merrick garland, president garlands nominee, sorry, no thanks. no interest in even considering him. when it comes to judge kavanaugh, the production of documents by standards established they have ignored them when it comes to the nomination of brett kavanaugh. we will be given limited information because of this process. we will have to do our best to carefully review this nominee before he's consider for a lifetime appointment to the highest court and on land. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. >> mr. president? >> senator from iowa. >> i ask unanimous consent that nathan williams, law clerk with my judiciary committee staff be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. >> as i have for several weeks now spoken to my colleagues

this is incomprehensively corrupt. >> garland, we won't get into the legal analysis.e're two talk show hosts and one very brilliant young lady. let's get into the narrative that has are out there. you're talking to people in your audience, are they echoing your concerns about the democrats and running with this versus winning message? democrats used to have a message about helping the underserved, about jobs, about economy, but now that seems to have been taken away from them. >> yes, you know, what doesn't get reported on is, you know, we call -- we would prefer to -- you know, like the bernie people and points left who actually are believe it or not, you know, are focused on policy. if you look at what is talking about policy, it's the left wing of the party. the liberal or right whipping of the democratic party or centrist wing of the democratic party are so focused on the russia issue, so focused on the investigation that if this falls throughsu, which it's certainly starting to appear as though it will -- and let's just say my background was in laws enforcement.

garland, i have no doubt about your heart and your compassion. know you care about those women and kids. i'm not trying to in any way, shape, or form give you anything other than 100% credit about caring. but when we talk about public policy, you hear these women and they talk about the need to target illegal immigrants and deport them and to deal with the immigration issue. abolish i.c.e.? where are you on this? and what do you say to those women? >> i certainly understand. if you have a major loss like that, certainly you're going to be upset. but i think it's an error and misleading to use isolated incidents to overlook compelling evidence. as an example, between 1990 and 2013, the immigration population in america more than tripled, but the violent crime rate actually went down by 48%. so the numbers really say that we don't have a problem with immigration. >> yes, we do. >> just the opposite. those the numbers. >> if these people weren't here illegal, those two kids would be alive today. >> stopping immigration is not going to make accidents

. >> merrick garland with about a year left in barack obama's term was blocked.ing on the court right now. >> stephen: so what do the democrats do now? are they going to try to block brett cavanaugh? how can they? >> i don't think it's just democrats. it's all americans. this is a moral moment you have to decide. i'm not casting judgment on whether you believe cavanaugh should be confirmed or not. there's a lot at stake, health care, pre-existing conditions. there's a federal case going on right now where the affordable care act which its critical components are hanging in the balance. we saw the 5-4 decision around the right to marry the person you love, voting rights, worker rights, so many things in the balance. a woman's right to make decision without the government telling her what to do. this is a moment when all of us should speak up. there's a surrendering to cynicism about this process, that the deck is already stacked, the votes-- the die is already cast. i saw that with health care. i saw that with the affordable care act. people said it couldn't be st

did every liberal love merrick garland? no. but he was a person who had ruled in ways that were unpredictable in some cases. if we were in a different situation, had a moderate nominee, you wouldn't see the intensity of opposition against to judge kavanaugh. darlene: i want to ask you about news today. there is some news out that senator mccain and his family decided to discontinue treatments for brain cancer. is there anything you would like to say to his family or senator mccain? neera: obviously, senator mccain is an extraordinary american and israeli a role model. i didn't always agree with him, issue, but to the point it was politics again, where you could disagree and still admire them. he was obviously an example of that. i wish his family very well in this situation. really, the whole country should, and most of the country does, mourn the possibility of losing such a great american. susan: we have about an minute and a half left. on your listed issues on the campaign, you did not really mention immigration. it is not l

. >> democrat and radio talk show host garland nixon. so now you're in trouble.upper hand on this. and ladies first. i'm a gentleman. just old school. so the newspapers across the country, some 300, and here we are today. >> absolutely they have been colluding with robert mueller and trying to get out this very false story that somehow trump's campaign colluded with the russians. listen, it's evident in every single day. i bet if we looked back and counted how many times they said the word russia and take a step back and realize not a single shred of evidence has been produced tying him to the russian campaign. this is absolute madness. at a certain point you have to wonder when are we going to start acknowledge that these people are conspiracy theorists. >> garland, let me go to you on this. when you look at the media coverage on this -- and we're a couple of talk show hosts. we get hours of time to go over there. the media gets a headline, sometimes a sound bite. just an analysis of the coverage, how do you see it? >> i'm a person that wants the democratic part

-- but he thought the right thing to do in that circumstance was to tell people he thought judge garlandwas one of his heroes, thought he was supremely al franken and he was not going to say anything bad about judge garland. i am not sure everyone would have done that, but judge kavanaugh thought that was what he felt and was going to let the chips fall where they may even that -- even if that was going to give him criticism. all these personal qualities are good in their own right, but they are also relevant to his role as a judge and his role as a justice. a magazine published a piece a few days ago, 1200 words on what it does not matter what his character is, does not matter whether he is nice on a great what matters is his philosophy and decisions he reaches. i think when judges take the both to be impartial, it turns upon their character, their honesty, integrity, and the qualities that judge kavanaugh has, his honesty, integrity, his evenhandedness qualities that will make him an outstanding supreme court justice. >> thank you. in a moment i will open this up to questions. i would

it was a different situation as you move into merrick garland. i don't disagree with you.hink people should sit down regardless so they are held responsible for having asked that person the question so when things come up they can answer back to their constituents. >> katie: hearing for brett kavanaugh in front of the judiciary committee starts tuesday, september 4th. why will certainly be covering it here. meantime the rhetoric is heating up between president trump and his former advisor omarosa newman. the white house taking shots at omarosa's credibility after she claimed the president used a racial slur in a recording. so, will the president emerge unscathed by the controversy or is some damage already done? we'll discuss next. >> i think, like most people that worked with her, are very disappointed that she would go to such a self-serving and somebody who blatantly cares more about herself than our country to make up some of these outrageous claims and accusations. ♪ ♪ until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. i take tresiba® on

relatives and neighbors are not about to let him and his wife leave alone true to indian tradition garlands are heaped on the travelers. there is an outpouring of joy from all the well wishers around the lucky couple traveling for the hands. my mom says the ball. will fulfill all be more politically but. you gotta. love get the feeling. of the older guy didn't name the hamada he tried to get it becomes it comes i doubt autumn it is not my. fault. maybe after that. didn't get me mad he let it go on. no. i will get me to go. and. the sendoff party typically runs into the hundreds as everyone who knows the pilgrims come to say farewell. much. and his wife will be traveling for more than two hours from their home to the house terminal airport. but. the several special house flights have been arranged by the indian government for this period to cater to some fourteen hundred pilgrims. sufism also arrived at the airport terminal their son has one last chance for a final goodbye. for. the pilgrimage is a defining moment in his life and his faith he has worked hard over many years to save up for th

said she got her information from personal conversations and told deputy party leader aleksandar garland and several other top officials about it. and will confirm that the topic even came up when the national ifill eater's held a telephone conference at the n.p.t. discussed her consultations with moscow it's miserable mr hawtrey claims that you made all of this up and mr marson denies that he has ever advised the a.f.p. . some critics have accused you of exaggerating your importance within the party as part of an effort to sell your book. your response to cross him. as. i think people overestimate the power of a nonfiction book about politics. i don't think that a book written by someone who used to be in the a.f.d. is going to make me rich even if there is a lot of interest in the book and i have no reason to attack p.t. or mohsen that certainly wasn't my intention. and so close now to haiti and i did not part on bad terms. we had a good relationship right up to the end. we no longer have contact with each other but that there is no ill will between us. so because it is in the paper yo

he thought he was supremely qualified and he wasn't going to say anything bad about judge garland. you know, i'm not sure that everyone would have done that, but i think judge kavanaugh thought that's what he felt and that's what he would say in public and let the chips fall where they may even if it gave him criticism in certain corners. i want to echo i think sarah's comments, that all these personal qualities are good, intrinsically good in their own right but also relevant to his role as a judge and potentially his role as a justice. a piece was published a few days ago 1200 words on why it doesn't matter what his character is, it doesn't matter whether he's nice or not, what matters is his philosophy and the results he will reach. i don't think that's right. i think when judges take the judicial oath to be impartial, that's an oath that turns upon their character, it turns upon their honesty and their integrity. i think the qualities that judge kavanaugh has, his honesty, his integrity, his even-handedness are qualities that will make him an outstanding supreme court justice.

bloc in favor of kavanagh he likely will be confirmed and all this is in the shadow of the merrick garland delay orchestrated by mitch mcconnell i mean you really are seeing a power play by republican senators to control the court right now put on your lawyer had some legal experts suggest that michael cohen's plea deal makes the president an unindicted coconspirator. i would agree with those who say that and very importantly about the michael cohen deal is this is happening in the southern district of new york this is not happening happening now as part of the bob miller investigation so even if the mole investigation were to be shuttered even if trump were to try to intervene in the investigation the southern district of new york case against michael cohen continues and what was most damning yesterday was that michael cohen confirmed that he made these payments to stormy daniels and to others with the knowledge of donald trump's involvement at the direction of donald trump and frankly donald trump has come out since the plea deal and said yes he reimbursed michael cohen with personal fun

said she got your information from personal conversations and told deputy party leader aleksandar garland and several other top officials about it. and will confirm that the topic even came up when the national f.t. leaders held a telephone conference n.p.t. discussed her consultations with moscow it's this program in this country claims that you made all of this up and mr marson denies that he has ever advised the a.f.p. . some critics have accused you of exaggerating your importance within the party as part of an effort to sell your book. your response to cross him. as. i think people overestimate the power of a nonfiction book about politics. i don't think that a book written by someone who used to be in the a.f.d. is going to make me rich even if there is a lot of interest in the book and i have no reason to attack p.t. or mohsen that certainly wasn't my intention of. pitt and so close not to haiti and i did not part on bad terms. we had a good relationship right up to the end. of them country we no longer have contact with each other that there is no ill will between us. so because i

. >> let's remember how this this started with rich mcconnell in sfromt nomination of merrick garland who was e steamed on both sides of t230e78 and is we ho move it there, thomas mann with the brookings institution, and lani chen. thank > ou both. >thank you. >>> turning now to tech before there was uber of lyft there was task rabt. in 2008, leah busky had it to allow people to do jobs. and busky left the company for eighth years before it was acquired by acquikea in 2017. joining me now is lara busky. good to see you. >> thanks so much for having me. >> not a lot of people realize, before ube and airbnb,he is task rabbit. how did you come up with the idea to have an online platform to convince people wed ne people to run errands for them. >> you know, back in 200his is not an obvious idea. this is long before you would jump in a stranger's car off the street, right? but i was sitting at home one night with her. husban we were getting ready to go out to din interi realized we were out of dog food. it was a cold and snowy outside. we didn't want to go out. we were like there has to be

in exile at the famous are all for to festival in the south of france it cheater went to see the garland conflict through his eyes. nowhere seems more removed from the daily agony of gaza than the sudden french city of ours but step into ty's year but new g.'s exhibition and that all changes called home away from home the artist recalls a visit to his palestinian cousins in the united states we joined him as he took his two sons around the displays showing them their family tree and their cousins all members of the same diaspora all sharing the fate of exile from their homeland . they have pride of place on the wall singing verses from the qur'an their father took them to california where they were free to practice their faith to be taught at an islamic school to learn about their origins their language their culture and their roots. it was a performance the children of the gallery were enchanted and delighted by the ties ear still finds himself torn between two worlds. i have always been split between the desire to stay in france where i was training as an artist and where i have more o

joe lieberman was right, the republicans started this by not even considering merrick garland.he numbers to block judge kavanaugh. b5 but was he borked? >> judge napolitano: he wasn't even considered. don't get me going on borked. >> kennedy: we have more "outnumbered" and just a moment, there is so much show on the inside, stay right here. . . no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? >> kennedy: thanks so much for the incomparable and wildly intelligent judge nap. >> dagen: my mother is texting me about power tan and wanted me to also note that pawa tan is a famous american leader in virginia and also the father of pocahontas. >> judge: so everybody should know how to pronounce it. >> kennedy: everybody only on the outnumbered couch do you get that kind of history throughout. we are back on the couch at noon eastern tomorrow. right now melissa francis in for hairs. >> melissa: fox news alert. sanctions on iran are back. let's go outnumbered overtime i'm melissa francis in for harris faulkner. the trum

garland. >> initially, and i predicted trump would win. would say the republicans will have some losses. they will definitely have losses in the midterm because it is kind of like yelp reviews. the people who are happy tend to mellow out and the people who are really angry are the most motivated. the democrats are going to have an advantage as people who show up at the polls. >> laura: some of the trends in the last election, in the 12th district of ohio, yeah, pull out a victory may be barely by the skin of his teeth. the turnout for democrats was very strong. it was stronger i believe in the presidential turnout in the same district where trump won big. his approval rating is high. you can say that candidate made mistakes. a couple of verbal gaffes that were really unfortunate. does it portend other problems? they are jacked up. blame the democrats. >> i think the right track and are on track is important. let's look at what happened in the special election. in the last week or ten days, his lead collapse. he said some stupid things. he

the merrick garland seat was hijacked. there has to be some justice accorded the country for what happened merrick garland. i am opposed to moving forward because of that circumstance as well. it is time for us to come to some conclusion as to how we will consistently handle these judicial nominations. the senate has changed the rules when it benefits the party in power. that is not just. finally, if i may add this. we have a constitution that shows us the way to deal with these circumstances. it really now is about will. will we have the will to do what we know the framers of the constitution intended? and if some of the is interested, read federalist 65. reads the dust read the words of alexander hamilton. it was concluded this will be a great time of turmoil, the parties would become recalcitrant, that it would be difficult to do, but it was something that should be done if we find that a president seeks to be beyond justice. not and those words, but that is the essence of federalist 65. amy: we want to thank you both f

joining us now with the reaction is garland nixon, a radio talk show host. matt schlapp, american conservative union chair, and candace owens, of turning point usa. garland. your react? >> initially, and i predicted trump would win. here's what i will say. i think the republicans will have some losses. they will definitely have losses in the midterm because it is kind of like yelp reviews. the people who are happy tend to mellow out and the people who are really angry are the most motivated. those are the ones that are going to show up and the democrats are definitely going to have an advantage as far as people who show up at the polls, the question is how much. >> laura: some of the trends in the last election, in the 12th district of ohio, yeah, pull out a victory may be barely by the skin of his teeth. the turnout for democrats was very strong. >> you're right. >> laura: it was stronger, i believe than the presidential turnout in the same district where trump won big. his approval rating is high. you can say that candidate made mistakes. a couple of verba

i think, you know, structurally it's problematic, given what happened to merrick garland.at nominee was taken from obama for political reasons. here we have a president under investigation for serious crimes and i think there's a strong argument to be made that we should hold off on him being able to choose someone that can make decisions about whether he can be held accountable under the constitution. kavanaugh, he's a conservative jurist, but he's an independent thinker and he's certainly well qualified for the seat. but the seat really belongs to merrick garland and politicizing this whole nomination process i think is a real tragedy for our constitutional system. >> elections have consequences. kim, thank you so much for joining me and sharing those insights. >>> coming up, we're going to take you to detroit where the city is celebrating the life and legacy of the queen of soul today. in a final farewell fit for music royalty, which you know she was. speakers include smoky robinson. and there will be performances by all sorts of artists including stevie wonder and jenn

like you said, merrick garland. and before that, it has now come dun to are you going to support my position or not as a supreme court justice? that is not what the supreme court was supposed to be. they resisted it. >> david: democrats in red states have to bend to the reality -- >> harris: joe manchin met with him yesterday. >> david: as well. heidi heitkamp, et cetera. there will be a handful of democrats. but now that you have rand paul there is virtually no opposition. we don't know about mccain but there is no opposition among republicans. >> melissa: president trump calling on congress to fund the border wall or face a government shutdown. is the president going a good job of banging the drum on an issue important to his base? or could his threat backfire with less than 100 days to go before the midterms? plus, president trump could soon up the ante in the trade battle with china as we learn the white house is considering new tariffs on beijing. so will the president's plan to narrow the trade deficit work? w

. >> if you hadn't raised merit garland, i was going to raise that. >> yeah. >> gave that nomination a lot more time and yet, at the times the republican majority said no we're going to wait until after the election. now with the republicans having the senate still and a republican nominee, they're saying no, no, no. that logic is no longer operative as richard nixon used to say. >> they effectively blocked garland coming in. i said gorsuch was the one that was -- >> right. >> he became the one that trump was able to get through because of what they did with garland. >> the stolen seat. and i think that democrats are raising a lot of these issues. you've got three democrats in a difficult position because they are running for reelection in trump's state. senator donnelly, heitkamp, maybe mccaskill. a lot of democrats -- the reason we're having this conversation is because of what senators durbin and leahy are doing. but the majority has a lot of power and senator mcconnell is running the senate the way the house is normally run. in the senate historically, the minority had a lot of p

i have seen in my lifetime, a few of the stitched garlands. we have been telling this narrative on the road to tokyo of a world that seemed not to have any ending, a war that might seem to go on forever. clearly, the japanese military power was broken. but on individual islands, they could defend tenaciously. studies were done, casualty -- hundreds of thousands, unbeknownst to those who are addicting these casualties. a top-secret military program had been going on for some time in the united states, a research and development program of a sort never seen before. it was the invention of atomic weaponry. the manhattan project had already produced a couple of workable bombs by august 1945. on august 6, an atomic bomb was detonated over hiroshima. another over nagasaki. the japanese decided to accept american demands for unconditional surrender. we try to tell the story with some sensitivity. after all, 80,000 lives were snuffed out in a millisecond. it is the only gallery in the museum that has a musical soundtrack. we want people to think about

of his term, barack obama named merrick .arland who had the support did every liberal love merrick garland? no. but he had ruled in ways that were unpredictable in some cases. if we were in a different situation with a moderate nominee, you wouldn't see the intensity of opposition against judge kavanaugh. darlene: there is news that senator mccain and his family decided to discontinue treatments for brain cancer. is there anything you would like to say to his family or senator mccain? neera: sarah mccain is an extraordinary american and is a role model. senator mccain is an extraordinary american and is a role model. i didn't always agree with him, but it was politics were you could disagree and still admire them. he was an example of that. i wish his family very well in this situation. really, the whole country should, and most of the country does, more and the possibility of losing such a great american the possibility of losing such a great american. -- susan: on the campaign they didn't mention immigration. how important will immigration be this fall? the second question is dismantling

in the last year of his term, barack obama named mayor garland , he was the person who had ruled in ways that were unpredictable in cases. in a different situation and had a moderate nominee, you wouldn't see the intensity of opposition to judge kavanaugh. >> i wanted to ask you about news. there is news that senator mccain and his family decided to discontinue treatment for his cancer, is there anything you would like to say to his family or senator mccain? neera: senator mccain is an extraordinary american and is really a role model. i always agree with him on every issue. politicse can have with people and disagree with them and he is an example of that. inish his family very well this situation. i think the whole country should, and most of the country the possibility of losing such a great american. >> we have about 1.5 minutes left. >> your list of issues for the campaign, you didn't mention immigration. it wasn't many weeks ago that that was all we talked about in the country, and the separation policy. how important will immigration be to voters going to both this fall? and ice,

bloc in favor of kavanagh he likely will be confirmed and all this is in the shadow of the merrick garland delay orchestrated by mitch mcconnell i mean you really are seeing a power play by republican senators to control the court right now putting on your lawyer had some legal experts suggest that my glucose deal makes the president and unindicted coconspirator. i would agree with those who say that and very importantly about the michael cohen deal is this is happening in the southern district of new york this is not happening happening now as part of the bob miller investigation so even if the mole investigation were to be shuttered even if trump were to try to intervene in the investigation the southern district of new york case against michael cohen continues and what was most damning yesterday was that michael cohen confirmed that he made these payments to stormy daniels and to others with the knowledge of donald trump's involvement at the direction of donald trump and frankly donald trump has come out since the plea deal and said yes he reimbursed michael cohen with personal funds wh

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bloc in favor of kavanagh he likely will be confirmed and all this is in the shadow of the merrick garland delay orchestrated by mitch mcconnell i mean you really are seeing a power play by republican senators to control the court right now put on your lawyer had some legal experts suggest that michael cohen's plea deal makes the president an unindicted coconspirator. i would agree with those who say that and very importantly about the michael cohen deal is this is happening in the southern district of new york this is not happening happening now as part of the bob muller investigation so even if the mall investigation were to be shuttered even if trump were to try to intervene in the investigation the southern district of new york case against michael cohen continues and what was most damning yesterday was that michael cohen confirmed that he made these payments to stormy daniels and to others with the knowledge of donald trump's involvement at the direction of donald trump and frankly donald trump has come out since the plea deal and said yes he reimbursed michael cohen with personal fun

hello again i'm laura garland overall the top stories on al-jazeera a spokeswoman for yemen's ministry of health and sun has put the death toll from thursday's as strikes at forty three. a strike hit a school bus inside a province i think the stronghold north of the capital the red cross says the bus carrying children came under attack as it was driving near a crowded market media say a majority of those killed children has more. still wearing his backpack this boy was in a mini bus full of children heading on a weekend school outing in northern iraq as they went through the city of saddam that bus was hit by an airstrike. who the t.v. station accused the saudi m r r t led coalition of being behind the attack on the red cross says schools of people are being killed. and we are getting even more damage and these are more it happened because their names are still certainly in the sky there were even expecting more airstrikes i mean what's happening they know what happened here but we condemned. saudi arabia and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the

for example, the afp senior figure alexander garland, he said the muslim religion" does not belong inis not compatible with that of a free country". your language sounds like his. if you listen from the beginning, i'm talking about islam based on the koran. he and the far right will have no issues with that. we're talking about a manifestation of islam based on culture, secondary sources that are perverted and deformed. for example, what are the salad is islam, is that an authentic version of the koran? it is dangerous anywhere, notjust in the middle east as well as here. i don't care what's happening in the united kingdom, which is my home. i'd want to see this poisonous toxic islam taking hold that i don't want. can i. >> for a second? you have set up can i. >> for a second? you have set up two mosques, one in cape town and one in london? —— can i stop you for a second. and men and women don't pray together. they are into rows, write to the front, there's no partition, they're not in the back, there's an invisible aisle at the beginning —— they are into rose, right to the front. ——

figured i'm italian, i can bake, i'm a very good pie maker, so it was like mickey on think and judy garland all in time, let's go build a barn. only old people are going to get that. [laughter] but i'm like, yeah. so i went around to different restaurants. i lived an entire summer off that pie company. >> wow. and you also, so my oldest sister growing up was very much a tomboy, and her favorite team of any sport ever and still is the steelers. and you worked for the steelers, which maybe we shouldn't talk about in texas -- [laughter] really? the steelers? >> yeah, i did. i worked for the pittsburgh steelers. they hired me as a contract person to, when they moved from three rivers stadium which they had been from 1970-2000 to heinz field. they had no game plan as to what to do with all the season tickets. they were just going to pass them out. they didn't understand, does anybody have season tickets to any football team? okay. it's like sitting beside the same people all the time, like every year. you form these relationships, you go through wins together, you go losses together, and if you

let's come on properly to the much garlanded braggsville, which the new york times said was the funniestars. it begins with a 500 word sentence which crackles with energy and sets the pace. the style challenges the reader. what did you wa nt to challenges the reader. what did you want to think in this first huge rush of language? this is not for me. or maybe it is. but i wanted to let the reader know very early on that it was going to have this kind of frenetic pace and also, it wasn‘t going to be a book that wants to tell you what you already know in a way that you have already heard it andi way that you have already heard it and i feel like this was the important thing, you‘re going to start talking about contemporary society or social issues, no one needs me to tell them what they already know in a way they have heard it said to —— said the poor. braggsville itself is a place of 700 souls and it is wary young boy comes from who goes to berkely and he doesn‘t fit in until he meets three other people visit the methods —— ethnicity and they call themselves the four little indians. the fo

he ended up nominating merrick garland, a d.c. circuit court judge of impeccable credentials to fill the vacancy. the republicans in the senate refused to even meet with merrick garland let alone consider him and vote on him. so for a whole year, the vacancy continued on the supreme court while the republicans broke senate tradition and refused to consider president obama's nominee. then came the election of donald trump, the nomination of judge neil gorsuch, and the process went forward to fill the vacancy which the republicans had kept open for more than a year before neil gorsuch was finally voted on by the united states senate. so here came the second vacancy under the trump administration, a vacancy created by the retirement of justice kennedy, and the question was obviously asked what standard will you use for asking for the documentary evidence of the person's background and public service? many of us assumed it would have been the same standard that was pushed by senator sessions, republican of alabama, and senator leahy,

disagreements with people who have loved and this week have eulogized him including whether merrick garlandt the same production of documents that reflect the background and work of brett kavanaugh that we did for every other supreme court nominee. but for some reason this white house and the people behind it are taking a much different approach. we're going to receive about 6%, 6% of all the documents that we know are there that reflect the public life of brett kavanaugh, and only half of those will be shared with the american public. we have never had a nominee come before the senate judiciary committee with such limited background information. we know his career as a judge, it's there in writing, but there was a long career before that some three years almost that he worked in the white house at the highest level on the most important issues. we're being denied access to that information. we're being denied access to that information this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a

liberals because i am a liberal, i'm a democrat, i voted for hillary clinton and supported merrick garland don't see anyone on donald trump's long list of potential nominees, a public list out there for a year who is better than or as good as brett kavanaugh. no disrespect to others on that list, there are some thoughtful and impressive people but brett kavanaugh is the most impressive on the list. he knows the constitution better than the others. it is not so easy to actually have mastered it. anyone can call himself an originalist but to actually have studied the constitution with care and its history is a lot of work and brett kavanaugh has done that over many years. shannon: good to know people are reading it. many of the people who will vote on the nomination, richard blumenthal. he says this judge is outside the mainstream. he is extreme even by conservative standards, part of a concerted effort by right-wing groups like the heritage foundation and the federalist decided to remake the federal judiciary in the image of the far right extreme ideology of conservatives. do you think the

on the court, because mitch mcconnell refused to let the senate vote on obama's nominee, merrick garlands. that upset-- >> audience: boo! >> stephen: a little late, but yes, like that. ( laughter ) that upset a lot of people, but mitch mcconnell is willing to take the high road and forget he ever did it, because here's what he said today: >> it's imperative that the president's nominee be(ces "read the sign, guys.y saying, all employees must wash hands." ( laughter ) but there was some good legal news yesterday, when a federal judge ordered the trump administration to reunite separated migrant families. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: yeah, i'll jump in there! >> jon: as they should. >> stephen: i'll jump in-- yes! that's good. >> jon: as they should. >> stephen: that's good. i applaud this judge for this ruling, but it's a little sad that this is what counts as good news. good news used to be, "we got bin laden!" now it's, "we got trump to release the kidnapped children. and, there's a chance he might do it!" ( laughter ) the judge did not mince any words in his decision. he called

point today successful republican effort to block president obama's final court nominee, merrick garland came to a senate vote. >> let's have the same standard, no confirmation hearings until the 2018 election. let's stop it, stop it now. and make sure we have a democratic house to have a break on this president after the 2018 elections. >> all right, under a lot of pressure are democrats like virginia tensor tim kan who he recollects is on the fence on whether to support kavanaugh. kavanaugh is making rounds meeting with more than 60 senators including at least 12 democrats while others refused to spend time with him and make no mistake this is going to be a battle, this confirmation hearing will begin on september 4th, so buckle up, back to you guys. rob: democrats decide to do. jackie: we are always buckling up around here. thank you, we appreciate it. the media ramping up talks to win back power for the left this november. >> could end up going to img -- impeachment. >> impeachment. jackie: could this help gop, our political panel to debate it. rob: first let's check with brian kilme

. >> molly: and i understand that democrats are still angry about mary garland. the president's nominees should have at a hearing and showed about a vote but that's not a reason to say no this time to someone who is pretty clearly qualified. >> molly: hugo, what about fireworks next week, where would they be as we watch the questioning and confirmation hearings on hold >> i suspect they will be pretty damp, the ones they will be raising about judge kavanaugh's decisions, the surveillance state and he's tended toward giving the power to the president to surveilled. but i don't think any of these things will be very explosive. >> molly: so you both predict kavanaugh confirmed? >> yes. >> i hate predictions but i think the money may have to be on kavanaugh at this point. >> molly: do you think it will be an easy confirmation? will there be a couple of democrats i come over? >> there will be some very eloquent statements from democrats about the reasons why he should not be confirmed, because of his view of executive power and how sweeping it is. i think a lot of peo

is this get even for what happened with merrick garland? >> i don't think it is get even.ng what the american people elected them to do, which is hold the administration accountable, do what is in the long-term best interests of the people they represent. anyone donald trump nominates to the bench we know will be a threat to good decision-making in this country. of trump nominates them we know they pledged their allegiance to what is in the best interest of the american people, it is in the best interest of donald trump and what he believes in. i'm afraid his nominee to the supreme court, the policy decisions he has taken in the past, most of them are too. >> they refused to meet with brett kavanaugh or even consider him, out of hawaii, and massachusetts, these three in all honesty were never going to vote. isn't the important thing the moderates in missouri, manchin in west virginia, that realistically is going to get in the first place. >> mccaskill, a little bit, seems like she's warmed to him. democrats are using this obstructionist activity and promoting fake news say

we postpone this until after the election because this is what senate republicans did with merrick garlandsome democrats thought that that was just a weak argument. it's important to get somebody on the supreme court bench as much as possible and quickly as possible. that's what republicans are trying to do. i think democrats are actually seeing the strategy is not necessarily working with the people that they want it to. obviously brett kavanaugh met this week with senator joe manchin from west virginia, a democrat facing a lot of political pressure to support his nomination. chuck grassley has let with lee a murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine, who moderate republicans are being carefully watched. both of them have expressed confidence in the amount of documents and paperwork that is already been provided to the senate. >> trish: we'll keep watching. thank you. president trump heading to a campaign rally in pennsylvania. a lot of green for the economy will help him and help his party to send off a blue wave in november. see you back here. no matter who rides point, there are o

. >> and let's go back to merrick garland. if president obama, a duly elected sitting president, has a supreme court vacancy to fill and is denied even a hearing for his nominee, simply because there's going to be an election within a year, how on god's green earth do wave conversation that says that president trump in his current situation, that his candidate -- >> i'll give you the answer. it is about will. because they have the majority and they have the majority now. >> this is now happening within a few months of the mid-term elections. it is not about partisan politics. it is about the rule of law in this country. >> well, i still feel like we haven't quite die gested what happened today. the president was implicated in a crime and i want to say, a deeply relevant crime. the crime of covering something up for his own benefit in an election he won by a narrow victory. and you just, there is something about everyone going to work tomorrow on capitol hill, well, that just strikes me as wrong. >> i am really bothered by peop