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People have done, run against them. use political weapons. do not use the criminal justice system. steve: don income began talked the president out of. >> good, thats why you need a law enforcement. >> steve: according to the reporting mr. mcgahn said if you do that thats an impeachable offense. >> i dont believe that i dont think its an impeachable offense. i think it would be wrong to do. look, the president has so many legal issues he is confronting on this issue now of the ninth circuit wher...

2018. with us we have editor of commentator magazine, former u.s. attorney for northern district of alabama and msnbc contributor joyce vance. nbc political analyst, steve schmidt. and john heilemann. and also with us, white house correspondent for pbs news hour. good to have you all on board. >> john heilemann, the presidents press conference. go. >> all right, john heilemann, thank you. >> what did we see yesterday? >> you know, his classic case where theres not i think anybody on the republic...

Thomas and hill, it would have been completed by now. and we may be looking back a week from now saying, they should have ordered it up today. >> okay. but here is what i would say. if that had happened and we were sitting on this panel the morning after-republicans assented and trump would have said he should just withdraw. the optics of this is about to -- >> wait, if there had been an fbi investigation? >> yes. i think the idea would have been trump is pulling back. trump is trying to put thi...

Usually now people talk about thomas jefferson and his, you know, slave family and all that. but trying to bring in george washington to say that he couldnt get confirmed today that was kind of a startling use of the past, no? >> well, yes. i mean thats redundant in trumps case. what i think -- he actually stumbled into something. bismarck said god loves drunks, little children and united states of america. in this case he pulled donald trump in. because i dont think trump knows about this. but,...

And reserve judgment on each one of them individually and let the facts take us where the facts take us. >> or how should we be looking at this? >> here is the thing about smoke. where theres smoke, theres smoke. and what mika does is she runs through all of these allegations is she creates the best case possible for why the fbi should have been directed by the white house to reopen the investigation. >> exactly. since were both from alabama and all the people said amen. i dont think you do that...

That. this is my objection to the idea that one must believe someone who comes forward on a high profile case. my experience is that you cant believe someone coming forth in a high profile matter is telling the truth. im not saying that women dont put themselves at risk when they come forward. but youre talking about a lifetime appointment to the supreme court, people might be seeking to influence the course of the future of american history. >> but i think what youre talking about is what happe...

Dont go into it. they forwarded to the fbi, it didnt go anywhere. the presumption, if she is telling the truth, is that it didnt go somewhere because people were were negligent in dealing with her allegations in the letter. but we dont know that that is true. >> but im not sure that that is the case because the fbi cant investigate unless theyre asked to reopen the background investigation. and theres been some indication that although the letter was forwarded to them, they no longer had a backg...

Give these sort of claims the treatment they need. this is a matter of being fair both to the women who have come forward and also to judge kavanaugh because we dont want to unfairly tarnish someone. everyone deserves a fair process here. >> so ive worked in news rooms and around news rooms for 36 years. and one thing you know about any high profile case in a news room -- and i think this is true of high profile cases with police departments and prosecutors -- is that theres a lot of garbage tha...

And in a he said/she said, not come back with anything conclusive and that would be a waste of time. but they dont know that. >> i think they may be worried about something else, actually. >> if the fbi looked into it, they would open the door to something else. >> yeah. >> lets bring in jim vandehyne. lets talk about the stakes here today. this is the swing vote on the supreme court of the united states. what do you think this situation looks like 24 hours from now? >> ill tell you what the moo...

Administration and the president, he did not want to appoint tower. he was bullied into appointing tower who was the ranking member of the armed services committee. and so when the allegations of drinking came out, there was some interest in the white house in letting this go forward in case they could get the nominee they wanted who turned out the be dick cheney, right? so in this case, the white house clearly thought, you know, this is unfair. its not true. were going to push forward to get th...