Werent really going to have an instore event this week but then we heard ruths book was coming out so we decided we had to have it. [applause] so thank you very much for bearing with us. I am Bradley Graham the cone are of politics and prose along with my wife lissa muscatine. Thank you so much for coming. We were very excited when we learned after last years clematis hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court that ruth marcus was writing a book on the subject because we knew that if anyone could deliver an indepth behindthescenes account of what happened and also put the whole drama into a grand and political context it would be roof. She hasnt disappointed. Her new look supreme ambition is fastpaced and makes for a really compelling read. In the acknowledge mens rev calls this a book shes been preparing to ride for her entire career and indeed she brought to it a wealth of knowledge and experience, educated in history at yale and harvard ruth went right into
Dots. Whats going to happen in the midterms . Its going to be a good year for democrats. We want to break down several part of this story. First, angry at the ballot box, howl the kavanaugh fight impact a Midterm Election now just 340 days away . The democrats contemplating a Nuclear Option a possible impeachment effort involving Justice Kavanaugh if, in fact, he they manage to take over the house. Im going to talk to ted lui about that strategy. And the longterm impact on the court, the fbi, and on the hashtag Metoo Movement. Joining me now, political reporter laura basset and natasha bertrand. Laura, this is President Trump argui arguing. Weve heard them make the argument that men are the real victims. But watch this. Women were outraged at what happened to Brett Kavanaugh, outraged. So you have a lot of women that are extremely happy a tremendous number of women because theyre thinking of their sons, theyre thinking of their husbands and their brothers and their uncles and others. S
To say no and to say yes to liberty and justice. Are you ready to defend roe v. Wade. What is is at stake is womens freedom our freedom to make our own decisions. Our freedom to decide how many children we will have. Actor rob reiner tweeted. Its official. Trump who is under investigation for obstruction of justice and uco uconn conspiring with an enemy to destroy democracy. John Daniel Davidson from the federalist joins us now. I appreciate you joining us. Thanks for having me. We have all seen a lot of this outrage. Its not necessarily a surprise. Being as a federalist, i guess you are supposed to be evil. On the list you helped to create for the president with judicial nominees if godzilla and othersor that list. The hysteria over this is astounding. Knowing the quality of all of the judges that you put on that list including judge gorsuch and now judge kavanaugh what is your take on the reaction . There is a canned qualitied to outrage we saw monday night. You saw that with all of
Health care option theyre promoting for families in need. We start here. As he arrived in europe for the nato summit, President Trump came out swinging at a breakfast for alliance leaders. I think its very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where youre supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and billions a year to russia. We or protecting germany, protecting france, protecting all thooz countries. Ive been complaining about this from the time i got in. It should never have been allowed to have happened. Germany is totally controlled by russia. Meanwhile, the president just a few moments ago calling for nato countries to actually increase their defense spending commitments from from 2 to 4 . Trumps comments have left some wondering whether this is typical trump bluster or perhaps part of a larger strategy of some sort maybe. Others are starting to actually wonder if the 70yearold alliance can survive. Nbcs Geoff Bennett is
On capitol hill this morning, posing with Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, posing with Vice President mike pence as well, kavanaugh a 53yearold graduate of yale law school. He was nominated by president george w. Bush. President trump this morning says he expects the nomination process to go smoothly. Last night was an incredible evening. Brett kavanaughs got rave review, rain reviews, actually from both sides. And i think its going to be a beautiful thing to watch over the next month. But he has gotten rave reviews. All right. Lets get to the details now in justice correspondent pete williams. He was the first to break the news of the president s pick. Pete, let me start with you, sir, so much speculation about how a Justice Kavanaugh might handle roe v. Wade or same sex marriage case, some of the other more controversial issues of our time as well . What can we glean from past opinions, writings, about the kind of justice he would be . Well, attempting to decide what kind of j