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Disgraceful performances by a president in memory. >> right. well john mccains statement also the director of national intelligence statement saying they stand by their intelligence and now chuck schumer will exert a whole bunch of pressure on republicans to stand up on this. chuck schumer says look i dont know why hes doing this, implying of course that putin has something on donald trump. but he did give them some things that congress can do, which is ratchet up sanction, demand that the peopl...

Hezbollah or others. and and on top of that, compare the singapore summit to what we are seeing here. interesting that the president went to singapore and was trying to get north korea to denuclearize. and the democrats were against everything he was doing. now, he is here saying, among other things, i want to reduce the influence of iran and funding of terror. and i want to talk nuclear disarmament with vladimir putin. and schumer and other democrats say dont meet with them. cancel the summit b...

The best people to check him are not democrats but his fellow republicans. >> this is a serious day. do you know why chuck schumer always sounds like hes giving a press conference from a library? >> he does it everyday. >> not everyday. do you think there needs to be more from democrats on a day like today? >> i dont know exactly how i would frame it, but i do agree that, look, a lot of the things that mr. trump said as a candidate that i found anti-american in their essence, by not realizing th...

Language, it was notable how it was delivered. i think the other thing that were seeing start to come together here today which will be very interesting is the answer to this question of what should congress do. >> right. >> reporter: or what can congress do. we heard chuck schumer a little while ago who laid out a couple of things republicans can do. first, dont water down the existing russia sanctions. lets find a way to ratchet them up. second, lets get some of these national security officia...

Foreign policy issues when he was on the dc circuit he supported obama on executive power, democratic president. >> right, i think that speaks for consistency, what the democrats are not worried is brett kavanaugh but constitution. the constitution is a limiting document and so is the law. thats what they are afraid of. i point on roe, when neil gorsuch was asked, he cited book he wrote on precedent. brett kavanaugh contribute today that book. he was through the murder boards for robert and alit...

Them when it comes to conclusion. rachel: not the headlines. pete: these indictments dont have a lot of teeth. the other is democrats saying because of these indictments that dont have any teeth, the trump-putin summit should be called off. here is nancy pelosi in a statement. the trump-putin meeting must be cancelled. the president must finally put the integrity of our democracy before the interest of putin. rachel: okay. and schumer also saying glad handing with vladimir putin opt heels of the...

Hoping that something comes up, whether its his baseball tickets that hes got for the nationals, but mitch mcconnell is looking at his caucus and so far all of the people youd be nervous about, murkowski, collins, rand paul and jeff flake, theyve been giving reassuring noises. paul: kim, what about the point that schumers real point to delay this as long as possible both maybe something will come up if you do that kind of document search or you wait for somebody to come up with accusation and al...

Court in the union and hes handled himself very well. hes a judge with a lot of experience. i expect his confirmation to go well. >> shep, you mentioned lindsey graham. graham said the democrats opposed to this nomination, lindsey graham said that if the democrats want to stop it, they should win elections. back to you. >> shepard: what are you hearing from democrats? >> you talked about chuck schumer in the press conference. theyre doubling down on the message theyre going to try to stop to use...

Schumer now says that the judge should have to explain, i guess, his position on abortion or maybe even his personal feelings and recuse himself from what, the trump -- the mueller probe, right? >> this is unprecedented that someone would start their tenure on the supreme court and remove themselves from the category of cases that involve the person who appointed them. i cant imagine that judge kavanaugh would say yes to that. my strong advice would be forget about it. you dont have to reply to ...

One key statement weve seen from chuck schumer said hes going to oppose brett kavanaughs nomination with everything he has. one thing we should point out is that there are two different careers of brett kavanaugh. one is the career as a judge. hes been on the d.c. court of appeals, and jeffrey and joan will talk more about that. the other is hes been a political operative works in the worlds of conservative lawyers, conservative operators, and this is where i think its going to be very contentio...