the american bar gave him his highest possible rating. the aba concluded that his integrity, judicial temperament and professional confidence met the highest standards. lisa black, who has argued more cases before the supreme court than any other woman in history testified, quote, by any objective measure, judge kavanaugh is clearly qualified to serve on the supreme court. his opinions are invariably thoughtful and fair. miss blat, who clerked for him is an ardent admirer of justice
the justice department looking into you in the first place. these charges were filed well before the window of the justice department guidelines. again, this is not scripture, the justice didn t doesn t have to follow them are about 60 days before an election. this happened mid august, early august well before the 60 days. the justice department making clear that it wasn t political, even though the two people in this investigation happen to be republicans, paul ryan, speaker of the house, his office put out a statement. the justice department should always remain apolitical and the speaker has demonstrated he takes these charges seriously. that s my question, phil mudd, to you is that the kind of bold over my dead body, out of my cold hands statement that paul ryan should be making as the president takes on the idea of impartial, apolitical justice? look, i think paul ryan will walk away from his office people saying he s a respectable man. you look at his behavior under the trump
narrative. the organizer of the conference says it stood up to all of its agreements with monica lewinsky and the question was legitimate and respectful. they either had an agreement not to ask that and if they did have that agreement, then the interviewer violated the agreement. they re both right. that is legitimate question and i think that she has, it s her prerogative and she has the right to stand up and leave when she wants the narrative when she wants to control the narrative and i think that she makes a great point. she doesn t actually have to sit there anymore after 20 years and answer what somebody wants her to answer. we do know she has controlled her appearances over the years here and doesn t enter into any appearance, i don t think, without carefully controlled agreements. again, if the interviewer restricted that, you know, who knows. mean while, with the supreme court confirmation hearings with judge kavanaugh beginning very soon. we ll get a perspective fro
justice anthony kennedy. joining me now to analyze a presidents pick is the senior fox news political analyst, brit hume, ken starr who washe judge kavanaugh s boss, justin walker, who clerked for both judge kavanaugh and justice kennedy and leonard at leo, the president s top outside advisor on judicial picks. leonard, let s go to your first. congratulations, you are also kind of the man of the moment because you ve been working this process behind the scene. we were both in that room together when brett kavanaugh walked out, as father comes out first, as mother, mrs. scalia was there. two of the sons of mrs. scalia, and of course general edwin meese from the reagan administration, former attorney general. what did you feel? i know what i felt when that was all going down.
confirmation fight. the president leaving the white house on this holiday spending four hours at his golf course in sterling with virginia, but taking calls along the way. at times, the president sounding like his mind is already made up. i think you ll be very impressed. these are really talented people, really brilliant people. and i think you re going to really love it, like justice gorsu gorsuch. we hit a home run there and we ll hit a home run here. to replace justice anthony kennedy, the white house is following a similar rollout like justice neil gorsuch, president trump s first nominee to the supreme court. please, louise judge. here they come. but his question is whether his second nominee will follow in the same ideological mode. the president has interviewed at least seven potential justices, including these federal judges thought to be leading contenders. brett kavanaugh and raymond kethledge, and amy coney barrett and joan larsen, who clerked for the late justice a