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Lawrence: GOP Midterm ‘Shipwreck’ Could Be Worse | The Last Word | MSNBC

"Guilty: U.S. Convicts Kremlin-Linked Russian Hacker | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC"

MSNBC
Published on Sep 12, 2018

Donald Trump is worried about impeachment as the prospect of a GOP midterm "shipwreck" looms. Lawrence O'Donnell explains
how the 1994 elections show the polling might be wrong, though, and that the GOP loss could be even worse than the party fears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp39nuJceLM

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Trump’s Potemkin Economy
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Paul Manafort Must Have ‘Blockbuster Information,’ Says Former. Prosecutor | The Last Word | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Sep 14, 2018
Glenn Kirschner tells Lawrence O'Donnell why the plea agreement struck by Paul Manafort leads him to conclude that Manafort
has "blockbuster information" to share with Robert Mueller in his investigation of Pres. Trump's campaign and Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVgTiIQjQIc

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The Manafort Guilty Plea, the Mueller Investigation, and the President
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The ‘law and order’ candidate is now an unindicted co-conspirator
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Tucker and Avenatti trade blows in explosive interview
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Fox News
Published on Sep 13, 2018

For months, Tucker has mocked Stormy Daniels' attorney as a 'Creepy Porn Lawyer' and ridiculed
his potential presidential bid. Now, Michael Avenatti sits down for an interview. #Tucker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjOEbvdDc8

Gawd. Carlson is a creep.

Related: Much of a transcript of that video is in this one.

Tucker Carlson hits new low during Michael Avenatti interview
Well this sure went well.
Aaron Rupar
Sep 14, 2018, 9:17 am
https://thinkprogress.org/tucker-carlson-michael-avenatti-interview-stormy-daniels-trump-f8b042833f39/

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Alyssa Milano: Donald Trump Is Defying The American Majority | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Sep 6, 2018

Actress and activist Alyssa Milano joins Ari Melber to discuss Senate hearings from Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and the release of documents revealing Kavanaugh questioned whether Roe vs. Wade is settled law in 2003. Milano says access to safe abortion is a key issue for “women across this country” and that Trump and Republicans in Congress “are going against what the American people feel”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igwPFYVeum4&t=18s

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Democrats Aim For Potential Cracks In GOP Support For Brett Kavanaugh | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Sep 6, 2018

Rachel Maddow outlines the strategy by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to highlight specific problems with Brett
Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court candidate that have the potential to turn some of their Republican colleagues to vote no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87imHoBsGQ8

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Senate obstructionism handed a raft of judicial vacancies to Trump—what has he done with them?

Russell Wheeler
Monday, June 4, 2018

Donald Trump inherited 88 district and 17 court of appeals vacancies. Fourteen months later he
proclaimed “when I got in we had over 100 federal judges that weren’t appointed. I don’t know why Obama left that … Maybe he got complacent.”

The reasons for the vacancies—old news to most—was the flimsy confirmation record in the 2015-16 Senate (the 114th), with its new Republican majority. Just as it refused to consider Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, it shut down the lower court confirmation process. That’s water under the bridge. But documenting how the 114th Senate ratcheted up the contentiousness and polarization of an already broken confirmation process suggests how much harder it will be to ratchet it back into something with more comity and bipartisanship. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now
insists that there’s nothing “we can do …that’s more important … than confirming judges as rapidly as we get them.” Commentators
boast that “Trump has had a massive impact on the federal bench.” The Republican majority
refuses to grant Democratic senators privileges that Republicans and Democrats exploited vigorously in previous administrations.

Senate Democrats in turn are using their reduced arsenal of parliamentary maneuvers to slow down confirmations. If they get a Senate majority in divided government, confirmations will stop, long-term vacancies will proliferate, and sitting judges and litigants will pay the price.

The 114th’s record pales when compared to the final two years of the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. Then, as in 2015-16, the other party controlled the Senate. The 114th Senate both confirmed far fewer judges than its recent other-party predecessors and stopped confirming them at a much earlier point. Some of the 2016 vacancies Trump inherited occurred after any confirmation clock would have stopped. Still, of the 21 circuit vacancies he’s filled as of late May and others he soon will, up to seven could have had Obama appointees under pre-2015 norms. So too, up to 71 of the district vacancies he inherited and has only begun to fill could have had Obama appointees.

2015-16 confirmations vs. previous final-two-year confirmations

With links, and more - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/06/04/senate-obstructionism-handed-judicial-vacancies-to-trump/

Kavanaugh’s accuser steps forward
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The nomination fortunately does not hang on whether the White House or the vast majority of Senate Republicans behave responsibly, for surely they will not. Here, the two pro-choice Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, once more are in the driver’s seat. If they indicate they will not vote to confirm unless and until the matter is investigated, then the nomination stops in its tracks. Now, it is one thing for a senator to accept the dubious proposition that Kavanaugh won’t impair federal protection for women seeking an abortion; it is quite another to refuse to investigate a plausible accusation of sexual assault, no matter how old. It’s hard to see how these two moderate Republicans can brush the allegations aside without further inquiry.
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