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And this is where life meets legal. a month until the midterms and there are new warning signs for republicans in critical battleground house districts. a new poll from "the washington post" and george mason university showed democrats narrowly preferring democratic candidates. this is a major shift for districts. a majority of those districts are currently held by republicans. but in the aftermath of the kavanagh confirmation, the very opposite effect may be true for senate contests. especial...

That, so it didnt 100% shift the momentum, but what the white house believes and the kavanagh allies, it seemed to crush the momentum in kavanaghs favor and put him over the edge there. >> and now tonight the president is going to have a ceremonial signing in, and this is traditionally done, but its usually done low key, during the day. but this is going to be prime time at 7:00 at night. and this, harry litman is what elena kagan had to say on friday, and justice sotomayor, the princeton gradua...

Her favorite at that critical moment. >> thats exactly right, had a vote been taken at that moment, its more likely judge kavanagh would go down. everyone in the white house was worried they had lost the momentum and the only way to do it was to see if judge kavanagh could do it himself. and the chairman cleared the room, in the holding room, where judge kavanagh was waiting for his turn to testify. and he explained to him that he had to really show what he felt, that he had to speak from the he...

You were there. right on set. ive been watching so much. but that was chris coons on "meet the press," sort of pushing back on the whole idea of impeachment. how big a deal is this on the house side? there are a couple of house members that dont even want to talk about this, but one said that there could be investigations into justice kavanagh if the senate does not investigate him. or is this that same, sort of progressive, lets say, wing of the democratic party wanting to go for something that...

The things he said this weekend about what he believes is going to fire up the republican base. >> we finally discovered the one thing that would fire up the republican base and we didnt think of it. the other side did it. the tactics that have been employed both by judiciary committee democratic senators and by the virtual mob thats assaulted all of us in the course of this process has turned our base on fire. they managed to deliver the only thing we had not been able to figure out how to do w...

Did comment on how she was glad to hear that dr. ford had a chance to say her piece, but she praised judge kavanagh. you were with her in front of the sphinx. i know she doesnt like people to talk about her clothes, it looked like death on the nile. >> she had been on this four-country tour of africa. and she had not taken questions throughout her trip. we shouted one or two with her in ghana. this is the first time we had an exchange with her and covered everything, from kavanagh to the country...

Perhaps suggesting that she has family, a house, some roots in may, may even be interested in challenging her in 2020. it but the most immediate is heidi hidecamp from north dakota who voted against judge kavanagh and is going to really take the heat for this. and this is part of what she had to say on 60 minutes. >> in 2000 when i was running for governor, i was diagnosed with breast cancer. and it was serious, my doctor told me that i had a 28% chance of living 10 years. so i tell people, you ...

Political contributor peter baker, chief white house correspondent at the "new york times." welcome all. well, kristen, first to you, you were questioning the president this morning already, fire and fury at the democrats over the confirmation battle. clearly he thinks this is a great midterm issue for republicans? >> reporter: he does, andrea, hes already been campaigning off of this big victory, getting judge brett kavanagh to be confirmed. hes now of course justice kavanagh. and we saw that o...

Talk to each other, reason through, and now theres the distinct prospect that the five can just kind of mow the other four down without exactly listening. i think that that may prove a little bit -- there may be some good news within the court, but the real problem, and its what justice kagan was pointing to is the legitimacy of the court to the outside world. last time we saw justice kavanagh, he was in this volcanic rage and he gets there with the politics of contempt and partisanship and will...

Just back from that trip, that extraordinary trip to africa with the first lady. well talk to you about that. but first, the kavanagh effect could help democrats in house seats, could certainly help republicans in senate seats and the president trying to make the most of it by really seizing on any suggestion by democrats, which pelosi and others do not want to hear about, but any talk about impeaching kavanagh now that hes on the supreme court. >> we did a npr maris, that showed just over the s...