efforts. it might have been russia. president trump will roll into britain later this week after whatever he s going to do to nato at the nato summit perform racking up things to talk to president putin about. i ve heard people say this is a time of realignment in the world. it feel mike to me. it feels like derailment. sometimes dhoings fall apart. part of fighting the derailment now is a good old-fashioned american battle over who gets to sit on the supreme court. and for all the other unprecedented stuff we re going through, fighting who gets to sit on the supreme court is something we know how to fight
news broke that he might have lied as part of getting himself there. quote, one of president bush s most controversial judicial appointees may have been less than forthright with congress at a crucial confirmation hearing last year. the illinois senator dick durbin was one of the senators on the committee that ultimately oversaw this judge s confirmation more than a decade ago. he told npr, when the news came out that he felt perilously close to being lied the by judge. now more than a decade later, the story of that judge and the senators who felt lied to by him in his confirmation hearings, that story is back in the news. the judge is brett kavanaugh, president trump s pick for a lifetime appointment on the supreme court. senators believe the last time he went through confirmation hearings in the senate, he appears to have lied to them about whether or not he had had personal involvement in a
not a predictor because i think this will be so much bigger, so much more of a brawl. the stakes are so much higher, certainly for civil rights groups, for women and many as h can possibly be. but think about this. this is a president who is under a cloud of investigation. you ve talked about this, as have other guests on your show. many of the issues that are going to emanate from the mueller investigation may make their way to the supreme court. this is a president who s flirted with the idea of pardoning himself. so this whole process is already under a cloud. and the president nominates someone who as chuck schumer said has kind of been involved in all of the past stick y sticy controversies of politics. he as an author of the starr report investigating president clinton. you just described his role as an adviser to president bush and all of the issues that involve detainee mistreatment and misconduct. all of that now has to be pulled out along with ten years of
looms over this process as the republicans try to take brett kavanaugh to meet with senators. we have to remember that these senators would not even meet with merrick garland, who is the chief judge of the d.c. circuit court of appeals. and we have this volume nous record. we have some of it. a lot of it we don t have. the e-mails that we want to receive. and we have to painstakingly look at the record of this nominee. particularly because the stakes are so high in terms of civil rights and women s rights and the course of democracy in this country but also because of the president, who is under a cloud of investigations. this is about the integrity of our democracy, the rule of law, the integrity of the court itself. so this is going to be difficult. it s going to be hard-fought. it s going to be long. anybody who s telling you this is going to rush through, that may be what mitch mcconnell wants, but that cannot happen. if this is going to be a process that is true to the advise and
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