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Interest groups. kavanaugh was added to the list late last year. what senator booker is saying, he is the one person on that list who is explicitly on the record talking about a president's liability to criminal investigation and indictment. and saying, as senator booker said, that a president should not be subject to criminal investigation and cannot be indicted. if he is the one guy from that list of two dozen choices who has been explicit on that point, is that the signal element that we should see here in this choice? joining us once again, dahlia, legal correspondent at slate.com. to this...

Any number of the elements of his defense may end up before the u.s. supreme court. and potentially before the nominee he has named tonight. can the president be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury? can a president be criminally indicted? can the president pardon himself? can he pardon others if the goal of the pardons is to weaken the case against himself or his family? can states bring prosecutions against people the president has pardoned if he pardons them for that reason? all of those questions are considered to be unsettled as matters of american law. it means if and when push come...

Him. and i think that donald trump was making exactly the calculus you just identified. if i have to figure out who to mollify, i have all these groups angry about someone. i am going to protect myself. i am going to pick the guy who wrote most expansively over years what the scope of presidential power is. in that sense, you see trump not looking at the landscape of that. who do i need to satisfy for the upcoming midterms. instead, how do i protect myself? >> let's just quote directly judge kavanaugh from a 1998 georgetown law article. quote, congress should establish, important to point that...

Republican senators who are on the record as supporting roe v. wade, describing it as settled law. saying that it shouldn't be overturned and saying that may be a factor in their votes. do you expect that judge cavanaugh's record on that subject should sway the votes of republican senators who aren't diametrically opposed? >> his record should. but also the fact he has been appointed by a president with this unusual promise that he's only putting on justices who would overturn roe v. wade. what the senators should insist upon, is that they get an answer. a direct answer, a plain answer, about ...

Center for reproductive rights. the front line of the league defense of roe v. wade. when states pass laws that deny women reproductive rights, it is their lawyers that file these cases. thanks for being with us tonight. i appreciate it on this busy night. >> thank you, rachel. >> what is your reaction to the nomination of brett kavanaugh? >> here is how i see the nomination. the president promised to appoint to the supreme court only justices who would overturn roe v. wade. and we need to assume that president trump has done that. the presumption is that he has nominated a man he feels confid...