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Is my question. you had a fascinating conversation with lisa murkow i murkowski, republican senator yesterday in which she was trying to walk away and she said wouldnt it be great if we actually had an investigation, this was in relation to christine blasey ford. and they were able to push off of the ramirez allegation, because she reached out to friends and she acknowledged that her memory was not crystal clear. and she needed to rebuild this and it was fuzzy. this is not fuzzy. this is a woman...

Numbers feel to it. you can predict the timing and the pace of how some of these things go. we are so far off the scale when it comes to this hearing that its scheduled to happen on monday. we dont necessarily even know that both parties are actually going to be there yet or whether this will happen. there is so many uncertainty in this moment about the kavanaugh nomination and how and whether or not it goes forward. and what this hearing will like if it happens. you mentioned anita hill, the gh...

Procedure. so this is something larger. and i think and we saw it in the last process as well. have you got individuals. he talks to mcconnell. everybody knows that the mccain cassidy bill would be. if it was about procedure. why not for the last year has mccain not been working on that? why not since the last -- and we know he has had his health issues. he has gone come back and did the votes. very engaged. not a passive man. i think its disingenuous. comes right back down to this notion of the...

Acknowledging behind the scenes thats the case. they cant get these votes together, and, look, republicans are taking all kinds of -- sam mentioned that we lisa murkow i murkowski, the senators from alaska are getting calls from the trump administration, threatening them over their votes. lamaring a ek sander from tennessee, he voted no on that 2015 repeal. in his statement he said i dont think americans trust congress to repeal this and then take two years to put it back just like a pilot would...

Begging dont get involved, and for the most part, they backed off until this week. heritage action came out against. >> but there is one reason to be kind of bullish for mitch mcconnell and the republicans is you end up hearing from allies they are making the message this is our opportunity. you want a lot of these goodies, the tax cuts and conservative reforms, you have to vote for us. because all of a sudden if we now open it up to democrats, the democrats arent going to go along with the tax ...