the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. in the end a closely divided country elected a closely divided senate which took a closely divided vote that has left the country, you guessed it, closely divided. brett kavanaugh was confirmed by the senate, 50-48 yesterday after the closest vote since stanley matthews, you remember him, confirmed in 1891. it pitted republicans against democrats, men against women, accused against the accuser and trump loyalists against trump detractors. though the fight is over, the bitterment is likely to endure and so are the questions we re left with. will kavanaugh s confirmation create a bigger than expected blue wave from democrats or republicans generating a republican come back. will the supreme court be permanently damaged by the way brett kavanaugh made it across the finish line and his behavior last week and will he find
guy that they have a good relationship with. i m not one to say that the north koreans are credible on most issues. another huge development overnight president trump is going to hold some kind of not news conference but public statement at 11:00 today on this new trade. he s calling it, i think, the usmca, no longer nafta. a new trade deal, got canada to sign on to the revisions of nafta. practical significance versus the political significance? practical significance is more than marginal. not an entirely new deal. trump detractors will say they spent all this time and got nothing. that s not quite true. we have significantly improved environmental regulations, significantly advanced mode
but it occurs to me that the people who fill those arenas for him, they love it and he knows their sweet spots. you are exactly right. the very things that keep his 40% are the things preventing him from going from 40 to 50. he has a problem. he is the first president in our lifetime, once he got to office he made zero effort to pivot to the center. i think that worked when you have hillary clinton as your opponent. there were just a lot of republicans you who found her so toxic and they were not going to work for her. and they didn t know that much about trump, and thought he ll moderate when they come in. he has not done that. i think that s going to be a real vulnerability going forward. when i travel and people recognize me because of my association of cnn, i will hear the comments and criticism from trump detractors
client is not illegal but it s clearly unethical, and if lanny davis thinks somehow this is exculpatory and it shows that michael cohen is somehow the vic thirm, i thivi victim here, ilt s going to backfire on him. this isn t going to be a rorschach test, this recording, as someone said earlier. trump detractors are going to hear what they want to hear. you ll hear this cut played a thousand different ways and you ll hear what you want to hear in the tape. at the end of the day, dave, do you believe that the president was aware that his lawyer was setting up a corporation to buy back a bunch of assets from the parent company that he worked? chris, i listened to this
michael cohen is somehow the victim here, it s going to backfire on him. it was said earlier in the earlier segment, there s no aristotelian truth. this isn t going to be a rorschach test, this recording, as someone said earlier. trump detractors are going to hear what they want to hear. trump supporters will hear what they want to hear. audio audiologists will hear the cut played a thousand different ways and you ll hear what you want to hear in the tape. at the end of the day, dave, do you believe that the president was aware that his lawyer was setting up a corporation to buy back a bunch of assets from the parent company that he worked? chris, i listened to this tape for the first time about 15 minutes ago on this show. it was pretty garbled. i can t tell you what i believe