Trump reportedly thanked this GOP senator for grilling his unqualified judicial nominee

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) gave Matthew Spencer Petersen, the Trump administration's nominee for the U.S. District Court judgeship for the District of Columbia, the grilling of a lifetime when Petersen appeared at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing this past Thursday. Video of their conversation -- which saw Petersen repeatedly professing ignorance of basic legal concepts -- promptly went viral, and Petersen withdrew from consideration Monday. Also Monday, Kennedy said in an interv...