[maggief]

Correct, no confirmation from McConnell.

Is this a feasible strategy? Or, more FAKE news.

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/05/brunch-edition-happy-mothers-day-ivanka-and-jareds-stroll-first-in-playbook-trumps-week-white-house-systems-failed-with-comey-firing-george-conway-profile-bday-howard-wolfson-is-5-0-220291

FASCINATING MOVE — JOSH HOLMES, a longtime adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who now runs Cavalry LLC, said on “Fox News Sunday” that McConnell thinks Merrick Garland for FBI director is a “fantastic idea.” Of course, Garland holds a prize judgeship — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia — and Republicans would love to have the opportunity to fill it.

[kabar]

FAKE News would be my guess. Garland is not being interviewed. This is a trial balloon by the #NeverTrumpers and the Dems who would no doubt love to have Garland as FBI Director. Nota bene: The Dems never miss when it comes to nominating someone who will toe the party line whether it is SCOTUS, lower courts, cabinet appointments etc. I have no doubt that Garland fits that mold.