supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is on the path to confirmation. [ shouting ] >> are you going to -- >> i will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh. >> believe women! >> believe women! >> believe survivors! >> believe survivors! >> i could not conclude that he is the right person for the court at this time. >> so i say to every american that is hurting tonight, every american that's angry tonight, tomorrow we face a defeat, but we shall not be defeated.

>> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> well, the votes have been counted, the decisions explained. now all that's left is to make it official with the senate confirmation vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> the vote's expected estimate point later today as protests continue in washington, around the country, of course, and today's vote ends a political battle that has gripped the political world for weeks. continued overnight, of course, as democrats held the senate floor for debate. >> joining us live from capitol hill, cnn congressional correspondent sun llen serfati. we have hours of debate headed until the vote this afternoon. what have we seen overnight, and what are we expecting for the morning? >> reporter: good morning to you. there certainly has been so many

twists and turns and bitter partisan battles over this confirmation. but as you said, republicans do have the votes to confirm brett kavanaugh today. we will see the senate officially seal the deal this afternoon on the senate floor when they vote for his final confirmation. key to this is when they saw the four key swing senators who went into the day yesterday previously undecided. they revealed their votes. this is how it breaks down -- two republicans, senator collins and senator flake, and one democrat, joe mnuchin, announced that they will vote for brett kavanaugh. one sole republican, lisa murkowski of alaska, the sole republican that will vote against his confirmation. specifically senators collins and murkowski taking to the senate floor and explaining and defending their reasons for each of their votes. they came to two separate

conclusions. senator collins felt in the end there wasn't sufficient corroboration for one of kavanaugh's accusers, christine blasey ford. both said they struggled and agonized over the decision. here's both of them yesterday. >> my fervent hope is that brett kavanaugh will work to lessen the divisions in the supreme court so that we have fewer 5-4 decisions, and that public confidence in our judiciary and our highest court is restored. >> i believe that that judge kavanaugh is a good map, but in my conscience -- good man, but in my conscience because that's how i have to vote at the end of the day, is with my conscience, i could not conclude that he is the right person for the court

at this time. >> moments after senator collins gave the floor speech, we saw red state democrat joe mnuchin announce his support of kavanaugh. you're looking at video of the scene outside his office yesterday. certainly emotional with a lot of vocal protests. overnight, the senate floor was held open overnight, 30 hours of debate. what that's amounted to is a series of floor speeches. you're looking at the senate floor live now. a series of floor speeches by democrats really essentially protesting the confirmation. at the end of the day they will use the floor time. at the end of the day it will not change the math here. this is essentially baked into the cake for brett kavanaugh that he will get confirmed by the end of the day. one thing to watch as we're watching the votes later this afternoon, especially as we look at each and every one of these important swing votes, senator

lisa murkowski will vote no on kavanaugh, but her vote will technically be present. something out of courtesy for her colleagues, senator danes. he is in montana walking his daughter down the aisle today. basically their votes cancel each other out, that margin in the end stays the same, and he will indeed get confirmed. >> absolutely. sunlen, we appreciate it. errol lewis, cnn political commentator, anchor spectrum news. joey jackson, legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joining us. welcome back. >> good morning. >> good to see you. >> errol, let me start with you. send d send-- sunlen started with the twists and turns of the process. we've used the word "unprecedented" for years now every saturday on the show. we had a nominee who did a television interview before the vote. he wrote an op-ed on the eve of the cloture vote in the "wall street journal." is this now, do you expect the

anomaly, or is this going to be a campaign for the nomination that works? >> what we've seen, i think, is the transformation of what had been a pretty restrained nomination process in the past. i see where you're going, victor. it looks more and more like a political campaign, complete with op-eds, partisan speeches, with back and forth, and in the style of trumpian politics, it includes insults, denials it includes rallies and so forth. this was not at all what we've seen over the last couple of generations, frankly, of the path to the supreme court. >> what does this mean for the court, joey? we heard from justice kagan yesterday talking about the need for the country to look at the court and believe it is impartial. that they're not just nine

politicians wearing robes. does the campaign potentially for a seat on the court change the court? >> it's interest, and good morning to you and errol, we have to understand that this is a seismic shift. the realities are as they are. let's be clear. you'll have a solid conservative block on the court, 5-4. and talking supreme court 101 where you have nine justices it takes five votes. and we've seen a polarized process getting them here. you looked and counted the votes, 51-49, what a squeaker. when you look at the supreme court and the tremendous things they do, responsibilities over issues like abortion, issues of affirmative action, voting rights, immigration, go down the line, transgender, gay, there are so many things the court is in charge of. when you have that block of five votes, irrespective of this bruising confirmation process,

the real ity is in terms of idealogy, it's to the right. everyone -- and you learn this in law, and it was one of most frustrating things about law, victor, but one of the most challenging -- and good things about the law -- if you want to get to a result, you can justify your logic to get there. we saw that with the two senators coming out on opposite sides. i think we're in for a seismic shift moving forward with regard to how the court decides cases. >> there are people who protested and are still protesting the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the court who were knowledging -- were thinking of dr. christine blasey ford yesterday as they heard that senator collins would support this nomination. i want everyone to listen to dr. ford. this was on september 27th during her testimony. >> once he was selected and it

seemed like he was popular and a sure vote, i was calculating daily the risk benefit for me of coming forward and wondering if i would just be jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway, and if i would be personally annihilated. >> so errol, did she jump in front of that figurative train, and is there any evidence -- short of maybe heidi heitkamp in north dakota, that her testimony changed any votes? >> well, it may not have changed the votes, and it's heartbreaking, of course, to hear her sort of predict exactly what turned out to be the case, but we should keep in mind that the confirmation process, all of them, are intended to be a national discussion. sort of a hiring not just by the partisan transient members of the senate but by the country.

we've had a national discussion. people protested who have never protested before. people got on trains and went to washington and protested. that energy will carry over to the november 6th elections and beyond. just as we saw an unprecedented wave of women go into politics after the clarence thomas confirmation battle, i think you'll see something similar here. it will only be over the long term that you can tell what happened. certainly for dr. ford, exactly what she predicted has come to pass. >> you talked about november 6th and beyond. typically, do these votes stay with politicians, does it stay with susan collins to 2020, to lisa murkowski, 2022. mnuchin may have shored up the lead over morrissey in west virginia with his support for brett kavanaugh. what's history tell us about two, four years down the line for these types of votes? >> i can't give you patterns

from the past, but i can tell you for lisa murkowski, for example, her political support depends on native alaskan s, thy were explicit that they expected her to vote no. she was working her local politics. susan collins, in 2020, she's got a very different set of political problems. my understanding is something like $3 million has been raised, at least one-third came while she was speaking on the floor explaining her vote. that -- this is crowdhava -- crowd-sourced money. once the money is in the till and ready to go for her opponent in 2020, that will give her a lot to think about as she contemplates whether to seek a fifth term. >> let me ask you, joey, about the american bar association. they sent this letter that i have to chairman grassley, interstate judiciary committee, and ranking daiianne feinstein,

temperament has reopened a reopening of the standing committee's evaluation. what's the significance here? >> i hate to tell you , but the significance is nil. at the end they said our initial evaluation stands as it relates to well qualified. of course, they say that they won't complete their review until a confirmation process is over, and as we're speaking we know that the senate is gearing up to vote later today. the american bar association, important, significant in what they do and how they rate people. but this is irrelevant. and you know, it's just going to be interesting moving forward globally. i know we always talk in law about this issue of stare dicisis. but supreme court overrules precedent. we'll look to see what the members do and last term they overruled the labor decision that had a direct effect on me and what i do as it relates to

law and labor unions and their ability to sponsor the union for them. the reality is is that these justices have a vast amount of power, notwithstanding what law was yesterday. they have the ability to change it today and moving forward. we are in a new day to be clear, should he be confirmed. certainly looks like likely that he will be. >> sometime this late afternoon, maybe early evening. joey jackson, errol lewis, thank you both. >> thank you. still to come, president trump silent so far. what will he say to supporters later today in kansas now that his second supreme court justice is just hours away from confirmation? plus, she was mocked by the president after coming forward with an accusation of sexual assault against kavanaugh. so does christine blasey ford regret her decision? her lawyer says no. >> i don't think she has any regrets. i think she feels like she did the right thing, and this was what she wanted to do.

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our live look at the senate floor. yes, it is 6:17 a.m. on the east coast. we don't often see this, especially on a saturday. this is a momentous weekend for the senate and the supreme court. judge be kavanaugh will almost certainly join the court after a vote this afternoon or this evening. president trump will plan a campaign rally in topeka today. that brings us to joe johns at the white house. we haven't really heard a lot from the president since friday and the announcement from

senator collins and that she's a yes. >> reporter: that's right, the last time the president tweeted about the nomination was 19 hours ago, a tweet essentially congratulating the senate for voting to move forward on the final vote for judge kavanaugh. yesterday all of washington stopped to listen to the speech by susan collins of maine in which she described her thinking, her reasons, her conclusion, and then saying, of course, that she would vote in favor of the kavanaugh nomination. all of washington stopped to watch, including the president who was in the oval office with members of the house and senate. he was ready to sign a bill reauthorizing the federal aviation administration for the next five years. he asked members if they wanted to watch the susan collins speech, and they did. it was a long speech, between 40, 45 minutes.

the president at the end of the day described as in a very good mood obviously after hearing the news from susan collins. she essentially puts kavanaugh over the top in the vote in the senate unless there are any other problems later today. as you said, the president is expected to be heading off to topeka, kansas. he's expected to leave the white house before the vote occurs in washington. and he is expected to have the rally in topeka after the vote. we expect to hear from him then. important to say the administration is a roll. they got a jobs report indicating a 49-year low in unemployment. that's very big for them. the truth of it is, the thing that galvanizes voters now in this last stretch toward the midterms is for the conservatives, for republicans,

the president following through on his promise to get another conservative jurist on the united states supreme court. it appears that is going to happen. still on the other -- on other side, of course, there is that question of the opposition being energized, and we're expecting that, too. we'll see another demonstration today at the supreme court against this nomination. >> yeah, big week for the president. also starting the week off announcing canada joined the multilateral trade deal, as well. we'll see how much all this means, about 30 days from now at the midterm election. joe johns at the white house. thank you very much. errol lewis, cnn political contributor, back with us. thanks for sticking around. we haven't heard specifically from the president, of course, except for the tweet, very proud of the u.s. senate for voting yes to advance the nomination. we have heard from donald trump jr., however, and it's

perplexing. a tweet -- a real profile in courage from lion liberal joe mnuchin. waited of in kavanaugh had enough votes secured until he voted. i bet he had another press release if collins went the other way. he's got mnuchin, the lone dem, voting yes, voting the way they want him to vote, and he's taking a shot at him. do you get a sense that trump jr. speaking for his father? >> i think you have to always assume that the trump operation, the larger political inner circle, is speaking with one voice, and that that voice is that of the president. look, in this case, there was speculation going up to the cloture vote other day that perhaps senator mnuchin had some private deal with the white house. the president was in west virginia not long ago, did not go out of his way to make over-the-top insults or

criticisms of mnuchin. the thinking was perhaps there's some kind of implied deal here. the tweet by donald trump jr. suggests that there is no such deal, and that they're going to fight tooth and nail. the reality is if there was anybody among all of those wavering so-called senators who were undecided, mnuchin had the most room to maneuver. he's up by close to ten points in his race. we're only 30 days out. it's clear he could have weathered this, and a negative vote would not have cost him the election or cost him his lead in the polls which is what we've got right now. so we've got to assume that he did this according to his own merits. he said right up until the last minute he wasn't sure what he was going to do. i don't think donald trump jr.'s speculation really holds much water. >> you mentioned people who were on buses, people who are protesting in front of congressmen and congresswomen's law offices. anger is a great motivator to get people to the polls. what is president trump, what are the republicans going to do

to counter the anger that we're seeing? >> you know, it's very interesting because what donald trump himself does and what we're going to probably see at his rally in kansas today is very different from what candidates need to do in order to win. so i think you'll see sort of a split reaction. you'll see donald trump bombastic, using the full range of insults and talking points that he usually uses at these rallies. and then i think it's a very different question for people who are trying to get themselves elected. you'll notice, i think, and it's a consistent pattern, that the economic argument is not something that republicans are running on. they're running on culture war issues. they're talking about the supreme court. they're talking about everything except the economy because i think their internal polling is showing that that's not getting their voters excited as much as something like the fight over the supreme court. i think we're going to continue to see this kavanaugh process, the nomination, and of course

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sexual assault. a chicago police officer is facing decades in prison after been convicted in one of the most closely watched trials in the city's history. jayson van dyke was the first police officer to be charged with first-degree murder since 1980. the first to be convicted of murder in an onduty shooting -- on-duty shooting in nearly 50 years. ryan young with details. we, the jury, find the defendant, jayson van dyke, guilty of second-degree murder. >> reporter: nearly four years after the shooting of laquan mcdonald, officer jayson van dyke was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery on friday. the verdict marking a culmination to the racially charged case that became embl emblematic of tension between the urban communities and the city's police force. >> thank you! >> reporter: the shooting was captured on a grainy police dash cam video with no audio. van dyke told investigators he fired in self-defense after mcdonald lunged at him with the

knife. the video shows van dyke shooting mcdonald 16 times. none of the other officers at the scene fired their weapons. it wasn't until 13 months after the incident that a judge ordered the city to release the video. >> 16 shots and a cover-up -- >> reporter: the video innight protests -- ignited protest. criticism of the mayor and eventually the oust of the police superintendent. >> i shot him. >> reporter: in an unusual move tuesday, van dyke took the witness stand in his own defense. >> his face had no expression. his eyes were just bugging out of his head. he had just these huge white eyes, just staring right through me. >> reporter: at times becoming visibly emotional as he alleged the 17-year-old ignored repeated commands to drop his knife before the officer opened fire. >> he waved the knife from his lower right side upwards, across his body, toward my left shoulder. >> reporter: prosecutors sparred

with van dyke over discrepancies in his testimony that the teenager raised his knife toward officers which could not be seen in the dash cam video. >> have you ever seen laquan mcdonald do that on one of those videos? >> the video student show -- video doesn't show my perspective. >> reporter: van dyke's lawyer says he was not surprised by the verdict and plans to appeal. >> if police officers think that they can never fire against somebody that is acting the way laquan mcdonald did when they're 12 feet away from them, i think that what we are going to have is police officers are going to become security guards. >> reporter: for mcdonald's family, they hope this verdict will finally help bring them some closure. >> this trial today did two things again. it -- it gave us justice of which we seek, and it also set a precedent across this country. >> reporter: van dyke faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for second-degree murder and 6 to 30 years for each of the 16

aggravated battery convictions. he is scheduled back in court october 31st. ryan young, cnn, chicago. legal analyst joey jackson with us now, based on what you saw, what happened, what do you prognosticate his sentence would be? >> you know, good morning to you, i think the judge certainly has to serve -- has to serve him up with a significant sentence. why do i say that? number one, obviously, a purpose of sentencing is punishment. and he needs to be punished for that. i think we all saw the video, and i think we all had a reaction that we had to the video, that it was not necessary. number two as it relates to deterren deterrence, you want to deter this type of activity. police certainly have a tough job. we get that. we understand that. we value and appreciate what they do. but when they act unreasonably, as he did, they have to be pu punished and matters need to be deescalated where appropriate. deadly force should be used as a

last alternative, not the first reaction. i think by matters of punishment and deterrence, i think the judge has to give a stiff your? >> i think they did. i will not fault the defense. let me tell you why. two things need to be overcome. one, the immediacy of the athlete. the -- of the threat. the only one who could explain the threat that would justify deadly force is him. you heard him talk about his perceptions. he has to talk about what he perceived and why he perceived that laquan mcdonald represented a deadly force. two, the dries proportionate entertain -- disproportionate nature of the crimes. he shot 16 times, most of those when mcdonald was on the ground. why on earth would you do that? the only one who could explain that was him. frankly, given the nature of the evidence, i think that it was the only call to make because, you know, he's the only guy who could try to justify it. it did not at the end of the day get justified.

i think the jury reached the proper and just result. >> yeah. jurors were saying that he seemed rehearsed in his testimony. and we know that the police union is promising an appeal on. what grounds? >> you know, i -- there's always an appellate issue or two or three or multiple that come out of the trial. the grounds that they're going to rely upon is that the judge did not move the trial out of this particular jurisdiction, given the protests and the heated nature and environment that was there. i just don't know that that carries any weight at the end of the day. particularly nowadays where we're in a society where something could happen in chicago, it could happen in new york, it could happen in france. we all see it, we all have a reaction to it. and you know, throughout the course of the trial, certainly there are other issues that came up. i thought the judge allowed so many things. in this particular case, the defense savaged laquan mcdonald, talking about the pcp in his system, talking about his troubled path as a youth, bringing in juvenile counselors

and talking about how he was disruptive and belligerent. and a lot of times judges don't allow that. i think the judge was beyond fair in terms of what he allowed. if i was presiding, i wouldn't have allowed half the things that the judge did. there will be an appeal. i don't see it having much merit from the evaluation that i've seen of the trial and the multiple witnesses. i think at the end of the day it's the right call. you can't shoot someone 16 times who doesn't appear to pose an imminent threat to you. no other officer on the scene fired. the value is why did you act so differently from your compatriots? the officers testified and didn't share your fear or concern. i think it's an uphill battle to be clear. i think the second-degree murder charge, a lesser account, because he was charged with first-degree murder, the distinction for viewers briefly is that they felt that he thought that he had lawful justification, that officer van dyke did, but it was unreasonable and unjustified.

that made it second-degree murder. i think it was the right result in this case. i think justice was served. >> joey jackson, thank you very much for sharing. >> thank you. the international police agency interpol has a mystery to solve. its president is missing. meng hongwei vanished. the "south china morning post" said meng was taken for questioning when he landed in china last week. christine blasey ford's lawyers say she has no regrets about coming forward with her assault allegations against judge brett kavanaugh. president trump's mockery of her testimony at a rally hurt her deeply. we'll hear from her lawyers and relatives regarding how she's handling the fallout of the confirmation battle now. i know that every single time that i suit up, there is a chance that's the last time.

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intolerable, terrible feelings right now. >> despite the laughter, dr. ford's lawyers say she has no regrets about testifying, but they are blasting senators for what they call false claims about the fbi investigation into the allegations. cnn's dan bash spoke with him earlier. >> reporter: have you heard any regrets from her about coming out the way she did? >> i don't think she has any regrets. i think she feels like she did the right thing. and this was what she wanted to do, which was provide this information to the committee so they could make the best decision possible. and i think she still feels that that was the right thing to do. i don't think she has any regrets. >> reporter: if you were to do it over again, knowing what you know now, could this have been done in a different way with regard to senator feinstein, the fact that she didn't tell anybody, she says it was because she was abiding by the wishes of

professor ford. congresswoman eshoo and so forth. in retrospect, knowing what you know now, could and should it have been done differently? >> i can't speak to the process. what i can speak to is when victims of sexual assault and violence go to their congress people, go to their senators, and they ask for their information to be kept confidential, i think that's a request that needs to be respected. v chips g victims get to control when and how and where their allegations get made public. if we want to look at all the things that went wrong in this process, there are many, there are many, many process issues that need to be addressed. i think senator feinstein respected the wishes of her constituent. and that was the right thing to do. >> reporter: and does professor ford feel that way, as well? >> absolutely. >> reporter: president trump, i'm sure you saw, mocked your client's testimony at a rally in mississippi on tuesday night.

the crowd, obviously big trump supporters, applauded, did you speak to professor ford? did she see that, and what was her reaction? >> she did. she was upset by it. it was very hurtful, as it would be to any woman, any survivor, who had the courage to come forward only to be mocked and belittled by anyone certainly but certainly by the president of the united states. it was very upsetting, hurtful. >> reporter: one of the things that's gotten republicans really enraged is the fact that during her testimony, professor ford told the committee that she wasn't clear that there was an offer to you, her legal team, from the committee to have the committee fly out to california and have a private conversation, interview with her, as opposed to flying her for a public hearing. is that true? >> no. we -- as her counsel, informed

her of all options made available to us by the committee. we showed her all of the correspondence. what they were offering was to send staffers to california to interview her. dr. ford wanted to speak to the committee members themselves. and i think what you saw in the hearing was that dr. ford got a little confused and thought that senator grassley was suggesting that he himself would have come to california, which was not what he had offered at all. >> reporter: the allegation they're making blatantly is that she has lawyers, you two, who have democrats, who wanted to have a public spectacle. >> dana, that is such a ludicrous accusation. we've been listening to it, and we have not wanted to respond to it because it's such a distraction and deflection. our client was advised of every single option given to her by the committee. she saw every single communication. she's a smart woman. she wanted to testify before the

senate judiciary committee, not speak to members of his staff. >> reporter: if judge kavanaugh becomes justice kavanaugh or even if he stays on the federal bench he's on now, would professor ford like impeachment proceedings to begin? >> professor ford has not asked for anything of the sort. what she did was to come forward and testify before the senate judiciary committee and agree to cooperate with any investigation by the fbi. and that's what she sought to do here. >> reporter: she's not going there on impeachment? >> no. >> reporter: she does not want him to be impeached? >> no. >> dana bash reporting there. and we're going to take a live look here as senator gillibrand is on the floor. they have -- the senators have been debating the kavanaugh confirmation all night long before the final vote happens later today. we'll be right back. this place isn't for me.

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