If confirmed by the senate, i will keep an open mind in every case and i will always strive to preserve the constitution of the United States and the american rule of law. So kavanaugh is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Kennedy. In 1993 he met ken starr during a Justice Department fellowship and became a key staff member when starr was the independent counsel investigating the white water and clinton lieu ensky scandals. Kavanaugh helped write the final report to congress that laid out 11 possible grounds for impeaching president bill clinton. He served as george w. Bushs white House Counsel and Staff Secretary before he was nominated to be a federal judge in 2006. He was confirmed at that time by a vote of 5736. Now, Brett Kavanaughs nomination sets up an extremely
consequential confirmation battle. Within minutes of trumps announcement, several Top Democrats voicing their intention to vote against him. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer put out a saying that b
So theoretically, you they he has taped people inside of the white house . He threatened comey. He said, you know, you have to watch out. He insinuated that there might be tapings. She said this about the interview that President Trump gave to Msnbc News Last year in which she discussed the firing. He was being prepped by hope hi hi hicks and thecomes team to say that the doj had come up with this memo so they could justify the fire thing of comey. And you were in on it, too . That is definitely a hope hicks Press Secretary Type of thing. So if thecomes team prepped him to lie to lester holt they prepped him everyday. Did you ask the question why we are lying . All the time. The answer was . This is how they do it. This is the Trump Administration. This is her assessment of the president s ability to do his job. They want to talk to her. Fake news. Laura trump, again the wife of eric trump, had this to say to sean hannity tonight. What an Incredible Opportunity she wasted. The presiden
He can express any views he was. Wants. The big mistake was not recusing himself. When he tweeted he would make sure trump doesnt become president and has an insurance policy, he could not be fair and just. By not recusing himself, he violated his position of trust. I would not go too far and blame it on the top authorities of the fbi. They didnt know. When they did know, they demoted him and took him out of the investigation. I think its a blemish, but i dont think its a fatal flaw in the investigation. I think there are deeper and more fatal flaws. Ultimately i think it was the right decision. Tucker dont those texts suggest why he didnt recuse himself . Its one thing to express a political opinion. Do i it for a leaving. Living. He was suggesting that his opinions would drive the crimmial investigation that he was conducting. Thats subversion of justice. Thats the issue. He denied under oath that in any way he was influenced by his hatred for thump in any of his professional decisio
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Joining us now intelligence and National Security reporter for nbc news, politics editor at theroot. Com and former Chief Adviser or al gore and a former senior aid to president obama. When a trump tweet ends with National Disgrace, a tweet that includes a misspelling by the president , it reminds me of the days when misspelling was a National Disgrace when done by the Vice President of the United States, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. Here is the president and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news hes reading or being read to him in the New York Times. Lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. You could, yes. By the way he seems to be
responding to these things. I have to say i have been avoiding that word sin
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Elections . When were picking whos going to be running the house and the senate . I think right track wrong track is a very important indicator. That and theres often polling numbers of, does this guy or this person, this Candidate Fight for people like you . Those are the type of polls i find a little more credible. Astonishing to me is that it can be down at 35 when the economy on its surface and in its aggregate numbers is doing so well. Id ask an expert like John Heilemann or somebody, have you ever seen right track being 35 when unemployment is below 4 . And since i think the economic numbers wont always be as good, this could really tumble down if theres if there starts to be any blips in the economy. Especially from this continued china trade dispute, which could, you know, start bringing down the economy a little bit. So, joe, since walter invi