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Congress. This is about 25 minutes. Host i want to welcome back matt schlapp. Thanks for being with us. Guest it is not good friday. [laughter] host lets begin with this sentence and finish it, please. Estate of the Republican Party between the president and republicans is guest uncharted. We have never been here before. We have never elected a president with such shallow roots. Maybe jimmy carter was similar, but he had been elected governor of georgia. An interesting relationship when congress and the president do not see eye to eye. Host why is he going against the very people he needs the most . Or does he need them . Guest he needs them, but they also need the president. If you look at every one of these senators who have had a skirmish with the president , the president is responding to something they have said. Senators are not used to that, steve. They are used to playing at , and thisous role president does not play the ....
On this and this was not going to get any better if we didnt vote. Dana indeed, chief Congressional CorrespondentMike Emmanuel, mike, is a sense of relief among republican senators now that they feel sure that they have votes for confirmation. Dana, there seems to be no question about that, quite the roller coaster for weeks, as you heard from the majority leader republicans didnt know they had the votes until major speech from maine Susan Collins. Weve heard a lot of charges and countercharges about judge kavanaugh, but as those who have known him best have attested, he has been an exemplary public servant, judge, teacher, coach, husband and father. Some express concerns about the judges response in very emotional hearing where he was force today defend name and integrity against serious allegations, one rep ....
In a way that they weren t before midterm elections, according to mercedes schalpp who was on fox & friends this morning, republicans aren t going to forget this. i will tell you it s going to be hard what some of the democrats have done from the beginning where they made it their priority to resist, to ensure that this man would not make it to the court in a way they did it in trying to destroy his reputation it s completely uncalled for. the president was to stand behind kavanaugh because this could have been devastating, it s unclear what kavanaugh s confirmation what effect it will have on midterm, if he were defeated in senate vote you will probably see a lot of energy on the republican side, you know, bill, sometimes the enthusiasm goes down. when you lose sometimes the enthusiasm goes up. unclear how this is going to ....