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so let's bring back john avlon. us also supreme court biographer and cnn legal analyst joan and the co-author of the book about justice ruth baiter ginsburg notorious rbg. okay, irene, john avlon said the way they're going to read all of this is they have hundreds of elves. i don't think that's true. what is the thinking of releasing 42,000 pages that have to be reviewed before 9:30 this morning. >> any journalist would ask, what are you hiding? why don't you want a full accounts of this nominee? i'm old enough to remember that back in july when justice kennedy retired, mitch mcconnell, according to "the new york times," said don't pick kavanaugh because he has such a big paper trail. but our system is such that there's no mechanism if you're in the minority to force this kind of disclosure. we're on an unprecedentededly fast schedule with respect to how many documents are out there about kavanaugh and his time in the bush administration. so the answer is they're just going to skip it. they're just going to rush it

john avlon is here with a reality check. john? >> short spoiler alert -- none of this is normal.ut we know president trump spends a lot of time attacking his own justice department, but this recent tweet you mentioned rips at the principle of justice in a more fundamental way. here's what he wrote. two long running obama era investigations of two very popular republican congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge just ahead of midterms by the jeff sessions justice department. two easy wins now in doubt because there's not enough time. good job, jeff. trump is referring to the indictments of congressmen chris collins and duncan hunter on charges of insider trading and misusing campaign funds. coincidentally, they are the first congressmen who endorsed candidate trump. he's actually wrong on this end, at least. chris collins insider trading occurred in late june, 2017, not exactly the obama era. but that is small ball compared to the much bigger problem. trump seems to be again taking aim at the concept of impartial justice itself, suggesting that his justice department sh

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i'm john avlon in for brian stelter. 4,000 and counting.f advertisers that sleeping giants, a small internet based activist community, claims they've gotten to take their ads off breitbart.com since late 2016. that is quite a feat, since up until july the group remained anonymous. that's when their founder was unmasked by the daily caller. adding insult to injury, the fascination with breitbart.com is apparently fading. they've seen a steady decline of visitors and views since december of 2017. joining me now is the man behind the community that went after breitbart, the founder of sleeping giants, who joins me for his first television interview. matt, it's great to have you. tell me what the catalyst was to make you go after breitbart and why you targeted programmatic advertising. >> well, it was right before -- right after the 2016 election. i was pretty disgusted with the tenor of the rhetoric coming out, just everywhere in the news. it seemed very racist to me and bigoted. just everything was seeming really inflammatory. obviously steve

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our legal analyst shan wu is here, alice stewart joins us and john avlon. shan, to you, let's listen to jane mare, who co-authored this "new yorker" piece on debbie ramirez with ronan farrow, talking on cbs this morning about the claims of political motivation here. listen to what she said. >> i also interviewed a woman who judge kavanaugh wanted us to talk to, as someone who would defend him. i asked her outright, she knows deborah ramirez. i said do you think politics was a motivation? she said to me, no, and she's kavanaugh's defender. nobody is really alleging politics was the motivation here. >> shan wu, aside from the president and the white house. shan, can you hear us? he can't hear. all right, just your take on what we heard. >> i think it's important to know that people are saying there's a lack of corroboration. a lack of corroboration does not consist of finding people who know nothing of the allegation asking them about it and they say i don't know anything. that's not the right kind of corroboration you're seeking. they need to find people who

john berman is off and john avlon joins us. happy labor day. >> happy labor day to you. >> i look for to your thoughts on john mccain's funeral. >> it was amazing. >>> five days of national mourning coming to a close with john mccain buried next to his best friend. the family releasing this heart wrenching image of cindy weeping over the casket. former presidents, family, friends, and political leaders continued to honor mccain's lifetime of service at washington's national cathedral. >>> his daughter remembering her father as a hero and rebuking president trump's cheap rhetoric insisting that america was always great. there has been a lot of talk about the lack of civility in politics today. what, if anything, will change after a week of mourning a true american patriot, as the country turns their attention to the upcoming election. let's do to abby phillip. >> after five days, here in washington, john mccain has finally been laid to rest. he was buried at the navel academy in annapolis. he said he wanted to be laid to rest nex

. >>> cnn's senior political analyst john avlon explains. john?that's right in an opinion piece loaded with high-impact news nuggets, there's a particularly interesting detail near the bottom. quote, given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment which would start a complex process for removing the president. the 25th amendment. what is it? can it do what the author says and better yet, should it? you might think the 25th amendment, which spells out presidential succession, is an old concept, but it's not. the text is relatively recent, born after john f. kennedy died thought up by members of his administration, including his brother bobby to shuddered to think what might have happened had the president been only incapacitated in dallas. as recently as 1965, this nation had no real plan for what to do if a president couldn't discharge his duties. the issue came back in 1841 when william henry harrison died a month after taking office. no one knew what to call vice president john ty

joining us now is the white house reporter for bloomberg news and cnn analyst john avlon. mendous accolades for the response to florence which has not hit yesterday. here is the point -- hit yet. here is the point. it is impossible not to feel the nervousness after maria. obviously fema did a better job with harvey in houston and even in the keys which had logistical problems. after maria, it is nerve racking to imagine what will happen next. >> nearly 3,000 americans dead. roughly the same number we lost in 9/11. the president has still not confronted his culpability in the numbers in that regard. puerto rico is difficult to get to. the carolinas are better situated for a response. idea he is getting tremendous accolades, this is a trumpian moments. trump has to be careful here as a practical matter. disasters by their nature, are chaotic and reflect badly on the government, even when everything goes right. this is not about taking a victory lap. this is about setting expectations and empowering fema and local authorities. he has to resist the impulse of praise directed at

let's bring in john avlon who predicted the win, and abby phillip. >> i went to don lemon's executive producer and i went and said you better keep an eye on this race. >> how did you know? >> the first votes that came in were from outside of boston and she was running very neck and neck and she would do particularly well in boston. >> the bigger picture is she a progressive and she ran against a ten time progressive incumbent. >> i think that is part of it. it is more than that, this is a majority and minority district. they have simply not been arrested for success, the women, and the minority women. >> we thank you for all of tha . i think this is something much bigger, and ab by as i look at this and what democratic party is doing, and female and minority candidates are winning in these contested elections, it makes me wonder where we're going to go in 2020. what does it tell you about what democratic primary voters might want going forward? >> it seems clear that democrats are trying toe elect people that look more like their constituents. that look more like the districting they'

. >>> okay, now we have our reality check, john avlon joins us with more. >> let me tell you, democratic tul opull off primary win last night. but delaware is not the norm this year. there is a revolution in the party. and mement incumbents have not seen it coming. ayanna pressley took out mike capuano who has a very conservative record. in florida, hard to the left for governor on a platform of legalizing weed. his victory was even more remarkable because just one week before the election, one poll showed him trailing by nearly 20 points. let's go over to harz remarylan. in the end, she beat baker by ten points. and it comes on the heels of the win in new york that was a victory so surprising even she could not believe it. she beat joe crowley who had her down 36 points. she won by 15 points. see a pattern in in politics the establishmented can suffer from over confidence, now over the past decade, we we v seen the gop take over president on the other side of the aisle, 50% identify as independent. there are 19 white democratic members of congress that represent the majority-minority ho

cnn political analyst john avlon is on it. >> reporter: that's right, erika.p in the heart of texas, hasn't elected a democrat statewide. friday night, they squared off in a fiery first debate. one exchange about health care really jumped out. >> we can protect pre-existing conditions. you need to understand, everyone agrees we're going to protect pre-existing conditions. >> not so much. this casual comment from senator cruz does not track with reality. after all, right now, texas attorney general is leading a legal charge with 19 other states to overturn obama care, including its massively popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions. ted cruz called it reasonable as recently as this june. it shouldn't come as a surprise. he promised to repeal, quote, every word of obamacare during his 2016 presidential campaign. he also led a shutdown of the federal government against his party's own wishes, holding the senate floor for 21 hours and once he ran out of things to say famously did this. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam, i a

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joining us now, we have cnn white house correspondent, abby phillip and cnn senior political analyst, john avlons in advance. that's interesting, abby. but here's the part that's really getting most people's attention and this is what the president tweeted. these were his words about the administration's response to past hurricanes. we got a-pluses for our recent hurricane work in texas and florida and did an unappreciated job, great job in puerto rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent mayor of san juan. we are ready for the big one that is coming. is that, abby, what the anonymous op-ed writer was referring to in terms of the amorality that the people around the president feel when he has such a tone deaf response and doesn't mention the victims? what are the people in the white house saying about this? >> yeah, i think that that is probably right, alisyn. i don't know what exactly is in the op-ed writer's mind, but i do think there is this sense among people close to the president, you know, sources around the president are very open about

let me begin buwith you, john avlon. yes, the president wants sessions to investigate this. sure anything is illegal about penning an anonymous op-ed. according to the "new york times" there was a discussion of asking senior officials to si w affidavits that could be used in court and yes there was a bit about the lie detector tests. >> yeah, if there is one thing that is good for office morale, it is marching people to get lie detector tests. >> that's not going to happen. >> no, and look, invoking national security, which is typically what an administration would do if they were trying to get a newspaper to turn over a source, that is the fight over the pentagon papers, but there is no national security implication that is clear to any reader in the op-ed itself. jeff sessions coming belatedly to terms of his actual mortality, i don't know. but that is not exactly breaking news. that relationship is broken. but the president is clearly furious and it really does undermine whatever sense of confidence he had in his team, which was already pretty shaky. >> it does underline

and john avlon.nn, he is not anonymous and it's called "operation contain the president." i'm the only person that didn't talk to or write something about opinions tonight. give me the back story. >> they say this trump official came through the door a few days ago through an intermediary. a go-between. a few days ago? >> just several days ago. they say they don't believe it was linked to the woodward book, oven though the woodward book has us all talking about the president's fitness and what is going on inside the house. >> trump supporters are already raising that. >> thetimes does not think it was coordinated. only a small number of people inside the paper know who this person was. this person submitted the op-ed. we don't know if it was a man or a woman. "the times" will not talk about any of that. but it is preposterous for the president to be out there saying that "the times" has to hand over the source. that's loony tunes. there is no reason "the times" would ever do that. >> what about the d

john avlon and political analyst michael sheer. i want to start with you abby, what is going on behind you this morning? it seems to me the white house is in a state of rather disarray. >> reporter: that is right, john, going into this even before the op-ed dropped, there was always a sense of paranoia in the building. and now that sense is heightened even further. we're told that the president basically ordered with witch hunt looking for people that cooperated with bob woodward's book. now this op-ed drops heightenning theighten i ing the sense it is someone from within. and now he is increasingly paranoid and upset by it. the president said he is going after the deep state. the problem now for president trump is that it is very likely that the deep state might include people that he put into the jobs they currently hold. which is a new layer of paranoia in this white house. it's one that we can't predict what the outcome will be. >> so many of us are still processing what this will mean. what does it mean for the president, his