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the wall street journal /nbc news has him at 47%. that s the high end of where we have seen it. every other poll has it rising as well. the impact there? right. look, it s critical. and it s inextricably rooted in what i m talking about. noncollege whites approval up to 65%, which in essence is his vote in 2016 among them, according to exit polls. his approval rating among noncollege whites, even in the overall good number is still only 38%, 10 points below his vote in 2016. that s what points you toward the potential of a very split verdict. blue collar, small town, any district that has a small number of blue collar white voters, it looks like it will be tough for voters. when you re down 38% overall among college whites and facing an historic deficit for the ....
pete: welcome back. president trump s second supreme court nominee, judge brett kavanaugh heads to capitol hill tomorrow for his first confirmation hearing. democrats, they re gearing up for battle. take this, for example. senator kamala harris tweeting this, remember this president is unindicted coconspiracy in a felony criminal investigation and should not have the ability to appoint someone to a lifetime position on the supreme court. kavanaugh s hearing should be delayed until the investigation is reoffed. well that is settled. she is running for president. what are the top questions they re going to ask? chief counsel and policy director of the judicial crisis network. thank you very much for being here this morning. we ll see a very split dais. republicans on one side in support of this nominee. ....
The president did because the president isn t a senator. they re going to look into what a senator did i have no doubt in roy moore wins tonight there will be an ethics investigation. really? even if the president support it is? it doesn t matter whether the president support it is or not. the president is not a member of the senate. the president isn t up for election in 2018 and a bunch of senators and house members are and they re the ones nervous about having to wear roy moore as an anchor around their neck. i was a senator, i would want that investigation, i would want to see what the evidence is, i d want to feel comfortable with it. i ve said it throughout the process, you re either going to get a vindicated roy moore or a new senator from alabama. but if there is an investigation and they do find wrongdoing, what happens then? i think there will be tremendous pressure for him to resign. if he doesn t do it, i think they will expel him. see, because what i foresee is t ....
we begin this evening with two important political disputes. one of them a fascinating family feud. president obama out on the west coast fundraising. his team believes those efforts will be helped by the news he supports same-sex marriage. behind the scenes at the obama white house, a rift with the vice president for forcing the president to speed up that announcement. jessica yellin has just learned new details. the vice president just trying to make up by going into the oval office and saying, i m sorry. that s right, john. i have learned from senior administration official, the vice president, went in and apologized not for the position he took but for putting the president in a tough position. the president with a very understanding rely as i m told saying essentially that he knows the vice president is speaking from the heart. you can imagine that conversation. and in addition, the vice president s office has put out an official statement which fits inside a twi ....
Officials. most importantly about president hamid karzai of afghanistan. much to talk about there. of course the u.s. has a huge human and monetary investment in that country, something that the president really, as we like to say in the news business, owns at this point because he has sent tens of thousands of troops to afghanistan and the campaign he said continually that afghanistan is the real place where the war on terror is taking place. so he now owning that war and now for the first time as president visiting afghanistan to talk with officials there. i want to bring back in both our correspondents, beginning with kate baldwin who is here with me in washington. kate, we were talking about some of these new numbers that we ve been seeing in our polls, very recent polls, as a matter of fact. interesting to me, as you cited, that the number of people who now favor the war in afghanistan at 48%, opposed 49%. clearly a country that s very split, but that s a big ....