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Contentious confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee kavanaugh came to an end on friday. former kavanaugh clerk justin walker says the war of words by democrats in the hearings shows they not only lost this battle by the numbers but also on substance. >> judge kavanaugh is a mainstream judge's judge who goes where the law leads, without passion or prejudice or any party or any policy preference, and therein is the rub for his opponents. they can't bring him down. they can't engage the process because he is so qualified and so mainstream and instead, they disrupt. they grandstand. their ...

U.s. senate and politics and continue it in a real way, not just talking about it now, but in the future? >> sure. this is obviously a week, not just yesterday and today, through saturday and the burial coming. this is a time to celebrate john. one of the things you see are a civic that is are bigger than policy preference in john. we have a lot of people in politics who are mostly interested in their own incumbency and low grade tribalism. what should we do about "x"? the other guys are worse than our guys. wouldn't it be great to come out of the week, there's a lot of celebration. it would b...

1950s. now i worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s. >> shannon: there's a question about he'll role back women's rights, rowe -- roe v. wade. >> he looks at every case and he'll go by the books and law without injecting policy preference. >> shannon: there was a wall street commentary saying these days the press is full of story powerful men exploiting female employees it makes it more striking to hear his female clerks speak of his role as a fierce champion of their careers and for my own daughter there's no judge i would trust more than

Written by somebody else. >> "the new york times" later reveals that flynn had been hired as a lobbyist by a company headed by a turkish businessman. >> i called the businessman. i asked him approximately how much he was paying flynn. he said it was around $100,000. it has emerged that flynn's group was paid more than half a million dollars. >> in fact, though it's registered as a dutch company, its owner is connected to the turkish government. >> michael flynn was supposed to be providing unbiased advice to president trump and to his broader campaign. he was being paid by interests within the...

That. the overwhelming majority of people want action, and 97% of people think we should pass universal background checks. so when the president looked at his -- at my colleagues from the house and senate and told them essentially don't be afraid of the nra, he's right. this is an issue at this moment about not just school safety. it's about public safety. it's about keeping our kids safe. i think that's the side of this issue people not only need to be on, it's the issue they have to be on. >> have to is a defined term. with all due respect. a lot of washington doesn't get done out of conscie...