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Have a problem delaying sentencing because flynn has been assisting the special counsels investigation. flynns team says their client is eager to proceed with sentencing in order to bring an end to the process. both sides are required to provide an update on possible sentencing dates or delay by late august. and house majority whip steve scalise is defending congressman jim jordan amid accusations that jordan knew about alleged sexual abuse while he was an ohio state wrestling coach but did no...

>> stand by, were going to go to capitol hill. the judiciary chairman chuck grassley is meeting right now with supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> im just going to make a short statement. im not going to take any questions. obviously our nominee will not take any questions. but ive just had a pleasant conversation with judge kavanaugh. he and i have not interacted a lot in our lifetimes. so meeting with him is very important. hes a respected jurist with outstanding opinions that i think ar...

Their families. the others, the government says, is just not going to be possible to do today. that will be discussed in court. but the bigger issue that will be discussed in court, what about the thousands of kids over 5 that need to be reunited with their parents? the judge in california going to basically work out a process because the trump administration doesnt have one for how that is going to happen. lawyers for the aclu that brought this suit want a truncated process, two, three days wit...

It really has -- it all proceeds president trump. i think president trump has given that up and said, help me decide this, and i dont think he cares that much about it as long as it pleases the people who voted for him, which it does. >> thats so true. this is a very labor-intensive, long game plan among conservative lawyers and conservative groups. i mean, decades, a generation plus. its bearing fruit right now. thats no small thing. >> and also, i think its worth noting that kavanaugh is a guy...

This would explain why some of our colleagues found eager to turn judicial confirmations into something like political elections. >> as for the handful of key senators whose votes will make or break the nomination, were were hearing a lot of them say theyre going to keep an open mind. cnns phil mattingly joins me now from the hill. phil, youve been talking to senators and their aides. wh what have you been hearing, anything surprising, or is it standard partisan fare? >> reporter: a little more ...

>> i think that there is a process. that process needs to be fair. it needs to be open. we all, every member of the united states senate has an equal obligation to thoroughly vet this nominee. >> that was senator murkowski there, the other potential swing vote who has been historically focussed on this issue. she describes herself as pro-choice. >> and kavanaughs comments you played just a few minutes ago saying he wouldnt throw out roe v. wade basically give both of these republicans plausible ...

Senators that are in the middle. susan collins, lisa murkowski on the republican side. on the democratic side, several red-state democrats. trump won states by double digits who were up for re-election. as you noted, those senators, as we expected, keeping their powder dry. that really underscores were in for a lengthy process. obviously the full-on blitz started frankly even before brett kavanaugh was nominated. youre going to have millions of dollars in outside money trying to influence those ...

Quickly. but its going to be thorough. its going to be done right. and try to do what we can to accommodate everybodys interests. in the end, i think his record speaks for itself. we thank you all very much. >> a little hard to hear over all clicking sounds there, but that is chuck grassley. hes the chairman of the judiciary committee. he will be running the confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh. the gist of what he said was theres going to be a thorough process. obviously he didnt say, okay...

Hes a respected jurist and so on and so forth. you know, this is about as standard and conventional as we see of any process in the trump administration. this happens in every administration, democrat or republican. you do the nominee. the next day they go up to the hill and do the meet and greets and say words without really saying much before the cameras. >> i think this is because this is the -- sort of the kbbiggest part of trumps administration that hes farmed out to another group of folks,...