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Have realized that the courts matter and if donald trump has a democratic senate, he will not be able to appoint a single member of the court from that point on. that has energized republicans and i now think it will have electoral impact in november. republicans are more likely to keep the senate and maybe they have an outside shot now of keeping the house. >> neil: very interesting. frank, good seeing you. thanks very much. a lot of you know why we cut away from senator manchin. its not a bias...

Here, since i guess thats my title. and we have all these ways to twist arms and discipline our members. it just doesnt work that way. individual members have to reach their own conclusions. particularly on historic decisions. we can talk to them, we can give them our point of view. ultimately, they make the decisions. thats what the senate is all about. >> are you disappointed, personally, in senator manchin? >> im not going to say that. i will say i had hoped he would vote the other way. but j...

Well. >> you saw that fbi report. what is he referring to? >> i cant speak about it either. its a huge mistake not to release the fbi report. i trust the american people will draw their own conclusions. >> ed: youre tantalizing us more. dianne feinstein who called for transparency, i noticed she keeps saying we need to keep this fbi report confidential. thats because democrats dont want us to see something? >> i disagree with her. i agree with senator grassleys comments. under the law, we cant t...

Has been at odds with president trump. there might be a connection between the prosecutor, mitchell, who asked the questions. and came to those conclusions. that there was a lot of holes in the story that couldnt prosecute dr. fords case. and how flake goes. in what way? >> no. the only thing i was saying that rachel mitchell the sex crimes prosecutor the republicans of the judiciary committee asked to stand in for them and pose the questions to dr. ford and she did. and i thought she did a grea...

It will be too late for the vote tomorrow. they have short circuited and straight jacketed an investigation by blocking the fbi from interviewing more than 40 witnesses who could have provided the kind of corroboration that republicans themselves have said has been lacking. i think there needs to be an investigation of who dictated the witness list and who placed constraints on the fbi. >> you are drawing different conclusions than susan collins. she went after dr. fords credibility in a speech ...

Very dear friend of mine and she did everything. dotted every i. she went through the same process we all did and came to different conclusions. i came to my conclusion this morning when i went through another hour and a half of reading the fbi report. >> do you believe dr. ford? >> i believe dr. ford. something happened to dr. ford. i dont believe that the facts showed that it was brett kavanaugh, but i believe something happened. >> did you think someone else did it? >> i think someone else di...

Problem. first read today puts out a piece that says no matter what happens, pretty much everyone involved in the kavanaugh confirmation has been damaged. do you agree with that? >> its possible. you know, i guess about how you measure damage. i mean, donald trump has put himself out there. hes done a lot of things that people thought would be damaging to him. and he keeps tick right along. so, you know, i think brett kavanaugh himself, if he is con firmed to the court, has definitely been damag...

At that point it might say that mr. williams requested confidentiality, and in that case the name would be redacted from people its being presented to. and then it cites what was said but its not a verbatim description. sometimes when youre in a sensitive interview youre seeking a confession, it doesnt help to have a notepad out or youre clicking on your laptop in front of the subject. but rather youve got to have eye contact and report. so you get very good as an fbi agent of leaving the room a...

To dr. ford, but all survivors and women in general. >> laura: "you are mean, you are attacking victims, you dont have any empathy" -- no. hes making a series of common sense conclusions about fords very shaky claim and shifting accounts that were based on an uncorroborated memory. last week, she said she came off as quite credible. after that mitchell report comes out, we begin to weigh what she said initially to what you said before the committee. its a whole different story. president trump i...

That public testimony in last weeks hearing is a substitute for interviews by fbi agents. not only do senators lack the expertise of fbi agents, we were only given five minutes to question judge kavanaugh. so in my view, from what i saw, the investigation was very limited and it will be interesting after all of the members have an opportunity to read the documents, and we have an opportunity in public to discuss our conclusions, what the findings are. >> thank you, senator feinstein. i just have...