york to talk about tax cuts, while her father just said to these families who haven t been reunited, go fish. yeah, look. i mean, if you re the child of or married to donald trump, there are a myriad of problems. this is just one of them. in terms of what trump said, what it reveals about him, this, i think, is important. it demonstrates and underscores that this is a person without empathy, without sympathy. i mean that in a literal sense. i don t think that he has that capacity. i think he has a disordered personality. i always thought that that is the case. one of the manifestations of that is this is a person who has an inability to have any kind of empathy for people in pain or who are struggling. that manifests itself in all sorts of ways. this is one of them. this is one of the uglier and darker episodes. it didn t begin here. it won t end here. that distorted personality, those psychological and emotional problems, are part of who he is. he s going to be president
at the top of the hour, president trump s former national security adviser, you remember michael flynn, will make his first court appearance since last december. while he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi, flynn has been cooperating with robert mueller for the last seven months. the special counsel has delayed his sentencing at least three times. politico reports, quote, the repeated delays in flynn s sentence having led to speculation that prosecutors believe his testimony could be useful at some future trial or the sentencing process might disclose some aspect of the investigation that mueller still wishes to keep secret. i want to bring in matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and an msnbc justice and security analyst. what do we expect today? i think we ll see both the prosecution and flynn s defense attorneys are going to go into
story stateside. president trump s nomination of brent kavanaugh as the next supreme court justice. i want to bring in nbc s peter alexander live at the white house and msnbc s garrett haake on the hill. peter, how is the administration planning to sell this pick? yes, stephanie, good question. we re getting a sense of of it today. kavanaugh making his stops today on capitol hill. he ll visit with the senate s top republican mitch mcconnell. a senior white house official is winding us through this process, telling us that the president made his final decision sunday night. then called ckavanaugh to personally deliver this news. introducing him as one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time. the president is again praising his pick this morning. last night was an incredible evening. brent kavanaugh has gotten rave reviews. rave reviews. actually from both sides. i think it s going to be a
2009 when president obama was president. that may serve a democratic president far into the future once donald trump is in the past. he s not the hill the democratic party wants to die on. you know democrats are going to push it. i have a quote. in 2009, when he wrote, we should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations or criminal prosecutions. the president s job is difficult enough as it is. a country loses when the president s focus is distracted by the burdens of civil litigation or criminal investigation and possible prosecution. democrats have already made it clear this is going to be an issue in kavanaugh s hearing. i want to share what cory booker said. he picked the one guy who has pesk specifically written the president should not be the subject of a criminal investigation, which the president is right now. so this seems to be, of all the
something right. i want to ask you about politico s reporting that justice kennedy favored cavanaugh. not an i ll leave if you give him seat but do you does it surprise you that could have influenced president trump, who truly likes to go his own path? look, cavanaugh was a clerk for kennedy. must have pleased kennedy to know kavanaugh would have been a likely successor. by the way, kavanaugh is, i suspect will, if he s confirmed, look like a justice in the mold of kennedy, which is he s not going to be a conservative. he s capable of thinking for himself. he was not the most he s not always the most conservative judge on every single panel. and some of his rulings, some of his thinking, the one that keeps coming up, which is his believe the president should be immune from certain investigations and civil suits, that was written in