Elected, they were ready and they launched hundreds of conservative nominees all at once. There were plenty of vacancies for them to fill because republicans had all those seats opened. Republican haves been running those nominees through like a factory made chocolates on a conveyer belt. They got to hurry through as many of these nominations as they can. On july 19th, despite this well oiled if fairly frantic system, one of their judicial nominees failed. His name is ryan bounds. The Trump Organization nominated him one level below the u. S. Supreme court court. Again, in general republicans in the senate have been ramming through trumps nominees by the fistful. This ryan bounds no, maminati
school as this guy at the same time. I remember those fights. In despite the fact that he tried to hide those writings from the senate, his nomination did appear to be on track and get confirmed through senate anyway. Senator tim scott decided he was not okay for this guy and not willing to vote on this judge. What he called a feel good ethnics elites. According to everetts reporting at the time on politico. Com, senator tim scott started to voice his concerns in the possibility that he may vote no one day before the vote was scheduled on ryan bounds. Senator scott then spoke to the nominee himself to try to asuede his concerns. That did not work. Nominee as long as democrats stayed unified in opposition. With senator mccain having been passed who is replaced by jon kyl. Now, it is back to 5149. If only two republican senators peel off on any one vote or one nomination. As long as the democrats are unified. That vote or nominee is toast. After more than 31 hours of Confirmation Hearing for Brett Kavanaughs nomination for the Supreme Court this week, it is becoming clear that democrats are proceeding on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh with that very, very narrow vote margin in mind. There have been some forgive me, i think there has been some quite a lot of commentary. I dont mean that to be snarky, and some headlines you may have seen suggesting that democrats are trying to make a big spectacle out of the kavanaughs confirmation process. The democrats are in the minorities and no way they can stop this nomination. Theyre setting off Fireworks Pointlessly to try to make attention and make a scene. You have see reporting and commentary and thats particular of what democrats are doing, releasing documents from kavanaugh history. You know what if democrats knew it was a feudal effort and he was going to be confirmed anyway no matter what they did. There are easy and more fun way of doing it. Whats clear of three long days of hearing that the democrats are not trying to make a spectacle of the confirmation
process here. They appear to be blocking Brett Kavanaughs confirmation and actually trying to win. Democrats are not used to seeing this in their elected officials so i am not sure if it is recognized widely. Look at what they are doing. Theyre not just making or sounding fury here. They are doing something to try to win and stop kavanaughs nomination. They may not win. It is worth being clear that is they are going for. They are aware thats a close question here. For a number of reasons, this nominee is actually super unpopular. Nationwide polling shows that this nominee is less popular than any modern Supreme Court nomination since Harriet Myers. The reason i am not saying Justice Harriet myers because she never made toit to the supre court. She had to withdraw her nomination. Public support for kavanaughs nomination is lower than harriet
myers enjoyed before she had to withdraw. At least one National Poll for kavanaughs nomination is lower than what we saw for robert bork. He insisted ongoing all the way through to a vote and not withdrawing the way that Harriet Myers did. Bork was rejected by a large Bipartisan Party in a sense. Thats a fair nomination. And public support is not everything. The public does not get a direct vote on Supreme Court nominees. It is striking in this case. That support is so low for kavanaugh. Ultimately that kind of thing does end up mattering to senators. If they have reason really seriously consider their vote here. Ultimately, it does matter to elected officials particularly
right before an election when more americans dont Want Kavanaugh confirmed or do want him confirmed. Brett kavanaugh is under water that way. More people want him rejected than want him confirmed. In that environment with a week of unpopular nominee and having been chosen by The Up Popular president who have been named as a felony case and is at the center of a huge investigation thats literally going to result in one of his Campaign Aids Being sensed probably to prison tomorrow in the middle of Brett KavanaughsConfirmation Hearings while Jury Selection Hearing for his campaign. With a week of unpopular nominee nominated by a week and unpopular and endangered president and with the razor
thin republican majority in the senate. Democrats are not throwing up their hands and being like we got no choice here. Cant do nothing. Lets just make noise. Democrats have one small specific cast this week. And it is not to change the worlds perception of Bullrett Kavanaugh or transform the Republican Caucus somehow. All they need to do is peal off republican senators and persuading them to decide for their own reasons that they cant vote on this man. This is an aim the squirt gun strategy. There are two republican senators who say they are prochoice. They have made clear to their constituents back home for years and both of their decades. Senator Lisa Mowkowski and susan
collins saying they are satisfied he considered roe to be settled laws. He agreed with what Justice Robert said at his Nomination Hearing and in which what he said was settled. We had a very good, thorough discussion of that issue. Excuse me. Senator Susan Collins of malaysian. The other israe lisa mowcowksi. That my Susan Collins own admission. It is something thats important to her and something that hatteha
matters to her. Today, somebody leaked to the New York Times and nbc news, this email written by kavanaugh, he argued roe v. Wade is not recognized to be settled law. I am not sure that all legal san Francis Kavanaugh was writing that in 2003. Right now there are certainly four justices who are expected to over turn roe and carver gnaw is the along awaited fifth row to do just that if they ever put him on the court the first email made public raises a few questions. Why was that email marked confidential and not release todd the public . What if that was inappropriate for the public to know about judge kavanaugh and his views. That was him commenting on the proposed oped, that means we need to be protected from his edits to that document. Also, how do senators look at that and explain to their constituents they are still confident that hell treat roe and no chance he believes it could even be overturned. He does not believe it is settled law at all. The strategy around releasing the roe memo and i say it is a strategy because nbc news said it today when they got it, they got it from quote, democratic sources. This strategy is aimed at two
specific senators. Those senators have admitted theyll vote their vote in part on that issue. Whether anyone is persuaded by kavanaugh to make abortion illegal. Hawaiis senator macys hirono. This is Brett Kavanaugh writing to another white house official. Quote, i think the testimony needs to make clear that any Program TargetingNative Hawaiians as a group is subjected to scrutiny and questionable validity under the constitution. Why would macy going out of the
limb for this . It is not on a lot of issues. It is not one statement thats a document. Is this kind of an issue is going to turn the National Tide against Brett Kavanaugh . That document they not guarder a single headline when it come to kavanaugh. You dont need to turn the whole write. Who is macys hirono is tweeting out about in. And by extension, laalaska
natives. This democratic effort is specifically targeted and narrow cast to make it impossible for Lisa Mowkowski to vote on this nominee i think you have a problem here. Your view is that Native Hawaiians dont deserve protection. I think that my colleague from alaska should be deeply troubled by your views. My colleague from alaska. We got democrats giving Susan Collins and Lisa Mowkowski. We gottlieb lisa gotten anothero
vote. It shows that Lisa Mukowski may have problems at home. If she votes on this nominee whos absolutely on the record hospital who benefits them and recognize them. You may have seen this mornings announcement that macy hirono. Once he wanted the release including kavanaughs communication of racial profiling. Thanks to that action by democrats in the senate, we now have this document. Here is Brett Kavanaugh 2001, Calling The Affirm Nation Action a naked and racial seta side. This is a program thats
supposed to benefit minority contractors. He also won the record for nati Native Hawaiians. It is like when judge ryan wrote about the ethnic elites. Except, ryan bounds never became a judge because tim scott and everyone marco rubio decided they could not stomach that kind of past writing on a race for a judicial nominee. That nomination failed and at least one reporter heard the democrats cheering. They dont need them all. They dont need the media or they dont need to entertain any of us. They just node to vote. Those no votes can be for any reason at all. Thats important to those two republican senators. The democrats did glow up the
process again by calling Republicans Bluff On what kavanaugh could be shown. When you look at the stuff they have releasing it and the way they are presenting it, it is clear, this is a tightly targeted efforts. Senators who really may have concerns with special elements of Brett Kavanaughs records that would not have been let out of the committee. The republican senator who are really being targeted here in this effort are not senators who are members of the judicial committee. Those are documents thats not seen by anybody off the committee. When they are releasing these do you means, that may be the only way they can let senator tim scott know that Brett Kavanaugh says a Affirmative Action is the only way they can let senator Lisa Mowkowski know. Brett kavanaugh does not think that cinder block. He does think the court could overturn that. It is not just multiple choice he choice choice here. There is a method to what they are doing and alongside that, there are two other thing that is are going on here that well talk about. Number one, this now quite robust democratic efforts to show nut one or two or three or four, Brett Kavanaugh may have lied to the senate of his last appearance before them. Democrats have been probing around the edges of allegations since carvkavanaugh was named. Today they start to lay out the troops. There is the drama that had been unleashed by kamala harris. Judge, have you discussed this investigation with anyone . Well, it is in the news everyday. Have you discussed it with anyone . Um with other judges i know. Have you discussed mueller or his investigation with anyone, the law firm found by president trumps personal lawyer. Be sure about your answer, sir. Well, i am not remembering but if you have something you want are you certain that you have not had any conversations . Have you had any conversation
about Robert Mueller or his investigation with anyone at that firm, yes or no . Is there a person you are talking about . My question is have you had a conversation with anyone at that firm of that investigation. It is a really specific question. I would like to know the process you are thinking of. I think you are thinking of sbun a someone and you dont want to tell us. Who did you have a conversation with mr. Chairman, i would loik to raise an objection here. This town is full of law firms. First of all, hold on the to the clock. That was the cliff hanger that we were left with. Where did that come from . What does it mean . Well senatooor we got th
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had people at the law firm represented the president and at one point represented the president and that conversation was about the probe. I dont know why i have to wait a 24hour to get answer answs. He has not given clear answers onto Special Counsel whether the president could fire him. There is you know a lot ofi thi where hes been evasive in terms of his answer he was pressing you both last night and tonight to tell him who exactly you were asking about. Republican suggested and the nominee himself suggested a
little bit that was the only way you can answer questions because he did not have any way of knowing of talking of the investigation were in fact associated with that firm. What did you