% or more by. (harmonica interrupts) .by just calling or going online to geico.com. (harmonica interrupts) (sighs and chuckles)
solicitous of vladamir putin. berating of nato plays to putin s interest. what i am going to be watching and concerned about. how much does the president have ability to weaken nato? well i think a lot. just the fact that he constantly berates nato. moving them around makes nato nations very nervous. i think that is basically the unease that he created by you know, his, his criticism and frankly his, his demeaning of
he was blasting democrats, what he called unfair tactics on the left. he wrote this. there was a press conference and he wrote this. this is a tweet. he said, justice kennedy s resignation letter had barely arrived in the president s hands before several of our democratic colleagues began declaring their blanket opposition to anyone at all that the president might name, #scotusnominee. do you see hypocrisy in this, neera, in the majority leader tweeting that and saying what he said today given the way he treated president obama s nominee, merrick garland? it s ridiculous hypocrisy. the fact that mitch mcconnell totally opposed merrick garland, stopped anyone from actually having a hearing with him, stopped any hearing of his nomination, would not let he really discouraged people from even meeting with him. it s ridiculous. and the fact that mitch mcconnell is making that argument makes it more real to people this is all