worth mentioning there s a natural sort of, there s a natural connection there between being chief of staff and being omb director because you work with all of the cabinet agencies, you work with the heads of those cabinets about their budgets. arthel: right. but maintaining both positions? is going to be a tricky job, a very tricky job. arthel: meanwhile, of course, as you know, jeff, the white house chief of staff does not require senate confirmation. however, considering that confirmation processes for any new cabinet members poised to be cop ten white house, that coupled with the ongoing mueller probe, investigations by the southern district of new york, i mean, what s the impact on president trump s success on the job as well as his campaign to keep the position? well, indeed. i mean, and as we know, we re going to start seeing we re already seeing democrats put their name in the hat for, to potentially run for president in 2020. we ll see next year, perhaps, if president
country s politics right now. the nation s deeply divided. the senate is deeply divided. i think as long as the two parties are so closely aligned in the senate in terms of their numbers, you re going to end up seeing these sort of partisan confirmation processes. for example, if president trump were to get rid of jeff sessions as attorney general next year and nominate a new attorney general, i think that confirmation process could be very partisan and very ugly. it s just the reality of the sort of government structure we have right now. one of the points a lot of people are turning to as a turning point is when the president went on the attack, not just criticizing dr. ford s story but really mocking it in the way he questioned the credibility of her memory. i want to play you this sound bite from this rally. watch. i thought i had to even the playing field. it was very unfair to judge now i can, you know, very nicely say justice kavanaugh. right, right. it was a very unfa
divisive, hurtful confirmation processes and hearings that we ve been through. it not only taints brett kavanaugh it taints the supreme court, which should be one of the most venerable institutions we have in the country. my question to republicans is, couldn t you find somebody else who was equally as experienced and equally as as capable as they believe he was, but without the atrocious black cloud that is going to be following him into one of the highest institutions in the land? one that actually will divide this country for years and years to come? coo d do they really believe this was that important to get this particular person on to the supreme court? do they have no other lawyers that they believe could have come as good or better than him? let s have andre answer that, and then i ve got another question.
how he s going to conduct himself as a judge. he was talking about confirmation processes in the future and that there are going to be democrats that will be coming before that body again and what goes around comes around, meaning that vitriol that was so dead set against him in those hearings, that had nothing to do with how he was going to act as a justice. the problem with the way that judge kavanaugh, now justice kavanaugh comported himself at that hearing, the difficulty is what it does to the supreme court as an institution and what it does in the perspective of some as to how he proceeds as a justice. the fact of the matter is he was partisan. he was very deliberate in the things that he said that were political and they were partisan. and so there will be some, both litigants who are before the court as well as the public, who are going to question whether or not he is able to set that anger aside, set what are some deeply held political and partisan views, and set them aside
of the tension and bitterness from both sides. even ruth bader ginsburg complained about the system. she was an aclu lawyer and she said it got out of control. she has not dawk of talked directly on this, but she lamented how these confirmation processes have changed. any future senate will go back to that 60 number you need which generates support for more moderate middle of the road candidates as opposed to the 51 that is the requirement right now. up next, a republican senator s reaction to today s vote. mike is standing by and you see him on capitol hill. we will discuss after this. i used to book my hotel room on those travel sites but there was always a catch. like somehow you wind up getting less.