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Months of next year, and how do you think mulvaney will help with that? >> he knows congress as a former member of congress so he can help the president with the ins and outs of the committee process, if he is not on the best of terms with all the democrats in congress, thats the book on mulvaney. he has a fresh start with bad blood brewing between the president and general kelly, and the president didnt have c confidence in reince priebus, and so he can say where do we go from here, a fresh sta...

More socialist and progressive. they dont go to her office to visit her, they go to her office to join in the protest. so she has a challenge that she doesnt want to vote for anything. its more her personal politics than putting the american public first. >> kennedy: what did democrats put first, he requested arc nancy pelosis office with the border wall? >> mike: its hard for me to see a scenario where they get together and come up with some sort of compromise. i think it such -- to illustrate ...

Function of the people. that everyone who ran for congress or who was in congress was either not qualified or too ambitious. but thats always been a problem since the beginning of our republic. instead, i actually think the bigger problem is the process, the way in which power within the institution, starting in the 70s and accelerating in the 90s. so this has been a bipartisan evolution or failure in the institution has gone from the committees and the members and has been highly concentrated u...

>> is this the shot in the arm that the republicans need? >> absolutely, absolutely. its a wake-up call to why its important to hold the senate. bill: mitch mcconnell with laura ingraham last night. senator chuck grassley, sir, thank you for your time and good afternoon to you. i dont know what youre feeling right now but go ahead and lets start there. >> well, i feel its a great day for us going through a fair and thorough process that i said i was going to hold throughout the committee process...

It go and move forward? >> i think the people would like to close the door on the ugliness of the last few weeks, i dont think theyll be able to. these are big questions, the way the allegations came into at least senator feinsteins office, they werent followed up on, seemed like coordinated political hit blow it is tradition to have committee and this isnt just -- they dont do this for supreme court nomination, that committee process is hundreds of nominations to all sorts of judgeships and oth...

Forcefully, the other side, and accusations started going back and forth about what democrats were really trying to do, what republicans were really trying to do. >> how did flake take it? >> there were a couple of encouraging moments. you saw the result which was that he came out and stood firm. this really, frankly, is all hanging on his willingness. he voted to move forward with the committee process to show good faith with his caucus. at the end of the day what will keep this week a week is ...

President signed by all the democrats on this committee. september 21st letter signed by chuck schumer and dianne feinstein to the president and a september 26th letter signed by all the democrats on this committee, all requesting an fbi investigation, because you did say all we have to do is ask and the implication being that if we asked, an investigation will happen and it certainly has not happened. thank you, mr. chairman. >> without objection, that will be included. senator tillis. >> thank...

By all the democrat, september 21st letter signed by chuck schumer and dianne feinstein to the president and a separate 26th letter signed by all the democrats on this committee, all requesting an fbi investigation because you did say all we have to do is ask and the implication being if we ask an investigation will happen and it certainly has not happened. thank you -- >> without objection that will be included. >> thank you, mr. chairman. judge kavanaugh, thank you for being here and i apologi...

Saying. i spoke with a republican source who is close to this committee process and asked this person, how is everything going on your side. how is everything going? this person said kavanaugh better be as compelling. that is an acknowledgement that her voice carried a lot of weight. it certainly was compelling this morning. >> kirstin powers and rick santorum is with us. how is it going? >> i dont think its going very well for republicans. she is incredibly compelling. this is not a person who ...

September 21 letter, signed by chuck schumer and dianne feinstein to the president, and the september 26 letter by democrats on this committee all requesting an fbi investigation. because he did say all you had to do was ask, the implication being that if you did ask for an investigation, it would happen and it certainly has not happened. >> without objection that will be included. senator tillis. >> thank you mr. chairman. judge kavanaugh, thank you again for being here and i apologize what you...