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Republicans have outside counsel, they have not told us who it is. do you have any awareness? >> i dont know who it is either. they say that they have to protect her name for her security and certainly with everyone in this process having received all sorts of threats from judge kavanaugh, dr. ford, everyone, that sounds plausible to me. but im not sure who it is. it is someone with experience though with prosecutings kinds of crimes that dr. ford has alleged. it will be someone lets just sats w...

This process. its not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap. >> president trump is standing by his supreme court nominee leading the charge to try and keep his confirmation from being derailed. trump called mitch mcconnell on saturday with an unmistakable message, call the vote on judge kavanaghs nomination and call it soon. thats according to two people familiar with the conversation. amid his meetings at the united nations yesterday, the president defended kavan...

Send him to some cocktail parties around the unga, that that might be more helpful to mcconnells effort which is really a dance at this point with those on-the-fence senators? >> theres actually a resignation that the tensions between the white house and the senate gop leaders cant really be solved. theyre just trying to move forward together. ashley had some terrific reporting on this about how the president called senate majority leader mcconnell over the weekend and really railed against the ...

Kavanaugh side, to have the president out there basically trashing brett kavanaughs accu accuser? >> its not helpful based on my conversations with senate republican sources. at the same time, they say that most of these republican senators, whether its senator corker, senator collins, or senator murkowski, are really at a point where theyre making independent decisions. they see the presidents voice as almost a distraction. its a senate process. its a senate vote. its a senate decision. and the...

Represents a third possible accuser. democrats trying to push for a delay in this process. republicans saying they are going to plow through with this confirmation one way or the other. all of this is going to have a huge impact on the supreme court one way or the other. but talk to us a little bit about this standstill politically and what it means for the confirmation process. >> its an interesting moment. because on the one hand finality is an objective that courts have as well. we want to ge...

>> thats a good question. i think they wanted to certainly get ahead of the testimony people will hear in the hearing, to create that tape, if it were, last night thats been played on the news all day today. its really driving the narrative, and they get kavanaugh out there in a photo with his wife, ashley, at his side. they were hoping, i think, that this would be an effective strategy for them. >> jake, who is he talking to when he does this interview? fox news is a network the president watch...

Sequester the jury so they are not distracted by all the news and fed by the news rather than the actual thing. the fbi could have asked them questions. n democrats blew up that process. there is no way that they could do it. led me read what you senator biden said that during anita hill hearings. he said fbi report as being worth anything, they dont understand anything. the fbi does not in this or any other case reach a conclusion, period. that was senator biden. >> all right. thanks for coming...

As judge kavanaugh. and then the committee meeting. and then the floor consideration. then the final vote. several stages ahead. and each of these witnesses who will appear before us on thursday will be under oath to tell the truth. i tho i hope that they do and i hope that we come to a conclusion. in terms of investigati in terms of future investigations, i dont want to go there. >> one other future question. if democrats win the senate, are you open to bringing back the filibuster? because a l...

Werent true. its hard to know the degree unless you have witnesses like the roommate. >> stellar reporting, thank you so much for coming to give us a debrief on it. matt mccarty is currently chairman of the mccarty associates. shes also an msnbc political analyst and shes going to have to run shortly because shes got a radio show that comes on at noon every day. we wont keep you long. matt, kavanaugh has been hunkered down in the white house for a number of days, repeated a number of the talki...

Carry this on their own. >> senator murkowski has given a couple interviews is about what she thinks as of now, and she just told some reporters that she believes that there -- or that an fbi investigation would help get to the bottom of what happened. heres lisa murkowski. >> you know, i mentioned earlier very quickly that an investigation would certainly clear up some of the questions that are out there, but as i understand how the process works, it is not for the judiciary committee to make t...