The issue of abortion, making sure that women in their states and across the country had access. So that was something that they thought carefully about. Its different, i guess, when theyre voting on an issue rather than putting somebody up on the court who may or may not hold those beliefs. Its also going to be interesting to see, jake, tonight how much the president speaks before actually getting to what everyone is gathered here to hear. Yeah, because he loves this moment. Gorsuch, you might remember, during that rocky first half of his first year gorsuch was one of the moments that went off pretty well, whatever you think of him as a judge or as a nominee. That announcement went well compared to so many other things in the First Six Months of his presidency. And, look, i mean this is a president who weve made it to 9 01, and we still do not know for sure who it is. And there is the president. Lets listen in. [ applause ] my fellow americans, tonight i speak to you from the east roo
Theres a lot there. That made mcconnell nervous. He wanted one of the two short listers with much, much less successful records because he wants it done by september. The speck haitian that i was referring to, the kavanaugh edition to the list from which President Trump was reportedly choosing, that it may have been designed to encourage Justice Kennedy to retire. I think the predictability. The fact that george w. Bush would have picked him, ted cruz, mitt romney would have picked him, tells you this would have been done by the heritage society, theyve almost entirely control the process. Typical traditional pick. This is not an alarming or whacky pick. This is the live shot that youre seeing is the east room. Were expecting the president to arrive essentially now to make this nomination. Again, nbc news reporting that the nominee will be judge Brett Kavanaugh. My fellow americans, tonight i speak to you from the east room of the white house regarding one of the most profound responsi
Sure he finishes his job without political interference. And im here to tell anybody in the country who listens, that this is so hypocritical of my friends on the other side. When it was their president , kavanaugh was right. When youre talking about roe v. Wade, its okay to promise the nation it will never be overturned. Its okay to pick a democratic staff member of this committee, but its not okay to pick somebody thats been a life long republican. People see through this. You had a chance and you lost. If you want to pick judges, from your way of thinking, then you better win an election. I voted for two of your choices. Soed mi sotomayor and kagan. I got a lot of crap. Why did i do it . I thought they were qualified by any reasonable measure, given the history of the senate. But we have turned the history of the senate upside down. I found that they were different than i would have picked, sotomayor and kagan, but my any reasonable measure they were qualified. Youve been on the cou
About to begin. What are we expecting tonight from the president . And from Brett Kavanaugh . I think the big question for whats going to happen here is whether or not were going to see fence spending or more fire and fury. We expect the president to speak for about 20 minutes or so. Were expecting Brett Kavanaugh to speak. After we heard the president earlier today talk about the Democratic Forces aligned against kavanaugh as being evil, whether or not hes going to dial down that rhetoric. We know that Brett Kavanaugh put that op ed in the wall street journal, you can see people coming into the room right now. Supreme Court Justices okayingen, sotomayor, ginsburg, roberts, breyer and so on. Kavanaugh seemed to dial back a lot of that rhetoric that we saw during his hearing. Some of the other notables we should mention in the room right now is Justice Kavanaughs wife and children. Also one thing i want to note, Mitch Mcconnell came into the room, i thought that was interesting because
Without political interference and im here to tell anybody in the country who listens that this is so hypocritical of my friends on the other side. When it was their president kavanaugh was right. When youre talking about roe v. Wade, its okay to promise the nation it will never be overturned. Its okay to pick a democratic staff member of this committee but its not okay to pick somebody whos been a lifelong republican. People see through this. You had a chance and you lost. If you want to pick judges from your way of thinking then you better win an election. I voted for two of your choices, sotomayor and kagen. I got a lot of crap. I would suggest you think long and hard if you got a political ambition for voting this guy because it will not play well on your side and why did i do it . I thought they were qualified by any reasonable measure given the history of the senate, but we have turned the history of the senate upside down. I found that they were different than i would have picke