from the notorious star r report to the florida recount to this president's secrecy and privilege claims, to post 9/11 legislative battles, including the victim's compensation fund, to controversial judicial nominations, if there's been a partisan political fight that needed a good lawyer in the last decade, brent kavanaugh was probably there. and if he was there, there's no question what side he was on. brett kavanaugh's nomination to the d.c. circuit is not just a drop of salt in the partisan wounds. it's the whole shaker. >> april 2004. senate democrats just baffled at the time that the white house had sent over president bush's staff secretary for a position on what is arguably the most important court in the country after the supreme court. it took the white house two years to get that nomination through because of fierce resistance to the nominee because of his background. it took so long they had to have a very rare second confirmation hearing on him in 2006 after he