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Kavanaugh's confirmation process will join us live in moments. and also republican senator john barrasso. >> john: what are we learning, david, about the suspect and the circumstances of the arrest. >> david: he is in federal custody, we don't have his name, he's from california, he has been in federal fbi custody and expected to appear before a judge in the next few hours. he was picked up outside kavanaugh's home in maryland, the bethesda area, 1:42 the call came in from montgomery county police. arrived on scene, found the man in his 20s from california, not only a knife, but a gun threaten...

Regard to our democracy. >> talk about some of the solutions. what is the number one? >> i am not sure i can pick a number one. >> okay. pick one. >> like taking a favor trial. we talk about the supreme court. i think that we need to first expand the court to deal with the fact that two seats were stolen. i think we need to limit the number of years that people could serve on the supreme court. i just 18 years. it's in the places where chief justice roberts and ayanna agree. he suggested 50. i spent 18. but also come up in a way to do the selection process so that the president will pick a new...

Are antiabortion or participate, a lot of money spent. on it this is the one group that remains a single issue for voters. the promise that has been made is that we are going to be appointing justices that will overturn roe v. wade. the challenge -- a lot of the leaders of these groups have come to believe that to be the case. after a 50 year wait. but frankly, between you and i, which is mystifying to me the most is the answers the justices have given in the confirmation process. which are pretty clear. and the answer was, roe v. wade is established law. we have had that case and then we have...

Decision was decided correctly. now he comes out in this draft opinion and, again, it is a draft opinion, and people are allowed to change their minds, but the fact that that draft opinion may have been written by the same person who said those words, suggests that he is suggesting that, no, no, no, it was decided wrong from the get go. that was not the answer he gave there. we know in supreme court confirmation hearings, time and again, one of the reasons that people are losing a lot of faith in the court, they assign a political perception to the confirmation process, is because you'll say w...

And now they've overturned. we know that confirmation process is a parlor game and doesn't mean a whole of a heck lot when you get on the bench. with roe, what they said and what they're doing today are entirely inconsistent. >> what do you think, jeffrey? >> well, when donald trump ran for president, he said that in one of the debates with hillary clinton, it wasn't a big secret. he said i'm going to appoint justices on the supreme court who will vote to overturn roe v. wade. a lot of people said it's politicking. that's precisely what will he's done, it appears, from this opinion. he had thr...