Is the narrowest in a generation and it came as protesters descended on capitol hill. Donald trump praised kavanaugh before heading to a rally tonight in kansas. He will be a great justice of the Supreme Court. People have thought that for ten years. They thought hes just an extraordinary person, a great, great talent. And i think hes going to make us all very proud. Trump tweeted that kavanaugh will officially be sworn in tonight though not in public. Instead it will be done by chief Justice John Roberts and retired Justice Anthony kennedy in a private ceremony. The nomination of brett m. Kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. But first lets look at the protests under way right outside the u. S. Supreme court. Kavanaugh is inside. Mike viqueira is there. Tell us what youre seeing. Reporter its an extraordinary moment. I dont know what else to say. The day was petering out, the crowd was thinning out. Had been a crowd do
Prosecutor to the aide the image of bullying. The president makes it clear today where he stands. I know this particular man, judge kavanaugh. He is outstanding. You dont find people like this. He is outstanding. He is a gem. He is an absolute gem. As we continue with this breaking news, and goodday. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york, and Michael Avenatti is going to be joining me live later in the hour to discuss these stunning allegations by his client washington resident julia swetnick. She says that Brett Kavanaugh drank excessively in as many as ten house parties from 1981 to 1983 in the washington, d. C. , e area, and he and his friend mark judge engaged in abusive behavior toward women, including grinding against girls clothing, and shifting girls clothing to expose body parts. I have seen him verbally abusive to girls, and making crude comme comments to girls that were designed to humiliate and embarrass them. He also caused girls to be inebriated or drugged so they could be gang
And deep impact a week after the emotional appearances of dr. Ford and mr. Kavanaugh. A and Savannah Guthrie speaks to ellen degeneres. You dont remember where you were or what you saw, but how you felt. Everybody who is watching this is so angry because how dare you not believe us. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york, and republican and Democratic Senators sharply divided over the results of the fiveday supplemental background check into Brett Kavanaugh with the democrats complaining bitterly that the white house did not let the fbi do their job even as Mitch Mcconnell has scheduled the first critical vote tomorrow. And the democrats are hoping to peel off two or three of the undecided republicans, Lisa Murkowski, jeff flake or Susan Collins now seems bleak. Senator collins moments ago call calling the investigation thorough, and senator flake saying that he found no additional corroborating information. A source briefed on the fbi probe says that nine people were interviewed and
Somebody. And breaking news. Goodday, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where any minute President Trump is going be meeting with House Republicans and to be a fly in the wall there. He has thrown a wrench into his own partys agreement to avert a shutdown signaling he wont sign anything that does not include money for the border wall. This agreement passed by the senate is on the brink of breaking down. Kasie hunt is all over this on capitol hill, and Kristen Welker at the white house. How did this happen . The republicans thought they had a deal, and the Senate Passed it and paulle ryan was reportedly called out of the meeting with the House Republicans today, and the caucus is not willing to go ahead if the president wont sign it. Andrea, frankly, what has happened is the scenario that we walked through yesterday on this program which is that the president is completely unp unpredictable, and he as apparently decided that he may have some problems with this and he has refused quite fr
Corruption and the corruption taking place and largely the fact we dont want our people like Vice President biden and his son creating the corruption already in the ukraine and ukraine has got a lot of problems. Direct quote. Earlier today he defended the actions in the face of even more investigations by the democrats into his conduct. Mr. President , how seriously are you taking not at all seriously. We had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. Everybody knows it. Its just a democrat witch hunt. Here we go again. They failed with russia. And they failed with everything. Now theyre bringing this up. The one who has the problem is biden. Look at what biden did. Biden did what they would like me to do but i didnt do it. What biden did is a disgrace. What his son did is a disgrace. The son toog monk money from uk. According to wall street journal, the president pushed the ukraine leader to investigate the bidens and specifically Hunter Bidens business dealings in ukraine ei