isolation, nor can the fact that our colleagues across the aisle have previously questioned amy coney barrett for her catholic faith. judge kavanaugh's a practicing catholic as well. amy coney barrett who had been nominated for the seventh circuit was asked -- or actually she was told in questioning her catholic faith, she was told that the dogma lived loudly within her, suggesting somehow that because she is a practicing catholic, she could not be confirmed to the circuit court of appeals for the seventh circuit. we don't have religious tests in this country, and no matter what your faith or background or absence of faith in a higher being, we should not be attacking nominees for their religion, for their faith or their lack of faith. we should be confirming good nominees who can apply the law and the constitution as written. but it is important, i think, to put the amy coney barrett questioning and statement in this context given the background and faith of this nominee. mr. president, we will try our best to get to the truth this week. we will listen carefully, but we will remember all of

but it is important i think to put the amy coney barrett in questioning for this nominee. mr. president, we will try her best to get to the truth this week. we listen carefully, but we will remember all of the evidence. and then we will vote on whether to confirm brett kavanaugh to connect it to the supreme court. our colleagues have dragged this out long enough. there will be no more delays and soon it will be the time to vote. so i say to my friends, we will hear from the report. we've done our best to accommodate her, and to give her a safe place to tell her story, under oath to members of the judiciary committee that will be voted on this nomination. likewise, judge kavanaugh will be placed under oath and be able to give his testimony. both of them subject to the penalties for perjury, which is routine requirement for everyone giving testimony. but we have to remember this has to be a fair process both unique used in the accuser's. and some of the rhetoric, some of the statements that i have heard about the process has been anything other than fair. sue t either one of the

but it is important to put the amy coney barrett questioning and statement in this context given the background of this nominee. mister president, we will try our best to get to the truth this week. we will carefully. we will remember all of the evidence. and we will vote on whether to confirm brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. our democratic colleagues have dragged this out long enough. there will be no more delays. and soon it will be time to vote. so i say to my friends we will hear from doctor ford, we have done our best to accommodate her, to give her a safe place where she can tell her story under oath to members of the judiciary committee that will be voting on his nomination. likewise brett kavanaugh will be placed under oath and be able to give his testimony. both of them subject to the penalties for perjury. which is routine requirement for everyone giving testimony. but we have to remember this has to be a fair process both to the accused and the accuser. and some of the rhetoric, some of the statements that i have heard about the process have been anythin

you get amy coney barrett. she is a woman and she probably doesn't have skeletons in her closet.bably get confirmed. if you have such big problems with brett kavanaugh, put those objections on the table at the beginning of the process. if dianne feinstein were worth her salt she would have been able to help the woman go through this anonymously. >> she followed the wishes of dr. ford. the on thing i'm saying to you. kennedy: anonymity. >> all democrats want to yank him out and put the options on the table. >> there is another fourth accusation that's come through senator cory gardner, the republican senator from colorado. an anonymous letter from 1998 of a woman accusing brett kavanaugh of pushing her up against the wall. senator chuck grassley has spent his entire career putting legislation on the table to protect women. they are saying they are not assigning credibility to the letter because it's made anonymously and cannot be corroborated. we'll see democrats filing anonymous reports going through local police departments of these accusations. the media will report it as an ac

amy coney barrett is more ideologically conservative and brett kavanaugh.are of your dreams hippies. if you push hard enough you will get a bench full of a salia clones thanks to president pence. that's the memo. multiple democratic senators called on kavanaugh to withdraw. but if feinstein and company get their way they could soon get a case of the remorse. with us, host of "the greg gutfeld show" *. it's funny. these protests, the anger, the accusations, it could lead to a sad place. >> they obviously have been doing something if trump. you get mike pence who makes trump look like che guevarra. i think she reads the "manned maid's tale" to her kids. i'm just kidding. shes very ridge, the left hates religious people. and she is pro-life. but i think they will be galvanized. kennedy: if they push against trump it won't be hillary in the wings. it won't be merck i can garland. this could be -- it won't be merrick garland. she has been through the process. she was one of the president's top three picks. greg: you know what scares me? all criminals have three

we can get amy coney barrett or some other conservative judge.pposed president trump in the election, this was a nieomination where i was behi it until this. we saw theatrics from the domes in the nomination hearings. but dr. ford's accusations are not theatrics. they are real. >> what about the intaking of the resumption? what about the intaking -- integrity of the resumption of innocence? i don't understand how you can say i'm in the judiciary when an innocent person is seen -- >> let scott finish, evan. >> he said he didn't do -- >> let me get now to alice and bring you back into the conversation. a control room, i don't know if you saw my e-mail. i need the sound bite from the exchange between the women at the elevator and senator flake. let me know when you have that. we're not going to wait for it. let me come to you, alice, i'm sure you've seen it. have you seen the exchange there was the women for five minutes? let's play it. we've got it. all right. forget the sound bite. we've all seen it. what would you tell those women, alice, who sai

kennedy: there are other women on the list aside from amy -- amy coney-barrett.ains at the top? >> she certainly does for me and for all those who are considering she is very, very good, very intelligent, very presentable and would make an excellent justice. if the president could avoid this particular slur by appointing a woman like amy sadly i think they would decide to make something else up. kennedy: they absolutely well and they have already started and democrats have to be careful what they wish for. obviously this has been an emotional day. there are senators on the fence. do you think judge kavanagh will be confirmed? >> i do think you'll be confirmed because in the end republicans senators will look at that and say they are both compelling but we believe judge kavanagh. no republicans senator has said they don't believe what he's saying. in and that's what matters. i think tomorrow you will see the first step of that on the committee and lord willing next week there'll be a confirmation vote. kennedy: david mcintoshhhhh i'm ken jacobus and i switched to

amy coney barrett who is very conservative, was just confirmed last year. she is a woman.so the optics of it would be quite different and would probably be more right wing than brett kavanaugh. so what is this about? >> i think there is a practical reason and a ideological reason. the practical reason is they're afraid they won't have time to get someone through if they lose the senate. and that's perhaps realistic. the other is they love to fight when they can create an enemy, and now the enis my the left wing conspiracy. now the enemy is you and me. now the enemy is these dastardly women. so that's what they think their base likes. that's what they serve up. and just the fight then, they think will help them survive the midterms. i think that's wrong, but that's what they're banking on. >> you know, what do you think of that, leah? >> i do agree. i think there are a couple of things going on here. first of all, we're talking about a group of people who really still don't understand sexual harassment, rape culture, who idealogically just don't see this in the same way. >>

nomination, but it is natural to think that the white house would be reaching out to folks like amy coney barrett and judge halderman, others on the short list in case this might happen. i think republicans are digging in their heels. this letter only brings us back to square one because at the end of last week the committee said their final offer was a wednesday testimony and they would vote monday on the nomination if they didn't hear from her by 2:30 p.m. i think lack of specificity in the letter this afternoon is leading a lot of republicans i talked to on the committee so far this afternoon to think it is just a delay tactic on their part. >> kelly as you know so well, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he feels like he has the votes. kelly, what do we know how he might have the votes here? >> well, they believe certainly that republicans would likely vote in support of kavanaugh. one question mark would be probably the most important person to watch, susan collins of maine, and she has always been an important vote when the issue about kavanaugh was really about the fate of roe

if you were ray kethledge and amy coney barrett, you wouldn't be making vacation plans, you have to knows actively thinking about them. of course they won't put in any calls until kavanaugh's nomination is dead, but they have to keep that in mind because of course nobody knows what public opinion is going to look like. nobody is going to know what key senators look like. it all comes down to her credibility and to a lesser extent, what he says. but he doesn't have much to say up there because so far his narrative has been, i barely know who this person was, i wasn't there, and i didn't do it. there's not a whole lot else to ask him. >> do you think the "me too" movement has influenced what the supreme court justices themselves think? what do you think they would feel about having two members serves on the court who have been accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment? they live in a marble temple, of course, but they're not gods. they understand what goes on in society. when alex kozinksi, a federal judge in california last year was accused of sexual harassment and was ultimately for

had a short list before judge kavanaugh, judge park in kentucky a mcconnell favorite, judge amy coney barrett in indiana but they're not ready to start considering a plan b. they have to see in this crucible tomorrow how do people perform, can the parties somehow make it to a vote? >> lisa, having read your news qulert for the "times," if someone was on a plane during the president's news conference today and you had the task of in 60 seconds updating them on his appearance, the demeanor, the content of his comments, how would you sum it all up? it was a gargantuan 81-minute event. >> it was sort of the kind of news conferences he gave frequently during that campaign, or more frequently. it was rambling. it was wide-ranging. it felt very free flowing. he -- i think in terms of the hearing the most salient point to me was that he said that his thoughts on this were influenced by his personal experience. he feels that he was falsely accused several times of sexual harassment, of sexual misconduct. and so when he looks at what's happening to judge kavanaugh he's thinking about what happened to h

it includes 46-year-old amy coney barrett, who, as a woman, may escape scrutiny of alleged teenage sexualolic, she is toxic to some democrats. >> the dogma lives loudly within you. that is of concern. to begin 51-year-old raymond kethledge has a solid conservative record. he ruled the irs was politically biased against the tea party. 49-year-old would be the first asian-american to set up a supreme court. he wants sentenced a nun who broke into the national security complex in oak ridge tennessee to three years in jail, later overturned on appeal. judge thomas hardiman embraced judicial restraint, writing his place as "nontroops at the will of the people, as expressed through their elected representatives. each will face withering attacks which leads to another choice. no hearings at all. they are not required for the senate's role of advice and consent. shannon? >> shannon: thank you very much. tonight's hero is firefighter jeremy brosseau. if fight dominic started his married life like no other. he and his new bride had their ceremony at his st. paul park, minnesota. the alarm went off

a reason we might need the supermajority -- >> what if they withdraw and they nominate amy coney barrettcenario where republicans decide to abandon him and say we're going to bet big on judges again it paid off for republicans in the 2016 election. let's go for it. >> you've got to be kidding. does it help republicans to have -- look, if he's not telling the truth, he's not telling the truth, he will be abandoned, and he should be abandoned by republican senators. >> yeah. >> if he's telling the truth and it becomes -- the evidence is on his side, he should be supported. if, as you suggest, it really remains a genuine uncertainty and dilemma, people have to make up their own minds. >> i think they also have to think -- i hate to put it in political terms but we might as well, the midterm election will be decided by women, suburban white women, black women, latino women all over this country. if i was a gop strategist, i would not be encouraging folks to put all their bets in the basket of someone that has been credibly accused at this point. regardless -- >> start over -- >> regardless o

>> the crass political move, you pull it, you name judge amy coney barrett, can't get confirmed. you're not fighting the confirmation before the election, see if her nomination fires up the base and you use the new nominee as a way to fire up the trump base and do that. >> by the way, she's regarded as far more conservative than judge kavanaugh. >> and she probably can't get the votes of either lisa murkowski and susan collins but in this case you wouldn't care. making a crass political deadline. >> you make an argument and you name her and you almost let the democrats beat her up, and have this fight about abortion, because guess what, the single most important reporter for republican base voters are the pro-life advocates. >> ain't politics great. >> if you're asking what could they do, the crass political move would be that. >> it's not like the republicans are going to be oblivious of the fact that they had some republican defectors. if mcconnell pulls the vote tomorrow, it's not like they are not going to know why he did that. >> but at least you don't have the names of them

is thinking of, at one point dianne feinstein complained that the dogma lives gladly within amy coney barrettink the supreme court nominations have become increasingly partisan, it seems that senators want to predict how future judges will vote, and that is not how we are to decide on the court. i'm not sure this is a religious prejudice issue. host: linda, from st. louis, and independent. you have to turn down your tv and talk through the phone. commenti just have a about what somebody says before, the woman i believe from michigan. i am think it matters how long ago this happened. look at how many criminals are in prison right now that started their terror in their high school years. some people can change and some people can't. that it this man is a judge but it does not necessarily mean he is honest and truthful. i think they should do a light detector test, i know they're not admissible, but i think they should do a lie detector test, i know they're not admissible but i think it should. this woman has a lot to lose by coming out, she's a well-educated woman with a respected job, she is n

. >> suppose they call amy coney barrett out of the bullpen? average length of time for nomination to confirmmation is 10 weeks. it puts. latest polling, connelly, down, in cast kill down, nelson down. it is not advantageous play where conservative is not nominated. neil: working on assumption republican hold the senate. >> i'm working on assumption kavanaugh gets confirmed but yeah i'm working on kavanaugh -- neil: i agree with what susan is saying this is not among the factors wall street looks at, trade, more to the point, getting very tough with china, staying tough, even incriminate the chinese, they might try to muck up the midterms. that is more than issue than this, do you agree? >> i think on the a short-term trading basis this isn't as big as some other things. i think markets generally over the long term, they like the rule of law. this is a judge who is saying i like the rule of law, i like the constitution as written, i don't like making up new interpretations and new ideas not in the text and not in precedent. long term markets li