Russian officials announced and they are extending his pretrial detention by three months. he has been in custody since march on espionage charges the u.s. government the wall street journal both say he is completely innocent. there are no basis for their charges. eric: president george of the bush executive director the national security institute, he potentially released at the end of april. now it s been extended three more months it could go up to 12 months. what do you make of the charges and the fact they have evan still detained? honestly these charges are trumped up just like the charges were against bri brittany grined the charges against paul whelen and trevor reed before him but this is an effort to try to extort the united states for they want to get other folks out they got victor boot out the first person i got a cocaine smuggler out for trevor read back in 2022 print they re trying to make a deal here the
So when those requests went out, inquiries were made, how would you like to come to the white house and people took that as a cue that their candidate might be the one to be the nominee. we should also tell you president trump and donald mcgahn telephoned every member of the senate judiciary committee during this process to ask them their thoughts. everybody took the call of everyone senator, california senator kamala harris. she would not take the president s call. shannon: interesting. we will see how she does is this proceeds to the committee. john roberts, thank you for staying late live with us at the white house. judge kavanaugh is a veteran of a contentious battle already when president bush nominated him to the d.c. circuit. chief congressional course modified manual has its report about what we can expect about the next steps. tomorrow judge brett kavanaugh will be in the high-stakes and most likely bruising process seeking confirmation to the supreme court. with the senat
Washington, d.c. he went to yale undergrad and law school. he clerked for justice kennedy. worked in the white house for president bush. he was nominated to the d.c. court of appeals. tonight president trump praised him as a judge with impeccable credentials and unsurpassed qualifications. described him as someone who s proven to set aside his personal opinions and deal with the law. he is considered a judge s judge, a true thought leader among his peers. he s a brilliant jurist with a clear and effective writing style universally regarded as one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time. almost as soon as the announcement was over, protest erupted outside the supreme court. people chanting things like kavanaugh has got to go. save the supreme court. crews on the ground state got
Nomination to confirmation. justices sonia sotomayor and neil gorsuch. expected to start with mcconnell, schumer, the top lawmakers on the judiciary panel. they went as is affecting judge kavanaugh to be confirmed by october 1. in shannon. shannon: will see how many of the senators decline a meeting or if they open their doors. mike emanuel, we know you will track it. thank you very much. some of the present space question whether judge kavanaugh already appointed to the branch by president george of the bush was too much of an establishment tries brett kavanaugh is considered a d.c. insider. his critic on the left during cover missionaries to the d.c. appellate court more than a decade ago called him an experienced and sanctimonious. senator chuck schumer then on the judiciary committee said this you could not think of another nomination given mr. kavanaugh s record. moore designed to divide us. sources have the time opposition from the left was fueled by concert kavanaugh could on
All of a sudden the politics of change completely. they do not want that situation. shannon: we are almost a lifetime so i need to ask each of you not whether you want him to or not but whether you think kavanaugh will get the votes he needs before the midterms. dave, we ll start with you. too soon to tell. we need to see his record in the thousands of pages for the bush administration. i think you will get confirmed. seems like a moderate middle-of-the-road guy. the trump administration was careful in selecting him for political reasons knowing this would be a tough confirmation fight. i think you will get confirmed and i think that rand paul even will vote for him. democrats worst nightmare would be if they ve got if it got dragged out. they have an enthusiasm advantage going into the midterm election. if they are holding up donald trump s nominee for this up in court, it s going to get the right galvanized and that s going to get from supporters moving and it s going to co