justice brett kavanaugh telling the officers he wanted to kill justice kavanaugh. the feds say 26-year-old nicholas roske had a pistol, had ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer and more. these are new details that we re getting about what was actually on this individual. he has now been charged in court with attempted murder of justice kavanaugh. republican senator mike lee is going to join us in just a moment. first, to david spunt live at the justice department with the brand new details in hour. hi, david. chilling details in this criminal complaint just released in the last hour or so. nicholas john roske appearing before a federal judge in court in federal court in maryland. he s been in fbi custody for the past 12 hours or so. he will be appearing for that judge to face those charges of attempted murder of justice brett kavanaugh, a supreme court justice. according to a court filing, roske wearing all block got out of a taxi cab at 1:00 a.m. looking at the two
Two individuals . What makes this so striking is sean hannity has really ascended within the american right as the Republican Party has gone through convulsions during the trump era. It is hannity, his platform, and others at fox news who have often had the president s ear, who are, in their own way, shaping the way Different Things play out with the Trump Administration, urging the president to stick to its hardline positions on immigration, to move forward in a conservative way on health care. And as the president really just turns to his family and more and more, hannity is seen as a trusted friend. And i cant emphasize enough in my reporting how that trust for hannity, that confidence in him as an associate really underscores everything thats happening. And one more before we change topics, and that is your reporting that it was hannity who knew sekulow first and may have handed off jay sekulow, the idea, the lawyer, to President Trump who was in need of counsel. Because of that tr
haven t is emboldened people. martha: the white house says they protect the right to protest. senator lee cited that statute as well. the argument is they re trying to persuade the justice while they re deciding a case, which is legal. well, as the president is fond of saying, no right is absolute. the first amendment is subject to what is called time, place and manner restrictions. it s perfectly legitimate to say you cannot demonstrate in front of the private residence of a judge in an effort to influence their decision. that doesn t hurt the first amendment. so saying that we encourage demonstrations is not an answer. they should enforce the law. you know, the justice department did step up the protection of the justices. i m glad they did. martha: thankfully there were two marshalls outside of kavanaugh s house. that s who this person turned themselves in to. thank god for that. who knows what might have
corporations, so to drill down on how is this going to affect, jonathan, americans if it actually becomes law? well, what this is, yasmin, is reimagining of the role the government can play in your average american s life. it is a dramatic expansion of the social services safety net. it is an extraordinary sort of, you know, increase in terms of what the government will do and whether things like family care and child care to indeed what we can think of as hard infrastructure like roads, bridges, and so on, and that s just a piece of this. and the president as the president is fond of saying, and i believe he quotes his father when he talks about this, he says, you know, a budget is a statement of priorities. it reveals your values. and that s what he is showing here, he and his aides say, look, he feels he s a classic big government democrat, that he believes the government s role is to help, to lift people up, and he believes we ve heard him say this a number of
it is a dramatic expansion of the social services safety net. it is an extraordinary sort of, you know, increase in terms of what the government will do and whether things like family care and child care to indeed what we can think of as hard infrastructure like roads, bridges, and so on, and that s just a piece of this. and the president as the president is fond of saying, and i believe he quotes his father when he talks about this, he says, you know, a budget is a statement of priorities. it reveals your values. and that s what he is showing here. he and his aides say, look, he feels he s a classic big government democrat, that he believes the government s role is to help, to lift people up, and he believes we ve heard him say this a number of times, including just this week in cleveland i was traveling with him then, and i m here with him now in wilmington where he talks about how they need to prove that democracies can still work, especially coming