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Donald trump -- you heard senator hirono separating children at the border. the more they make this seem this is anti-trump, the more it will hurt their efforts to say kavanaugh has a serious credibility problem. they need to keep the issues separate, focus on kavanaugh or risk making it look incredibly partisan. >> martha: the horse is out of the barn on that. senator hirono has said that she doesnt care what happened that night. she said what she cares about is based on his judicial decisions ...

Been accused of some very serious things. >> to katys point, the only life appointments are to the federal bench. this judge, judge kavanaugh, is on a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. he goes back, lets say this fails, he would presumably go back to the d.c. circuit. >> well see, it depends. it depends on what the democrats do. remember, he also comes into this with another problem, which is a credibility problem. the democrats have accused him of lying about stolen documents that he r...

Midterm elections in november t does a lot to further sthak credibility of the administration and therefore the prau prospects for the house in particular. its very difficult to speculate on how this is going to play out. but whereby think it creates an image and the image is this is an administration unable to be coherent, well governed, organized and so on. i think to lead to this kind of position, it suggestests theres a credibility problem for trump within the party, party leadership but i t...

That there was spying, that information was stolen from democrats in the senate and turned over to the white house. guess what? the documents show, i believe, that he did know about it. he claimed he doesnt have a position on whether a president should be indicted, and theres evidence after evidence that he does. >> all right. >> so his credibility has to be weighed in that context. i was already very troubled by those other, i believe, misrepresentations. thats relevant. >> so does kavanaugh ha...

Position on whether a president should be indicted, and theres evidence after evidence that he does. >> all right. >> so his credibility has to be weighed in that context. i was already very troubled by those other, i believe, misrepresentations. thats relevant. >> so does kavanaugh have a credibility problem? carrie, you say no. why? >> no. all of the examples norm is listing are the same genre of selective editing of kavanaughs remarks that kamala harris frankly got four pinocchios for recentl...

The anonymous quote. >> they say they need to be there. i have heard that from sources of my own. obviously, we would always rather have people on the record, of course, that ignore as a reality of journalism that often sources are anonymous because theyre trying to protect themselves, their station or other things. when you look at the woodward book, its not just blind quotes. its context of meetings and events with dates where he puts you in the room. it doesnt sound like a list of he said he ...

>> we always tell you about credibility. weve been talking about when you dont tell the truth and when you just flat out lie so much, how do you have any credibility? how can you believe that when its the president himself who has lied thousands of times since he took the oath of office? lets discuss. i want to bring in now cnn global affairs analysts max boot and susan glasser, and also cnn politics editor at large chris cillizza. good evening to all of you. thank you so much. chris is there de...

Record, of course, that ignore as a reality of journalism that often sources are anonymous because theyre trying to protect themselves, their station or other things. when you look at the woodward book, its not just blind quotes. its context of meetings and events with dates where he puts you in the room. it doesnt sound like a list of he said he said. its what happened and why. >> with all due respect, bob woodward has a longtime credibility problem. my own book, woodward and bernstein, the god...

The false tweet from the president is, you know, still up, right? its still up on his twitter feed. >> you got to be more specific, don. theres so many false tweets from the president. >> im talking about the one in 100 years. the mistake was admitted at the podium from one of his advisers, but why is there zero effort to correct the record 54.3 million followers he has. it just adds to the credibility problem. its still up there. he didnt say, oh, i got that wrong, how the mistake was made. its...

>> well, it just creates a credibility problem for the whole administration. the president is so indiscreet with the facts. he does not have precision when it comes to economic data in particular, but on all sorts of issues. hes sort of fast and loose with information, and it creates a bit of a fog over the entire white house. when you talk to white house officials privately, they acknowledge they have this credibility problem. they try to overcome it. but the problem for them is when theres a r...