On the first day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, protesters were aplenty — some straight from Democratic senators, who demanded the committee delay the hearing after 42,000 pages of documents related to Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House were released only last night and more than 100,000 pages were withheld by the Trump administration. Their request was not granted.
And while Kavanaugh was in the hot seat, the man who nominated him was feeling the heat as the result of a new book on his presidency by former Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. Excerpts from “Fear” painted a portrait of the president as “unhinged” and an “idiot” — words reportedly used by his own chief of staff, General John Kelly, according to the book.
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and former chair of the state GOP, Jennifer Nassour, joined Jim Braude to discuss.
