With all of that. Anderson, one thing we should also note, and its something you just mentioned a short while ago, that is that one of the reasons why Christine Blasey fords legal team is canceling some of these interviews that they had set up is that they wanted to show some good faith to the other side and according to this source that was a welcome sign. It signaled to them that theres sort of a commitment there to get this done. And according to this source, in the words of this source, we want to work this out. Anderson, one other interesting prospect in all of this that i think really needs to be underlined and highlighted, and that is that the conversations are continuing inside the Senate Judiciary committee to have a female attorney, a prosecutor or litigant of some kind to represent the allmale gop side of the Senate Judiciary committee. I was talking with a source earlier this evening who said essentially they dont want to have the image out there to the American People of a
you will remember that voters started ranking the supreme court as one of their top issues in this brett kavanaugh fight. a good reminder, because for a long time it was republicans who always ranked supreme court as a big issue, unlike democrats. that s changed. they ll, this is all happening as the white house grapples with domestic and international changes, from the pandemic to inflation to ukraine. and we are in a mid term year. is this opening on the court something of a lifeline for the white house? and for the democratic party? how much do you think the white house is going to lean into it? how much can lean into it, given that the ukraine crisis has not gone away? no and the ukraine crisis may be heating up here in the next 24 or 48 or 72 hours. president biden and his national security team are obviously focused very intently on what directions they are going, if and when that invasion into ukraine could occur. and what the u.s. response could be. but they welcome the
making between the brett kavanaugh fight, democrats and republicans, and impeachment and the facts in both cases? i think in both cases republicans were reluctant to grapple with the underlying facts. in the kavanaugh confirmation, and i talk about this extensively in my book, there were important witnesses, primarily a man named max steyer, who said he saw brett kavanaugh expose himself to another woman at yale. she doesn t at all, you know, fairness, she has told people that she does not remember that. but the fbi refused to interview max steyer because they were not instructed to do so by the white house. republican senators who were aware of this allegation refused to insist that max steyer be interviewed and, in fact, senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat, refused to get
or is that just an optimistic talking point to keep his party in line? i think he actually does. he has viewed some of this through the prism of the brett kavanaugh fight which she thought originally was going to be a bad thing for him, but then the people around him believed and thought this came true that it actually backfired very badly on democrats, and i believe when he talks about democrats in the districts that he won, they are among the most worried about the potential sort of spillover effects. but i think what he isn t reckoning with and people around him both on capitol hill and the white house are lamenting this privately, this is bad for him in many ways. even though it might be decent politically for some republicans, it s his office on the line here. this is a policy he cannot control, and i think that s what has him so angry and frustrated recently. and we don t have a clue what this will look like a month from now, let alone a year from now when people are getting
committee and almost single-handedly helped save the kavanaugh nomination, but make no mistake. this is a man who years ago spoke about restoring honor and integrity to the office as you showed in that clip and now he s defending donald trump s behavior and also claiming that the whistle-blower s charges are hearsay and we know they are not. right. interesting you point out kavanaugh. hard to believe just one year ago as of just a couple days ago. absolutely. one of graham s biggest arguments against this whistle-blower complaint you point out is hearsay s we know the transcript backs that out. and much of the key in evidence bill clinton s impeachment trial was from linda tripp, wait for it, was relaying information she heard from monica lewinsky. right. also, lindsey graham has said this is a setup. so going back to linda tripp, what was that? when she secretly tape recorded monica lewinsky pouring her