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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. other reference in the whole paul manafort trial to his time on the trump campaign. this thing i previously mentioned about him maybe offering the job of running the u.s. earl or the a bank president who approved the loans for him. that s the only other reference in the trump campaign thus far. two days ago out of the blue, the manafort defense lawyer asks rick gates, did mueller ask but your time in the trump campaign? the prosecutor gets up and objects. the judge summons both sides to come to the bench. he flips on, i kid you not, the white noise machine which is a real thing. so the jury and the spectators hear crashing waves instead of the conversation. none can hear what s being said. they have this long private communication. we know it is long because we know it takes six pages to transcribe. but we can t see the pages because they are sealed. now, we do know after that bench conference, whatever ha ....
if brett kavanaugh s confirmed to the supreme court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, women s rights and voting rights for decades to come. all i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. in the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. you live in unusual times as i do. you should get more than 90 votes but you won t, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. it s got nothing to do about you. if you don t mind, and you don t have to, what did you tell your children yesterday about the hearing? they did as they i ll tell them what they told me. they gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. i just wish if we could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up ....
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 trump s nominees by the fistful. this ryan bounds no, ma minati 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 willin ....
words. that is the man who sits before us. nominated to be a justice on the highest court of our land. judge kavanaugh has the backing of his former law clerks and law students, his colleagues on the bench appointed by both republican and democrat presidents and many members of his local community in which he remains so closely involved. he is a man of honor, integrity and well respected in the legal community. there is no dispute he is qualified to serve on our nation s highest court. mr. chairman, i look forward to the hearing from the nominee himself when we all get done with our statements. [ protester talking ] as we discuss with judge kavanaugh for the public to hear, in his own words the proper role of a judge in our constitutional system. i look forward to this hearing and again, judge kavanaugh, thank you for being willing to be here. thank you, mr. chairman. senator booker. thank, mr. chairman. welcome judge kavanaugh i want to say welcome to your family sincer ....
we run everything straight by the book. not sure what book he s talking about but not much book on governance that seems to be going on in this white house or anything this anonymous official describes. the president is said to be volcanic about it and said nothing this afternoon going to a trip to montana where he will be speaking tonight and sarah sanders spoke about this gutless loser and the times for being deceitful of this act and tweeted the times phone number. sarah sanders called on him or her to come forward and resign. no takers so far. these are all the senior administration officials up to and including the vice president who have denied writing the piece. secretary mattis, and pompeo and dan coats and more than two dozen top officials in all, one exception chief of staff john tweet asking whether or not the journalists of the new york times are going to investigate themselves and reveal who this anonymous source is. i can tell you talking to sources clo ....