this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. that's a wrap of this hour. i'm alex. i will see you again. it's time for a.m. joy with my good friend joy reed. >> in their quest for power, the radical democrats have turned

into an angry mob. you saw that today with the screaming and the shouting. >> our base is fired up. we finally discovered the one thing that would fire up the republican base, and we didn't think of it. but the other side did it. the tactics that have been employed both by judiciary committee democratic senators and by the virtual mob that's assaulted all of us in the course of this process has turned our base on fire. >> well, good morning, and welcome to "a.m. joy." if you ever doubted for a second that donald trump and his republican party are one and the same and that it just isn't true that there are somehow different wings of the republican party, think that no more because trump and his party, including mitch mcconnell have picked up the same talking point in the wake of brett kavanaugh confirmation, calling the hundreds of people that protested on the steps of the supreme court and the capital an angry mob and

criminalizing the people that filled the senate hallways for weeks sharing their stories of sexual assault, only to be shut down by republican men. you know what's not an angry mob in trump's view, bands of torch yielding white nationalists chanting jews will not replace us. according to donald trump, both sides were to blame for the violence in charlottesville and he called some of these people, quote, very fine people. but sexual assault survivors demanding those to be heard by those in power, that's a mob according to trump and the republicans. we're 30 days out from the most important midterm election in a generation. what's now clear is that donald trump, mitch mcconnell and their republican party plan to use brett kavanaugh's confirmation to whip up the frenzy of division and fear that is the source of trump and republican's

power. and joining me now is jennifer rue bin, opinion writer for the washington post, triffany scott and a former federal prosecutor. thank you all for being here. i want to play for you what lindsey graham who used to be seen as this other fictional wing of the republican party when he was friends with john mccain. now this is what he said about the allegations against brett kavanaugh that are interesting, and i just want you guys' response. here it is. >> i think he was treated well. i think the roles are reversed. >> you're a prosecutor. was brett kavanaugh treated like a slut, whore drunk? >> he was not. he was not even questioned by the fbi during the investigation.

they protected him so that he wouldn't lie to them and he was not treated that way at all. in fact, that's happened to this poor woman is she came forward and discussed what happened to her and now the republican party is saying they don't believe her and they don't care. once again, what we have done to women is to tell them, well, you can come forward and you can face the consequences, but ultimately nobody will believe you and it will all be for nothing. that's what happened to her. what's particularly depressing about the manner in which susan collins did it is that she got up there and said, well, there was no corroboration. a, there was corroboration as a manner of law. but on a deeper level it is more troubling because, you know, it used to be that women had to have corroboration in the '70s. it had to be there or you couldn't have a conviction. that was taken away by the feminist in the '80s. and susan collins spread that again by claiming that was

required and it was not. >> and the idea that brett kavanaugh was treated that way implies, what used to be done to women, that is what was done to dr. ford. that's exactly what was done to her by the president of the united states. >> right. >> do you know where it was? no, i don't. how many beers did you have? i don't know. donald trump literally did that to her and now they are trying to claim it was actually done to the alleged perpetrator. >> they do not want him who in this case are the victims to be the victims. they want white males to be the victims so they have to take that knnomenclature, whether its the mob assaulting us. assaulting? no, that is what happened to dr. ford. that is not peacefully demonstrating and sharing your story. but they believe and trump said it, it is a scarey time for men. they believe men are the white male victims. people kept asking, well, why don't they go to somebody else?

why don't they pick another judge that doesn't have this baggage. the message is white male fear. >> yep. >> so it is not that this was incidental. this is the purpose of the party right now to stir up that fear. that is the message. the message is not we believe in originalism. the message is be afraid, white men. and that's what this party has dissolved into. >> that's the message that talk radio pushed for decades. white men are under siege. they all want your stuff. they want to take away your town try. and donald trump is their perfect avatar. they used susan collins as the patina that said, we're not against women. we just think the young lady don't remember who assaulted her. george saros used her. here is a women making that

exact argument. one susan collins who is still talking. she was on cnn. she talked for 40 minutes. >> i found dr. ford's testimony to be heart wrenching, painful, compelling, and i believe that she believes what she testified to. i don't think she was coming forth with a political motive. >> do you still think it is possible that he did it? you just don't have the proof to back that up? >> i do not believe that brett kavanaugh was her assailant. >> so -- >> i believe that she was assaulted. i don't know by whom. and i'm not certain when. >> tiffany, susan collins is not a lawyer. there was no thorough fbi investigation. she's basing that fact on the belief that he said he didn't do it. >> to lindsey graham's point, she's basically turning the story line into she's just a confused adolescent, which is more insulting.

this is that false analogy that lindsey graham tried to present, is that usually when it happens, it is somebody else creating that narrative. there are people assigning that narrative to a woman. in this case brett kavanaugh really told his own story. we heard from his mouth. that's where we saw his true colors. that's where he sawed because he worked out that he was this privileged virgin boy that could not do these things, which is obviously not true. i will give it to the republicans, they manipulated their base, the narrative and turned him into this father that could never do these things. er time somebody has assaulted a women, there are plenty of women who they haven't done those things to. you haven't assaulted every single person you met, so it is quite possible for you to be a certain kind of person and then still be capable of sexually

assaulting someone. if we take away the sexual assault charge, there is all these other things of perjury. we saw the text messages to his friends. that's an issue for a jurist to get his friends to lie on his behalf. we didn't hear that. that wasn't a major story line. everybody was so focussed on the sexual assault, but that's not to only thing causing huge major concerns. >> lying about devil's triangle is something you can look up on the urban dictionary. >> you can't have it both ways. you can't say i found her compelling. oh, it's so compelling and i have friends that come to me and i believe them and blah, blah, blah. you can't say you found all that true but then i don't think he did it. >> that's saying i don't care. >> right. >> because she's in this nice, pink suit and everyone likes her, she has an aura of being more liberal than others.

>> yep. >> you know, she's a prop. and she's basically saying this woman is lying because there is no other way to do it. but nobody has the guts to say we think she's lying. >> and worse than that, she is the sole purpose in the united states senate that thinks this guy is suited. she never would have been elected. and she is out there telling us, well, this guy will get on the court. he'll change not a single person in the senate. the president of the united states doesn't buy that. no one does. but this is this myth making that they are engaged in in remaking someone so that it assuages their conscious. >> but she's not. i want to get some reporting here because there is a report now from the new york times that said brett kavanaugh was told to show how he feels. at one point a dubious donald

trump asked mitch mcconnell if senate republicans were really committed to seeing it through. mitch mcconnell said absolutely yes. i'm stronger than mule piss on this guy, he answered. i believe that. i believe mitch mcconnell wouldn't care what came forward. he was going to jam this guy through. is this strategy of him screaming, crying, over emoting in a way a women could never have, is that a strategy handed to him in advance? >> absolutely. that's the approach the president likes and donald trump jr. praised brett kavanaugh for displaying. what's always interesting to me is who we allow to be angry in this society. if that were a blackman, white woman, a queer person yelling and sighing back and rolling his eyes, that would not have been tolerated. but what lindsey graham

displayed is the same thing we have seen president trump communicate. the real victim in the me too movement is the white man. what they're doing is being defensive and trying to communicate to their base that if y'all don't come out, this will be the new norm and society will change in ways that you can't even imagine. but if you stick with us, we will make america great again. the challenge has been their vision for a great america has not been great for people not like them. >> and tucker carlson made it clear. lindsey graham literally said i'm a white man, so people think i have to be subtle. they're not being subtle. >> can you imagine if you went into judge brett kavanaugh's courtroom and behaved like he did? i'd be in cuffs in the back. >> yeah. >> i mean, that is not acceptable for anybody else. >> what he is now doing for the supreme court, this is the model of a supreme court justice, someone who dreams up a conspiracy spot, who thinks that an entire political party has

conspired against him. >> the clintons went to get him. >> what progressive group, what progressive individual can go to the court and now be assured he or she is getting a fair trial. it's ludicrous. >> i think laura echoed the same thoughts as well. when you think about some of the comments that he made and some of the cases that could potentially come before the supreme court, it is a clear conflict of interest. when donald trump calls these people an angry mob i want to remind everybody in 2016 when the angry mob was at his campaign rally, one of his supporters sucker punched a young blackman and had to go to court. when i appear places, the visit ree yol that i get from people who are trump supports. >> why so angry if you are winning? >> exactly. >> except we have to look for -- they have delegitimized the

court. i'm very concerned about that. the only way to deal with that is not to constantly focus on trump. that's his game, right? we need to focus on winning elections. we can't just win the blue states because, after all, we won the popular vote in the last couple of elections and four justices sitting on the court are appointed by people who did not win the popular vote and are still president. we have to go to the red states and spread our message. >> let's talk about the other courts below the supreme court that have been filled and seated with trump judges. one such court has been sent complaints about brett kavanaugh. chief justice roberts has tabled them for now. so there is no -- if roberts is supposed to be the new saving grace, there is no pressure on him whatsoever to advance those complaints. >> they're dead. they're done. they're gone. there is no ethics code at the supreme court. there is no guidelines for

recusal. they just do whatever they want because they're the supreme court. and i think chief justice roberts really has to think whether he wants to preside over a supreme court that is no longer looked upon as legitimate. if it is just shirts and skins, if it is just red and blue and power politics, why should we pay attention? >> aren't we already there? the supreme court has shown we know how four or five of them are going to vote every time down the line. >> well, there is also multi-ethics complaints against him in the lower court. you know who will decide on those, merrick garland. >> hello! we're going to come back. you will be back with us. it's so great to finally have you on the show. >> thank you for inviting me. >> hopefully you can come back. and donald trump is playing the victim on behalf of privileged white men who are at risk and receiving their due process. before we go, i want to play a

little bit of sound from clarence thomas and what he said after the contentious nominating process that has now made him one of the 40% of conservative men on the court who have sexual conduct allegations on the table. here's what he said back then. >> i think that no matter how difficult or how painful the process that has been that this is a time for healing in our country. that we have to put these things behind us, that we have to go forward and that we have to begin to look for ways to solve problems that i think became apparent through this process and certainly had been apparent in our country for some time. but this is more time for healing, not a time for anger or for anonymous or animosity. ty and we've grown substantially. so i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. and last yeaimous or animosityh.

that's right, $36,000. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. my unlimited 2% cash back is more than just a perk, it's our healthcare. can i say it? what's in your wallet?

on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, during our fall sale weekend special, the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is only $899. plus, free home delivery. ends monday. introducing fidelity stock and bond index funds with lower expense ratios than comparable vanguard funds. and we now offer the industry's first true zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. plus, we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. how many other firms give you this much value? absolutely zero. ♪ why don't they do what they say ♪ ♪ say what they mean ♪ baby, one thing leads to another ♪

>> think of your son. think of your husband. i've had many false accusations. i've had so many. and when i say it didn't happen, nobody believes me. >> okay. donald trump has been accused by 19 different women of sexual harassment or misconduct. 19. but this past week he used the brett kavanaugh nomination to wallow in self-pity and to launch with the help of the entire republican party a campaign to gaslight americans into believing that we are living in the middle of a war on men in which elite men are society's real victims, the ones

that never get due process and they are at the mercy of all powerful wicked women because women has so much power. he has never demonstrated due process for everyone except, of course, donald trump and for donald trump's stand-ins like brett kavanaugh who remains credibly accused by three women of sexual misconduct. on the other side of who deserves due process, the central park five, teenagers accused of the brutal rape of a white jogger in the 1980s. donald trump personally took out full page ads calling for the death penalty for the teens. that's before they were even brought to trial. and even after they were exonerated by dna evidence after some of them more than a decade in prison, donald trump refused to acknowledge that they were, in fact, innocent because for donald trump due process means

only one thing, letting donald trump and men like donald trump get away with everything. joining us is former deputy assistant attorney general elliot williams. elliot, we can put back up that ad. this says bring back the death penalty. bring back our police just to show that donald trump is consistent over time. he hasn't changed at all. he made a statement way late. fast forward to october of 2016. this was donald trump's statement about the central park five. this is him as a presidential candidate. they admitted they were guilty. the fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them was outrageous. that is donald trump still saying the central park five were still guilty. so donald trump and due process really haven't met. >> i know exonerated. but i think they got a $41 million settlement. so the courts have blessed their

position on this. so there are all kinds of inconsistencies with how the president of united states treats due process and people's entitlement of due process. immigration, the entire immigration policy of this administration has been about restricting and limiting due process. frankly, involving mostly black and brown people. so he tweeted in june that, you know, send them back without any courts or anything like that. a very trumpian tweet. so there is all -- there is a big inconsistency in how the president tweets due process. a lot of it comes down to race and culture. we know this. we have talked about this. it's been since he announced even as a candidate back in 2015 or whatever. what do we do about it? it is time to start looking towards electing individuals that are going to hold this president accountable and ultimately looking to 2020 and electing a better president. but a majority of the united states congress and frankly even a super majority of the united states congress sen abling this

behavior. it enabled it yesterday with its vote and it will continue to. we can keep having the conversation about the inconsistencies with due process, but it is time to start acting and it is time to start holding accountable the people letting this president's behavior run wild. >> it is fairly obvious after this experience with brett kavanaugh that the only difference between lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell and donald trump are the accents. you wrote a piece saying men don't feel safe against false persecution. that's not a new feeling for black men. black men are feeling the way white men are trying to appropriate saying we're the ones that are the real victims here. >> and have been for a while. he made it in mississippi. now, the president hasn't tried to present himself as being a student of history. if he had, he would not have made that statement in a place that gave us the story of a

blackman falsely accused of sexual assault. and even now trump's own department of justice is supposedly having an investigation right now looking into those false allegations. history, american history and trump has continued to spread that history with the central park five, has been a time where black men cannot trust the courts to respect them and give them the benefit of the doubt and treat them as if they are aren't until proven guilty and this idea that that is a new experience in america suggests that you are disconnected from the experience of huge percentages of people in america. >> and pat bucannon at the time issued a statement or commented that we only have justice if these men are hanging or been hanged in central park. women can only feel safe if these men are hanging. think about those images and what that represents. >> i was a teenager in new york at the time. you could not feel safe as a person of color.

and so donald trump has also been very particular about the way that he believes police should treat people of color or treat people that he doesn't think are in his ledger. this is in july of 2017. >> i said please don't be too nice. like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over. like don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody. don't hit their head. i said, you could take the hand away, okay? >> i mean, as a person of color seeing donald trump parade with all of these police behind him, knowing you have seen police officers pose in maga hats, knowing there is a lot of brutality. now donald trump is saying don't be nice. be more brutal. be more mean. that's what i want you to do. how are people in this country

supposed to feel safe with donald trump as president? >> with the department of justice that immediately brought back mandatory minimums with attorney general jeff sessions telling attorneys all across the country to push for the hardest, highest sentence possible. i think it's going to be really challenging. i think, though, the concern for me to elliot's point, he brought up race. we have to acknowledge that is at the center of a lot of these comments. people like to shy away from that. it is an uncomfortable topic for people not confronted by it every day like a lot of us are. i often wonder he makes these common st false statements and remarks to people and they are celebrated by a small percentage of people in this country. but this small percentage are influencing politics akcross ou country. the irony is his base, even

though the willful ignorance can't be challenges, they face a lot of things the color do. the education system failed them. they are economically disadvantaged. this president has benefit from that disadvantage. and there isn't a lot of -- there is too much reliance on cable news outlets. there is too much reliance on fox news. there is too much reliance on his twitter feed. i have concluded sadly you cannot. you have to energize to your point, elliot. you have to energize a base that's willing to come out. if you are a republican, a conservative, there has to be checks and balances in the government. i truly skew left. i miss the republican party that was sensible, that was seeing people that could articulate and have a healthy exchange of ideas on how to make this country great, full stop, period.

and we don't have that anymore. >> there is one side not shying away from talking about race. they fully embrace the idea they will overtly talk about race. but in their view it is what andrew sullivan said last night that this is the real problem. >> take one individual and use that individual to say all white men are this. >> no one said -- actually that's not true. >> everyone said it. >> first of all, everyone did not say it. >> you have a wave of coverage about white male privilege. that's what's on trial. >> you are breaking my heart. absolutely not. i understand your message is that somehow white men are aggrieved here in america. it is just not true. >> that's the new message. andrew sullivan took from this whole debate on brett kavanaugh that all white men are being called rapists. he said everyone said it.

every media outlet, everyone attacked white men and he has articulated what they believe the real problem is. you talk about lindsey graham a little bit earlier in the show and the idea of i'm a white southern man, i need to keep my mouth shut and the ability of men in power, whether that's men or white people, whatever, to feel aggrieved when others seek equally and when others simply try to level the playing field, the mere fact of, you know, this rhetoric of feeling left out and feeling like they're minorities or something like that, it is prepostero preposterous. >> i want to just before we go remind people that there is another group that apparently republicans feel are oppressing them. they are oppressing white men and it is women. let us remind ourselves that used to be a chant that was used for hillary clinton because due process is so important that you have to do this to hillary clinton. now they have added christine

blasey ford to the list. let's play that real quick. >> donald trump who channelled george wallace during his campaign rallies in saying drag protesters out, punch them out, i'll pay for your bail has presided for two years now over chants of lock her up, lock her up about women that he feels are in his way because #dueprocess. democrats have 30 days to get voters to the polls. we will tell you how they're doing next. we will tell you how they're doing next managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason.

now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. once daily tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. tresiba® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can be serious and may be life-threatening. injection site reactions may occur. tell your prescriber about all medicines you take and all your medical conditions. taking tzds with insulins like tresiba® may cause serious side effects like heart failure. your insulin dose shouldn't be changed without asking your prescriber. get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, extreme drowsiness, swelling of your face, tongue or throat, dizziness or confusion. i found my tresiba® reason. find yours. ask your health care provider about tresiba®. i love you, basement guest bathroom.

your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. breathe happy with febreze. why didn'at hilton.com,r family vacation on a travel site? i get the price match guarantee. and i can choose from their

14 different hotel brands, so i get the right hotel for every member of my family. like a doubletree for my cousins who love their warm chocolate chip cookies. a homewood suites for my uncle who likes a long stay. a hampton for my sister and her kids. that's a lot of syrup. and the waldorf astoria beverly hills for me. but i thought your family vacation was in miami? it is. i hear they're having a great time. book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25% off that stay.

one ballot initiative in florida could change everything in 2020. this november voters will weigh in on amendment four, a ballot measure that would automatically restore voting rights to most floridans with a felony. that's more than 10% of the state's voting age population. we spoke to one man who, if it passes, will be able to vote for the first time in his life.

>> statistically, one out of every four blacks, males, are incarcerated. poverty and where you live have a lot to do with it. in this neighborhood alone, it is probably like one out of every three people going to end up in jail. >> what would it mean for you to get your rights back? >> it would mean the world that i could do something about it by punching in a ballot. >> coming up next, election day is just 30 days away. are you ready? when you have a baby gentle means everything to you and to us. so at johnson's, we improved everything. we used 50% fewer ingredients. took out dyes, parabens, phthalates and sulfates.

beat the top safety standards in the world and added one handed pumps. gentle means pure, gentle means safe, gentle means love. the new johnson's®.

shame on you! shame on you. >> i'm a mother and i am a patriot! >> sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. >> an outrage was all too clear on saturday. now with just 30 days until the midterms, will that anger feel a blue wave or republicans ride that win to victory at the polls. joining me now, thank you all for being here. matt, you are now knew to the s so i will go to you first. from confirming brett kavanaugh and the rage, white male rage over the wave that the process played out, is that going to last for 30 days to help

republicans in november? >> yeah. i think the intensity question is the right question to ask, joy. we have seen just in the last seven days or so some initial polling that has shown that republican enthusiasm is increasing. we have seen it in montana and south dakota. there are some good signs for republicans. i think the question is will that story remain. this story will not dominate the headlines going forward. but we will go on to other things i suspect as some point here. i think the question is are republican voters angry enough that there is a backlash and is that going to be a difference in the 27 swing seats for the house where both parties are running active and well funded campaigns which will determine the majority in congress. and then the 12 or 13 senate races that are competitive. that's the question. and will republican enthusiasm

meet the democratic enthusiasm. that's the big question going forward. >> let me go to my pollster question who among other things is a terrific pollster. so the numbers right now are that democrats and republicans in terms of the southern states, which is where a lot of these battles are playing out. there is lots of southern action. would you vote for gop candidates 48%, would you vote for democratic candidates, 43%. so that's a big nbc news poll. but the quinnipiac numbers on brett kavanaugh himself are that he was underwater. vote to confirm 42%, not to confirm was 48%. is there a way to parse those two things? republicans have an advantage in terms of who people intend to vote for in the south. >> yeah. i think the trend is undeniable

in terms of as matt pointed out intensity did pick up a bit. while brett kavanaugh is not perhaps the most popular justice, he was the republican justice that would tilt the court conservative possibly for a generation or more. that's one has to look at, while they were able to overcome any concerns over that versus the bigger prize. this has been a systemic effort. now the doom's day scenario is here. the trump administration now controls the three branches of government. that's not unique in the american experience. what is unique about that, joy, is that this is the first president and administration in memory that has declared war on the institutions of the united states, be it the fbi, the cia, the intelligence community, law and order and also specific segments of society, whether it be muslims, hispanics and over this fight of war on women. that's what makes it so

dangerous. if democrats have to question the intensity gap then all hope may be lost. there is 30 days, 30 days for these elections which are critical to the history -- for the future of this country, where i believe american democracy as we know it is on the ballot. >> yeah. just, tiffany, to look at how people feel about how important the elections are. democrats 82% in october said that is very important. republicans 80% say it is important. republican turnout is fairly consistent. it is democratic turnout, people of color and young people that don't show up. do you see any sign that that is changing this cycle? >> absolutely. i think it is interesting to me when i hear, will this last? the republicans were pissed off during the obama years. i think they are quite capable of holding a grudge for however long it takes. when i look at races,

particularly in the south, you have lucy mcbath that got a huge amount of attention. it was one of the most expensive house races in the year. now she's running again. when you look at people -- you have desantis who has come out and there is no debate. we don't have to ask the question is he racist. he's already shown his colors. you will have florida voters in that georgia six race that say, no, this is not acceptable behavior. we don't want to see these things. i think the brett kavanaugh vote has inner sienergized the base. it is up to the people running to make sure they are reaching out to the proper communities, some of those marginal communities, rural black voters. latino voters had not been reached out to by a major campaign. so i think people are going to have to rethink some of their strategy and their field operations. they have to employ people who look like the base they're trying to reach. you cannot have a campaign full of staffers who don't look like

the people you are trying to represent who come from outside the district. i think if they do that, i think they will see some shift. you also have the race in california. this is somebody really out front on a lot of issues. dunkin hunter who under all kinds of ethics evaluations, this is a tight race. this should not be a tight race. this is a majority minority district and he is running. he complained he hadn't gotten a lot of help. so i think there are opportunities and victory. it is up to the democrats to capitalize it. >> what do you think will be the biggest surprise on election night. what race do you think will go the way people do not expect it. >> that's an interesting question. i think if you look at the trends, what's going to matter is suburban white women. most of these districts for the house are suburban districts. if suburban white women end up

moving in the republican direction because of brett kavanaugh thing -- >> aren't they already there? >> true, true. independent, suburban white women, if we are going to be that december cryptive, correct. they will have power in determining where the house majority goes. they only need 13 of them, the democrats do, to take the house back. this thing is right on the razor's edge. it is 60% likely that democrats take the house back. i think rick scott will win florida. i think that's going to be a big s surprise on election night. >> what do you think will be the big surprise on election night? >> i think texas senate.

if that has truly inspired the nation. i think if he wins, that's going to be momentous. that's the one i'm looking at, texas. >> look at the south. >> no chance. >> texas, georgia, florida. you will be looking to the south. it is all about the south this year. south, south, south. thank you all very much. in our next hour, "the new york times" block buster on trump's finances that came three years too late. and our tend to watch series focuses on the volunteers. brett kavanaugh's potential impact on the mueller investigation. ler investigation. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth,

are you in good hands? billions of problems. dry mouth? parched mouth? cotton mouth? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath oral rinse and lozenges. help relieve dry mouth using natural enzymes to soothe and moisturize. so you can... breathe easy, there's therabreath at walmart.

discover.o. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. really? yeah. we just don't believe in them. oh nice. you would not believe how long i've been rehearsing that. no annual fee on any card. only from discover.

can a sitting president be required to respond to a subpoena? >> so that's a hypothetical question. >> trump claims he has an absolute right to pardon himself. does he? >> the question of self-pardons is something i have never analyzed. >> brett kavanaugh's non-answers on issues like presidential subpoenas and pardons raise lots of questions about what this new supreme court justice means for donald trump and the russia probe. joining me now is natasha bertrand, staff writer for the atlantic. i want to play you one more sound bite. this is senator amy klobuchar.

>> i'm asking about your position that you stated in this law review article that a president is not subject to investigations while in office. >> on constitutional position on criminal investigation and prosecution i did not take a position on the constituti constitutionality, period. on the idea that i talked about was something for congress to look at if it wanted. >> natasha, this man is an open admitted partisan. he was a partisan operative for years. is the white house and congressional republicans counting on him to be the fifth vote to protect donald trump from being investigated by robert mueller. >> i don't know if they're counting on him but we do know this is something the white house did consider when they were discussing who to nominate for the supreme court. this record that judge kavanaugh has, now supreme court justice kavanaugh has saying that the

president should not be burdened by criminal investigation is well-documented and it's something that when considering who to nominate they did look at it. and it's really interesting because, of course, kavanaugh has a view of executive power that's well outside the mainstream. he has said and he said in 1999 that the nixon case may have been wrongly decided. of course, the nixon case was kind of held up as a marker of judicial independence. it was a decision that really is kind of taboo and harrissy to say that you don't agree with it because the nixon -- the decision ultimately said that a president is not above the law. that a president has to comply with a subpoena, especially if that -- if the fruits of that subpoena contain evidence of a crime. so this is something where, you know, he walked that back in 2016. he said that he did not actually think that the nixon case was wrongly decided. he kind of reversed course there, probably because he knew that perhaps it was outside of the mainstream and he was

gunning for a position on the court but many of his positions are also in line with this idea that you don't want to restrict a president's power because he was, of course, in the george w. bush white house after 9/11 and that gave him a more expansive view on how the president should be treated. he should not be burdened by criminal investigations, et cetera. so this is something that sits squarely within his mind set, within his perspective and it's -- i don't think it's something that's just going to go away when he ascends to the supreme court. there are questions that the other conservative justices would agree with his perception of executive power. of course, again, it is quite outside the mainstream as far as how he perceives it, but it is -- because he now is -- you know, he's taken the place of anthony kennedy who was the center of gravity and there's no

longer a swing vote there, i think it's definitely something we have to watch. >> i think we can guess where at least three of them stand. daily beast article talks about the kremlins for kavanaugh. the russian state media isbacking the nomination. what do you make of that? >> it makes total sense. it was a very divisive issue. the country was completely torn be apart by the cavanaugh nomination and that is whats kremlin capitalizes on. the boots and the kremlin would promote him or galvanize people that were against him. this would be a very good thing for russia in theory if kavanaugh were to be faced with a decision about whether or not, for example, a president should be -- should have to comply with a subpoena or, for example, whether or not a president could fire directly bob mueller. that is something that is also

at play here because the justice department, despite having these rules in place that say the president cannot fire him except for cause, it is definitely something that could be rolled back, for example, if it went to the supreme court and if kavanaugh and the other justices had to decide on it. >> i don't think anyone can have any confidence that that is not exactly what the supreme court with this person on it and so many partisan people on that side, that that's exactly what they're going to do. natasha bertrand, thank you very much for your time. more "am joy" after the break. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield.

with safelite's exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace.

♪ one look at you and i can't disguise ♪ ♪ i've got hungry eyes applebee's new 3-course meal starting at $11.99. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood.

it definitely is informing. it's not been easy for me. i started off in brooklyn. my father gave me a small loan of $1 million. i had to pay him back. >> none of that is true. none of that is true. welcome back to "am joy." this week the supreme court showdown resulting in the highly divisive confirmation of brett kavanaugh. 18 months in the making called into question that trump is a self-made billionaire. well, it turns out that gilded narrative is not true, not even a little bit true. the times through a vast trove of financial records and more than 200 tax returns from trump's father fred, his companies and other trump entities concluded that donald trump helped his parents dodge

taxes, set up a sham corporation to hide millions of dollars in gifts, help them take improper tax deductions worth millions more and put together a scheme to under value his parents' real estate empire by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns to reduce the tax bill that he and his siblings would pay when they inherited it. altogether the times found trump got the equivalent of, get this, at least $413 million in today's money from his father's real estate empire. in a statement trump's lawyer called the story 100% false and highly defamatory. we have jennifer record, eugene scott and msnbc contributor, charlie sights. >> charlie, your tweet informed us. equivalent of, thanks a lot, "new york times," wish you had done that three years ago when it could have mattered in the election. what do you make of this?

this is thick. it's quite a thick report. what do you make of the fact that we're now finding out how extensive the tax dodging was? can you hear me, snerk. >> ye-- eric? >> i was going to say, this would have been helpful in 2016. there was aggressive reporting on the trump fraud of his charities and business but it seemed for every tough story about trump the press had to do an equally tough story on clinton, pretending that her speeches were dubious, the clinton that were sending inexpensive drugs to aids victims in africa was a fraud. the press was committed to showing them both as frauds. if he couldn't tell the truth, neither could she. well, it turns out we know that isn't true and trump, you know, the foundation was basically a ponzi scheme and we know that he

didn't get money from his parents is a joke. better late than never. i think the idea that he is' a fraud and a cooked, that's kind of been baked into the narrative at this point. unfortunately, i think it's too late for this. >> i watched it, i don't want to get them in the business of watching "the new york times." eric, you don't work for either paper. "the new york times," it's a great paper, one of the great papers in american life. they did spend a lot of time reporting on things like the clinton foundation. they retweeted a big picture of clinton cash, steve bannon's highly fiction allized account of the clinton foundation. cash flow to clip ton foundation amid russian uranium deal. they did print a big chunk of clinton cash. let's go to 10. snopes debunked this idea that hillary clinton somehow gave away 20% of the united states

uranium to russia. that's not true in exchange for clinton donations. it was ruled false. the other story that all the other papers did, that was obsessive. a word cloud on hillary clinton if you do that during the campaign, the big word is e-mails. >> absolutely. >> it is what the media obsessed over day after day after day and there was a study that was actually done that said clinton's e-mails got as much front page coverage in six days as her policies got in 69 days. these findings were pub 3w4rishd in the columbia journalism review. the starkest discovery that in just the six days they ran as many stories about her e-mails as all policies. this was your beef in your tweet. what do you make of that fact? >> yeah. no, if you look back at the clinton coverage, there was very little policy coverage. why was that? the reason there was so little policy coverage is the press created this entire brand-new category of e-mails so, you

know, there wasn't enough time, there wasn't enough space to do e-mails and policy. what would she be like as president? what's her agenda? what's her taxes look like? what's the foreign policy? that was put in the trash. they feasted on e-mails and these kind of scandal stories. so it really wasn't credible that the 2016 campaign, there wasn't much discussion about her policy because they had to cover the e-mails. just on a quick point about "the new york times" story getting buried. they worked on this for 18 months. i really have no idea why they dropped this in the middle of kavanaugh week. everyone knew there was a definitive deadline. everybody knew there was going to be a vote on the weekend. why if you're working on a story, you have the scoop, why not wait until after the kavanaugh controversy, publish it on sunday and give it a run. >> we know donald trump is obsessed with "the new york times" so i think whenever they published it he was going to notice it. i want to read one counter

point. new york public wrote a piece saying the times has been publishing hard hitting and controversial journalism since the whitewater scandal in the '90s, the monica lewinsky and to clintonites, they're paranoid. there is one thing that i think is absolutely true no matter what side of the political aisle you fall on. republicans and some liberal democrats despise the clintons. a lot of that is fueled by the belief that they have an ongoing story of corruption. it was an obsession during the 2016 election. do you think in the end that it matters now that we're finding out that there was so much more about donald trump that wasn't unearthed that all we did was focused on her e-mails? >> you know, this is an interesting question that we'll never actually know, but, you know, i do think that it was baked into the cake back in 2016

that the guy was a fraud. i remember talking to my audience telling them about trump universituniversity, trum trump airlines. all of these failures and bankruptcies and none of it actually penetrated. look, we do have to acknowledge what an extraordinary act of journal 4ri678 this is by "the new york times." we are living in a golden age of in depth investigative reporting. would it have made a difference in 20 16? i don't know. will it make a difference now? probably not because this is all baked into the cake. but it does reinforce this gap between who donald trump says he is, what his base thinks he is, and the reality and that really highlights this extraordinary moment where we are basically let by somebody whose entire

reputation is fictitious and is based on a fraudulent image. >> donald trump created a tv show that was on nbc called "the apprentice." based on the fiction that he built this empire himself. that fiction is why he's president. people believe the donald trump from "the apprentice" is real. this is an extraordinary piece of journalism. lengthy, in depth. donald trump's parents, fred and mary, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children which could have produced a tax bill of $550 million. instead they paid 55.2 million, 5% tax records show. at the end of the day it is all fraudulent. donald trump inherited hundreds of millions of dollars. will they care? >> absolutely not. i covered the campaign and i've spoken with voters this week in arizona and kansas and they heard these attacks, these

stories from the left and legitimate stories from the media during the campaign putting his wealth and credibility into question and they didn't care. in some instances they praised his ability to get over on the government, to beat the system and to pay as few taxes as possible, which quite frankly is a value held highly in many wings of conservatism. what many of them don't realize is that in not paying taxes, funds that could have gone to benefit people from these low income communities that trump said he was trying to help were not helped. the only people who appear to be helped based on this story was the trump family. this is why trump spent so much time not only attacking "the new york times" but the mainstream media together that allows the base to say it's all rubbish. when you don't release your tax returns and when your lawyer comes out and says it's false, reporters say what part is false, you say it's all false, it's all bad, there's no way to really get to the bottom of it if you really want to know what

happened. >> he'll make something up. it doesn't matter. donald trump by age 3 earning $200,000 a year. little kiddy war bucks. he was a millionaire by age 8. soon after he graduated from college he was receiving $1 million a year from his father. had democrats had this information, in hindsight maybe portraying him the way that mitt romney was portrayed. mitt romney didn't get away with being baby war bucks. donald trump did. >> well, we will not know. frankly, a difference of about 78,000 votes in three cities if our ex-fbi director had not come forward. >> comey. >> james comey had not come forward we would have had a different outcome. had the press been more balanced, we would have had a different outcome. there are a million ifs and

buts. what eugene said is right. these people do not care. it makes him all the more phenomenal because he -- look how he outfoxed us all. but i will say this, it manners one respect. it matters that there is no statute of limitations on civil tax fraud. >> right. >> and that the state of new york is going after him. it will be very interesting if the state of new york presents him with a billion for a few hundred million dollars -- >> yeah. >> -- that will matter to him. you know what, there's no pardon. there's no way of getting out of it. it's a bill. >> at least until it goes to the supreme court and brett kavanaugh gives him a get out of jail free card. the department is reviewing the allegations in "the new york times" article and is vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation the new york state department of taxation cites. donald trump's sister, it appears he wasn't alone in

benefitting from these tax schemes. he has a sister who's actually a sitting judge and she's also implicated. mary ann trump berry, then a federal judge whom fred trump, the father often consulted on legal matters, donald trump and his siblings disguised this. let's say the department of new york department of taxation went after him, would that hurt him? it proves the deep state is real. they would probably say that. there's real legal jeopardy here when you are talking about acts of fraud. the base may think this is very, very clever but, you know, i mean, we're all old enough to remember when americans would have thought that really super rich people who are defrauding the government, lying about their taxes and then making the rest of us pay a bigger share would have been a big deal, but i'm also fascinated about sort

of what's not in "the new york times" piece, the brilliance of "the new york times" piece is of course that it follows the money. there's more money to be followed here. one of the questions that i have and i think other people would have, when daddy stopped bank rolling donald trump, when he stopped shoving the money into it, who picked up the slack? who is the next sugar daddy? and i do think this goes to the heart of trump, ink, and the clep to being kra si that we live in right now to follow the money and to see where that came from more recently. and so that's why i do think that this is relevant. will the base care? no. but i think there's some really interesting answers there. >> could the answer rhyme with prussia? yeah, i mean, somebody paid. eric, last question to you, exit question. one of the themes in this piece, in "the new york times" piece, is that part of the reason that fred trump was shoveling so much money specifically to donald is because he was such a terrible

businessman, that he was such a failure at everything he tried to do that the father kept having to bail him out. does that narrative -- should democrats be picking up that narrative, a little bit more of a narrative of failure? >> yeah, it's possible. he has created the narrative. "the new york times" didn't think it was a game changer. over the weekend the d.c. bureau produced a pace saying what an amazing, wonderful week trump had because he was able to cram through a supreme court justice with 43 no votes, the most no votes since justice thomas. trump had a winning week and the story doesn't really matter. >> there's a strange symbiotic relationship, love/hate relationship between donald trump and the times could be the subject of many, many books. jennifer and eugene will be back with us. go off and have a wonderful brunch and have a wonderful day. more "am joy" coming up.

totally false attack based on an old recycled news story. i'm not going to sit and go through every single line of a very boring 14,000 word story. the only thing -- i will say the one thing the article did get right was it showed the president's father had a great deal of confidence in him. >> this wasn't boring. i read it this morning. wasn't boring at all. the white house dismissed this blockbuster "new york times" report suggesting that donald

trump, quote, participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s during instances of outright fraud. deals a massive blow to trump's decades long boot strap narrative that his empire from the hotel, choppers, casino emblazoned with his name and a teeny, tiny $1 million loan from his daddy. another detail "the new york times" challenged reporting, quote, fred trump actually length trump $60.7 million or 140 million in today's dollars. joining me now, david k. johnson of d.c. report dot org and author of "it's even worse than you think, what the trump administration is doing to america." and timothy o'brien, author of "trump nation." the two of you were reporters who the whole time have been trying to tell people that this

donald trump narrative was a lie. tim, you got sued over it. what do you think now that the media is catching up that it's all a fraud. >> donald trump has been running one of the longest frauds in american history about his wealth, talent as a businessman, relation ship with his father. through and through he's tried to maintain this myth that he's much more competent and self-made than he is. any reporting that goes towards correcting the fact pattern around that is always welcome. i reported that he depended on fred trump. it was one of the things he sued me for. in the course of my reporting he said to me, i give you my word, i never borrowed any money from the estate, i.e.,, i never

borrowed any money from my father. we got him under oath in litigation in a deposition. we presented him with records that showed he had indeed borrowed extensively from the family. the white house is lying when they say they attack him on that front. what's new in "the new york times" report isn't really his dependence on fred trump which was a known quantity or that he got loans from fred trump, i think it's the size of the inheritance that he got from the family and all of these maneuvers, possibly fraudulent maneuvers that he and his siblings undertook to protect that money from the tax man. >> david k. johnson who's been reporting on this forever and ever and ever, i will say that the times is another clip documented 295 streams of revenue that fred trump created over five decades to enrich his son, in most cases his four other children benefitted equally.

over time his father found ways to give him more money. donald trump and his siblings, not just trump alone, could owe new york state moore than $400 million in unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties based on this times report of this billion dollars worth of real estate transferred to them. do you think that new york state will ever have any prayer of ever collecting that money? >> yes, indeed, i do. donald was tagged twice for civil tax fraud over his 1984 tax return which was far and away the richest year he ever had up to that point. he lost both cases and was heavily criticized by the judges as i report in my book "the making of donald trump." and the new york state can go after them for civil fraud back to day one. so can the federal government and what i believe we're going to see happen here is if the democrats win control of the house or the senate, they will use the times article as a

roadmap to begin digging into this and this is senior level major massive calculated tax cheating. remember, the vice president sp resigned over bags of groceries. richard nixon's tax lawyer went to prison over what this is basically a -- nixon's case, a wading pool compared to a small ocean of tax fraud by the trumps, and we need to see donald's recent year tax returns because i'm sure it will show it. >> i don't want to use the mob. should other people whose last name is trump be concerned that that may be the tactic, that there could be action against the family in that same way?

>> of course they have to worry about that, joy. i think a name we've talked about on your show before, he's come up in my writing is alan wiseleburg who was the trump -- he was fred trump's accountant. he's the same age as donald. 72 or so and then he became the cfo of the trump organization. he has had decades of involvement with the trumps managing their income tax returns, managing their accounting. cooperating with the southern district of new york and i suspect he will be a very valuable map maker for them should they choose to dig into this. one of the other things in this report beyond just the potentialingal for tax fraud is what it reveals about trump's character. there's a moment in this story about fred trump's wealth where he's slipping into alzheimer's still has clarity almost tried to change the terms so he can get control of fred's estate and

the family fortune and he becomes alarmed by this and his daughter, maryanne trump berry to take a look at this. she, too, is disturbed by it. they end up hiring a new estate lawyer so they can keep the family money out of donald trump's clutches and at the end of the day given the opportunity donald trump will try to even steal from his own family members. >> yeah, absolutely. david, we don't even get into the fact that part of this real estate empire of fred trump's was built on discriminating against people of color and said they couldn't move into his many buildings. knowing donald trump's character, if in fact the federal government were to go after his family, maryanne trump, former federal judge, would donald trump care as long as they're not going after him? >> you know, donald will always be first and foremost after saving himself, but it would be -- i don't know how donald would react. tim may have a better insight into that if the state goes

after them, but one thing to keep in mind here is that thievery, cheating, lying have been family practice. fred trump not only discriminated, he riptd off the taxpayers for $36 million causing president eisen hhower throw a fit because it was returning g.i.s from world war ii that fred was harming. >> apples and trees and david k. johnson, timothy o'brien two of the best reporters out there. been covering donald trump for a very long time. i recommend reading both of their books. thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. susan collins, 40-minute long speech and she's still talking. that's next. g. that's next. opportunity is everywhere.

like here. and here. see? opportunity. hi! cinturones por favor. gracias. ev-er-y-where. about to be parents. it's doing a lot of kicking down there. meeting the parents. it's gonna be fine. and this driver, logging out to watch his kid hit one out of the... go dani, go! opportunity is everywhere. all you have to do to find it is get out... here. ♪

i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush.

but my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. she said, get the one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's gentle rounded brush head removes more plaque along the gum line. for cleaner teeth and healthier gums. and unlike sonicare, oral-b is the first electric toothbrush brand accepted by the ada for its effectiveness and safety. what an amazing clean! i'll only use an oral-b! oral-b. brush like a pro.

on wednesday you received the first ever presidential alert. >> presidential alert? >> this system was the result of years of careful planning for use only in cases of national emergency. >> failing "new york times" says i cheated on taxes. duh, it's called being smart. what is this. >> warning, white men are under attack. oh, no. >> kid rock sounds better than ever. >> congrats to good guy brett

kavanaugh #believemen. >> hi. >> we can always count on snl to help us laugh through the authoritarian nightmare. meanwhile, take a look at how the snl treated the big scotus week. >> we couldn't have done it without susan collins. susan, get over here. >> do i talk again? >> no. this is all susan. >> oh, please, the last thing i wanted was to make this about me. that's why i told everyone to tune in at 3:00 p.m., so i could tell all my female supporters, psych! >> whew! that's our girl. our one girl! >> yeah. >> more "am joy" after the break. k.

i'm happy that those who tried to destroy his life fell short. i'm glad those that tried to overturn the rule of law and replace it with mob rule lost. i've never been more pissed in my life. i voted for so the tow mayor and kagan. i would never have done this. this was assassination. to the extent that i came to the aide of this goodman and helped defeat this debacle, i am happy as a clam. >> happy as a clam to help justice kavanaugh.

mitch mcconnell who claims it wasn't broken at all was on fox news saying merit garland did nothing wrong. here he is. >> we didn't attack merit garland's background and try to destroy him. we didn't go on a search and destroy mission. we followed the tradition. if you have a party of a different -- senate of a different party than the president, you don't fill a vacancy created in a presidential year. >> now he's changed the goalposts. he used to say that it's never done that you confirm any of them. that's what he was saying at the time. he's now added the caveat that it's if the president is of a different party. the reason he's saying that is sound bite number two, well, would you rule out pushing through supreme court nomination in donald trump's final year a? here he is.

>> the answer to your question is we'll see if there's a vacancy in 2020. >> you're not ruling out since you're the republican majority leader, republican president that you would go for and push the nomination of a trump nominee in the election year? >> what i'm telling you is the history is you have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a senate controlled party different from the president filled a vacancy on the supreme court that was created in the middle of a presidential election year. that's been the history. >> this isn't tortured logic but your witness. >> you know what, surprising this this week we saw america uphold white patriarchy and now we have to get gas lit by mitch mcconnell. i think the only thing we can be grateful for is november is still around the corner and we

need to remember is that the denial of a white man is worth more than a woman's truth. >> we need to get kiki and find out what is going on. susan collins was in her feelings, she was describing her feelings. she was on cnn, all of her feelings, here she is. >> after hearing christine ford's compelling and painful testimony, i thought, oh, my goodness, he perhaps needs to withdraw and -- but then when he came back with such a forceful denial and the anger and anguish that he showed and then the lack of corroboration led me back to the fundamental issues that are fundamental to our legal system of presumption of innocence and fairness. >> eugene, who knew that we could throw open all the prison

doors, why don't all of those people incarcerated just forcefully deny that they done whatever it is they said they had done. my god, that was the answer. why are so many people locked up? all they had to do is say it loudly and cry. >> everyone doesn't have the same opportunity to be angry, yell, point fingers. if that were the case we would have seen that happen. collins said ford was compelling, painful. >> because he said he didn't do it therefore his word was so much more compelling. >> but he was angry, upset, he cried and he finger pointed and that was believable. collins voted the way she did in part because she's on the same page with many republicans despite constantly being painted as a moderate because she has been in other areas, but when it comes to believing women and processing the me too movement in this situation, she doesn't believe women and that's what she said this morning. >> do people expect for collins to vote differently? i mean, i don't understand.

>> they shouldn't have. >> it was a fraud. this was undecided. it was a fantasy and frankly maybe we should stop having these hearings. people pretend they're undecided. >> stop talking. she's going on the sunday talk shows. susan collins, we get it. what you're saying doesn't make any sense. you can't say you believe dr. ford but you think kavanaugh didn't do it. >> mistaken. >> this is actually a point that we need to talk about the media here. this fiction that susan collins was undecided which i agree with you was never true. she had been saying basically openly that she was trying to find an excuse to vote yes but for some reason she was portrayed as undecided. flake was not undecided, portrayed as undecided. is this a flaw in the machine? >> to begin with, they lie. we take them at face value. i think i and many other people kept noting that she kept coming

up with these ludie ludicrous e. she said that bore sick was going to uphold roe v. wade. it was clear she was rationalizing all along. she was not undecided. she was not candid. she was not forthright. you know whose mind was made up, lisa murkowski who did listen and did absorb what was being said and changed her mind. >> yeah. >> you would like to think that senators are that way, but they're not. it is tribal loyalty down the road. >> absolutely. >> to eugene's point, as soon as that guy got up there, he's like them. they cannot imagine someone in their social circle, someone in the country club behaving that way. >> the denial of a white man. >> immediately must be, well, it can't be. i don't know what the reason is.

>> it can't be that. >> listen to susan collins doing that. she's still trying to insist that this person won't overturn roe. she wants to portray herself as an ally of the roe community. here she is spilling her feelings. >> i do not believe that brett kavanaugh will overturn. >> they're overturned all the time. >> they aren't over turned. listen to the standards he put forth in a conversation with me and also in the hearing. >> i am amazed at the power of brett kavanaugh's words, that anything he says -- >> is believable. >> -- is instantly true to this senator. whatever he says is magic. >> yeah. and talk about white privilege, but also it's interesting, thank you once again, susan collins, for showing us that white women from the 2016 elections to all the drama over the supreme court will consistently choose race over gender. i mean, you've got to give them this.

they are tribal just liken never were saying. >> let's listen to macy arano. shout out to lisa murkowski. she probably behaved more in the deliberative tradition in the senate not because she came to a conclusion that people wanted but at least she seemed to wrestle with it. whichever way she voted, you could see she did wrestle with it. >> listened to survivors. >> and her constituents. >> in alaska sexual assault is at high levels especially in the native community and native american activists have come out and said if murkowski whose name i wrote in previously when she ran for election runs again, i can't back a lawmaker who i don't think protects me in this area where i definitely need protects. i think that spoke to her. >> do we have to say the same thing about joe manmanchin. he didn't have to vote -- >> profile and courage. heidi heitkamp could take the hit. >> that was a risk.

>> because she knew this was not going to be popular back home. she was already behind. he wants no part of it. after he did this -- >> donald trump attacked him. he was a coward. he did it at the last moment. >> it's a good point. the two people who took -- three are joe donnelly, probably heidi heitkamp and also claire mccaskill who took a real risk here of voting no. >> absolutely. voting no. manchin did not. what manchin wants to do is win the re-election. people were coming up to him very friendly saying, hey, we support you, but if you vote no, i will vote no against you. that really spoke to him. >> he was trying to preserve his seat. let's play maisey. >> she said that she thinks that -- she said that dr. ford thinks that she was assaulted, which is even more insulting

than saying that she gave a credible account. to say that she thinks that dr. ford thinks she was assaulted, what is that? is she mistaken? >> there used to be a thing in american psychology called hysteria. women were thought to sort of go out of their minds and that they couldn't process information the same way that a man can. i feel like the argument that senator -- that susan collins is making is hysteria. she must believe it. >> how sexist is that? the person who threw the biggest tantrum is brett kavanaugh. compare his testimony to dr. ford's. >> imagine if a woman had behaved like that. if a woman of color had behaved like that. this wasn't a criminal trial. this was a job interview. >> imagine. >> so let's listen to chris coombs. one more time. on the democratic side now the question is whether or not if

democrats were to take back the senate they should do anything about this, whether they should take some action. here's chris coombs on whether or not impeachment should be on the table for brett kavanaugh. >> i think that's premature. there's only ever been one justice that's been impeached and i think talking about it at this point isn't necessarily healing us, moving us forward. >> so i know that the one justice has been impeached was impeached for excessive partisanship. >> democrats don't play like the republicans do. >> no, they don't. we're going to investigate all of this. we're going to ask the fbi why they didn't talk to kavanaugh. we're going to look at the testimony and see if he contradicted himself. >> yeah. >> if he was, in fact, committing perjury. so there will be investigation. >> yes. >> democrats are just too

marquise de queens bury. theer feelings are gentle and nice. coming up at the top of the hour, presidential historian doris burns, good one, wonderful, weighs in on the kavanaugh investigation. "am joy's ten to watch. room at a lower rate, hilton is like... we're gonna match that rate and give you an extra 25% off. what would travel sites do if you found a better price? that's not my problem, it's your problem. get outta here. woah, i really felt that performance. it's just acting, i'm really good at it. book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25% off that stay. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. coming up at the top of the are you on medicare?

do you have the coverage you need? annual enrollment ends december 7th. don't put it off 'til later. now's the time to get on a path that could be right for you... with unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans. call today to learn about the kinds of coverage we offer, including aarp medicarecomplete plans insured through unitedhealthcare. these medicare advantage plans can combine parts a and b, your hospital and doctor coverage... with part d prescription drug coverage, and extra benefits... all in one complete plan... for a low monthly premium, or in some areas no plan premium at all. unitedhealthcare doesn't stop there. you'll have $0 copays for preventive services...

like an annual physical and most immunizations. you can also get routine vision, hearing and dental coverage. for prescriptions, you'll pay the plan's lowest price, whether it's your copay or the pharmacy price. or pay as low as zero dollars for a 90-day supply of your tier 1 and tier 2 drugs, delivered right to your door. in fact, our medicare advantage plan members... saved an average of over $6,000 last year. so call or go online today to enroll, and enjoy these benefits and more, like renew active, that keeps your body and mind active with a fitness membership and online brain games. your healthcare needs are unique. that's why, with over 40 years of medicare experience, we'll be there for you we can even help schedule your appointments. annual enrollment ends december 7th. if you're medicare eligible, call now and talk to unitedhealthcare about our plans,

like aarp medicarecomplete. let's get you on the right path. call unitedhealthcare or go online to enroll. [sfx: mnemonic] discover.o. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. really? yeah. we just don't believe in them. oh nice. you would not believe how long i've been rehearsing that. no annual fee on any card. only from discover.

ntoday the new scare tactic isn't income tax but that i'll be chuck schumer's lap dog. i don't even support him. nobody will tell me how to vote. after 16 years congresswoman blackburn has become washington. i want to change washington. i'm phil bredesen and i approve this message. with the midterms 30 days away, some democrats are sounding more likeso republican. like the next race in our "a.m. joy" 10 to watch series, the u.s. senate race in tennessee where former democratic governor phil bredesen is in a nearly dead heat with republican congresswoman blackburn. the difference is smaller than you think considering bredesen says hek would have voted to confirm brett kavanaugh. joining me now is jennifer duffy, senior editor of the cook political report. so good to meet you. >> thank you,to good morning. soha happy to be here. >> moveon.org has pulled support over bredesen for his statement

that he would have supported kavanaugh. does that help orwo hurt him? >> at the end of the day it probably helps him. this whole idea that republicans are selling that right i now bredesen is kind ofth a wolf in sheep's clothing that he tells you that he's a moderate but when he get there is he's not going to be so for move on to say he's not with us and walk out undermines that republican message. >> let's listen to an anti-bredesen ad and bredesen's response ad. this is a koch brothers pac ad attacking bredesen on a familiar theme. >> when times are tough, we budget for our families. but when our state's budget was in crisis, phil bredesen supported higher taxes on us. higher gas taxes, sales taxes and more andsa while we struggl through a recession, bredesen wasted $9 million upgrading his governor's mansion. $4 million on a party cave. gilded bathrooms and a kitchen

worth two tennessee homes. phil bredesen lived the life. we paid the bill. americans for prosperity is responsible for the content of this thadvertising. >> that'sof from the billionair koch brothers saying phil bredesen lived too rich and donald trump is president. let's listen to the bredesen response ad. >> i'm phil bredesen and i approved this message. have you seen this ad? >> our state's budget was in crisis. >> it's full of flat out lies. first, andrea and i never even lived in the i governor's residence, we stayed in our own home. second, ir never raise ed they are the gas tax or the sales tax. congresswoman blackburn, you've been in washington 16 years now and this ad shows it. we need some fresh air up there andre i'm applying for the job. >> myor understanding is bredes was a popular governor so who is getting the better end of that ad on the ground. >> well, probably bredesen is, the koch brothers ad was

fact-checked false. not only did he never live in the governor's mansion, that $9 million was all private money. >> wawell, there you go. >> so bredesen, what is his image inat tennessee. >> his image in tennessee -- now, remember, before he was governor he was the mayor of nashville so his image is somebody who is fair, who is into managing things well. as a businessman, as a strong manager -- >> as a s liberal? >> no, he's never been known as ane liberal. southern governor, he is what he is. one of thee ads he did earliern the campaign the that turned heads wasmp an ad on trade wher he came out prettily forcefully against tariffs saying that they hurtsa tennessee auto jobs and they hurt more importantly jack daniel's. >> how is marsha blackburn perceived in tennessee? she's polling pretty close. she's atg 46.8% and bredesen i atre 46.3%.

>> marsha blackburn is not that well known outside of her congressional district. it's ana base she shares with bredesen, suburban nashville. she's working on that. i think she is perceived as very, very conservative. shi has velcroed herself to trump in this race. >> does it help her? >> sheit thinks it does. i have my doubts in a statewide race that blind loyalty to the president is helpful. >> jennifer duffy, thank you. this is a fascinating race to watch.sc where's the cook political report putting it? >> we have in the tossup. >> tossup. that's amazing. jennifer duffy, thank you. duffe instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

p3 it's meat, cheese and nuts. i keep my protein interesting. oh yea, me too. i have cheese and uh these herbs. p3 snacks. the more interesting way to get your protein.

my dbut now, i take used tometamucil every day.sh it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down,

so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. i'm ready to crush ap english. i'm ready to do what no one on my block has done before. forget that. what no one in the world has done before. all i need access, tools, connections. high-speed connections. is the world ready for me? through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than six-million low-income people to low-cost,

high-speed internet at home. i'm trying to do some homework here. so they're ready for anything. that is our show for today. thanks for watching, "a.m. joy" will be back next saturday. up next, alex witt has the latest. alex, i miss you. >> are you on your way back? can you hurry it up? >> i will be back soon. i don't know about today, though. >> enjoy being in d.c., i would stay for a bit myself. thank you for that. good day to all of you, i'm alex witt in new york. the battleground shifts, the confirmation of justice brett kavanaugh means the focus turns to midterms. the democrats have become too extreme and too dangerous to govern. >> is this the jolt the gop needs to prevent a blue wave