Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
bipartisan way, and that s important for a couple of reasons. first of all, he could perhaps get back to this messaging that he campaigned on as being the uniier and bringing republicans and democrats together, but he also wants this confirmation to perhaps be bipartisan and that s why it s important. secondly, we do not yet know how republicans are going to react and how they re going to responsibility to this potential nominee. senator grass lee and republican members just huddled in leader mcconnell s office before they went to the what s for this meeting. there is some strategy session in that. if mcconnell says we re not going to don t culture war this, there will be a couple people that will culture war this up, but you don t do it, grassley. it wouldn t shock me if that was
and she made that clear in the first few minutes of her testimony. she never wanted a public hearing. for some reason, i don t know why, she never even knew that senator grass lee had offered that the judiciary committee staff could come to her in california or offered a private hearing. did her lawyers not tell her that that was an option? laura: what did they want? they wanted a public spectacle. laura: they wanted a circus, they wanted to flood the cop toll with the victim s stories booshgs siege senators in elevators, yell shame and spit in their faces, get a centimeter, like they re horrible people because they don t think you should jettison due process. you have an agenda to kill off supreme court nominee. senator collins said it best, they did not care about dr. ford s feelings or well being in the slightest bit. of course they did. and they gave her an opportunity that she wanted, and women in general. this is going to change history.
same sort of incan decent rage that we re seeing. endless spots for the kavanaugh confirmation. laura: incan decent rage. grasslee relying on women to do his dirty work? susan collins is controlled by chuck grasslee. she gave an incredible speech in the tradition of margaret chase smith, spoke to reason, spoke to facts, gave a very principled explanation. laura: almost an hour. thank goodness, laura, somebody broke through the morasse and brought in common sense and decency to reset this. i thought murkowski s speech was heartfelt, deep, and good. laura: are you kud kidding, murkowski lost me when she said, our role of advice and consent. it s advise and consent. i m sorry, for you a senator, you don t know it s advise and consent, sorry, you lost me.
situation. two issues that could be wild cards in the confirmation. there s papers related to work on the star committee. there will be a big effort to get the national ar kooifrs to release the documents and go through them. see what has to be redacted. and e-mails from the bush white house. when it was put forward there was 170,000 some pages that required 6,000 man hours. so mitch mcconnell himself privately urging the trump white house to look away from kavanaugh. because he worried the document production would delay a hearing and throw the schedule off. grassly is in charge of what they re allowed to do. grass lee has been aggressive to produce everything. he would be a hypocrite if he didn t insist on the same standard. one of kavanaughs mentors in life and career is a judge, is a guy who is a judge on the ninth