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Documents for a smoking gun to hit brett kavanaugh with. they have not come up with a gun so far and i dont think susan collins or his a murkowski are going on a wild goose chase on behalf of nothing and if nothing is produced the republicans and should fight back against producing that many documents, you know, having forced mitch mcconnell to blow up the "nuclear option" so that you only need a majority of votes in the senate, the democrats are going to remain on the losing side of this battle...

Somehow in those documents millions and millions of documents for a smoking gun to hit brett kavanaugh with. they have not come up with a gun so far and i dont think susan collins or his a murkowski are going on a wild goose chase on behalf of nothing and if nothing is produced the republicans and should fight back against producing that many documents, you know, having forced mitch mcconnell to blow up the "nuclear option" so that you only need a majority of votes in the senate, the democrats a...

Economy and american ingeneral nutty and agriculture is ep exports. times are uf it. to impose the tariffs now adds salt to the injury that a lot of farmers are facing. i think the presidents made a political decision. hearing from the heartland he was very popular in. so they decided they could use the commodity credit corporation. but the real answer is to work out positive trade arrangements with the rest of the world and not really do another embargo. we just cant afford that. we cant stand ...

Decades that argument held. until -- >> one day a friend of mine in the oil business called. is it true that you have anwr in the bill? i said, i dont know. who cares? what is that? he said, reagan tried. every single president tried. i said, you got to be kidding? i love it now and after that we fought like hell to get anwr. >> the december tax cut bill opened anwr to drilling thanks to alaska senator murkowski who slipped in the provision knowing it needed 51 instead of 60 votes to pass. >> it...

Won up for reelection this year? are they being dragged too far to the left? >> i dont think so. i dont think that we can just focus on red state democrats. i think even if the democratic leadership, people like nancy pelosi and schumer arent necessarily leading the party to the left. they are being pushed to the left by people like alexandria ocasio cortez because they are a younger party. and they have a longer life to live. they are going to have to suffer the consequences of a g.o.p.-led con...

It depends on the facts. and you dont get answers. i think its fair game for questioning and they should question him on it. >> he wants to put the final nail in the ruling deeply, deeply troubling, he said. is it enough to compel him to recuse from the mueller probe? >> i dont think what the democrats are trying to do here and i understand is look for any way they can to derail cavanaughs nomination. the only way they be do that is get to the more centrist minded republican who is are protectiv...

Several red state democrats supporting it. if they can get murkowski and collins to reconsider, its a whole different ball game with people like mansion and -- the throe who voted for gorsuch. >> this sounds a little bit like president trump and his not politically correct playbook weve heard so often work for him. as democrats are trying to figure out their strategy on the supreme court, an outspoken critic of kavanaugh is facing her own battle, senator dianne feinstein, she just endorsed her o...

Important institutions in our democracy in this moment when his entire authority is really suspect. >> you know, matt, we talked to you in a previous block about brian benczkowski, who was confirmed by all the republicans, and joe manchin. kavanaugh helped draft the impeachment against former president bill clinton, a law clerk to kennedy in 1993. he has been previously voted to affirm by two members who would now be in a position to vote no, collins and murkowski. and more significantly, well p...

Screen shot of a press release from the organization calling for the defeat of the nominee, but the two xs indicated it was written before we knew who the nominee was going to be. talking about the aforementioned reporters for "the washington post" and nancy cook back with us as well. white house reporter for politico. i know some of this is going-over already plowed ground. where do you put the odds? we know what the math is even without john mccain as a live voting member in the senate chamber...

A foxnews.com reporter grabbed a screen shot of a press release from the organization calling for the defeat of the nominee, but the two xs indicated it was written before we knew who the nominee was going to be. talking about the aforementioned reporters for "the washington post" and nancy cook back with us as well. white house reporter for politico. i know some of this is going-over already plowed ground. where do you put the odds? we know what the math is even without john mccain as a live vo...