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i am noting that kavanaugh, something apart from kavanaugh, which is trump and stormy daniels.avenatti. i think avenatti is interesting to me that he says he's just an aggressive attorney. aggressive attorney? he said it's not extortion of nike, that he was engaged in threatening them. people do that all the time in terms of settlements. i think he's got a twisted view of how you are an aggressive attorney. it's gone over the line. he may not know it. he should be scared because he may be going to face real jail time. yesterday on the show he said with the two different, one in l.a. and this one. 100 years in jail. >> dana: we will be happy to pay his rent for him if he's in prison for 100 years. i was going to say that avenatti needs smollett's lawyers. >> greg: how can he not pay taxes? how do people not pay taxes? >> jesse: greg, $56 million over ten years. >> dana: not paying taxes is wrong. >> greg: thank you. >> dana: book smarts. [laughter] >> jedediah: "one more thing" is coming up next. i switched to liberty mutual, because they let me customize my insurance. and as a

. >> dana: kavanaugh's upset about what he did in the kavanaugh hearings. >> juan: i think he helped >> dana: falls -- false charges are helpful. >> juan: i was struck by what you said, he's facing nearly 100 years in jail and he is saying, it's incredible to me. i know david boyd. he said he played the prosecutors and he's making it out as of the prosecutors have fallen for some kind of scheme. i think this guy is way over his head if he thinks david boyce who might be the most celebrated lawyer in the country is going to risk everything going to prosecutors with some false claim. it's hard to understand. >> morgan: something that i was curious about, the southern district of new york has the case against the president on campaign finance, largely from the stuff that avenatti brought up. is there any correlation? >> dana: . behar, the u.s. attorney, he has a new book out and it's not political. it's about the law. i had them on today and i wanted to ask him about the southern district of new york. what he says in the book, take it or not, i will tell you. the sdn why people believe

kavanaugh looked on judicial nominations. i'm still getting the documents.o sue several times so i'm still getting the documents. go to fixthecourt.com for updates. this is an e-mail -- you can't really see it, but i'm summarize it for you. this is an e-mail where justice kavanaugh -- and i know this comes as a surprise -- says some goofy things about the clintons, but the most interesting thing of which of course is redacted. you know, the -- i guess the right-hand -- you know, the thing right there. the counsel's office memo led by the clinton administration contains some helpful information on a variety of issues, has been circulated to each of you. those memos make it sound like they had plenty of lawyers in the office. justice kavanaugh replied -- not sure. but i don't know why i picked that document. i have like, 500,000 of them. i really could have done better. you know, again, i'm going to blame this on my poor power point skills. okay. the big close. so increasing transparency in the third branch is not easy. all these side issues i mentioned but ov

he supplied the anti-kavanaugh accusations. every spotlight.eir guy. he was on cnn 70 times. the unnamed coconspirator was a analyst for cnn. i think it looks pretty bad. cnn, i think they're going to close up shop. i'm not sure. i've heard that. i'm kidding. my favorite part, stormy daniels has expressed regret over her hiring of avenatti but she never really regretted her decisions in porn, so in her mind, hooking up with him was worse than her triple x career. >> juan: dana, he's also charged with defrauding a bank in mississippi by fraudulent tax return so he could get loans for a struggling law firm. >> dana: he is a pathetic piece of scum. when you are on a book with the daily briefing" and you brought up the kavanaugh thing, it wasn't at the top of my mind when i saw this. also i have to hand it to nike. they saw this and they said if you watch the press conference, they called the justice department and started working with him and basically they are saying speak into this microphone and tell us exactly what you want to do and he does i

they smear justice kavanaugh based on no evidence and they just said "i believe." mostly now they are silent on the serious, credible allegations against the democratic virginia lieutenant governor fairfax, they rush to judgment on jussie smollett and perpetrated a vicious hate crime publix. they attacked the covington students, nicholas sandmann, who had to deal with death threats. they had to watch the characters defamed repeatedly day in and day out. do you see the pattern here? the left brushes to judgment, batter, bludgeon, bloodied all

far more evidentiary information and videos that we saw when brett kavanaugh's nomination was trying to be derailed and him as an individual and family being destroyed by folks who had no evidence of what had allegedly happened 44 years earlier. i think joe biden has a big problem here because, he causes affection and handshakes. his party called completely inappropriate. the other thing that he has as a problem is, stacy abrams who i look upon as a big future part of the democratic party. she rebuffed his advances to be on his ticket pretty much. she said if i'm going to run, i will run for the whole thing. he's had a bad couple weeks. he doesn't have president

justice kavanaugh: no, the cross should come down. council could transfer the problem to maryland legislature, the court of appeals could decide. counsel: the remedy? the remedy is certainly relevant to considering it doesn't need to be torn down but i don't know if it plays into -- justice sotomayor: i think the question is different. the question is, do we think since there are other avenues available that the constitution this floor as a constitutional floor for an establishment clause violation. i think that is the question being asked. counsel: and the answer is no, i don't think that is relevant at all. the establishment clause trumped statutes. we ask that the court affirm. >> thank you, counsel. three minutes. >> ours is a middle path between my three excellent friends. the easiest way to resolve this case is to say in the wake of world war i, crosses like this one had an independent secular meaning, as justice kavanagh said before, this court's decisions recognized symbols including religious symbols have dual meetings. how d

after september 11, president bush decided to activate the 12 year window and justice kavanaugh workedthat memo. it is funny how that worked out. know or have a lot of the documents until january 2021, which is the law. did, cav nau worked on d.o.j. documents and i'm still working on getting documents. this is just one that i pulled out of the air. this is an e-mail up here, you can't see it. this is an e-mail where he says some goofy things about t the clintons. but the most interesting thing is redacted on i guess the right nd the thing there says the counsel's office memo while short contains some helpful information on a variety of issues. then rachel replies those memos ke it sound like they had 20 in the office. i don't know why i picked that document. i could have done better but again i'm going to blame this on my poor power point skills. increasing the transparency in the third branch is not easy. all these side issues, but overall it's really like you've got to come at it at different angles and be creative. i'm going to go through this list. look at the with ways the supreme

it is of brett kavanaugh.ce. this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit. my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. steve: all right, joe? >> okay. let's see r. kelly stood up and started crying and walking in circles and gayle king, give her credit the fact that she was able to stay so composed. that was something else. i don't think i would have done the same thing. brett kavanaugh doesn't stand up and start screaming at kamala harris or cory booker or any of the democrats during those confirmation hearings. so, to compare the two here, i mean, i know that people also compared jussie smollett to brett kavanaugh. that's remarkable to me. it's the same thing. compare everything to brett kavanaugh because kavanaugh just offered up a passionate but composed defense of being accused of things where there is no evidence while with r. kelly there is a mountain of evidence and there is no comparison, steve. steve

where kavanaugh and neil gorsuch presided. this is part of a far left tactics. when you cannot win an election based on ideas and policy at the ballot box, they just go to rigging the system. this is why elizabeth warren is now trying to dismantle the very way that we even elect a president. it does not work in her favor, take a look. >> my view is that the every vote matters. and the way that we can make that happen -- [applause] is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the electoral college. and everybody -- [cheers and applause] >> sean: sure, let's let new york, new jersey, massachusetts, illinois, and california determine every president. you see, she does not want every vote to count. in other words she wants to ignore all of the states in the middle of the country. the red states, of course. no more electoral college, numerous supreme court as we know it, checks and balances thrown to the wind. but of course if democrats get their way, the third trimester abortion include infanticide during and after birth, that would be perfectly le

on the supreme court, kavanaugh, gorsuch, alito, thomas all are members. now, that's a little weird. what's really weird is that through this federalist society vehicle, big special interests are picking federal judges. in effect, there are three federalist societies. the first one most lawyers know from law school. it is, for the most part, a debating society made up of like-minded aspiring lawyers drawn to conservative ideas and judicial doctrine. they organize seminars and invite academics and judges and attorneys to speak. that's terrific. no problem there. the second federalist society is the parent organization of the campus debating society, a sort of high-brow think tank seeking to further conservative and libertarian judicial principles. it convenes fancy forums with conservative legal luminaries from supreme court justices to big-name politicians to renowned legal scholars. it issues newsletters and produces podcasts and policy recommendations. through this, they hope to, quote, reorder priorities within the legal system, end quote. and create a

history, and they are all conservative like justice gorsuch and justice brett kavanaugh.tory, and they are all conservative like justice gorsuch and justice brett kavanaugh. willare conservatives who uphold the god history, and thee all conservative given liberties enshrined in our constitution like the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and the amendment right to keep and bear arms. [applause] [applause] the freedom of religion isthe ft just enshrined in our constitution. it is enshrined in the hearts of the american people. [applause] mr. pence: life is winning in america once again but for all the progress we're making, tragically, at the very moment that more americans than ever life,bracing the right to members of the democratic party are embracing a radical agenda of abortion on demand. in state legislatures across the country, democrats have endorsed late-term abortion. the democratic governor of for jeanette openly defends infanticide -- of virginia members of the democratic party are embracing a radical agenda of abortion on demand. infanticide -- of vir

pattern here, kavanaugh, coverton kids. rush to judgment, wishful thinking. imbue credibility on people who otherwise shouldn't have it in the time, place or manner because they fit with the narrative. they fit with the goal to get this president, to try to embarrass and harass him and family and those closest to him. a lot of people in media outlets today trying to knife each other. that will be fascinating to watch. i never gave him a platform. i didn't have him on my show. i didn't do that much on collusion. you all did. guilty all of the above. do better next time because of the patterns and i discussed this. the patterns for the 2016 election where they all got it so wrong. instead of saying we'll do a better job they dived into collusion, indictments and impeachment. let's take a step back and a deep breath. thank you for having me. >> bill: thank you.

remember when people convicted kavanaugh nav before they came -- catch before they -- kavanaugh beforeave him due process. they know he's guilty, there's just looking for the evidence. republicans and independents get their backs up against the wall. if that happens with this president, there's going to be people on the streets. lastly, and greg mentioned this, the media has caused this fever. they've said for two years, this guy is a russian asset. and he's a traitor. and that's now bubbling up in they're minds. so the new crops coming in and they're going to impreach no matter what and it's going cause a huge split in the democratic party. i don't think pelosi can contain it. >> i like what she said about donald trump. she said he's just not worth it. that's exactly what a close friend says to another friend after she was dumped by somebody who clearly was worth it. talking about you, sharon. [laughter] >> anyway, again, it reveals how. we need these people to actually work. they don't -- what do they do all day but posture about investigations and impeachment and i -- there has to b

. >> my answer would be the same as the third part to justice kavanaugh. we don't let those objectors dictate that. if that were the rule you would be tearing down crosses at arlington cemetery and nationwide. i think that would actually inject this court and create more of an establishment clause problem and sew religious divisions. >> thank you, counsel.w religio divisions. >> thank you, counsel.ow religi divisions. >> thank you, counsel. >> mr. carbon. >> mr. chief justice, may it please the court, while the peace cross should be upheld under any sensible establishment clause we submit the court should analyze it which prohibits tangible interference with religious liberty as well as -- for a number of reasons. we think this is the simplest route. you simply extend rule for religious speech to symbolic speech and provide in a situation where the chances for coercion are much less than in the communal prayer -- >> can you explain? you have this coercion theory that you think you are urging us to adopt. but if that's what the establishment clause prohibit

is a right that has been all men as the as just as the cab the curtain was pulled back on brett kavanaugh the curtain can also be pulled back on some things that they have done and if you grew up in a privileged and entitled upbringing and you did things that you consider just for fun but you actually were violating women those can come back to haunt you why because the rules have changed and so it's the fear it's the fear of them being exposed as well that is causing a lot of men to back away from this issue again i'm not saying that it's all men i'm saying that there are specific men who are concerned who grew up in a very privileged upbringing and don't have any accountability that's who we're talking about jane or is there a problem that the need to move movement a noble way of trying to get victims to be able to safely say what happened to them has been hijacked along the way to not cause the problem. it has been hijacked it's been hijacked by the radically feminine radical feminists the socialists the islamists and many other groups of people that have an agenda that is political an

case is distant for consideration by the supreme court where trump appointed justices gorsuch and kavanaughl cast to deciding votes on whether to uphold the aca or cast oit aside. i shudder to think which way they are likely to go. the outcome of this case will have a profound impact on virtually every american. especially the 133 million people living with pre-existing conditions. this is not a game. lives are at stake. without the aca protection millions of americans living with conditions as common as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, or cancer could be charged exorbitant premiums or denied, denied insurance coverage altogether. the stakes in this ongoing court battle are incredibly high. our resolution simply asks the department of justice to do its job, defend the aca and the duly enacted act of congress. and stand up to protect americans living with pre-existing conditions. although many of my republican colleagues profess to support protections for those with pre-existing conditions not a single one of them has signed on to support this resolution. under new leadership the department

its 51.uch brett kavanaugh is 54. brian: -- joan: you got it exactly right.t says the younger ones are the conservatives the two in their 80's are the liberals. depending on what happens to any 9 and president trump gets another appointee, the court could move further to the right. nation and for the for the supreme court of will becomes president in 2020 because of these ages. brian: how many years have you covered the court? since 1989.ime, when i started at the washington post as a supreme court reporter it was 1992. brian: your first appearance on this network. 1990. we are going to show a little bit of it right now. joan: this is my punishment for coming on. brian: no punishment. joan: all right. [video clip] >> the headline with justice scalia. what is he like? joan: very argumentative. very engaging. he will go after with -- a lawyer with real vigor. seems to be one of the more vocal ones. sometimes certain hypotheticals just to see. [end of video clip] brian: that was 29 years ago. my question to you is -- joan: the hair. brian: you are a lawyer. chan

kavanaugh and covington and smollett. the buzz feed bombshell.are supposed to shooting jim acosta and people like him. it's so bad. it's not working. if you compare drugs that are long lasting. these moments are like crack and last about 15 minutes. it's not a long high. >> if you have trump derangement syndrome the doctor will prescribe harsh oversight? >> exactly. >> i think it's a backlash from the benghazi hearings. it's the first time they have had the gavel back. >> these are real criminal allegations of wrongdoing by the president. >> [overlapping talking]. >> these are real allegations. >> all right. wait until you hear how one media outlet is trying to excuse jussie smollett hate crime hoax next. the best simple salad ever? heart-healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? great tasting, heart-healthy california walnuts. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. >> all right. a reporter making new excuses for jussie smollett suggesting the stress of fame could b

. >> two words, believe kavanaugh, that comes to mind. people will continue to do so. democrats will look back on republicans, and vice versa. but here's the situation here. to say it ain't so, joe, and the aw-shucks, joe, might have been fine in the past, but it's not acceptable now. if they're going to be a party of zero-tolerance, that standard needs to apply across the board. the vitriol and anger against brett kavanaugh, they should apply that same to joe biden here. the question is she needs to feel as if she can tell her story. all women should be believed. >> that's what the other candidates have said so far. elizabeth warren said i believe her, and julian castro said he believes her, but you mentioned evening if he doesn't run, and i'm looking, thinking, gosh, why would he want to get in this? they're dredging it up, anyway. >> yeah, they are, and i will say this. i do think that democrats -- al franking is no longer a senator. we went through with now in an issues of several advances but in term of blackface. we are holding it just as accountable, but i would

think back a few weeks ago to the kavanaugh hearings. kavanaugh hearings basically we have 19 member committee, 10 very fairly conservative republicans, nine fairly liberal democrat and it's essentially and ideologically split committee. but the democrats are liberal. who were on the committee. that is not the case in 1968. the chairman of the committee is this man, jim eastland. a democratic senator from mississippi. arden segregationist had voted against thurgood marshall's confirmation had voted against the civil rights act. had voted against the voting rights act. the second ranking democrat on the committee, john mcclellan, democratic senator from arkansas, had been absent from the marshall confirmation that had made clear he opposed marshall. had voted against the voting rights act and had voted against the civil rights act. and sam ervin, who we will encounter later in this class, democratic senator from north carolina, had voted against marshall confirmation, had voted against the voting rights act and had voted against the civil

. >> if the democrats are going after brett kavanaugh -- it is all one after the other, that is stranget is outrageous. count. had a whip this is a disgusting abuse of power. let me agree with you. we could do it at the same volume. am i talking too loud? >> are you saying i am a liar? >> i never call you a liar. if you drank truth serum you would -- >> that is a clever way of calling me a liar. >> stop, that is absurd. >> i find that the silliest argument i've ever heard. you are suffering credibility because you have against conservatives. >> the president is driving them down. >> when he tells -- >> look at the polls. you are the seller. >> that is not fair. the opinion in the media is on the rise. >> that is quite an accomplishment. >> they act like they are better, like they are the truth tellers. was he trying to get information to pass back to the united states government? was he doing those three things? come on, let's go both ways. >> this is what blows my mind. as you know, i asked questions of you. >> call it out. was it over the line? will you call it out? >> matt, i ask the

kavanaugh and covington and smollett. the buzz feed bombshell.supposed to shooting jim acosta and people like him. it's so bad. it's not working. if you compare drugs that are long lasting. these moments are like crack and last about 15 minutes. it's not a long high. >> if you have trump derangement syndrome the doctor will prescribe harsh oversight? >> exactly. >> i think it's a backlash from the benghazi hearings. it's the first time they have had the gavel back. >> these are real criminal allegations of wrongdoing by the president. >> [overlapping talking]. >> these are real allegations. >> all right. wait until you hear how one media outlet is trying to excuse jussie smollett hate crime hoax next. ♪ when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪tum tum tum tum smoothies. also available tums sugar-free. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power

we see what happened with kavanaugh, and this is -- if president trump excuse me. i have to start vaping. if president trump gets a third supreme court nominee, i am not exaggerating when i say that could be the beginning of civil war. >> perhaps. kennedy: i know it is dramatic. but not medicare for all, not the deficit inflating nonsense or creating okay it is it supreme court pick. >> so funny to hear the left talking about how trump is destroying our political democracy, to stop that we have to abolish the senate, add a bunch of seats to supreme court. what are you protecting if you a you are protecting system as it is, but if you need to destroy every part of the system to compete, that is wrong. they could beat him in a normal election. kennedy: they can be beaten with that system. that is it. >> well then republicans will change their strategy for winning. they will go after republican voters in state they don't go after right now, this is stupid idea. kennedy: you could activate. and like in new york and california, they are ignored. but i want to talk about

when the creepy lawyer told them that brett kavanaugh was a criminal, they believed him. are the people who bragged about how much they revere science. and at the same time insist that you can change her biological by wishing it so. 40 years ago the same people warned us that a new ice age was coming. superstition rains in its place. this is what happens when conventional religion, the ones we all mock, die. people say, i'm secular. just find something even more implausible to believe in, and impose on the rest of us. and therefore far more dangerously. he joins us today. that's what they do. they are not geniuses and they will say whatever it takes. now we know they are not. how did this happen. >> you would think, and they were taught very explicitly that they don't violate that line between america's politics, and the intelligence community, brennan, clapper and james comey have all done it. but if you step back, there are couple things happening, why democrats are falling for this. the burners in the clappers, fats cuda tossed off. if you look at journalists, it's mor

. >> i was one of the brett kavanaugh protesters in washington, d.c.nd i appreciated your support around that. also your vocal support around the me too movement. the people who apologize to the me too movement helps but it does not repair the damage. i am a lesbian, i have been out since 1993. i am uncomfortable with a record -- with your record on lgbtq rights. not in the past six years, but before then. you asked people to focus on what you have done in the past six years. >> 10. >> you have to take that up with the guardian. : i just wantnd to say that, in the same article it said that you don't change your values. you were talking about you don't change your values in regards to trump. what i heard there is, if your values don't change, and with the difficult history of being against gay marriage, does that mean the changes we are seeing are for political reasons? i was out for a lot of years before that. i was fighting for equal rights in massachusetts. i was navigating homophobic teachers and i was dealing with harassment in the workplace. even

my brother and i were not so enamored with brett kavanaugh.kes, that kavanaugh be in the fifth conservative vote on the spring or, we worried about long-term political consequence of that. in a case like that, it becomes harder to have those kinds of conversations here -- conversations. host: "divided politics, divided nation." is the author of that book. your call on the phone lines. for democrats -- republicans -- independents -- in ohio, republican, thank you for waiting. caller: thank you. the country is divided. the democrat party should stand for -- progressive today. it is the greatest in the world. -- in had laws and it every country to open it up, everybody comes here. the -- to the other countries. country, myve this state of ohio will be the 21st date, the ratification of the state. our forethought -- forefathers thought ahead. 20 states happen ratified. be 20 first. when we get 34, we can shrink down the government or both parties do not -- do not want to give up their power. i'm not a republican. i'm a conservative. i don't want t

about keeping the judiciary free of partisan sniping that reached a fever pitch during the brett kavanaugh not doing politics. people need to know we are doing something different, applying the law. >> reporter: the chief justice's relationship with donald trump has not been without friction. they engaged in a public spat last november after trump criticized immigration ruling by what he called an obama judge. in a statement roberts defended the integrity of the federal bench prompting more twitter pushback from the president. time for midnight hero, the appreciation for law enforcement to the next level, this 10-year-old from florida pledged to run 150 miles holding the thin blue line flag to honor the officers who died on duty in 2018. 's goal was to raise $100 for each fallen officer to 15,000 but as of monday, 20,000. because of that he is our midnight hero along with all those law enforcement officers. most watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington, i am shannon bream. heather: it is tuesday, march 5th, this is "fox and friends firs

donald trump. >> michael avenatti attorney for julie swetnick, the third woman now to accuse brett kavanaugh misconduct. david: that tells me, people too there is a different motive, they have a clear alterior motive to use anyone that hates trump, willing to do wha what he did, they are willing to put him on a pedestal. reporter: and brett hume just tweeted he appeared many times, the fact they are touting this person who is had a disregard for the justice sim, there is a difference. and people like michael avenatti that give you know former prosecutor and defense attorneys such as myself, i practice on both sides, these of type of people that give lawyers a bad name, he deserves all due process protection but he can agree he is a despicable in character and individual he is wanted to trump bash fro from te beginning, it is clear now he will not be democratic nominee. david: we wish him the best. you said attorneys like him, according to "wall street journal," mark geragos was a co-conspirator in the nike ordeal. birds of a feather? >> you know it will be really interesting to see if there

far more evidentiary information and videos that we saw when brett kavanaugh's nomination was trying to be derailed and him as an individual and family being destroyed by folks who had no evidence of what had allegedly happened 44 years earlier. i think joe biden has a big problem here because, he causes affection and handshakes. his party called completely inappropriate. the other thing that he has as a problem is, stacy abrams who i look upon as a big future part of the democratic party. she rebuffed his advances to be on his ticket pretty much. she said if i'm going to run, i will run for the whole thing. he's had a bad couple weeks. he doesn't have president obama. i think he's had the worst non-rollout for any would-be 2020 candidate on the democratic side. >> let me ask you one more question about this. i'm sure a lot of folks are saying there are women with that much worse about your boss, president trump. in terms of touching them inappropriately. >> we've certainly covered that ad infinitum during the campaign, transition and practically every day. look what's happening to t

by the way, do we love justice gorsuch and justice kavanaugh? [cheers and applause] she was so vicious to both. these are great people. and they hit her. they didn't know about the green new deal. she's from hawaii. what to think about the green new deal? well, i like it very much. but she never saw it. and then they said, but you can't fly anymore. and she's in hawaii. she said but how would i get to my island? they said we are working on some kind of a train system. so she said okay. then i am for it, 100%. it's the craziest thing i've ever seen. they want to rip down all of the buildings in manhattan. let's do that. hey, stanley, how do you like that idea? i don't think so. it's the craziest thing. you know what? it's like they attack soit violently, pocahontas. and i knocked her out of the race, i guess. and i said what did i do that for? it's too early. i have to start in about nine months from now. we got plenty more to knock out, you are right. they just keep coming. they just keep coming. before i the oath of office, the united states au

but i ask this question: i wonder if the media, the left, i wonder if they'll follow the kavanaugh standard for beta o'rourke. remember when they poured through justice kavanaugh's high school yearbook, all in an attempt to disqualify him fromwo the supreme court? that's not going to happen with beto, or bozo in that case bid that's their standard for conservatives.an one standard for liberals, one standard for conservatives. in fact, this report about beto has ng barely made a dent in the traditional news cycle. over the weekend, o'rourke offered this heartfelt apology. take a look. >> there was a report that came out today that shared things i have written as a teenager. really hateful. really bad stuff. i'm mortified to read it now. incredibly embarrassed. but i have to take ownership and makestand the way that it people feel that they read them now.rs whatever my intention was as a teenager doesn't matter. and so i think i'll speak for myself. i have to look long and hard at my actions in the language that i have used and have to constantly try to do better. >> naturally in the hypersen

in october raymond the friday folly statement talking about the brett kavanaugh admission he likes beero a study on injury inducing selfys where people are the edge of a different all over. here's how the segment ended. >> reporter: to bring it all together, take a selfy and i will take the selfy. >> smile. do we have it? >> the aclu used to care about the rights of accused. he wasn't hurt. it was a thing called a joke. imagine my surprise to see this tweet from john. every time i think of laura i think the guy who fell off his chair with a beer and she went straight into the next story thinking i am heartless. you can't make this up. liberals used to be fun. now they are all tied up by their speech police, thought police. it's called humor. that is all the time we have tonight. still funny. >> don't come near me. shannon: let's all the time we have tonight, shannon bream. take it from here. shannon: of fox news alert, breaking late tonight, democrats go public vowing to take all steps necessary to seize donald trump's tax returns in a multi-committee investigation. an exclusive report

they smear justice kavanaugh based on no evidence and they just said "i believe."ilent on the serious, credible allegations against the democratic virginia lieutenant governor fairfax, they rush to judgment on jussie smollett and perpetrated a vicious hate crime publix. they attacked the covington students, nicholas sandmann, who had to deal with death threats. they had to watch the characters defamed repeatedly day in and day out. do you see the pattern here? the left brushes to judgment, batter, bludgeon, bloodied all political opponents, weaponizing identity politics, where facts? they always come second. fake news narratives, that comes first. like the phony two year trump rush of collusion that is collapsing before their very eyes, so let's move onto the next thing. ignoring the biggest abuse of power of corruption scandal in history. the dnc, christopher steele, liza fisa abuses, we've covered right after night and been proven right. a great reminder we need to support the president at this time. all while facing unprecedented opposition from the washington,

knowingly sat on evidence that would have cleared kavanaugh's name but didn't really say it.chuck schumer and demanded the united states and tomorrow, the walloons are the real threat. whatever it takes. hours after robert muellerom w deflated the russia hoax,th nancy pelosi demanded the press corps to start covering health care. she said that out loud at a press conference. so cnn immediately scrapped its entire lineup. the next day, every show on cnn from six in the morning until midnight, every single one without any exception, repeated democratic talking points about obamacare. these are not journalists, their faithful servants of the democratic party. it might be easier if they all admitted it. chris plante hosts a radio show, "the chris plante show." we are happy he's here. how exactly would this happen -- the mechanics are confusing to me. how would they know that he was working on the story? >> someone at the dnc said, i got the scoop and i'm going to rain on your fun for a couple of minutes, they said who do we call to kill the story? i'm sure they have a phone book

he was the one who produced julie sweat, part of the kavanaugh pile on.had a lot of holes in the story, uncorroborated witnesses. it was an actual -- a lot of democrats blame him to this day for ruining the kavanaugh situation. shannon: he was thinking of running for president himself, he fled with that idea. there was a time he was on every channel every night. news busters.org in may of last year, they looked at a 10 week span he was on tv 147 times, there is no guest in cnn's recent history given as much free media exposure as avenatti. the washington free beacon estimated the media's open door policy would be worth $175 million if he took to the airtime himself. they were fans. >> he was all over the media because he was the lawyer for stormy daniels and michael cohen -- michael cohen was going to jail, there was a payoff of stormy daniels. michael avenatti gets do process and we will see what happens but the fact is there remains the fact he had a client that had evidence against the president and the president's associates. that is a lot of airtime.

supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. law review article that said if congress wanted to protect the president from this type of litigation, they should pass a law. congress has never passed that law. so to deny the action that plaintiffs have, they would be wrong. >> scalia, i heard him say -- i interviewed him one time 245u6 record. he said i like legislation. pass a law. suppose he says to his people around him. i'm not dpoing i'm not going to sit onroom off camera. >> he gets an order directing hum to answer questions in the deposition and if he doesn't, who's subjected to contempt. then we have to fight the battle of whether a state can hold a sitting preside sitting president in contempt. >> isn't trump smarter not to lie? >> i don't think trump is all that smart? >> is trump smart to lie under oath or shut up? >> he's lied under oath unprevious depositions. if history is any indication, he's going to lie. the discovery cut off is happening soon. all depositions have to boo concluded by june 28, 2019. we will see wh

fore information and videos than we saw when brett kavanaugh's nomination was trying to be derailed. and he has an individual and his family being destroyed by folks with no evidence of what allegedly happened 40 years earlier. i think that joe biden has a problem, he calls is affecttion and handshakes, his party calls it inappropriate. and other problem joe biden has isnd stacey abrams, i call a future part of democratic party, she rebuffed his advances to be on his ticket, saying. if i am going to run, i will rn for the whole thing, i think he has had worse nonroll out. >> let me ask you, about one more question. then we move on. >> let me ask you one more question about >> we certainly covered that. during the campaign. transition every day. but look at what happening to the people who alleged that, who think they have to speak about it repeatively. they have to grapple with what is going on in their own party, with main who was vice president of united states until two years ago. so, let's have that conversati conversation. think someone that's if achal. p. i now put out my hand

rule of law judges have been put at every level of the court including at the supreme court with kavanaughand gorsuch. what would any republican be thinking about? waste your tummy -- waste your money and your time. >> you have been advocating that people fight like a liberal. what does that mean? >> i don't know what that means. >> my staff told me about that. >> i am not taking anything for granted. , we havenc perspective staff on the ground in the battleground states. please go volunteering get involved. we know the difference we can make if talking to our neighbors and friends. so many people are not paying attention to what is happening. they have turned off the news because it is so negative. they are tired of the liberal spin. we have to have these conversations. that is what will make the difference to reelect president trump in 2020. stars in cpac. >> we have 20 young men and women that we have brought from across the country to cpac. please stand up. there are 20 of them here today. where are you? take a look. these are people that will make a difference in our party. they are l

. >> laura: here's an important follow-up to one of the more undercovered stories of the brett kavanaughfirmation hearing. former democratic senate cosco, he was accused of revealing the numbers and addresses of the republican senators, remember? he has a more complicated background than first known. the daily caller news foundation reporting that not only did he possess that sensitive senate data but he's also the son of a wealthy family from california who has, big surprise, close ties to diane feinstein. now, remember, senator feinstein, who many believe timed that leak to the sexual assault allegations against kavanaugh in order to destroy his nomination, yeah, that feinstein, the connections are hard to miss. the wealthy family is tied to folks in power, it just represents another example in a long line offenses to people on the right, that people on the left would rather go unchallenged, and have no repercussions, of course. between the college admissions scam we talked about earlier this week, the cov vinton catholic store, the smollett hoax and so many others, offenses seem to be

first of all, he was the anti-trump lawyer on air, he was a part of the kavanaugh pie alone, if you willd a lot of holes in the story, uncorroborated witnesses, it really was an actual travesty would happen at a lot of democrats still blame him for ruining the whole kavanaugh situation. >> shannon: he was flirting with the idea of running for president, and there was a time where we would look up and he was on every channel, every night. almost a year ago, he was on tv 147 times. he was given as much free media exposure based on interviews as of may 10th. he would be worth roughly $175 million if he actually paid for the airtime himself. richard, they were fans. >> yeah, they were all over him because he was the lawyer for stormy daniels, and we found out that michael cohen was going to jail because there was a payoff of stormy daniels. i hope that michael avenatti get to due process and we will see what happens there, but he had a client that had evidence against the president and some of the president's associates. >> shannon: 147 times. >> that is more airtime then i get, that is for

the way he went after brett kavanaugh. he went after this network, yours truly. outrageous.ever produced any real evidence for his defamatory comments. that's all the time we have tonight. raymond, thank you. check out my podcast tomorrow and remember shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take all the coverage from here and it's a big show she has on tap. >> shannon: thank you, laura. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington we begin with the fox news aler alert. we are following too big breaking stories tonight, the lawyer best known for representing adult film performer stormy daniels against president trump and threatening to run for president himself now out on $300,000 $300,000 bond . michael avenatti facing nearly 100 years in jail. into federal cases accusing him of extortion, bank and wire fraud and more. we have details. and the trump team turning the end of the mueller probe into a rallying cry for justice and reelection. the president asking who will investigate the investigators