is they haven t had strong arguments against cavanaugh. we originally heard some issues with his name having a beer and burgers with his daughter after they would leave a basketball game. they took issue with him buying season tickets to the baseball game with a credit card that was paid off. there is no scandal there. they re digging around looking for what they can find. we will hear more about the documents the white house isn t willing to release. there s curiosity there. with them providing over half a million documents, i don t think we will be missing out on too much. jon: so the objections from democrats have more to do with donald trump and brett cavanau cavanaugh. yes. i also wanted to bring up they are uncomfortable with the fact that there s an investigation going on with the president. robert mueller s investigation. they would like to see that conclude before any supreme court nominee is confirmed.
even with judge neil gorsuch, there s only 170,000 documents produce. the white house is claiming executive privilege on this issue. there s reasons why they don t want to release the documents. there s curiosity because everybody wants to see what s in them. with the death of john mccain they hold a very narrow majority, there are couple of republicans that could be key. let s talk about the democrats. what a joe mansion or joe donnelly, heidi high camp, who are facing reelection and states that trump one, with a vote for this nominee? this is a tough election for them. they all cited with they will most likely side with him because they can get away with this in the red state. it s a area where trump one significantly. there have been silent on where they stand on cavanaugh. as for republicans, republicans
conservative senator from arizona to replace senator john mccain. it would be nice if we could have that extra one person to change the margin on this. again, i think there are the votes for cavanaugh in this. even though it is very razor thin. jon: i am reminded that when justice kennedy was conference, the vote was something like 97 . those days seem to be long gone. it doesn t seem like we re going to be getting almost unanimous confirmation on any nominee from the president of either party. clearly times have changed. things are polarized. but i am expecting is a lot of political theater. there is no reason to object to cavanaugh. his resume alone is outstanding, as well as, he has shown a commitment to the constitution and he is a family man. this is an exceptional human. but we have seen from the left
cavanaugh to make a mistake. lindsey graham said he is confident that will not happen. he does expect to see political grandstanding by democrats who are i am potential runs in 2020. we are going to have a hearing, there s no drama. the only dramas those running for president and how will they handle this hearing on the democratic side. we are going to get this good name confirmed. reporter: judge cavanaugh has spent the last few days getting peppered with hundreds of tough questions he s expected to face. the mock hearings are so intense they are known as murder boards. sources a democrats will focus their questions on cavanaugh s views on presidential power, which senator dick durbin discussed on fox news sunday. there s a serious question whether this president will and the mueller investigation. we asked judge cavanaugh, what you think. he said it is hands off when it comes to the president during his term in office. i think that s a mistake in a major reason why people have
haven t rejected cavanaugh, we will be keeping an eye on rand paul as well as susan collins who is pro-life. jon: susan collins has said some fairly glowing things about the nominee. that s because he wasn t looking to overturn roe v wade. again we heard from lindsey graham that seem to take issue with this because they would like to see roby wade overturn overturned. so the governor of arizona is going to appoint someone to take the seat of john mccain. the arizona law requires that person be of the same party. in this case, a republican. could that happen soon enough to affect the low? the hearings are going to happen over the next three days. they do have a few people lined up. we have not heard from arizona governor, doug ducey on this. he wanted to wait for the funeral to wrap up before he would make the announcement. we are predicting a very