history of the supreme court.plause] justice kavanaugh: tonight, i thank all of my friends. so many amazing and fearless friends, from my high school days, college, law school, clerking, the bush white house, including president george w. bush. [applause] justice kavanaugh: from the judiciary teaching, coaching, playing sports, the vibrant, loyal, tight-knit catholic community here in the d.c. area and so many others. ashley and i are grateful for their prayers and the prayers of the thousands and thousands of people we have heard from throughout america. when i give advice to young people or speak to students, i tell them, cherish your friends, look out for your friends, lift up your friends, love your friends. i love all of my friends. [applause] justice kavanaugh: i thank my family. my mom and dad are here. i am there only -- their only child. my dad taught me his work ethic. they have given me a lifetime of love and i am forever grateful to them. [applause] justice kavanaugh: my daughters, margaret and liza, a

a first in the history of the supreme court.applause} >> tonight, i think -- thank all of my friends worried for my high school days, college, law school, the bush white house. including president george w. bush. from the judiciary teachings, coaching, playing sports. the vibrant, loyal, and tightknit community in the d.c. area. and so many others. throughout america. cherish your friends, look out for your friends. love your friends. i love all of my friends. my mom martha and my dad ed are here or it -- are here. one of the earliest women prosecutors. my dad taught me work ethic. they've given me a lifetime of love and i am grateful for that. [applause] my daughters, margaret and liza are smart, strong, awesome girls. they are looking forward to the upcoming basketball season. their teachers for giving them the day off to mars they can come watch two cases being argued at the supreme court. so they can come watch two cases been argued at the supreme court. graduate ofs a abilene cooper public high school. she is a dedicated to

no other nominee had ever come with a list of supreme court justices. he did. itch mcconnell. they're working at the lower courts, getting these appeals court judges in, and you heard the president there saying he thinking he'll get more vacancies. you heard that crowd roar. it's interesting how early on this president honed in on this issue, and now all day long we're talking about the supreme court and suddenly we're talking about the mid terms. >> i remember talking to people prior to the 2016 election, and people who didn't like a lot of what they were hearing from the president, but they voted for the republican in the race because of the supreme court. >>> i have to squeeze in a quick break. stay with me. the president is still speaks in topeka, kansas. we'll be right back. you're in the "cnn newsroom." and there's no shortcut to the right way. so when we roll out the nation's first 5g ultra wideband network, it'll be because we were the first to install the fiber-optics and small cells, and upgrade the towers that will change the way we learn, work and li

the logic behind judge kavanaugh's opinions are already woven into supreme court precedent. regarding privacy issues in united states v. jones, judge kavanaugh dissented when the court denied the government's request for a rehearing. he argued that the case deserved to be heard by the full court and indicated support for the narrow property-based fourth amendment argument made by the plaintiff. when considering whether a warrant was required in order to install a g.p.s. tracker in a suspect's car, he said the suspect's property rights should have been taken into account. in justice scalia's majority opinion, he agreed with kavanaugh's property-based approach. when it comes to administrative law, he has taken a consistent and balanced approach to assess congressional intent and implying -- applying exceptions to chevron deference ensuring the federal agencies are executing the laws crafted by congress, not creating their own versions of the law. according to his words, judge kavanaugh looks to the settled bedrock principles of constitutional law. in protecting congress, he has

seat on the supreme court. [applause] justice kavanaugh: i think the members of the united states senate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for his leadership and steady resolve. committeediciary chairman chuck grassley for his wisdom and fairness. gratitude toecial rob portman, susan collins, joe manchin, jon kyl, and lindsey graham. they are a credit to the country and the senate. i will be forever grateful to each of them and all of the senators who carefully considered my nomination. presiding over the final vote in the senate on saturday was vice president pence. i am grateful to the vice president for his sound advice and faithful support. i think counsel to the president don mcgann, who was a warrior for fairness and performed his critical duties in the finest traditions of our constitution. [applause] justice kavanaugh: i think all of the outstanding people -- i the outstanding people in the white house and department of justice who worked on this nomination. one of the federal judges most importan

supreme court. chris: we are waiting now for his swearing-in at the court. but shannon, we've talked a lot in the last few days about steve daines, the senator from montana who decided that he had pressing obligations. he left the senate. went back to montana to walk his daughter down the aisle. my son is having his engagement party. i've already missed half an hour. shannon: you are late. chris: i'm already half an hour late. it is going to take at least an half an hour to get there. i'm leaving but i'm not leaving you alone. to help you get to the finish line, ed henry is in new york. ed? help shannon although she doesn't need it. >> i wish i had a private jet or something like that. shannon: that's how he's getting to the party. here in town. >> he has to get up early and get back to work tomorrow. he's not going far. before you go, chris, i want to know, i haven't heard people talk about this but you were in the person back in october of 2016 who put the supreme court front and center in the third and final presidential debate. it was an important issue

the same goes for the supreme court. lawyers and offices of the court and senators, i don't think it's helpful for us to be challenging that. i think it's time to move forward and let the court do its work. >> what did you think about what the president said at the beginning of all of this? he apologized to the family for the process and everything they went through which was a political and personally destructive disk process as he described it. he also said you were proven innocent under historic scrutiny. what did you think of that? >> i think a lot of us sympathize with that expression, and look. the fact that you had a writer on a late night comedy show tweeting out and saying, regardless of what else happened, i'm glad we ruined his life, that speaks volumes. i fear that that speaks volumes about many of those who were engaged in the politics of personal discussion. i really just dislike seeing t. it certainly not productive as far as looking at the kind of judiciary we have to have. the one judge kavanaugh said he

this'll be the first a supreme court justice has gorsuch. sworn ina supreme courtjustice has ever sworn in a former cloak to take his seat. —— work. a beautiful moment which reminds us that freedom is a tradition that has passed down from generation to generation. —— clerk. that is a big statement and want to thank you so much for that, that is so thank you so much for that, that is so beautiful. so beautiful is —— so —— so beautiful. -- so beautiful. applause. margaret and liza's presents tonight about what this historic event, all about your father, is all about. what this historic event, all about yourfather, is allabout. is what this historic event, all about yourfather, is all about. is about what kind of a nation we are going to be and what kind of a country our children will inherit. —— it is a doubt. is up to us, and all americans watching tonight, to that question. —— it is up to us. it is up question. —— it is up to us. it is up to us to keep our impartial justice. it is up to us to dedicate ourselves to the traditions and wisdom o

they purposely preserved the 60-vote threshold for the supreme court. >> a lot of your fellow democratsave pointed out that he preserved that. it made it easier to move forward to approve "sportscentesupreme court nominees. i know you don't want to get into that. did judge kavanaugh say anything in the op-ed he published yesterday to convince you that he will be an impartial justice of the supreme court? >> no. no. i think that's a confirmation conversion. the reality is he showed me who he was when he was before the senate judiciary committee after dr. ford testified. he showed me to be a partisan. he said what goes around comes around. he made the whole process political when he said that this was a left wing conspiracy hit against him, repayment for the clintons. he took out every political canard at the end of the day. his temperature in addition -- temperament in questioning members of the committee based on the allegations that were bought, he made it political at the end of the day. he doesn't show me anything by what he wrote afterwards that changes my mind. >> you are up for re

not the supreme court. you send somebody up to the supreme court who fibs, that individual is there forever. thus maybe our standard should be a little bit higher. third, i want to talk about judge kavanaugh's disposition in that hearing. and some of the things that he said about how the allegations came forward. i talked about this on the senate floor i think now to days ago. so i won't repeat it all. but his belief that dr. ford's allegations or miss ramirez's allegations came forward as part of some vast conspiracy led by progressive groups and democratic senators on behalf of hillary and bill clinton is delusional. i understand that -- i understand that politics in this town is rough. we've all been subject to character attacks we think are unfair. but that doesn't mean that there are these vast came boles of people on the left and right wing spinning tales on a daily basis about each other. what we know is dr. ford brought this forward to her member of congress before brett kavanaugh was even the nomin

richard wolf covers supreme court, both the constitutional and judicial oath will be administered today in a private court ceremony roberts does one and kennedy does the other, same for gorsuch. latter in the rose garden. watch for white house ceremony likely on monday for judge kavanaugh and then the judge will be sitting on the court as early as tuesday, the court not in session on monday, he could be sitting -- hearing oral arguments as early as tuesday, jeff who covers the wall street journal tweeting out, justice kavanaugh will be sworn in today allowing him in his four law clerks all women to begin work at once. john who covers, who writes for the pew research centers fact blog tweeted this out, the narrowest confirmation to supreme court senate expanded to 100 members, since senate expand today 100 members. 50-48, clarence thomas 52-48. nile sorry guch, -- neil gorsuch while 62 senators voted in favor of elena kagan. we are will go to michael what is in springfield, new jersey, michael, good afternoon, what's your reaction to this vote, michael? >> i couldn't be any happier. >> h

under chevronfo which is named r the 1984 supreme court opinion, courts defer to reasonable agency interpretations when congress has been ambiguous on an issue. and a 2017 speech at notre dame, honor justice scalia, judge kavanaugh said the chevron doctrine encourages agencies aggressiveness on a large scale. under the guise of ambiguity agencies can stretch the meaning of statutes enacted by congress to accommodate their preferred policy outcomes. i sawst this firsthand when i worked in the white house. i see it now as a judge. judge kavanaugh proposed solutions in chevron is to simply determined the best reading at the statutes, courts would no longer deferred agencies and trepidation of statutes. such ann interpretation would pt environmental public health and consumer protection interests at great risk. judge kavanaugh would've struck down the consumer financial protection bureau as unconstitutional, when he wrote the majority opinions and a panel decision. .. upholding the constitutionality of the dodd-frank reforms, including the consumer financial protection bureau. but that's what's at ris

supreme court. we'll bring you the entire ceremony as you look there at all of those assembled in the east room of the white house. all of this live as it happens. it is an event 91 long days in the making. >> tonight it is my honor and privilege to announce that i will nominate judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. [applause] lou: the radical democrats immediately attacked the president's nominee with the most heinous charges, most fraudulent charges by even the standards of the radical left in their search and destroy politics of personal destruction. their leader, crying chuck schumer vowed to stop kavanaugh to matter what. >> i will oppose him with everything i've got. lou: and he did. but the radical democrats weren't satisfied to simply oppose kavanaugh. instead they along with their allies and the left wing national media engaged in a smear campaign the likes of which the nation has never before seen. kavanaugh, the highly qualified jurist, husband, father of two daughters,

of the supreme court. (applause). tonight i thank all my friends, from my high school taste, college, law school, when i was clerk, the white house, including president george w. bush. from the judiciary teaching, coaching sports, the vibrant loyal, and tight-knit catholic community near the d.c. area and so many others. ashley and i are grateful for their prayers and from the thousands and thousands of people we have heard from throughout america. when i give advice to young people or speak to students, i tell them, cherish your friends look out for your friends, lift up your friends, love your friends. i love all my friends. (applause). i thank my family, my mom martha and my dad are here. i'm their only child. mom was one of maryland's earliest women prosecutors and trial judges. my dad taught me his work ethic and love of sport and has given me a lifetime of love and i'm forever grateful to them. my daughters margaret and liza are smart, strong, awesome girls. they are in the middle of fall lacrosse an

supremes court judge the eyes are fifty. the nays are forty eight vice president mike pence reading out the tight results of a divisive senate vote both republicans and democrats believe the controversy surrounding kavanagh's appointment has fired up their base ahead of crucial midterm elections. also on the program a prominent saudi journalist enters his country's consulate in turkey and then disappears authorities believe jamal khashoggi who has strongly criticized his country's leadership may have been killed we'll go live to istanbul for the latest . time brazilians go to the polls today in a presidential election plagued by division and control machine clued in the public stabbing of one of the front runners. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring good to have you with us president trump is celebrating a major domestic victory after the republican controlled senate now only voted to confirm his nominee brett kavanaugh as a supreme court justice the move comes after weeks of parties and. in fighting over accusat

he will move the entire supreme court clearly to the right this will be a conservative supreme court and it wasn't that before it was a court the middle of the road kind of. politically speaking middle of the road supreme court that's not the case anymore and that's a huge win for donald trump and the republicans because trump had promised to tell and on the campaign trail in two thousand and sixteen that like it or not he will put conservative judges into the into the supreme court he succeeded with this so yes this will be very very important and it will influence political issues of this country of the entire united states for generations and decades to come so a win for trump will it be a win for republicans in the upcoming november midterm elections you've got a lot of angry democrats now. republicans are actually positive of this that this will have a positive effect on their platform on their on their clientele and they're likely voters and maybe even on some who are not decided or switched before to go democratic and now come back into the fold in the of the republican

they looked to the supreme court in a way most average americans haven't considered the supreme court outside of the biggest rulings. they looked at the supreme court as the nonpoliticized branch of government, one they can depend on when perverse things come out of the white house. do you fundamentally think what john meacham is describing will effect us the next four, five decades? >> yeah, and i think it is a problem for both parties. eisenhower said the worst decision made was picking earl warren. jack kennedy picked whizzer white. he turned out to be a conservative. john meacham knows this stuff, the federalist society has a whole farm team where they get the right people in their 30s in law school, develop them, watch them, and make sure there's no surprises. that's the big thing. no surprises. you pick a conservative, you get one. >> just to show you what we're doing on the left of the screen, that's tim kaine, former vice presidential candidate with hillary clinton. all senators get to speak on this. we are expecting momentarily to hear from senator susan collins of maine. i a

constitution gets no immunity this nomination will shape the course of the supreme court of american law and lives to have a nominee fully vetted who does not stand of sexual assault and whose honesty before the senate and the american people would not be questioned whose judicial record fits within mainstream jurisprudence to believe that no one, not. even the president is above the law. judge kavanaugh is not that nominee. >> mister president i yield the floor. >> the senator from hawaii. >> tomorrow we will cast a very important vote to end debate on the nomination of brett kavanaugh to be a justice to the supreme court of the united states. should he be confirmed to this position he would just be one of nine people with the power to change the american or and the american way of life for over a generation. to touch all facets of our life including the healthcare we receive in the texas case with the affordable care act individual mandate making its way to the supreme court and this is important because if texas wins that means the aca protections with pre-existing conditions one

the supreme court, the 12 regional courts, and the dc circuit. the 94 district courts around the country. for instance, florida southern is where we are right now. the change in 1978 was the creation of the foreign intelligence surveillance court. also its appellate body for review. this is the court that hears applications from the government for warrants to engage in surveillance. that could be wiretapping, internet interception, email interception, the court has 11 judges. each with a seven year term. they are chosen by the chief just this but they sit one at a time. so there will be one judge at this court who comes to washington from around the country to the same building where the high court is. here is the application from the government. this is an ex parte proceeding. you cannot effectively inform somebody that we want to see rail you and you can -- to surveilling you. it's done in secret. over the years the importance to the -- of the supreme court in the american life has only grown. the court has now looked on -- is now looked on in

not people angry that will brett cavanaugh has been nominated to the supreme court. you're out there in the crowd. have you found many protesters upset on behalf of brent kavanaugh? >> whose court? our court. >> do we have mike viqueira? i don't think we have mike. let me get hallie jackson back. hallie, we're looking at the protests. we can see them. we now have police heading up the steps of the supreme court. you see a lot of very passionate angry people. i don't know if you've been down on the capital steps or an up the supreme court steps. donald trump would like the country to believe those protests are people upset what happened to brett kavanaugh, not the fact he was credibly accused of sexual assault and is yet on the court. which of those two things is true in your reporting? >>. >> i'm looking at exactly what you're looking at, signs that say we believe women. clearly anti-kavanaugh protests. it was notable what the president just said. one thing to step back and put this in perspective. he talked to brett kavanaugh within the last couple of minutes. at som

kavanaugh is now to be the new us supreme court judge. e this chapter ends... i think it has triggered a lot of other things that will continue over the next weeks and months. as we have been talking about, perhaps the soonest we will see it is in the mid—term elections, we will see in five weeks whether this is still as hot an issue as it is now. it certainly has fired up democrats who say that they are going to come out ina larger say that they are going to come out in a larger numbers to vote and we heard chuck schumer‘s pitch to vote. in that sense, that could have a lasting impact, certainly in the wider sense, the direction of the supreme court, yes. this isjust the beginning, because it means there is now a solid conservative majority on the court of nine judges. the judge who he is replacing was conservative, but he was sometimes side with the liberals on certain issues. judge kavanaugh has a clear record of conservative positions on all issues that will come up before the supreme court and it is something that is not only a victor

if you believe the supreme court must protect health care and our pre-existing conditions that are protected now, vote. court believe the supreme should defend consumers, workers, the environment, civil rights, populations, vote. if you believe the supreme court should be a check on an overreaching president, vote. if you believe the process here in the senate was a sham and you believe americans deserve better, vote. if you believe that supreme court justices should conform to the highest standards of impartiality, temperament, and above all, honesty and credibility, vote. share the deep anguish that millions of americans are experiencing today. i say to you, my fellow americans, there is one answer, vote. the majority leader. mcconnell: the constitution of the united states was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity. those are the words of henry , mr. president, kentucky's own. the decision the united states senators will make today will echo in the history of our nation. ourvery survival of constitutional form of government requires an expert and independe

consequences will be that liberals and progressives, democrats generally care as much about the supreme courtpublicans do? they clearly focus on the court. republicans. >> i have never seen anything like what has happened in the last year and a half. we had 180,000 women on boston common just a week after donald trump was sworn in and it has continued right through the demonstration out on the supreme court steps this afternoon. women across this country are outraged at the donald trump administration. and about his promise that he was going to nominate people to the supreme court who would overturn roe versus wade, overturn the affordable care act. so he has put the activating fluid on. he has sowed the wind and going to reap a political whirlwind this november. >> two conservative judges you replaced. scalia was a true believer all the way on the right, original intent the whole thing. then a guy who is hard to figure, anthony kennedy who was very good i think you would say on social issues same sex, things like that. the rights of gay people, whatever. this guy kavanaugh, is he going to be

his opinions have received widespread acclaim and verified by the supreme court by multiple occasions in the american bar association that no judge kavanaugh but they all spoke with virtual unanimity to praise his integrity, work product and judicial temperament. for cases in federal court i would have been happy to have adge kavanaugh to give a fair shake to both sides. this is the kind of judge but i would have admired him in every way through significant experience through the highest rating which is the rating service which ranks attorneys without their knowledge. i have had that rating into states. pennsylvania and utah. so i take these matters very seriously. i believe in the federal courts. they dong a terrific job in this country. i have nothing but admiration for them. and there are very few exceptions but i think it's just terrible and a ridiculous problem that people are playing politics with this judge and judgeship so i'm sorry he'ss had to get through this ordeal he did not deserve this he is a good man. he spent decades of a reputation of decency and fairness he was try

immigration docket dreamers health care obamacare all of this stuff is in the courts if not at the supreme court already then in the lower courts but it's no guarantee that it won't show up at the stairs see if the supreme court and then brett kavanaugh is one decisive conservative vote for policy issues to change and to be changed in a conservative direction for decades and generations to come in this country. and will his appointment have any effect on the upcoming midterm elections in november given all the passion and controversy. i'm fairly sure democrats are psyched about what this did for even if they lost the fight they lost the nomination and confirmation battle against the republicans of course but it did a lot for them to energize their base for and to energize women right behind me here this is all women then they're angry they are not happy they didn't want brett kavanaugh on the bench of the supreme court and now they have him there so they're psyched they're stoke they want to go to the to the polls on coming november sixth that's their battle chance so to speak november is coming

supreme court. it is time. justice gorsuch and justice sotomayor were confirmed 66 days after they were nominated. today marks the 90th day since president trump nominated judge kavanaugh. this is in line with the timeframe for previous justices. what is different about this nomination is the manifest on -- unfairness in the way it was conducted, and the tone and behavior of some senators, as well as special interest groups that support them. this institution used to be known as the world's greatest deliberative body, but you would not know it now on this nomination. the senator from maine said yesterday that we have hit rock bottom when it comes to the judicial confirmation process. sadly, i agree. the heroic efforts of senator grassley, who along with his staff has been magnificent as chairman of the judiciary committee. what precipitated this embarrassing time for the senate was the intentional and deliberate withholding of dr. ford delegations from the judiciary committee and judge kavanaugh until the 11th

our supreme court should be a bulwark against violations of law, deprivations of freedom, and abuses of power. but we may, we may now enter a perilous time when the court is in fact shifting far right and ends uppishing decision after decision -- ends up issuing decision after decision, clearly more conservative than a majority of americans, at a time when a president elected by a minority of americans will have appointed the justice with the deciding vote after his confirmation by the narrowest of margins. that justice who has been confirmed today is one who in his conduct will lead some to fairly doubt his impartiality. he will likely play a central role in charting a course for interpreting our laws and rights and freedoms for decades. i hope and pray that i am wrong, that my interpretation of his writings, his speeches, his opinions is flawed, that the apology and retraction he offered in an opinion published yesterday about his partisan screed at his confirmation hearing is genuine and that his behavior as a justice will put to rest all the concerns that i have raised and that he

who participated in key votes for justice john roberts and also sam alito's nomination to the supreme court. what's your call at this point, senator? >> what susan collins says will be really important. i actually voted for judge kavanaugh to the d.c. court of appeals. folks need to be sensitive to some of these senators' views. lisa murkowski, who i have a great deal of admiration and respect for, one, with the write-in vote -- susan: senator, i have to cut you off right there. we will go straight to the senate floor. susan collins speaking. looks like protesters interrupting her opening statement at this point. we are awaiting susan collins, announcing her decision in terms of how she's going to vote in the confirmation of judge brett kavanaugh in that crucial vote to send him to the supreme court. we want to listen in quickly. [ chanting ] >> as a reminder to our guests, expressions of approval and disapproval are not permitted in the senate galleries. the senator for maine. >> mr. president, the five previous times that i have come to the floor to explain my vote on the nomination of a

lots of his clerks go on to clerk at the supreme court he. he rare people who knows a lot about the court and the confirmation process and justices and of course, he was justice kennedy's clerk. >> and justice kennedy will be one of the two men swearing in now, justice kennedy was more of a centrist. that is what people have concerned. what does it mean, this 5-4 court for a lot of american lives when it comes to women's rights and lgbtq community as well as obamacare and immigration and prison reform. do you see some of those areas as shifting or is the court going to shift or will we see more of a, maybe, somebody else becomes that center? >> i have to say, keep in mind, with president trump, with his first nominee, he was able to swap justice gorsuch, much of the same but that wasn't the case here. kennedy is a centrist and kavanaugh is to the right. as justice ualena kagen said, we're used to having a swing vote. we had justice o'connor and kennedy and now that means that we won't have that anymore. that means feeling like we're owned by o

these efforts weren't limited, of course, to supreme court nominees. they also deliberately went after miguel estrada, specifically and admittedly because he was a latino. and they tried to take down amy kony barrett's nomination to a federal appellate court because they considered her too catholic this is unacceptable. we've been asked to settle for this. it's not time to settle. it's time to expect more. it's time to demand more. it's time to demand a process that is respectful of human beings, of the accusers and the accused in the world. it's time to do this in a manner that respects this institution and allows us to respect each other. you have to remember that when we reduce our arguments from matters of policy in which we acknowledge good-faith disagreements to simple and emotional questions of good versus evil, people are going to tend to believe that characterization. and ultimately they are going to tend to act on that characterization, and the results won't alms be pretty -- always be pretty. at some point this descends to a moment when the v

there are no spare supreme court justices. e a justice recuses that leaves the court at a dean minutishes capacity. it's usually up to the justices themselves to decide whether to recuse. and they usually recuse for direct conflicts of interest. they have a family member. they were a judge that -- on the lower court when a case was decided. they worked on the issue when they were at the justice department. or they have some personal financial stake. they own stock in the company, that kind of thing. those are the usual reasons for recusal. recusals on political grounds are really exceptional. remember, ruth bader ginsburg made some very harsh comments about president trump, saying she might move out of the country if he got elected that kind of thing. she later apologized. there were some suggestions that maybe she'd have to recuse from cases about the trump administration. so i think those questions would hang over judge kavanaugh. but whether he would actually recuse on political grounds if he's confirmed, i doubt it. >> that

it's not easy for a supreme court justice to be recused from case. >> it's different on the supreme courte are only nine justices. there's no spares. in the district court, you get a different judge. on the appeals court as well. there's no stand by supreme justice. that reduces the number that can hear the case and that's never a good thing. they decide themselves whether to recuse. no one else tells them. parties can ask but it's still up to the justice and they usually recuse because that have a personal conflict. they own stock in a company. they decided the case when it was in a lower court. recusal for what you might call strictly sort of partisan or policy views is extremely rare. remember, that ruth bader ginsberg was critical of donald trump and she didn't recuse when the ban came before the court and the government didn't can her to. i think defenders of kavanaugh would say what he was criticizing is the way the con for medicati -- confirmation process was being handled. not criticizing liberal politics or liberal view. they may try to draw that distinction. the number of cases

this is the second just the sat is appointed to the supreme court by president trump it certainly is oing to have a massive impact on that court most observers believe that by appointing these two judges or such an hour brit kavanaugh president trump is forcibly pushing the supreme court to the right so certainly this appointment will alter what balance did remain within the supreme court but there's going to be another impact as well and that could be on the mid-term elections that take place next month. authorities in the indonesian city of palo are reportedly considering calling off the search for those killed by last week's earthquake as hopes fade of finding any survivors the death toll from the quake and tsunami now stands at more than sixteen hundred people with thousands more missing souces have told al-jazeera that saudi officials flew into the turkish city of istanbul and visited the consulate on the same day a prominent saudi journalist went missing turkish prosecutors a widening their investigation into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi who was last seen entering the sa

the supreme court will also be faced with cases that will address the right of workers to bargain collectively with their employers, as litigation comes up to the high court in the wake of a janus decision and many or important topics including voting rights, gerrymandering, the census, race-conscious college admissions and environmental laws. the supreme court's decisions touch every aspect of american life. with so much at stake, the senate has an obligation to closely scrutinize every nominee to the supreme court. we need to know that they have the qualifications for the job. do they have the proper education? do they have the necessary breadth of experience? will they treat everyone in the court including employees, law clerks and lawyers with an even temperament? will they make reasoned decisions when the stakes are high? can they listen to the facts and apply the law without fear or favor or will they let the experiences they bring with them override objective judgment? will they insert their personal preferences where they don't belong? we need to know if they can rule fairly. will they

history of the supreme court. judge kavanaugh's female law clerks sent the committee a letter, and this is what this letter from the law clerks says quote, we know all too well that women in the workplace still face challenges, inequality and even harassment. among other things, women do not enjoy a representative share of prestigious clerkships or high-profile legal positions. but this committee and the american public more broadly should be aware of the important work judge kavanaugh has done to remedy those disparities. in our view, the judge has been one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers, end of quote. well, as i think about history history, it leads me to this, the confirmation of judge kavanaugh is particularly meaningful to me. 31 years ago left-wing groups and their senate allies fired the opening shots in the judicial confirmation wars. they engaged at that time in unprecedented character assassination against president reagan's nominee, judge robert bork. since then, t

i think he will continue that on the supreme court. it's a good day for that court to have someone of his stature there joining those justices and i know that he is someone known for cle collegiality as well. chris: what do you think as you look at the pictures of protesters, i will say there are some pro-kavanaugh protesters here, supporters here, i've seen some signs that said believe kavanaugh, but you've got to assume the vast majority of these folks are upset with how the senate has voted today. do you worry about that this has unleashed a reaction in the country? >> i think we see it as leader mcconsistent saidconnell said, e reaction on both sides. a number of people have written to me or received social media messages, talking about how insensed they are at the lack of due process being thrown here, the willingness to throw aside as professo the professor was sg putting aside the value of innocent until proven guilty. it's a fundamental value of western society. we need to not be willing to just because we disagree with someone

the supreme court unanimously affirmed the decision. judge kavanaugh seeks to have it both ways. he brags about his opinion being unanimously upheld by the court, but when he is confronted with the real-world consequences of his decision, he hides behind the pleadings. according to special counsel mueller's indictment, the issue ads run by russian operatives seeking to meddle in the 2016 election includes the messages, quote, join our hashtag hillary clinton for 2016, end of quote. i don't want to read the others, they are so horrible. donald trump wants to defeat terrorism. hillary wants to support it. yet judge kavanaugh's looming decision would permit foreign actors to run advertisements like the ones above without consequences. in fact, legal briefs filed by lawyers for the russian operatives indicted by special counsel mueller cite kavanaugh's blewman opinion that foreign nationals are not barred from issue advocacy such as what is described in the indictment. judge kavanaugh opposes limitation on big money in politics. during his confirmation hearing, judge kavanaugh was con

history of the supreme court. judge kavanaugh's female law clerks sent the committee a letter, and this is what this letter from the law clerks says quote, we know all too well that women in the workplace still face challenges, inequality and even harassment. among other things, women do not enjoy a representative share of prestigious clerkships or high-profile legal positions. but this committee and the american public more broadly should be aware of the important work judge kavanaugh has done to remedy those disparities. in our view, the judge has been one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers, end of quote. well, as i think about history history, it leads me to this, the confirmation of judge kavanaugh is particularly meaningful to me. 31 years ago left-wing groups and their senate allies fired the opening shots in the judicial confirmation wars. they engaged at that time in unprecedented character assassination against president reagan's nominee, judge robert bork. since then, t

have a conflict of interest with the russian interference in the 2016 presidential election the supreme court would be asked to award special counts are mueller to testify in his confirmation hearing he refused to say if he would recuse himself of this s case should it reach the court. i would hope the supreme court would indeed compel president trump to comply with any reasonable subpoena for the special counsel fighting the precedent of richard nixon to surrender tapes and other evidence during the watergate investigation the supreme court ultimately held the president was not above the law. some comments of judge kavanaugh believes thatt he thinks the nixon case was wrongly decided also there are concerns that he would differ criminal investigations until after president trump leaves office. ironically his views on presidential power have change if you look at the kenneth starr independentn counsel under president clinton. judge kavanaugh wrote a sitting president should have absolute discretion to determine whether or when they move forward with a specialli counsel but he does have a trou

what a double standard accusing democrats of the supreme court delay is hypocritical. delaying a supreme court justice over 300 days until the party had a chance to win the white house so no american should accept an admonishment about delay. he is master of delay. and he blazed them kratz moaned as she blames the democrats but they are not in charge we do not in charge of the calendar that people on his side of the aisle who have sincere concerns that they will not go forward unless the process even the initial hearing where doctor ford and judge kavanaugh testified was because a member of the judiciary committee on the republican side said he didn't want to go forward until he heard from them. did we agree that should happen? of course. so to those people who were fair-minded but not by us. and then the reopening of the fbi investigation with new allegations, background check investigations, who caused that delay? i would ask leader mcconnell. not the democrats we don't have the ability to do it but it was the members on his side sincerely looking for theec truth the

they see the new supreme court justice. , they see the court shifting to the right and lower courts also shifting to the right. many democrats, they are frustrated with the rhetoric, the tone, of this course, and the changing and shifting of laws as we've seen since the president took office. so, we saw a narrow margin through which mr. kavanaugh passed on to the high court. it is indicate of this deep divide in the nation, the house, senate and society, what does say about this america moving forward so polarized and divided? >> yeah, i think what this moment in american politics represents is that the leading class needs to reflect more accurately the people that they're governing. i think this midterm election is a watershed occasion, specifically, for example, for democratic profiles to be elected to new candidates to people who -- we've seen the first refugee candidates who have won their primaries and so on, you know, i'm thinking of the texas mayor who is the first lesbian latino sheriff to win a nomination. you see a

senate has voted to approve president trump supreme court nominee geysers fifty. the nays are forty eight. vice president mike pence confirms a close result it means brett kavanaugh will now sit as a judge in the united states highest court and the position is for life. brazilians prepare to go to the polls this weekend in a presidential election that's been mired in division and controversy even including the stabbing of one of the front runners. and byron munich have slumped to another defeat in the bundesliga they suffered a heavy loss at the hands of boras should mention the. controversial us judge brett kavanaugh has just been appointed to the u.s. supreme court by a majority of american senators the case has thrown open partisan politics in the country with kavanagh having been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women when he was a young man after much wrangling at a senate hearing earlier in the week vice president mike pence who presided over the vote made the announcement after the ballots were counted on this vote the ayes are fifty the nays are

he said the price of brett kavanaugh's ascension to the supreme court is incalculably high. it will shatter the institutional integrity of the court and eviscerate standards and expectations for both honesty and nonpartisanship in judicial nominees for years to come. wow that is a strong warning from someone who was a gop insider. and then there is former justice john paul stevens, saying he initially supported kavanaugh's nomination, but then? >> i changed my views for reasons that had really no relationship to his intellectual ability or his record as a federal judge. i think that his performance during the hearings caused me to change my mind. >> senator jeff flake, the arizona republican who last friday forced the white house to order the fbi to investigate christine blasey ford's allegations said this on tuesday. >> the interaction with the members was sharp and partisan and that concerns me. and i tell myself you give a little leeway because of what he's been through. but on the other hand, we can't have this on the court. we simply can't. >> well, it's about to happen.

this is the east side of the supreme court. on the other side, the main entrance, the iconic edifice of the supreme court. at that moment when he was inside protesters, a couple hundred of them, my guess, rushed to the top of the steps banging on the enormous brass doors screaming, chanting, expressing their anger and frustration. a remarkable day from this perspective with the protesters. >> the protests at the supreme court in the senate chambers outside the senate chambers in the capitol building. a remarkable day indeed. mike for us at the supreme court. thank you. let's go to jeff bennett who is at the trump rally in topeka, kansas. jeff, when is the president getting there? what's the mood? >> we expect to see the president take the stage in about a half hour. right now the president's 2020 campaign manager is throwing out make america hats to those in the crowd. people here are happy. in the zero sum game of politics, a win is a win, and they are feeling happy about the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme cour

senate has just voted to approve president trump supreme court nominee. the vote was interrupted by protesters in the chamber as senators prepared to make their choice police arrested protesters outside the senate building judge of brett kavanaugh had faced allegations of sexual misconduct. brazilians prepare to go to the polls this weekend in a presidential election that's been mired in division and controversy even including the stabbing of one of the front runners. and one of the one of opera's great voices also on. the music world mourns the loss of soprano montserrat caballe a who has died at the age of eighty five. u.s. senators have just voted and brett kavanaugh has been voted in as a supreme court judge the vote was expected to be close but when two republican swing senators on friday finally announced that they would vote in favor of kavanagh it meant that he would probably win by at least a couple of voice votes the appointment has been divisive as several women accuse kavanaugh sexual misconduct staff and the voting is done what's the reaction

and balances, they've got to be checked in november. >> elise, why do the conservatives want the supreme court so much? >> why wouldn't you, chris, it's power. it's gotten outside power in the past couple decades, because congress fails to do their job, so many major policy decisions have been outsourced to the court, and by taking a more proactive stance in grooming a pipeline of potential supreme court justices, we've seen where conservatives have been quite successful in grooming and cultivating good candidates throughout the process, so that they have -- today they were able to realize their long held goal of a more conservative supreme court. >> i ask that, because i do have some experience anecdotally, watching people showing up for trump who have nothing but contempt for his lifestyle. his marital history, if you will, the whole thing, the whole works of who donald trump is, and are willing to put their only voight on the line for him. in places like pennsylvania. i wonder if that's -- that is unique to the conservative side of the argument? it seems democrats wouldn't do that, they wou