the headliner kellyanne conway followed by john kennedy. we look forward to speaking to both of them. kellyanne from the white house. a fast moving morning. >> bill: senator kennedy dropped some gems the other day. put down the bong. he has an hour to get ready. major investigation underway two letters containing ricin was sent to the pentagon and possibly the white house. >> sandra: melania trump continues her trip abroad as first lady. >> bill: the president calling on voters to elect more republicans. a strong insistence that he made in mississippi last night. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel will react live coming up next. >> president trump: the democratic party has become too extreme and too dangerous to be trusted with power. that's why you must vote republican on election day and you have to go out and vote.

republican and senate judiciary committee member john kennedy agrees. >> normally, our background fbi investigations are not made public because of privacy rights of the person being investigated, but i think this ld an instance where it sh be. i trust the american people to draw their own conclusio. >> alcindor: as both sides wait for the f.b.i.'s findings, capitol police have stepped up security for senators, including police escorts. today, police forced reporrs susan collins' office for what they said were safety reasons. all the while, senate debate on the nomination is continuing. majority leader mitch mcconnell said again today he's proceeding >>ward a vote. t's time to put this embarrassing spectacle behind us. the american people are sick of the display that's been put on here in the united states senate in the guise of occonfirmation s.

john kennedy was a naval man, but there wasn't a ceremony, he didn't make a statement. he put out a written statement, but very unlike the way that we see presidents do it in the modern era, which is so closer, so much closer to the way that ronald reagan reacted to the challenger disaster in 1986 by giving that memorable speech from the oval office. >> bill clinton, i was covering him -- >> absolutely. >> when he went to give the teddy bear service, as it was known forever, after the oklahoma city bombing. these are moments where you are the consoler. it comes with the job. >> part of the job is, you're chief of state as well as political leader. that means after something like

. >>> at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts in washington, descendents of presidents ford, truman, mckinley, johnson and theodore roosevelt gathered to share their family stories. the white house historical association hosted the meetings. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome fred ryan, chairman, white house association board of directors and deborah rutter, president for the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts. >> good evening everyone. on behalf of the white house historical association it is my pleasure to welcome you to the celebration of the 2018 presidential site summit. the kennedy center is the perfect venue for this. it is so fitting, because it itself is a presidential site, dedicated as a living memorial to president john f. kennedy. to ensure the historic nature of the gathering, the kennedy center has brought us back to the 1800s, in terms of the temperature in washington, dc. we want to thank you for that. also, we have been given authority from no higher source than th

fights ago called kick welcome to cork as we say in the gaelic language i'm john kennedy i want to welcome you to cork ireland's real capital city. cork going to mazing up mysterious a young city student city great pubs friendly people on the banks of the beautiful river leaf. so this is one of vikings from the city here the river leap now over a thousand years ago this eerily was a marsh containing many small islands and that's why the vikings from the city because from here they could trade and raid with the interior and cork the name comes from gaelic. meaning marsh or swamp. not a thing the special court is called has got twenty nine bridges on the river the dr has only got twenty four so that makes all those the venice of our the. centonze church was built in the eighteenth century built on the site of a much older medieval church not only is it a beautiful church the visits but it's still an active church song this service is held here every week and the best thing about in towns is you get to ring the bells . you choose the song you're more likely to fall to the numbers and just lis

senator john kennedy that read the details of that fbi report and says there's no doubt politics were involved joins me in a moment. let's go to john roberts live in the north lawn with our top story. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. they're not popping the corks just yet at the white house, even though that they think that judge kavanaugh will be confirmed tomorrow. they've been close before, a couple weeks ago and watched it fall apart. they're still taking it moment by moment. they're feeling good tonight. they knew this morning that there was a good likelihood that he would be confirmed. sources tell fox news that west virginia senator joe manchin called the white house to tell them that he would be a yes on kavanaugh and making his position known to the white house at least before senator flake or senator collins declared. he waited until after senator collins made her declaration to go public with it. susan collins did not call the white house this morning to indicate one way or the other how she was going to vote. the white house wasn't worried about that figuring sh

jane: that was a senator john kennedy speaking to me earlier. for more on this pivotal votes i spoke a brief time ago with david catane, senior politics writer for "u.s. news & world report." let's talk about sl an collins. es have been on her. how critical is her support? david: she was the whole ballgame. it was high 3:00 instead of higr noon waitinger to speak. she spoke for 4 minutes. you could tell she took it very seriously. gee laid out a judicial case for kavanaugh to assoderates, sa overturn roe v wade, he is not going to take away health care. that will not satisfy a lot of liberals, but it was to satisfy her own conscience as a centrist from maine to be able to get to yes. jane: she also addressed the sexual allegations and said they did not meet the threshold of more likely than n. how many people is that going to satisfy? david: she sort of split the baby because she said i believe christine blasey ford, i believe that she was sexually assaulted, i believe it changed the trajectory of her life, butth e wasn't corroborating evidence.

there are 896 places in the world named after john kennedy and reached out to many of them to the kennedy airport and things like that, not only telling the history but why is it relevant today? you talk about visionaries never go out of style, the peace corps is just as relevant. next year we as a country will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of landing on the moon and today we think about big ideas -- 250th anniversary -- 50th anniversary. i think it's a way to think about it in a way that brings us together. he made his series of mistakes, but a key point like a centennial or next year's celebration of landing on the moon is. >> great example. >> thank you very much. anybody have a question to raise with the group? while we are waiting if anyone else has a question, i'm going to put these guys on the spot really quick. other than the presidents that you worked with or represent today, give me your two favorite presidents or first ladies or if you had dinner with them tonight, who would you have dinner with? >> well, i'm going to steal this from mark, i think everybody in the room w

so when the electicame an, barely, as you know, john kennedy came down to the lbj ranch and i'm sure that lbj set him up for this, but john kennedy was leaving and he turned on the porch of the lbj ranch saw me leaning in the corner, came over and said, w hear you're not comih us." i said, "no, i'm going to teach at a baptist school "and i'll get my phd." and he said, "don't you know harvard was founded "by a baptist preacher?" he said, "we need you in washington so i went. and just a few nths into working in the vice president's office, boring job, he was bored out of hi amind, it was a non-jthat time, and i had written a speech for lbj, he said, "i don't have a speech, i'm going to speak "at this university give me a speech." so i sat down on my little portable typewriter and wrote a speech proposing a youth corps, where did i get the idea? from hubert humphrey in minnesota he had been advocating a youth corps a peace corps, kennedy of course picked it up but so did we. and after the election i realized as kennedy announced to that he was goinstart the , that's what i wanted to do

pporting this station.n us in mesticalln the white house, lbj pledged to carry out john f. kennedy's mission. and time magazine called you the young man ha ine of everything. (audience laughs) but the vietnam war interfered, and got in the way of these great hopes and dreams. did you resent the war in that way, did you resent the war as a man of the cloth? did you resent the was a p? - in those first two years when i was in charge of the domestic program i didn't think about the war. as we look back and documed it turns out that many decisions were made ' and early '65 by the president, mcnamara and bundy. and as the war began to escalate it was very troubling. i wish that i had been a moral prophet, and had said, "this is gonna end in disaster." it was tragic, it was one of those tragedies of hisry which lyndon johnson is responsible for that changed the course of our society. frustrated the great society programs, snuffed them out in the cradle. i mean every constituency that we had practically for the great society program for remaking the institutions o america, schools, road and

there are 896 places in the world named after john kennedy. and we reached out to literally hundreds of them, from the kennedy center to new york airport and things like that. and it's really not just telling the history, but why is it relevant today? and we use this expression of vision nair aries never go out style. you think about world peace, the peace corps is just as relevant today. talking about commemorations, next year, we as a country will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of randing on the moon. and today we think about big ideas, when we think about a big idea, whether it's in your company or organization, you call ate moon shot. it literally was the first moon shot. i think the way to think about it in a way that brings us together. not that he did everything right, but looking at those key points, just as a commemoration like a centennial or next year's celebration of landing on the moon is. thanks again for all of your leadership. >> great example. >> anybody else have a question to raise with the group? well, whilewe we're wai

you saw me with john kennedy, he's an honest broker, maybe as honest asny have.hard for him to call out the president. who will make the changes? how are these changes going to happen. let's bring in bakari sellers and david. was your take similar to the one i had at the top of the show, the president had an opportunity to say look, this is on me, this is on everybody else, i can be better, you can be better. and he did not take that opportunity. >> well, i disagree with you on two points, chris. the first is that i don't have that same level of expectation of the president of the united states, he's been the same man who we thought he was from the beginning. to expect him to display that level of courage is fool hearted, that's first. the second thing is, we've seen this before, there's been a generation before us, who have seen our leaders taken away from us. whether you're talking about king or malcolm x, rfk our jfk. we've seen what happens when the level of rhetoric reaches a boiling point. my father is 74 years old now, he lived through the orangewood massa

in the cuban missile cross-ice it, for example, what you hear on the tapes is the evolution of john kennedy as president. and all of the people who were in the room with him who thought he was joe kennedy's kid and been in the senate for 15 minutes and didn't know anything, suddenly developed a respect for him. and you can hear that evolving over those 13 days. it's fascinating. and so i think just constantly going back to the sources, constantly making sure you're getting it right but understanding that they're tl a -- going to be a bunch of people that simply don't believe it. >> it's a special opportunity in a polarized time to encourage people to rise above their political biases. and susan, c-span and the constitution center has this wonderful collaboration. we have this joint mission, private nonprofits with a congressional mandate to be nonpartisan and our experience on our landmark supreme court cases series of bringing together the top liberal and conservative scholars to debate not the political issues in the case but the constitutional issues is the most elevating project that i'

. >> even if the fbi comes up with nothing new on kavanaugh, republican john kennedy of louisiana believes every senate democrat will still oppose him. he is making the point as only he can. >> if you think this wiis a seah for the instrutruth, you should down the bong. democratic colleagues have accused judge kavanaugh of being a rich drunk, lying sexual predator. and the six fbi investigations that he's been through did not support that. >> judge kavanaugh will not be returning to harvard to teach in january. law students have been informed his classes have been canceled. >>> the president got laughs in the rose garden after he said he does not share kavanaugh's love of beer. >> i am not a drinker. i can honestly say i have never had a beer in my life. one of my only good traits. when they are looking for something. i said i never had alcohol. for whatever reason. of can you imagine if i had -- reason. can you imagine what i had? how worse i would be? >> he has been known to pour diet coke in his wine glass. a year ago he opened up about his brother fred's life long battle with alcohol.

senator john kennedy from louisiana and only kennedy-like fashion talked about where this is headed.a search for the truth, you probably ought to put down the bong. it's not a search for the truth. our democratic colleagues have accused judge kavanaugh of being a rich, drunk, lying sexual predator. and the six fbi investigations that he's been through did not support that. >> all right. so are democrats, daniel, moving the goal post? if it is about his drinking and how much he partied in college, could this come back to back fire against democrats? >> i don't think it is whether he had too much to drink in college, it is more about whether he told thing truth to congress and the american people. he said multiple times he did not drink to excess that he blacked out. if you have college classmates and roommates of kavanaugh who are saying that's not true, that goes to the broader point of do we want a person on the supreme court who is caught up in all of these small lies to try to protect his nomination? often you hear crisis communication saying get it all out. >> one crisis comm per

and one day in early october of '63 i got a call from kenny o'donnell who was then john kennedy's most powerful assistant, "bill we want you to go to austin, "the president is going to go down there." "we sent an italian, advance man from boston, "whom i knew, jerr tbruno, we sent him dore, "and he just can't, they can't understand each other. "our efforts, we've t to raise money. "we've got to speak in houston, "andso i did, i went downn ere and i was holding hands e th the governor and bor people, and the liberals and the conservatives until the presidentgot ou. sitting at the forty acres club at the university of texas having lunch with the chairman of the state democratic committee and the most promising young member of the state senate, ben barnestohe maitre d' came ovee and said, "mr. moyers you've got a call," so i went and took it. it was bill paine the secret service agent assigned to me in dallas and he said, "bill, the president's been shot."ice agent i immediately went back and told my colleagues and went right out to the airport, on the way, es ben barranged for a little a

senator john kennedy noticed it. this entire thing makes me want to heave, if you think this is about searching for the truth, you ought to put down the bong. >> tucker: he joins us tonight, put down the bong! do you think there are peopleuc who believe this is on the level that the democrats are acting in good faith as they were asked in this investigation? >> i think there are some democrats in good faith but i think some of their colleagues it isn't about searching for the truth, it's about winning. since one? it doesn't matter who gets destroyed. these are people, i'm not going to name names but i'm not sure they have a soul. i don't think their mother breast-fed them, i think they went right to raw meat. if dr. ford in the the way, destroy her. breach confidentiality, destroy her kids, destroy her family, brett kavanaugh is in the way, destroy him and his kids and his reputation. then after calling him a rich drunk lying predator, they criticize him for defending himself. having said that, i'm a lot more sanguin

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john cornyn, orrin hatch, mike lee, ,ed cruz, ben says, jeff flake mike crapo, tom tillis, and john kennedy. [applause] pres. trump: thank you also to rob portman, sitting right here. [applause] pres. trump: and finally, we are indebted to senator susan collins, for her brave and eloquent speech, and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy. how true, how true. how true. [applause] kavanaugh isbrett a man of outstanding intellect, a brilliant scholar, and his credentials are unsurpassed. a graduate of both heal college and yield law school -- yale college and law school, he has taught at yale and georgetown. he spent 26 years of public service, and just like justice gorsuch, he clerked for justice kennedy. for the last 12 years, he was a judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals, widely regarded as our nations second-highest court. during his tenure, he authored over 300 opinions, distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning. judge, he is aes fair-minded, unbiased, and evenhanded person. that justice must be divorced from the passions o

revenue under the new lower rates under the higher rates it is $3 trillion more in revenue just like john kennedy or the reagan proposal or even clinton by cutting capital gains rate. >> jason throws out a lot of facts and figures but i will start that he voted with the republican party over 96 percent of the time since he has been a member of congress from the second congressional district tax reform was about who we help and what i said from the beginning trickle-down economics does not work i support tax reform and tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses this was 80 percent of the tax cut and the top 5 percent of income. >> angie. . >> we should have double down and tripled down on tax cuts. >> i assume. >> this is all about who we prioritize in this country i would prioritize the middle class and the congressman and republicans have prioritized other. >> it isn't working lowest unemployment rate since 1969 after-tax income 6 percent higher 7 million job openings. >> we are talking about economic growth one.9 percent during the obama era when you raise taxes then the debt doubled wi

senate judiciary member john kennedy is standing by and judge andrew napolitano but we begin to time the chief national correspondent ed henry who joins us live from the white house. good evening. >> martha, great to see you. first monday in october, the supreme court opened its new term but only eight justices. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell revealed late this afternoon he will have an upper or down vote later this week to determine whether or not judge brett kavanaugh will be the ninth justice to go to the court and fill it up. that will be determined largely by this fbi investigation that you heard from the president is very much under way. they were working late at night, through the weekend, do you get it done. he said, the president, he is not putting any restrictions on it, despite reports over the weekend to the contrary. in fact, we just learned kavanaugh friend mark judge has talked to the fbi through his lawyer, and his lawyer says the fbi has not finished it yet, though, so maybe they have more questions for mark judge. remember, a deadline of friday was set, no

senator john kennedy of louisiana will join me in a couple of minutes. >>> are black voters in georgia being deny the right to cast their ballots in the upcoming mid terms. >>> the nickname is back. lying ted is back. it's not donald trump who is throwing around that term. ump ws throwing around that term. rm should happen every five hundred years, right? fact is, there have been twenty-six in the last decade. allstate is adapting. with drones to assess home damage sooner. and if a flying object damages your car, you can snap a photo and get your claim processed in hours, not days. plus, allstate can pay your claim in minutes. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? so let's promote our falle a homecomingtravel dealame, on choicehotels.com like this. touchdown. earn a free night when you stay just twice this fall. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com i saw my leg did not look right. i landed. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts yo

you have to have growth like john kennedy proposed growth, like reagan, even bill clinton proposed growth by cutting the capital gains rate. >> jason throws out a lot of facts and figures, but jason voted with the republican party 96% of the time since he has been a member of congress from the second congressional district. this bill was about who we helps, and what i said from the beginning is trickle-down economics doesn't work. i support tax reform, tax cuts for the middle class and for small businesses. that is not what this was. this is over 80% of the tax cuts for large corporations -- >> corporate tax cut -- >> i am not. i think we should have doubled down, triple down on tax cuts for the middle class. [inaudible] >> this whole thing is about who we prioritize in this country, and i would prioritize the middle class. the congressman and congressional republicans have prioritized -- the lowest that implement rate since 1969, 7 million job openings, more job openings been jobseekers. >> the deficit is seven times -- >> i am talking about economic growth. 1.9% during the obama era whe

if you have the smarter -- if you said, i know john kennedy, you're no john kennedy, there is still anmart or outfox a pig. >> in the moment, that's wrong, let me tell you the truth. >> that's the advantage that trump has because there are no consequences and the consequences not necessarily something bad happening, it is calling out the crazy. it is calling out the lie of the moment. it is saying right there, if any of those other -- let me tell you, that jeb bush moment on that stage, if any of the republican on that stage backed jeb bush up when he went after trump and called him out, it would be a very different -- >> i told jeb bush i thought he should have punched him in the face. even if you lost, he insulted your wife, he came down the escalator and called -- he said what do you think i should have done, i said i think you should have punched him in the face and then got out of the race. >> he's bringing him down. all he did was call dad an assassin, and -- but i need his help. a lot of it is, like, i keep thinking of a guy driving, woman or man, bought a new car, it is all cle

i'm joined now by louisiana republican senator john kennedy.ator, welcome back to the show, sir. >> thank you, chuck. >> so, look, i want to try to look forward here. >> okay. >> i think we all know the mess backwards. senator collins said she hopes this means we've hit rock bottom. why am i skeptical that we have? >> i'm skeptical too. i'm afraid that there will -- for every action, there's usually an opposite reaction. i hope i'm wrong. i'm afraid that will happen here. it doesn't have to. i was listening with interest to your panel. i think this process changed dramatically when mr. avenatti entered the picture. i think a lot of people, including many of my democratic colleagues felt like at that point we had gotten into the foothills of preposterous. i hope we've learned something from that, but i don't think there were any winners in this. i betcha judge kavanaugh doesn't feel like a winner. i bet dr. ford and her family don't feel like winners. but in terms of what happens in the future, i don't know, chuck. that's up to us. will it get b

corner, warren hatch, mike leigh, ted cruz, then sass, jeff flake, mike crapo, tom gillis and john kennedyportman, sitting right here, thank you robert. applause. and finally, we are indebted to senator susan holmes, for her brave and eloquent speech, and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy, how true, how true. how true. applause. brett kavanaugh is a man of outstanding intellect, a brilliant scholar and his credentials are unsurpassed. a graduate of both yale college and gail law school, he has taught at harvard, yale and georgetown. when he is not working with his family, he is not working with his family, he is not working with his family, he is getting back to his community. he spent 26 years in public service and just like justice gorsuch, he worked forjustice kennedy. for the last couple of years he was a judge on the dc circuit court of appeals, widely regarded as our nation ‘s second highest court. during his tenure he authored over 300 opinions, distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning. known as a judge'sjudge, masterf

you don't think of george washington, abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, john kennedy, and the embodiment of that office. when i'm given information and facts, i'll be there to go along. i wanted to believe the executive and the president. i was disappointed by that. later, as it turns out, they were wrong. there were no weapons of mass distraction. -- destruction. i regret that. steve: what is the lesson for members of congress in the future if they are spaced with the same -- faced with the same type of vote? rep. crowley: we have to come to grips with the fact what the truth is, is something you have guess.ore suspect of, i naive, want to sound too but there was some innocence that was lost, coming out of the 9/11 experience, my cousin was killed. i knew many people that were killed in the attack on new york, and it was very personal. wanting to do everything i could to make that right, to make that whole as best i could. that included going after those who made them responsible for it, and those who want to cause on to us again in some way. be,ink my advice would you've got to do all

if you can give, john kennedy has a great device he uses. he says pretend i am a high school sophomore and i have not been paying really good attention. what is the first amendment about. >> as a parent of a high school sophomore, i feel uniquely qualified to answer that. >> please don't overseer. >> it is about freedom of speech. and the part that may be you are getting it is also freedom of religion obviously. but i was taught that the first amendment was about the marketplace of ideas. and that it was a good thing if people had disagreements to talk about them, we hashed them out and we each figure out what the truth was. to meet the first amendment is the marketplace of ideas. in the area of religion, obviously each person has a right to pursue whatever religious calling they happen to feel. if it is a methodist, or catholic or what have you. those are my brief thoughts as i explained them to my sun -- son ben who is here who is a 10th grader. >> ben, you got off easy. >> the first amendment establishes many freedoms. the right to free s

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you have to have growth just like john kennedy propose growth, like reagan propose growth even bill clintond. question those are a lot of facts and figures. but i want to start with this one. jason voted with the republican party over 96 percent of the time since he's been a member of congress from minnesota's second congressional district. tax reform, this bill was about who we help and what i have said from the beginning is trickle-down economics doesn't work. tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses. that's not what this was. this was over 80 percent of a tax cut for large corporations and the top five percent of -- >> you are not first corporate tax cuts? >> i am not. we have triple down on tax cuts for the middle class. [inaudible] >> this whole thing is about who we prioritize in this country. and i would prioritize the middle class and the congressman has prioritize -- >> the lowest unemployment rate since 1969, after-tax income six percent higher, 7 million job openings. more job openings than jobseekers. we are talking about economic growth. 1.9 percent during the obama e

you have to have growth just like john kennedy proposed growth. like reagan proposed growth. even clinton proposed growth by cutting the capital gains rate. >> go ahead >> jason throws out a lot of facts and figures. i want to start with this one. jason voted with the republican party over 96% of the time since he's been a member of congress from minnesota's second congressional district. tax reform, this bill was about who we help, and what i have said from the beginning is trickle down economics doesn't work. i support tax reform, tax cuts for the middle class and for small businesses. that's not what this was. this was over 80% of a tax cut for large corporations and the top 5% of income earners. >> [inaudible]. >> i'm not. i think we should have tripled down on tax cuts for the middle class. >> i love that figure -- >> let her finish. >> all right. >> this whole thing is about who we prioritize in this country -- in this country. i would prioritize the middle class. >> the tax reduction isn't working. the lowest unemployment rate since 19 6 9. after-tax income 6% higher.

you have to growth just like john kennedy proposed, like reagan propose, even bill clinton propose growthing the capital gains rate. >> jason does have a lot of facts and figures but i want to start with this one. jason voted with republican party over 96% of the time since he's been a member of member of congress from minnesota second congressional district. tax reform, this bill was about who we help you what i said from the beginning is trickled in economics doesn't work. i support tax reform, tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses. that's not what this was. this was over 80% 80% of a taxt for large corporations and the top 5% of income earners. >> not -- >> i think we should have doubled down, tripled out on tax cuts for the middle class. >> i love the figure because you assume -- >> let her finish. >> this will thing is about who we prioritized in this country and i would prioritize the middle class, and the congressman and congressional republicans have prioritize large corporations. >> the lowest unemployment rate since 1969, after-tax income 6% higher, 7 million job op

john cornyn, orrin hatch, mike lee, ted cruz, ben sasse, jeff flake, mike crapo, thom tillis and john kennedy. [applause] >> thank you also to rob portman, sitting right here. thank you, rob portman. [applause] >> and finally we are indebted to senator susan collins, for her brave and eloquent speech and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy. how true, how true. [applause] >> brett kavanaugh is a man of outstanding intellect, a brilliant scholar, and his credentials are unsurpassed. a graduate of both yale college and yale law school, he has taught at harvard, yale, and georgetown. when he's not working or with his family, he's giving back to his community. he spent 26 years in public service, and just like justice gorsuch, he clerked for justice kennedy. for the past 12 years, brett was a judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals, widely regarded as our nation's second highest court. during his tenure, he authored over 300 opinions, distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning. known as a judge's judge, he is a fair-minded, unbiassed,

senator john kennedy, republican louisiana.e have come to this but i don't particularly care for the democrats response and you say? >> i am sorry, i am sorry this happened to the clintons and the obamas and george soros. i don't agree with anything he stands for but so sorry this happened to him. sorry happened to cnn and to america. we will catch the person. this is a big wide open country. unfortunately we do have some people who are mentally ill. this may be perpetrated by someone who is not mentally ill but just angry, a whack job -- stuart: did we lose the moment? we had a moment we could have come together and said both sides knock it off, let's get real, let's get civil. >> i appreciated what the president said last night. do i think hot political rhetoric has caused this? we don't know yet. i think it has contributed to it. the president has used hot political rhetoric. so have my democratic friends. i remember a month ago a former secretary of state said we can't be civil at all to the other party. i remember a famous

john kennedy was a naval man, but there wasn't a ceremony, he didn't make a statement.put out a written statement, but very unlike the way that we see presidents do it in the modern era, which is so closer, so much closer to the way that ronald reagan reacted to the challenger disaster in 1986 by giving that memorable speech from the oval office. >> bill clinton, i was covering him -- >> absolutely. >> when he went to give the teddy bear service, as it was known forever, after the oklahoma city bombing. these are moments where you are the consoler. it comes with the job. >> part of the job is, you're chief of state as well as political leader. that means after something like this, you try to heal, you try to unite, you try to inspire. those are things that are not in donald trump's toolbox, and i think he really demonstrated that today. >> i want to talk about a word that has entered our national conversation, get your opinion of this exchange, this is from fox news, their interview with president trump last night. >> the word nationalism has taken on, for the left, thi

i'm reminded of john kennedy's kwip at one of ja quip at one of jackie kennedy's galas. i go back to 1958 with ralph. a reporter from the washington star introduced us and he had him meet him on the corner of f street, and ralph was going to meet us there. bob showed up in a corvair. ralph would not get in the car. we walked to a nearby middle eastern restaurant and that was the beginning of a friendship. in 1943, michelle coletsky, who was a polish-born economist who was a protege of cain's wrote a political essay called the political economy of fallen employment. coletsky conceded that as a matter of economics, cains was right. you could harness capitalism by regulating it and using policy, but it was a matter of politics. the capitalists would never let you do it. now, in the post-war era, which is the subject of my last book, it looked as though cains had won the argument with coletsky. capitalism was housebroken. for a remarkable period of about 40 years, the economy not only grew at record rates but it grew more equal at record rates. then the capitalist came roari

john cornyn orrin hatch mike lee, ted cruz, ben sasse, jeff flake, mike crapo tom tillis, and john kennedy. (applause) a thank you also to rob portman sitting right here. thank you, rob. and, finally, we are indebted to senator susan collins for her brave and eloquent speech and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed fairness is most in jeopardy. how true, how true. (applause). brett kavanaugh is a man of outstanding intellect, a brilliant scholar, and his credentials are unsurpassed. a graduate of both yael college and -- jail -- yale college and yale law school. he spent 26 years in public service, and just like justice gorsuch, he clerked for justice kennedy. for the last 12 years brett was a judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals, widely regarded as our nation's second highest court. during his tenure, he authored over 300 opinions distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning. known as a judge's judge, he is a fair-minded, unbiassed, even-handed person. he understands that justice be divorced from the pagsz of the -- passions of the day tethered instead to

the desert which steve mnuchin is scheduled to attend but that is drawn heat from the likes of john kennedyho is advising against steve mnuchin's attendance. >> we have to deal with him with our eyes wide open. they need to be condemned. that doesn't mean we need to just say we will never talk to you again. >> the president is expected to make a final decision by the end of the week as lawmakers call out or a lot of for sanctions for the salaries of they are found to be responsible. the article is online at washington post for our viewers if they want to read it this morning. >> griff jenkins live with that update. . >> a congressional task force it to interview two key witnesses in the mueller investigation. james baker and nelly your, the wife of doj official bruce or scheduled to be interviewed by house republicans today and tomorrow, baker admitted to meeting with lawyers tied to the clinton campaign and dnc before the 2016 election. or works for fusion gps which commissioned the democratically funded anti-trump dossier. special counsel robert mueller set to reveal the results of his pr

>> reporter: the committee's republican majority includes lindsey graham of south carolina and john kennedy of louisiana. >> she said it was brett kavanaugh 100%. >> she did. and he believe she is sincere. nobody is going to ever figure out what happened. they're not. something happened to her and something very, very bad happened to her, and i'm very, very sorry. but they both said 100%, she said it happened, judge kavanaugh said it didn't. 100%. so what do you do? >> reporter: senator graham worries that the senate's constitutional role of advice and consent is no longer about the nominee. it's about the careers of the senators. >> the politics of voting for supreme court nominees are now about you, it's not about the nominee, it's not about the law, it's about how does it affect you. and you can't blame the democratic party for that. both of us got here, and i don't know if we'll ever get out. but i do not -- i don't want to go where we're headed. >> reporter: democrat chris coons saw the testimony wearing on his friend republican jeff flake and hoped to convince his colleague to comprom