him. he showed an issue with the truth in his testimony about his drinking behavior, what went on. on top of the fact there were a lot of democrats who had issues with him during his normal confirmation hearings. you are hearing from dr. ford s lawyers there were elements bill: i get it. doesn t everyone feel better about it? bill: was it good for kavanaugh? no, of course not good for dr. ford or anyone. there is one single party to take the blame for that is the way the democrats have handled it. that is why it s been so destructive. their choice to do it in public. not to respect dr. ford s wishes to have it handled privately. their choice to do that. they put the country through it and they ll pay the price for it. percentage that would have made this a bombshell f.b.i. investigation is the same percentage of democrats who would have switched their votes
points for then fbi director james comey. she wrote potus, that s former president obama, wants to know everything we re doing. from there, senator johnson attempted to implicate president obama claiming that this text raises additional questions about the type and extent of president obama s personal involvement in the clinton e-mail scandal. well, the trouble with the senator s presumption is he showed no evidence the text was refer together clinton investigation that was closed at the time the message was sent. now the wall street journal is confirming late tonight johnson s presumption was wrong. according to associates of the fbi employees involved in that exchange, the text messages show preparation to brief barack obama about russia s interference in that year s election, not as the republican nor suggested meddling by the then president in the federal hillary clinton e-mail investigation. well, this latest insinuation
our show began with nancy pelosi making parliamentary history, the longest speech ever on the floor of the house calling for the daca vote. we wrap up with a little programming note. eric holder will be on the rachel maddow show tonight. something worth watching hardball starts now. misfire. let s play hardball. good evening. i m matthews in washington. it s become clear this week republicans on capitol hill are carrying out a show trial against the fbi. we re seeing it play out on a near nightly basis. the republican chairman of numerous committees have closed ranks and using a three-pronged attack to impugn the overall credibility of the fbi. the house intelligence committee
against the fbi further shows that republicans are desperately preoccupied with smoke screens while ignoring the real threat to this country that comes as secretary of state rex tillerson warns russia will likely interfere in the 201 midterm elections as they did in 2016. there s a lot of ways that the russians can meddle in the elections. i think it s important we continue to say to russia, look, if you don t think we don t see what you re doing, we do see it and you need to stop. if you don t, you re going to continue to invite consequences for yourself. is the u.s. better prepared than 2016? i don t know that i would say we re better prepared because the russians will adapt, as well. well, that s pretty thoughtful. furthermore, the head of cyber security at the department of homeland security tells us tonight that the prior to the 2016 presidential election, the russians successfully penetrated the voter registration roles of
no satellite needed. what can a president [ do in thirty seconds? he can fire an fbi director who won t pledge his loyalty. he can order the deportation of a million immigrant children.