host: nelson cunningham joining us for this confirmation. can ask him questions at (202) 748-8001 four republicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats, independentss -- at (202) 748-8002. people outside the capital building holding protests and signs. we he reported that there will be people coming in from maine, from alaska to talk to senators collins and murkowski. somef the criticisms people had is that there was no follow-up fbi interviewed with christine ford herself. should that have been a part of that, considering her testimony last week? if this had been a terrorist incident or a terrible shooting on the steps of the capitol building, there would have been dozens or even hundreds of fbi agents combing the country, tracking down every lead they could possibly find. served in with whom i the u.s. attorney's office in new york many years ago when we both worked for rudy giuliani, wrote a piece this week in "the new york times" that said the fbi is up to the task if you let them do it, but they were not unleashed to go track down every lead t

attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance and former federal prosecutor nelson cunningham.come. let's get into it, joyce, and talk about that clip. that same year kavanaugh wrote an extensive report on impeachment in politics and said whether the constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable. interpret all of this and does the constitution allow indictment? >> kavanaugh's views seem to have changed depending upon who is in power at the moment. i suppose we won't really find out what his actual views are until this issue comes in front of the supreme court where it is inevitably headed given the trajectory that the mueller investigation is on. impeachment is a possibility. indictme indictment, although theoretically possible, is something that's seriously discouraged under current doj policy. both robert mueller and rod rosenstein are institutionalists and traditionalists and i think it's unlikely we will see an indictment from them. i have to comment on that first clip that you played, i can't let that go, this whole idea that a democratic mob swamped t

host: our next guest is nelson cunningham.rved as the former white house general counsel in the clinton administration, here to talk about the latest concerning the confirmation process of judge brett kavanaugh. good morning. guest: pleasure to be here. host: could you remind people about your previous experience with the court nominations? 24 years ago i was chairman of the senate judiciary committee come up and working for joe biden, and i handled the nomination of stephen breyer. at that time it was hardly controversial, but can back it was a cakewalk. from there i went to the clinton white house. prosecutor, white house judiciary aid, and white house lawyer. there's a lot that is not understood about the background check process. i wrote a piece this week in thought because i i should lay it out as someone who's been on both sides of this . background checks are not full-fledged criminal investigations. the fbi is a tool to look into the background of potential nominees. they serve a double purpose. first they help the pre

and then nelson cunningham on the fbi and department of justice roles in the cap non-investigation. michael pillsbury of the hudson institute will talk about u.s.-china trade policy, and president trump's recent comments accusing china of attempting to meddle in the upcoming elections. join the discussion. on "q&a," yale, university historian joanne freeman on her book "the field of blood, violence in congress and the road to civil war." >> you have scores of congressmen in a massive brawl. in and of itself it is dramatic. throwing punches, spittoon's, a massive encounter, but was really interesting to me, people at the time looked at it, and what they saw was a group of northerners and a group of seven hours, lots of them armed, running at each other in the house of representatives. thiseral of them said doesn't look like a normal congressional fight. this looks like north against south. this looks like a battle. that's really striking. indeed, it certainly did look like a battle, and not that long before the civil war. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> as your

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by prominent former prosecutor nelson cunningham who joins me tonight and appears to have gotten that answer out of the white house. i'm also joined by my wiley former counsel, msnbc legal analyst. nelson, your view of where mueller is headed here, and also this big mystery debate. >> well, this is a -- for those of us who are lawyers and who actually can follow the clues on these terse docket sheets, these docket sheets from the court of appeals show something pretty fascinating. remember last month or in august when rudy giuliani, out of nowhere, said we've almost finished writing our memo posing the subpoena? that was on september 15th. this mystery litigation was filed the next day, september 16th. it sat at the district court of d.c. for a month. it was disposed of on september 19th, and since then it has moved with remarkable speed to the court of appeals. schedule was set. there was a procedural flaw. it went back to the district court. back to the court of appeals -- >> you think it's a secret -- you think it's a secret pursuit of trump by bob mueller, but with jay sekulow --

nelson cunningham on the fbi and department of justice's role in the kavanaugh investigation.lso, michael of the hudson institute will talk about u.s.-china trade policy and president trump's recent comment accusing china of attempting to meddle in the upcoming elections. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discuss. >>> the c-span bus was recently in honolulu lie honolulu, hawai. this weekend, we feature our visit to hawaii on c-span, book tv, and american history tv. exploring hawaii's history and culture as well as public policy issues facing the state. saturday, on c-span, at 7:00 a.m. eastern, on "washington journal," l leo asuncion, director of hawaii's office of planning will talk about homelessness and lack of affordable housing. on book tv, on c-span2, at noon, stuart coleman on his book "eddie would go." then a visit to the university of hawaii at west oahu for the extensive book collection of late u.s. senator daniel inowe. our hawaii weekend continues on c-span at 9:30 a.m. eastern on "washington journal." j

and former white house general counsel, nelson cunningham on the fbi and department of justice's role in the cavanagh investigation. also, michael pillsbury of the hudson institute to talk about u.s. china trade policy, president donald trump's latest comments of accusing china of meddling in the election. watch c-span washington journal at 7 pm, join the discussion. >>> sunday night on afterwards, new york magazines rebecca tracer on her book good and mad, the revolutionary power of women's anger. she's interviewed by brittany cooper, rutgers university women's and gender studies professor and author of eloquent rage. >> i'm a feminist journalist. part of my work as long as i have been doing it, has obviously been rooted in anger. you wouldn't be a journalist writing about in equity about gender inequity, racial inequity, economic inequality if you are not mad. obviously there has been anger undergirding my work for a long time. but, when i decided i was going to write this book on anger and i thought about how it it has played into my work, one of the things i could do was see the p

nelson cunningham on the fbi and the department of justice's role in the brett kavanaugh investigation. we will talk about u.s. china trade policies and trump's recent, accusing of china trying to meddle in the upcoming elections. join the discussion. here's a look at our live coverage thursday. on cspan vice president pence speaks about u.s. policy towards china. president trump holds a campaign rally in rochester minnesota. on cspan 2 larry kudlow talks about the new trade deal between the u.s., mexico and canada. the senate returns for more debate on the supreme court nomination of brett kavanaugh. on c-span 3, government officials testified before the senate banking committee about efforts to prevent money laundering. >>> the ccm bus was recently in honolulu, hawaii. we feature our visit to hawaii on cspan. book tv and american history tv. exploring hawaii's history and culture as well as public policy issues facing the state. saturday on cspan. at 7 am eastern on washington journal. the director of hawaii's office of planning will talk about homelessness and lack of affordable hou