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I want to clarify one thing. in the article where he talked about this, he didn't say as a constitutional matter, the president should be immune from all civil and liability. he said congress should pass a law to protect the president. not that we think congress is capable of doing anything in any sense. i don't think he was making the constitutional point that is quite so broad. >> he's making a political argument that the impeachment of a president would put a prosecutor in the place of supplanting congress' responsibility to impeach. >> yes. i think it is important because it is not quite a...

Lean toward their constituency at home and the most importantly you put your finger on it. he has a history of saying he doesn't think presidents should be indicted and he doesn't think there should be legislation on it. this is powerful stuff. trump likes people telling him how great he is and how he's always right. here's a guy applying for the job and says, you shouldn't have a finger laid on you. that's a pretty good selling point. >> what strikes me as important about that, senator booker was focused in on it. there were a couple dozen names on the list. we're in a weird situation where t...

Now that the president made the choice, this nominee has to get through the u.s. senate. where the balance of power stands at 51 republicans to 49 democrats. among those 51 republicans is senator john mccain who is out and at home because of health concerns. given that math and the way this supreme court nomination came to be, giveren the history of barack obama not allowed to advance his nominee, merritt garland. what are the republicans' best chances? what should we expect in terms of fight ahead as to whether kavanaugh will be confirmed? i want to bring into the conversation a former staffe...

He was deputy chief of staff for harry reid who was seen as a master of the senate rules and who went to the mat in all sorts of unprecedented ways in fights like this in the past. thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me. >> you've spoken publicly about what you think democrats ought to do if they want to pull out all the stops to fight. now that we've got a name and it is not just hypothetical, do you think that brett kavanaugh will inspired a unified democratic opposition in the senate? >> i think brett kavanaugh will present democrats who wa...

The president tonight chose brett kavanaugh to fill the vacancy of the supreme court. he has been on the d.c. circuit court of appeals for a dozen years now. since he has been on the d.c. circuit court, you should also know that kavanaugh has been serving all these years under the chief judge of that court. whose name is -- merritt garland. who was nominated in the spring of 2016 to fill the supreme court seat vacated by the death of scalia.