the trump administration and i expect us to be seeing blue waves in these metropolitan areas around the country. the question, though, becomes, is it a national blue wave that's enough to get democrats past 23 seats or does it just become a series of isolated metropolitan waves. >> one guy energized by the confirmation of brett kavanaugh is senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who led the process, spoke in kentucky yesterday where he said how proud he is of the republican caucus for not being intimidated by protests against kavanaugh. >> we were literally under assault. these demonstrators, i'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them were trained to get in our faces, to go to our homes up there, basically almost attack us in the halls of the capitol. >> that's a theme you will be hearing. "the washington post" reporting