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Because they want to win in the midterms, and that win could come at the cost of deepening the gender gap that exists, and this is -- i dont think republicans can sweep this under the rug where we are as a country. the political backlash would be far worst than what they could get pushing it through. >> one of the promisblems the republicans made is they elected president trump. >> part of the context here is many believe he was not believed in other contexts. >> stay tuned. >> we will try to fi...

That today in light of this article coming out. how do you think these women would react to the story? >> well, thats a good question. these are women who have known him in other contexts than the one professor ford has talked about. and its -- you know, theyre defending him at the time against what was an anonymous allegation. now thats been backed up by a real person with a real name and a real story, a horrific story that would no doubt trouble anybody who hears it if they think it true. that...

Imposed a pech ed d a penalty t used in egregious situations and it put serena in a situation that she couldnt come back from. and i think the chair umpire was well aware of the consequence of applying that penalty. he had a lot of latitude and a lot of discretion, he could have issued any number of options that he had, short of interfering in the match to that extent and applying a penalty that really was unprecedented. >> lets clarify, coaching is regularly done from the box, its been acknowle...

Appropriate or inappropriate? have you ever talked about the special counsel investigation with anyone outside the -- >> if you are walking around in america, it is coming up, senator. so people discuss it, but in terms of -- let me just finish my thought. ive never suggested anything about my views about anything, commitments, foreshadowing, no inappropriate discussions. of course, first of all, let me tell you a few contexts. our courthouse has a lot of activity going on in it. there were a lo...

Mind. ill listen to the arguments, dig into the history. ive seen all sides of this. ill have a completely open mind on the constitutional issue. again, briefs and arguments. i think ive shown a capacity to -- if im presented with a better argument than something ive had before to adopt the better argument. ive done that. a good example of that in the national security context and the first case, i pointed out how i reconsidered something i had written before in a national security context. but ...

Laws and were also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that could lead to tyranny, its the very definition of tyranny itself. i want to get to the campaign finance discussion that you were having a few minutes ago with senator whitehouse. with regard to citizens united, didnt the supreme court uphole the disclosure requirements at issue in citizens united? >> it did. i believe that was an 8-1 margin. >> and in fact youve written on this, th...

>> senator hatch: ive seen it in other contexts and that what every once in a while you have that happen. but that was kind of ridiculous today. this was important that we went ahead with the hearing. >> martha: senator chuck schumer is sort of helped orchestrate all of this, they had a coordinated phone call ahead of the hearing and planned it all out. >> you know, you cant count on the democrats everything helpful with regard to any nomination by the republicans of the united states supreme co...

What, six or seven weeks from now. what we havent talked about, what asha and i havent talked about the last couple of weeks is, of course, that the russians are -- theres evidence that the russians are already trying to or are successful in certain campaigns. the presidents done nothing to protect us at this election coming up. and one has to suspect that that is exactly what he intends. that hes focused so on the perm personalities, no word can get done to protect an election that is so meanin...

Tonight he believes muellers investigation is illegal. is there anything about what the special counsel is doing that is in any way illegal? >> don, you know, there have been five federal judges who have reviewed this question that has come up in different contexts, in different cases with different defendants. all of whom who have found that muellers investigation is completely legal and also within the bounds of his mandate. its important to understand that there were some issues, legal issues...

In the beginning, it is over the question of race, over the intent, what was the intent of ron desantis in making those statements. in some ways, that has been a major feature of the trump era, controversies about statements about race, what the intention was, how the audience receives it. how do you read what ron desantis said there, because the claim here from gillu is this is clear racial politics on his part. do you read it that way or an innocent statement, as he says it was? >> well, you k...