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Confirmation vote on brett kavanaugh so the fbi can investigate claims of sexual misconduct. flake later told "the atlantic" that encounter struck a chord and also told the magazine, the supreme court is the lone institution where most americans still have some faith and the u.s. senate as an institution, were coming apart at the seams. just these last couple of days the hearing itself, the aftermath of the hearing, watching pundits talk about it on cable tv, seeing the protesters outside, encou...

Up telling their stories. it was people like me who have talked about their stories and sexual assault very hurt my lindsey graham and others questioning the veracity of her story and not his. and thats actually thats what always happens is youre interrogating the person who was saying i was victimized by that person. he did it. and youre not interrogating him. that was born out in the hearing itself, right? they brought in a prosecutor to interrogate the victim and halfway through his questions...

Hollywood" tape that we all heard, hes now telling people privately it is not even his voice. he has this alternate reality. that doesnt play well with people he needs to support kavanaugh. >> another major headline out of this news conference, all of the sudden the president is saying his preference is not to fire the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he may even delay the meeting he had scheduled with rosenstein tomorrow. he doesnt want to necessarily step on the hearing itself, and mayb...

You dont know whats going to happen from day to day? i remember back in the thomas hearings when senator byrd was asked what he was going to do. and he said in a situation like this, we should give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country. and thats what the republicans should be doing right now, from the white house down pennsylvania avenue to the senate. give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country. and that means have an investigation that will then lead to a hearin...

Change can go. and especially for an institution like the supreme court. well see. >> and, dennis, with respect to the hearing itself, what do you think some of these candidates, or nominees are going through right now, meeting with the president, four have met, two more as i understand it are going to be meeting with him. how do you think they communicate to him without him asking the question, how conservative and supportive they would be? >> i think we have to take the president at his word t...

How bar change can go. especially for a place like the supreme court. >> judge jeanine: dennis, with respect to the hearing itself, what do you think some of these candidates or nominees are going through rightgh now? they are meeting with the president, four have met, two more, have i understand, have matched with him. how do you think they communicate with them without him asking the question, how conservative support if they would be? >> i think we have to take the president ato his word, tha...

Credibility, the justice department has been badly damaged politically, badly damaged by the testimony from james comey and the actions the attorney general did inadvertently or not when it comes to those lack of reporting those meetings on russia. heather: amazing the different responses yesterday. >> a classic situation you are preparing the viewer with a predetermined attitudes. this is before the hearing itself, trying to set the attitude as a predetermined are but everything he said was eit...

Russian president vladimir putin telling cnbc he had nothing to do with the u.s. presidential election. >> i just want to be very clear about this, you and the russian government did -- never tried to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election and there will be no evidence found? >> translator: ronald reagan once debating about taxes and addressing the americans said, watch my lips, he said, no. watch my lips, no. >> actually george h.w. bush said that, but nonetheless, start with n...

Received in terms of an intelligence briefing on the russian hacking. this will be an intersection of all things intelligence this afternoon. for mike pompeo, we also peppered him with questions in the hallway. he declined to take those questions which is not to be unexpected at this point. he knows the way of washington and that confining his responses to the hearing itself, questions about torture, questions about the morale inside the intelligence community, questions about can he confront th...

Unfolded i think in many ways has gotten away from him and yesterday during the hearing itself, some of the most memorable moments were his heated exchanges with democrats that fueled the narrative of this being a fundamentally partisan. i think the biggest challenge they face in justifying this as a true fact-finding mission is not with standing the e-mail to egypt. there were not facts that fund mentally changed the story that we have heard before and as trey gowdy said, very little she testif...