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Vote to look in a five member republican majority that could set the rules for the next 15 years and he will go to the court with this swirling around him. john roberts has often expressed the concern that the court will be seen as another arena in the partisan wars. brett kavanaugh has basically become john robert s worst nightmare. so i think the politics of this, however this plays out in the next few weeks will have unpredictable ramifications for the years ahead. the next predictable thing is more conflict. but let s say he s confirmed in a close 50 votes. vice president mike pence who is staying in washington in case he s needed to break the tie. you only need 50 votes plus ....
Why is the white house eager to call out china and not the kremlin. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you here in the situation room. high drama and huge protests on capitol hill. this hour senators are reviewing the fbi report on brett kavanaugh with the clock sticking toward a pivotal vote on his supreme court nomination. anti-kavanaugh protesters have been out in force as president trump and republicans are sounding more optimistic that kavanaugh will be confirmed. three key undecided republican senators have yet to reveal how they will vote but two, jeff flake and susan collins, are calling the fbi probe thorough. tonight collins went back into the secure facility at the ....
Comment that he almost inoculated himself by making the generalized statement of sometimes i drank too much, sometimes i drank more than other people. i cringe sometimes thinking about what i have done and they are using this cherry picked statement which belies the overall breath and scope to say he s given himself a enough opportunity that he could not perjure himself. it s almost as though he looked back at the jeff sessions testimony where senator al franken asked him a question and he said i ve spoken to russians in the past and then gone on to everything else. they would haven t initially had the comments about perjury. now this cloak says fbi, you need not investigate that aspect because he s already covered himself. all of this would be volatile and explosive enough if he was replacing another conservative. they would not consider or confirm miami gardeerrick garla is the quote swing vote but more likely a reliably conservative ....
Analyst preet bharara. preet, thanks for joining us. let s talk about this. the fbi interviewed nine people as they conducted this probe over the past few days. they didn t interview professor ford or judge kavanaugh. if you had been conducting this probe, would you have been able to issue a report without talking to the two most important witnesses? i might have been able to issue a report. you can issue a report no matter how short or long your investigation is but i wouldn t have. quite frankly i don t understand why focus on one side of the station where have gotten themselves into an a situation where they have to defend the investigation. i think senator flake did a favor to the administration by causing them to rethink this absolute opposition to having a further opposition to make his vote contingent on further investigation and getting other senators to go with him. during this week the administration had an opportunity to put to rest some ....
Will get on board and they can push him through, break that democratic filibuster tomorrow for that confirmation vote saturday but members reviewing this behind closed doors expect it to happen tonight ahead of the key vote tomorrow. manu raju in capitol hill. thank you. more breaking news tonight. cnn learned the fbi report sent to capitol hill includes 45 pages of interview summaries as well as 1600 extra pages of information that the fbi collected from its tipline. let s talk about the investigation. supersizery special agent josh campbell is joining us. josh, republicans say the report was comprehensive. democrats say it was a sham. is the fbi being used as a tool? with the absense of information that s a possibility. if you look at the way both sides have framed this issue they couldn t be farther from ....