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I want to clarify one thing. in the article where he talked about this, he didnt say as a constitutional matter, the president should be immune from all civil and liability. he said congress should pass a law to protect the president. not that we think congress is capable of doing anything in any sense. i dont think he was making the constitutional point that is quite so broad. >> hes making a political argument that the impeachment of a president would put a prosecutor in the place of supplanti...

Lean toward their constituency at home and the most importantly you put your finger on it. he has a history of saying he doesnt think presidents should be indicted and he doesnt think there should be legislation on it. this is powerful stuff. trump likes people telling him how great he is and how hes always right. heres a guy applying for the job and says, you shouldnt have a finger laid on you. thats a pretty good selling point. >> what strikes me as important about that, senator booker was foc...

Now that the president made the choice, this nominee has to get through the u.s. senate. where the balance of power stands at 51 republicans to 49 democrats. among those 51 republicans is senator john mccain who is out and at home because of health concerns. given that math and the way this supreme court nomination came to be, giveren the history of barack obama not allowed to advance his nominee, merritt garland. what are the republicans best chances? what should we expect in terms of fight ahe...

He was deputy chief of staff for harry reid who was seen as a master of the senate rules and who went to the mat in all sorts of unprecedented ways in fights like this in the past. thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me. >> youve spoken publicly about what you think democrats ought to do if they want to pull out all the stops to fight. now that weve got a name and it is not just hypothetical, do you think that brett kavanaugh will inspired a uni...

The president tonight chose brett kavanaugh to fill the vacancy of the supreme court. he has been on the d.c. circuit court of appeals for a dozen years now. since he has been on the d.c. circuit court, you should also know that kavanaugh has been serving all these years under the chief judge of that court. whose name is -- merritt garland. who was nominated in the spring of 2016 to fill the supreme court seat vacated by the death of scalia.

This is happening right now in washington, d.c., on the steps of the supreme court. weve got people gathered there. basically for the announcement from president trump. now that the nomination has been announced specifically with brett kavanaugh, you have people with signs that say stop kavanaugh. joining us, nina totenberg from npr, thank you so much for being with us on this big night. >> its my pleasure. >> so let me get your top line reaction to the president choosing brett kavanaugh. seems ...

Record at length on this question of whether a president is subject, should be subject to criminal investigations, civil lawsuits, indictment, impeachment and all the rest of it. he is the only one from that list who said a lot on the record in print on this matter that the white house could have reviewed and hes the one they picked. i cant imagine that under any other president picking him. but with no other president picking him, would your first concern be that maybe he was picking him becaus...

Potential susceptibility to obstruction of justice charges, those writings by judge kavanaugh were overtly considered and reviewed by the white house team that was advising the president on making this pick. if thats true, if it turns out the president chose judge kavanaugh for this nomination in part on what he said about whether president trump could be indicted, would that itself be a factor for confirmation? would that be disqualifying? >> first, i have no doubt this president who seems to b...

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He has a very big paper trail. he has the time in the bush white house. he has the starr report, hes the principal author for and has to own. and has quite a number of opinions. and i think it does open up one glimmer of hope for the democrats, which is not a down vote, but a delay. there is the real possibility with the big paper trail and something coming up, this is why mcconnell preferred someone else. that the democrats may be able to maneuver into the shadow of the midterms and possibly th...