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The senate echoed support for nato. at the top of the broadcast, they passed a motion to reaffirm the commitment. this is symbolic and not binding, but the margin was overwhelming, 97-2. with the presidents first public appearance with the nato allies just hours away, we thought we would do the only thing that made sense to us and that is bring in bill kristol. veteran of the reagan and bush administrations and the weekly standard. my first question to you, describe natos value to you and descri...

Day in september 2008 when the market fell dramatically because congress didnt pass the t.a.r.p. package during the financial crisis. that was something that scared congress into submission and made them go back to the drawing board and figure out, hey, the market doesnt like this, the people wont like this and we need to find something that works. unless you have a drop thats extremely dramatic like that, it likely wont change the minds of the nationalists within the white house that say, hey, ...

Impeached bill clinton but those of formative years for kavanaugh with ken star. then we move towards 2000s when he represented gonzalez, the six-year-old cuban refugee in his custody fight and his effort to keep him in the u.s. and it was an unsuccessful fight. what you and i remember so well in 2000s, the florida recount episode that determines for sure that george w. bush would end up in the white house and boy did that ten years served brett kavanaugh. once he became an associate white house...

Choosing someone, who does tend to think this way and someone could ultimately decide the presidents faith. why would that be considered a conflict? >> well, i think it is not a conflict because i dont know what was in the presidents mind when he made the selection. on paper, judge kavanaugh impeccably -- it will far out last the trump administration and the administrations that follows it. the investigation was written when president obama was in office. this is a judge thats taken views regard...

Y i dont know how anybody could vote for him. >> democrats have two head winds. one, if the republicans can keep their caucus together, they get the 50 votes. plus, you have some red-state democrats, as my colleague was explaining, who might feel some political pressure at home to also vote for this nomination. in light of that, do democrats have the numbers to hold this up? >> lets have the hearings. you know, i was a prosecutor. i always believed in having the trial and then see what the jury ...

>> martha: is interesting. given what weve seen in prior administrations, perhaps dangling a little bit stronger rhetoric and even potentially we might have to back out some of our commitment. we might have to lower some of our troop levels if everybody isnt on board. maybe that might work. >> theres no question that trumps willingness to push hard in the same way it got the chinese to toughen up sanctions against the north koreans facilitating the eventual engagement diplomatically could well p...

Point here, right? >> absolutely. and i think the u.s. actually has made real progress. i mean, i think this administration can claim success that the last three administrations failed that. they actually got europeans to come to the table for a serious conversation and im not really sure that trump is going into this meeting to blow things up. they have been sending the u.s. ambassador to the un, kay bailey hutchison talking about progress, im not really that this is going to be what people exp...

Get up there, the uk, estonia, poland, romania, lat via and lithuania. some good news. >> i think they will spend more time talking about balloons in london -- theres a substantive agenda at the nato summit. i actually think, you know, this might be pretty good. dont forget the president is going to nato right after he does announcement about the supreme court justice and the administrations want the focus to be on this and not on the nato trip. carley: i want to turn for a minute to the situati...

Know how government works. from a nut and bolts they dont respect the process. you have a mass departure of mid to high level managers, career civil servants when barack obama left. they never got replaced. this administration says we dont need employees, we dont need civil servants, yes, you do, to implement and hopefully fix a problem they have created. this is a reflection on competency and lack of -- >> they brainwashed their base to believe everybody a civil servant is part of the deep stat...

Administration. i have served in previous administrations, including ronald reagans, and you never saw this kind of incompetence youre seeing in this administration, and i think that has a lot of people scared. >> and back to the supreme court because you brought it up. i have talked to republicans who are in touch with the president who say it will be hard for democrats to vote against a woman. true or false? >> false. i think it depends on -- look, ultimately, democrats want to see roe v. wade...