They would say its mean, its cool, meanspirited. Cruel, mean spirited. Anyway, you had a great show tonight, great new details. Good evening from washington, im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. We have a lot for you in the next hour. Brett kavanaugh, the Supreme Court confirmation hearing is just one of the many stories we are watching tonight. Also the white house hitting back very hard against the latest bob woodward book. Ed henry will be here to break it all down for us. Plus nike lost billions of dollars of value over its decision to use anthem kneeler Colin Kaepernick as the face of its latest ad campaign. So wasnt no one else available . I guess not. And with nbc embroiled in it a scandal, one of its top anchors is taking shots of course at fox. So we will set the record straight. But first the party of the stunts strikes again. Supreme Court NomineeBrett Kavanaugh had not yet been introduced at his confirmation hearing when democrats employed a familiar protest tactic. Good morning. I welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as associate justice mr. Chairman, i would like to be recognized for questions before we proceed. Laura first went kamala harris. Despite the fact that they were furnished more documents about kavanaugh than the last five Supreme Court nominees combined, and despite the fact like senators like Richard Blumenthal have already gone on record saying they are opposing kavanaughs nomination, of course, they claim, it was all about needing more documents. Mr. Chairman, i moved to adjourn. [cheers and applause] mr. Chairman, we have been denied real access to the documents we need to advise regular order is called for which turns into asha raid and mockery of our norms. Laura isnt it funny to hear and say that, turning it into a mockery . Of course no episode of the trump resistance would be complete without some of those protesters that youve heard in the background. They were going off like timed fireworks in a tedious spectacle. Justice hearing down now i urge you indeed mr. Chairman, i think we ought to have this loudmouth removed. We shouldnt have to put up with this kind of stuff. I hope she is not a law student. Laura there were 63 interruptions of the first part of the hearing today. It seemed like it was 263 to me watching it. And heres what you need to know. These were not random events, they were part of a coordinated campaign of stunts directed and staged beforehand by the democrats. Im reviewing a tweet from nbc that said democrats plotted coordinated protest strategy over the Holiday Weekend and all agreed to protest the hearing. Chuck schumer led a phone call and Committee Members are executing now. Mr. Chairman, there was a phone conference yesterday and at the time of the phone conference, many issues were raised. One of the issues is the fact that over 100,000 documents related to judge kavanaugh have been charactered by the committee as committee confidential. Laura it was good of durban to confirm what we all knew. There is a 90 minute bloviation session at the top of the Kavanaugh Hearing was just clunky choreography meant to flust herb republicans and more important fluster republicans and more importantly its all about the midterms. They are not going to defeat kavanaugh. They know it and we know it. But the truth is this is all the democrats have. Theyre now just basically a party of wacky protests, sill side shows and goofy stunts. They have no governing agenda or cogent argument. They cant run against record unemployment or booming consumer confidence. So feigned outrage is all they are left with. One group of leftist women outside the hearing actually donned handmade tales costumes. As if it would turn women into slaves of the state. I looked closely and it looked more like a high school sendoff, i dont know, of little house on the prairie. It was really stupid. Got to get a new costume department. Among the protesters scattered through the hearing room was a familiar face. Leftist activist and pr you remember she gave that very understated talk at the womens march right after the inauguration. I will not respect an administration that won that election on the backs of muslims and black people, and undocumented people and of mexicans and people with disabilities, and on the backs of women. Laura my dogs at home just hid under the couch with that. Im sorry. But not only is the cast of characters the same, but so is the general approach. The circus of todays hearing might have only involved three or four dozen people but it was just as well organized as the womens marches or any of those spontaneous proamnesty marches that we saw earlier this year. I called this governance by stunt. We dont have the votes to change policies so we are going to try intimidation. After all, we know that most of the media is just going to laugh it up so just let it rip. And this is the same play they used in chicago back in 2016 when trump was scheduled to attend a rally at the university of illinois and chicago. Democratic congressman luis gutierrez, moveon. Org, black lives matter and other leftist groups organize thousands of protesters to swarm the venue. There were scuffles and violence. The Security Threat was so intense that the Trump Campaign decided to cancel the rally. If you cant beat them, intimidate them. Todays kavanaugh spectacle was revealing. It shows the democrats enduring rage over the election of 2016. They just cannot get over it. And although kavanaugh is supremely qualified, extremely well regarded as a selection for the high court, he must be opposed because of the man who nominated him. This absurd political jacking jockeying today but democratic 2020 hopefuls was as disruptive as it, frankly, was embarrassing. Good morning. I welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of mr. Chairman . Brett kavanaugh. Mr. Chairman, id like to be recognized for a question before we proceed to. Mr. Chairman, if we could just respond to that. Sir you can respond, but just a minute. That was cory bookers voice. You didnt see him there. He was quite chatty today. For all the chatter that trump has koorsened our kofconversati and trump has up ended protocol, what do you call that . That went on and on and on. I was thinking about it today though, and as they have done on College Campuses and so many other places, and walks of life today, the left is destroying civility and sowing chaos. They are doing it throughout society, and i think the most of the rest of america is just working. They are too busy for protest. They have to put food on the table. If this is how the democrats conduct themselves at what should be a sober hearing for one of the most important posts in the land, imagine how they will govern. Should they gain a majority in november . And that is the angle. Joining me now for reaction, former chief nominations counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee. Mark penn, former adviser to bill and hillary clinton. And harmit dillon. Great to see you all. Mark, directed at your parties, whats happening here . I would say democrats won the day by losing it because they may be created a ruckus but i didnt see a single word even in your show from judge kavanaugh and neither did america. Laura so thats the goal here . Because thats the goal on College Campuses. Neil gorsuch actually had a a lot more support and he got through the message but, kavanaugh didnt. Laura its the first day of the hearing. He usually doesnt speak at all. So you think its fine for when the chairman of the committee is speaking for multiple democrats, auditioning for 2020, and continue to jump in when they know thats not the deal. If the shoe were on the other foot democrats would be howling about this. You hit it on the head. These are 2020 democrats. Theyre playing to the base. Its what theyre doing. Its the senate, its political. Thats 13 approval in this country for a reason, and its theater. Everybody knows these nominations are going through and this is all for show. Laura i think its also a chance to educate the American Public on how important the court is. I think if you pointed out on my radio show how this demonstrates that to the left, the court is just another political instrument. Thats absolutely right. Clearly, they dont have the votes to stop kavanaugh and they dont have the arguments to do it either. I think what he speaking about is a vision of the court that the American People respect and understand. Judges that apply the law as written and dont advance narrow ideological agendas. And thats contrary to what some of these democrats want. If they werent obstructing they could talk about the key political issues. Laura so its abortion, abortion, abortion. Gun restriction, gun restriction. There was a moment when ben sasse who has been resisting trump for most of the trump presidency, but he in many ways i think today was the republican stand out in this committee. Lets watch. The reason these hearings dont work is not because of donald trump or anything in the last 20 months. These confirmation hearings havent worked for 31 years in america. The hysteria around Supreme Court confirmation hearings is coming from the fact that we have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the Supreme Court in american life. Judge kavanaugh doesnt hate women and children, judge kavanaugh doesnt lust after dirty water and stinky error. Air. No, looking at his record it seems to me that what he actually dislikes are legislators that are too lazy and too risk averse to do our actual jobs. Laura while presented and well done. I know youve been following this minutebyminute, i knew it was going to be raucous, but i confess, i actually thought this was and i guess i am still naive in certain ways. I thought this was even below where someone like the theatrical booker would go, but thats exactly where he went. Thats right, laura. It was a 2016 audience with a 2020 aspirational democratic leadership there. It was worse than the bork hearings. I thought it was outrageous, it really turns off the American Voters and as much as you and disagree with ben sasse, i think he was a star and ted cruz was also a star today. They wouldnt have those losers in their handmade tail costumes out there protesting, they should be protesting not the confirmation hearing but they should be protesting the senate, protesting legislators who dont do their jobs. Instead its the default now and they treat the Supreme Court like a branch of the government that makes the laws and not interprets them. Like you said, and kavanaugh will have a chance to talk tomorrow, and this is just laying out the clock as much as we can. Laura his two daughters are sitting there and the democrats mark are all about the children. The children. You are separating parents from children. Okay. Theres some validity there. But he has two young girls sitting there. And Brett Kavanaugh who has excelled in law cool, who was qualified by the apa which used to be the gold standard. Its a nasty comment after nasty comments after nasty comments. And i keep thinking for those little girls, is this their introduction to american democracy and article three and the legislative branch of oversight . I know thats kind of anecdotal and maybe i shouldnt focus on. That but as the mother of children i did focus on that for a moment. Where i agree is what was good politics for democrats isnt good policy for everybody because the matter is, they the court looks like another political branch. Unless there is a bipartisan agreement on future nomination agreements, we are tearing down our institutions and they have to put policy and good institutions and supporting our country about politics that is not going to happen in this hearing. Laura you know what was trending . It wasnt kavanaughs introduction to himself. It was the stunt, it was the costumes. It was a tweet like this that made the rounds. This amy this is some influencer on social media. Political ranks as one of the top influencers out there. She says what fresh hell is this . Three exclamation points and three question marks, i love when they do this. Giving the white power sign behind them during the hearing. This alone should be disqualify. Grammatically challenged as well it is twitter so grammar is out the window. But thats where we are. As ugly as things got in that hearing room, its uglier still on twitter and various precincts of the left. Obviously the woman who i had an opportunity to work with here a bit in the senate, was sitting with her hand resting in a position laura and shes a terrific person, too. She scanning the room for something they can interpret and turn into something obnoxious. Its absecurity absurd. Reporter harmeet there, is something very interesting, which unless something really bizarre happens, he will be the next associate justice on the Supreme Court. He will set for the argument in the first week of october and that happened unless something bizarre happens. But as we are talking about this in massachusetts tonight there was a big primary. In the seventh district of massachusetts, the incumbent michael capuano, who is endorsed by john lewis and maxine waters. Not exactly moderate democrats endorsing him, was beaten by an alexandria ocasiocortez endorsy ianna pressley. She is far left, and is an atlarge member that came out of nowhere. The democrats are losing control of this party, even their gold standards of liberals like john lewis and maxine waters, they cant push someone through in massachusetts and capuano is a liberals liberal. He is liberal but not liberal enough. Yeah, yeah. It bodes poorly for nancy pelosi in case democrats take back the house. Just like joe crowley. This guy was considered to be a shoe in. The party is going far left, so i say, you go girl. Take the party further left and for the left. Nobody is buying the socialism and nobody wants to see america turn into venezuela. Laura it doesnt work. It doesnt work. Where has socialism worked. Or democratic socialism its not work. Mark, weigh in on that. I think the party is saying they want a new generation. They realize that their leaders are in the 70s and 80s. And thats what you are seeing. But i think you underestimate the power of moderate democrats if the house is taken over by the democrats, they are is the swing votes, not the left. And you will be surprised. Laura and they will be out in the cold. Youll see. Laura throw me another crumb. They will have more power than you think. They have the power to stop the left. Laura give me a final prediction for whats going to happen tomorrow. I think we will finally hear more from judge kavanaugh, and his record is so exceptional and his approach to the law is respectful of the constitution and American People. I think more people hear from him the more they will like him and the more inevitable his confirmation will become. He will get confirmation from all the republicans and some democrats. Laura dont you miss being up there though . I dont know if today laura gregg is like, thank god im not there now. Its a threering circus. Thank you so much. The Peacock Network is involved in multiple scandals tonight, still one of nbcs top anchors taking shots at conservatives, including yours truly and others at this network. The full story, next. Do you need the most trusted battery in your wireless mouse . Maybe not. Maybe you can trust that during your fantasy draft, the computer wont autodraft a kicker in the 7th round. Or. You could just trust duracell. Taken over the party. There is almost a disdain with some in trump world. They are like, okay so the collegeeducated crowd is in isnt for it. This doesnt look like an attempt to serve citizens. It looks like an attempt to serve propaganda. Its difficult to take it anymore. I have no doubt that they have a point of view but they are grounded in facts . Laura that was nbcs socalled neutral objective, always objective anchor chuck todd talking shots at trump over the supporters also over the last few years. And in a new piece in atlantic, mr. Todd advocates for journalists to fight back against conservative claims of bias. Bring it on, chuck. So let me get this straight. While nbc is embroiled in multiple scandals including completely blowing it on the weinstein Sexual Assault story, chuck todd is telling fox and others how to handle its business . Nice try. Joining me now with reaction is conservative radio talk show host, Fox News Contributor tammy bruce and chris hahn, a talk show host and former aide to senator chuck schumer. All right, tammy. Take it away. I find this to be rich. Its nice to have a byline in the atlantic. I get that. And taking shots at fox is something of a Cottage Industry out there about how much credibility right at this moment does nbc have . Not much at all and i think this is their breaking point but its also not an accident that this is all just before the midterms. Lets look at chuck todd. In the Podesta Emails that were leaked by wikileaks, we found that he had been inviting people to a party that chuck todd was having in his home for jennifer palmieri, a major aid for hillary clinton. And in their private lives how they all network together. But he is arguing going 24 7 against the president of the United States is not enough. Now they want to go 24 7 against fox news. Thats what he is advocating for. In the midst of wondering why no one trusts the legacy media. Its because theyre on trustworthy. A gallup poll chuck tracks the trustworthiness that media in 1996, the trustworthy index went up for a number of years. But you can see when major events have occurred, that when the American Trust mechanism, the quotient for the media starts to go down on major events, like after september 11, and other dynamics. So you can just see, they can fight back. Chuck todd says in this piece he can fight back. If you would do his job instead of creating these campaigns