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Departures and we can't forget the headache this causes for the other end of pennsylvania avenue, meaning senate republicans who have to confirm these posts. a lot of these really contentious, controversial fights. you're talking about homeland security, all these debates erupting about immigration, attorney general issues that go on in the justice department. and you're having senate republicans when it comes to that attorney general post anyone from lamar alexander, who can speak candidly and sometimes goes away from the party line and to john cornyn, close trump ally, saying we can't emerge...

Of these senate seats unfold and seeing -- watching the vote come in. it's interesting to watch montana, jon tester, one of those senators running in a state that was double digits for trump. montana was 20 points for trump and tester is running there. also in arizona, looking like we have a tight race there in terms of the senate. right now the republicans are at the majority they've got right now in the senate. the question is whether or not they are going to build on that. it's not unheard of for parties to add seats in the senate, even as they lose in the house and midterm. ronald reagan w...

>> that was a carefully written speech by the white house staff. this was not donald trump talking off the top of his head. white house staff members sat down and wrote those lies, tat the president told at the kind of white house event that has always been handled with dignity and without politic ezven after extremely controversial confirmation fights. the president reduced everything that dr. ford said to the words, lies. >> those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. >>...

Tonight donald trump hosted the most partisan and angry ceremonial swearing in to the supreme court justice the country has ever seen. two people gave remarks. the president of the united states and the newest supreme court justice. and both of them were angry and partisan. the president told the lie that brett kavanaugh was found innocent of the accusations made against him by dr. christine blasey ford and other women. >> with that i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. thank you. >> that was a carefully written speech by the white house staff. this was not ...

The nominee went to an all-boys high school. getting 65 women to sign on to a letter speaking to his character back then is an undertaking. >> it is. at the same time, there are 65 women, as you say, on the letter. it seems like if they are saying that this was just organized very quickly that it can't be the case that they are all involved in some kind of conspiracy on his behalf. it is a difficult situation. the white house and kavanagh himself i think are really involved in trying to push back on this. i was watching a speech that kavanaugh gave at the clinton library down in little rock an...