tremendously appealing group of people. the judge himself was certainly not threatening at all in his appearance, in his brief speech last night. didn t have a mustache and beard. remember, hall heflin cut right to the court problem going yeah, i don t understand your beard. i think a lot of people have trouble trusting someone that has a beard like that. why do you have a beard like that, sir? and judge kavanaugh can you believe a senator said that? and talking about coaching his daughter s basketball team. a tremendously appealing pick. michael steele. and he s a former altar boy. i already identify with him nap was that was a good moment and the mon seen monsignor he referenced was a good friend. and red state democrats, for conservative bases and for this white house. it s a solid pick.
trump in a room together with no affirmation of what was said, discussed or promised does not bode well for this alliance longer term in terms of its position with crimea and other things that are important to them. and heidi, we ve said many times on the show, why don t people like paul ryan, leaders on capitol hill where you work speak out on moments that need speaking out when president trump violates the norm or the country, for moments like last night, the president offering his nominee, the kind of conservative judge they want on the supreme court. it has a the moment that a lot of voters who held their nose and yoesh looverlooked the pers behavior, well, we ll do it for the supreme court justices and now may have two and perhaps more. ruth bader ginsburg is 85. stephen brier will be 80 in a couple of weeks. the nights conservatives and
democrats messages last night, they absolutely are shifting into high gear on this issue of russia. you have a number of democrats saying even last night before kavanaugh s announcement came out that he should in fact recuse himself. this will be now two judges that this president will have put on the court who could potentially in any number of scenarios in terms of constitutional questions about whether he pardons himself, whether he fires mueller, whether he is subpoenaed, could end in a constitutional question before this court. but look more broadly at the democratic messaging. it s not just about russia. the democrats are saying look at the paper trail here. there are a number of points of attack, whether it is the health care law, whether it is russia or whether it is roe. this judge has a long paper trail. he just came into the cross hairs on the issue of abortion just last fall when it pertained