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Supporting was brought to back her account, kavanaughs denials were just as emotionally effecting. i dont see any reason to suggest -- by the way, theon evidence is more on hers than it is. i dont have any reason to suggest that his nomination should end based on what should happen today. >> laura: were you happy with the democrats performance?n. he didnt seem to be bolstering her factual remembrance of what happened. it seemed more like a bunch of little speeches. >> lets remember that this is ...

How do you look at it, slow movement, greater momentum that women are feeling or still think the system fails women? >> i think the cultural movement is extremely fast which i think is unsettling for some people. what might have seemed okay a year ago really its clear culturally you cant get away with. at the same time, institutions are always slow to move. when i think about the senate and some of what weve seen happen this day, coming from folks like senator mcconnell and even our president, i...

Defense secretary and the generals and others and gary cohn and others in that room. steve bannon throwing around a lot of profanity on his part in his direct address with those generals. >> lawrence, i think one of the many absurdities we have long forgotten about this administration, steve bannon was actually placed on the national security council in january of 2017. and one of the first orders that president trump promulgated as president of the united states. i can confirm you are in fact c...

Confirm for us thats not the laadrian waj of these meetings normally, especially the part in that same meeting where the most ridiculous person ever allowed in such a meeting, steve bannon, is the one who the president turns to to argue with the defense secretary and the generals and others and gary cohn and others in that room. steve bannon throwing around a lot of profanity on his part in his direct address with those generals. >> lawrence, i think one of the many absurdities we have long forg...

With our cancer care specialists today. doespeninsula trail?he you wont find that on a map. ill take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear the whales. oop. you hear that? (vo) our subaru outback lets us see the world. sometimes in ways we never imagined. on friday, just as the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearings were winding down, slate.com published this little tomahawk missile. the author argued that instead of debating whether or not to confirm brett kavanaugh to...

Published this little tomahawk missile. the author argued that instead of debating whether or not to confirm brett kavanaugh to the supreme court, quote, the better question is whether he should be impeached from the federal judiciary. e-mails revealed in the confirmation process for kavanaugh shows he appeared to have repeatedly lied under oath whether to have received letters stolen from democratic staffers in a democratic scandal during the bush administration. judge kavanaugh said under oath...

Reporting on several congressional races there. but you hear from voters. they know a lot less about candidates for congress than they do about the president and his behavior. and theyre disturbed by it. and voters i talked to were debating what strategies there could be for constraining him. and i think the significance of this op-ed is not simply on its own but you have an accumulation of portraits -- michael wolfe, omarosa, the op-ed, the bob woodward book. all of it essentially portrayed a p...

Executive not to follow the processes and systems by which the executive branch is supposed to work. and what we have here is a person at a switch board frantically pushing buttons and turning knobs and throwing levers, and its not connected to anything underneath. thats a violation of a lot of norms, some of them norms about the deference and obedience that the branch owes its leadership. >> the question is, i mean, i think this is what were all debating whether its a question of the adults in ...

Number two, its not. why not. because for the last century an increasing by the decade now more and more legislative authority is delegated to the executive branch every year. both parties do it. the legislature is impatient. weak. and most people here want their jobs more than they legal want to do legislative work so they punt most of the work to the next branch. third consequence is that this transfer of power means the people earn for a place where politics can be done. when we dont do a lot...

Essential one. you saw today the argument being made for its repute ee agency from george w. bush, from barack obama, and from meghan mccain. the things john mccain believed in are worth defending, worth debating and worth fighting for. >> chris, i feel like the presidency itself has gone through all these archetypal forms. you had eisenhower, teddy roosevelt, that americans look to that type of man to be president. they looked at that type of man. theres the somebody inspiring type, like barack...