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MADDOW: "What strikes me as important about that, senator booker pointed out. There are a couple of names. We’re in a weird situation where the president is picking names off a list. We can look at all the other names. It is judge Kavanaugh who I believe alone on that list is the only one who is on the record at length on this question of whether a president is subject, should be subject to criminal investigations, civil lawsuits, indictment, impeachment and all the rest of it. He is the only one from that list who said a lot on the record in print on this matter that the White House could have reviewed and he’s the one they picked. I can’t imagine that under any other president picking I am. With no other president picking, would your first concern be that maybe he was picking him because he thought he wouldn’t indict him."
MATTHEWS: "He’s selecting the decisive vote. These are near term concerns. Within this year the court may have to rule on whether he has to be questioned by Mueller. These are very near term questions."
MADDOW: "Judge Cavanagh was initially nominated by George W. Bush. That means that he’ll be seen as a bush guy and that has become something negative to this president in a lot of circumstances. We have the history of what he went through. He was picked in 2003. His nomination was essentially iced because it was so controversial. For three solid years, he didn’t get a solid hearing until 2006. He was described as unqualified, one of the most partisan nominees. It was a hard thing for him to get confirmed a dozen years ago. How does that carry forward?"
MATTHEWS: "It carries forward from Crawford, Texas. This just came out. President Trump has that, President Trump has made an outstanding decision in nominating judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He will make superb justice of the United States. I don’t understand. I’ll be honest with you, I don’t understand the nuance of this. He’s cleared must we are the sxoet the whole legion of the asymmetric warfare that goes on between rights and left. Democrats don’t have the heritage society, the mechanism for finding speaks on the right."