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In a tweet that was later deleted, he said he could prove his innocence. he singled out a classmate who beared a resemblance to cavanaugh as fords true perpetrator. waylen is not the only one to offer up incense tisensitive an irresponsible defense. >> i thought i was going to be late. did you hear the latest breaking news from the cavanaugh hearing? ruth ginsberg came out that she was groped by abraham lincoln. >> its a shame that a person like judgekavanaugh, who has a stellar record that one ...

Itself out, it just veareveals profoundly sexist this country. one in five women are sexually abused or assaulted in this country. one in four girls are sexually assaulted in this country. over 300,000 women are subject to sexual assault in this country. when we think about the impact in which the ways these old mite m -- white men who are responding to this. you can imagine the young girl who is have experienced this or will, will not want to come forward. >> ed waylen is a friend. this entire ...

With judge bork, and each side is blaming the other for the de-escalation, and it is like two sides of a bad marriage faulting the other all of the time. and we are where we are because the politics of each side is driving the scenter to where thy are, and a real significant debate over the judicial philosophy, and that is a good place to be. >> and the democrats out there, ed, who say that, or ak chactua chris, i want to put it to you that it is a lost cause, and that the republicans are going ...

Would reflect very well on all americans. he will put america first. >> and ed, you also know him, and he is a little bit different than most people who are nominate in order bench. he has a e real political background and some folks call him a washington insider, and they are worryied that he is going to be a political animal and served in the bush white house. do you believe that he has too much political baggage to serve in this position? >> his background is deeply legal and not political. h...

Desk is the quill. >> reporter: weeks later, reiner says the deal was sealed here in his california home. was this kind of like an out of body experience for you? here you are sitting and talking to ted olson, whom you probably regarded as -- >> yeah, the enemy. >> the devil, they say. the devil. >> reporter: now -- what are you? >> well, im a devil to a different group of people. >> it really is a betrayal of everything that ted olson has purported to stand for. >> reporter: ed waylen, now, lik...

>> thank you, both. and now, to andy card, a msnbc political analyst and he worked with the judge in the bush administration and helped to put justices alito and kagan on the court. and also joining us is ed waylen, president of the ethics and public policy center and clerked for former justice scalia and served as the assistant deputy general council at the doj, and andy, i want to start with you. democrats are unhappy and a analysis to put the kavanaugh to the right of justice thomas and pull ...