road map for his most literal senator colleagues to follow. has a smear tactic that the washington democrats are using. dianne feinstein perfected it when she came out and performed her character assassination on judge kavanaugh. judge kavanaugh, a big hit issue here as well. a truck driver told me today that to wait way deal traffic about politics is as animated as ever when the issue of the judge kavanaugh confirmation comes out. people are telling him, they will skip holding a load of logs on election day. it will cost you $600. bret: that s a big deal in montana. peter doocy out there for the big event, thank you. one of the closest and most expensive races in this house list, molly is in maine where a lone g.o.p. congressman is trying to hang onto his job.
president trump comes to rally for rosendale, he tweeted this about tester s interaction with the veterans affairs committee. he wrote, ever since his vicious statements about admiral ron jackson, the doctor for obama, bush and me, senator tester was in trouble. that is something on matt rosendale s mind as well. jon tester came out several months ago and performed the same type of character assassination on ronnie jackson, so he invented this smear tactic that the washington democrats are using. dianne feinstein perfected it when she came out and performed her character assassination on judge kavanaugh. reporter: i just asked tester about this, about the president s tweet before we came to the back of the room. he insisted he never made any false statements about ronnie
democrat mob did with justice k. but tester told me that it wasn t him. i didn t see the president s tweet but i didn t make those statements. those are accusations that came from military people, both active military and retired. he with drew his name from the nomination process after those accusations were made. tester wants to leave the ronny jackson saga in the past to focus on the future. matt rosendale isn t ready to let it go and he now says that tester s treatment of ronny jackson gave democrats a road map to disrupt the kavanaugh proceedings months later. jon tester came out several months ago and perform the same type of character assassination on ronny jackson. so he invested this smear tactic that the washington democrats are using and dianne feinstein
consent. the old fashioned restitution on judiciary nominees including supreme court and were more inclined to give the president the person that he wants. now it s the supreme court nominations are every bit as partisan a tool as everything else we re seeing in washington and politics. president trump has just made that environment just so much more political. everything is partisan. everything is seen through the partisan lens which is why we saw the letter from senator grassley and members of the judiciary coming out so quickly calling the allegations into this question, saying it was a democratic smear tactic. there wasn t a pretense we need to dig in and look more at the bottom. with clarence thomas anita hill came and testified. it was an all male committee. the optics were terrible. no one was ever invited to step forward as a witness and corroborate what she had said even though there were other women out there who could have. in this case it doesn t sound
martha: the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee dropping a bomb shell one week before the committee is said to vote on the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. dianne feinstein confirming that she send sensitive information to federal investigators. she won t say what the information is. the timing is suspicious, the white house is calling it an 11th hour to delay tactic. a smear tactic even his opponents in the media calling troubling. trace gallagher with the background this tonight. senator feinstein saying the reason she won t talk about the information to investigators holding that the individual strongly requested confidentiality and i have honored that decision.