they had one or two protesters run up. one person started doing yoga of all things on the steps of the supreme court, then you had about 200 protesters rush up. now it is kind of in the hands of the police in terms of how far they want to press this. all day we have seen this back and forth between protesters all week really in terms of who wants to get arrested who doesn t want to get arrested. you can see some of the signs and what s going on up there. there s all sorts of chants, whose court our court. whose streets our streets. black lives matter, etc., etc. now it is up to the police, are they going to tell people either you leave or you get arrested or not. so far at least from what we can see is they don t have the numbers of police officers out here to clear the steps even if they wanted to. when the capitol police were prepared before the vote to confirm now justice kavanugh, they had dozens if not hundreds of capitol police officers out here, massive reinforcements and
chris: the vote is done, but there is still much more to come tonight with judge kavanaugh headed to the supreme court to be sworn in and president trump headed to a campaign rally in kansas where he s expected to weigh in. welcome to our second hour of our actually this is our third hour. shannon: we have lost count. chris: coverage of the kavanaugh confirmation vote. i m chris wallace. shannon: i m shannon bream. five days of committee hearings, almost 30 straight hours of floor debate. the senate has spoken. soon to be justice kavanaugh will take his judicial seat in a few days. journey it has been. mike emmanuel begins our team coverage. good afternoon. after a tense and really brutal few weeks in the united states senate, the moment became very serious on the senate floor. you had 99 senators sitting at their desks for this historic
for example, the argument about packing the courts. i think that s going to become a really big significant feature of the 2020 presidential election, the idea that if a democrat is elected president in 2020, they should appoint two justices, in order to counteract what president trump has done by switching the ideological make up of the court. i think all those arguments are going to become very mainstream, and it is going to be tough for any serious democratic contender to resist that pressure to do something about this appointment, which they are so furious about. chris: let s talk briefly about the more immediate political impact. one the one hand, you have republicans on the one hand, you have the republicans, i m talking about the midterms, 31 days away, they have been energized by the fight by the republicans to put justice kavanugh on the court. on the other hand, you can see from these protesters, there are very strong feelings particularly in the me too movement that christ
pelosi, she has been very very firm in saying that she does not want to move for the impeachment of president donald trump because her internal polling suggests that would be perilous for democrats. she has been kind of waffling and gave a rather tepid answer on whether she would support the impeachment of justice kavanaugh. that kind of talk is going to be ruinness for democrats come november because i can tell you the public doesn t want to see impeachment talk. our polling suggests that time and time again. shannon: it seems to be a split within the democrats when they talk about the i word. thank you very much. thank you, both. shannon: as for the democrats they are sounding the alarm about today s vote. the republicans have succeeded in confirming a deeply flawed and dangerous nominee, only by breaking all the rules and the norms, the damage done today will be enduring to the united states supreme court and to our country.
voice any of their opinions. right now we have been seeing this group shouting and yelling at senators as they head out from voting and on their way home. talked to some democratic antikavanaugh protesters and i said hey look don t you worry that this is going to galvanize republicans? one woman said to me i don t know how much worse it can get. on the other side, republicans say they re not really concerned by the groups out here of democrats who are fired up, mostly today. you ve got people talking about november. they really viewed the kavanaugh vote as a foregone conclusion. you can see some guys behind me are happy about the vote today. on the other hand, you have a lot of other folks who are clearly not so happy about the vote. both sides pushing, chris, towards november. chris: leland, i m not suggesting you d tell them, but do the protesters out there, particularly the protesters in front of the supreme court, do they know that judge kavanaugh is headed to the court right now t