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Do you think the senate is going to confirm kavanaugh after all of this? >> well, it feels very, very shaky right now. but it is, don, and i write about this in great detail in the book, an imperative of this white house and mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, and the white house counsel don mcgahn to see this through if politically possible. but the next 72 hours are going to depend entirely on three republicans. lisa murkowski, susan collins, and jeff flake. possibly also bob corker. ...

And the russians. bob mueller is the one person in the united states of america who is investigating this fairly and trying to get us to an answer. rod ro rosensteins continuatiot the department of justice is imperative in ensuring the continuity and integrity of that. were he to go, i think were in a completely different ball game. >> joyce, rod rosenstein yesterday, its been reported by multiple news organizations, h his job was up in the air. he considered resigning. i had heard that he calle...

We believe survivors. >> you can see emotions are running high throughout the country. do you think the senate will confirm kavanagh after all of this? >> it feels very, very shaky right now. but it is, don, and i write about this in great detail in the book, an imperative of this white house and mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader and the white house counsel don mcgahn to see this through if politically possible. but the next 72 hours are going to depend entirely on three republicans. l...

Confirmation hearing. and what the senate has to do is provide consent and advice. theyre going to hear her. >> but mitch mcconnell announced this nominee would be confirmed before the mid terms. he established the date long before. that was their imperative. why? >> for a couple of reasons. trump wants two nominees confirmed. they also know they face an uncertain environment after the mid terms. it is imperative for the objectives of this administration, mitch mcconnell and not incidentally the...

Before i catch a train. >> its not imperative. only imperative because theyre trying to create the illusion to be imperative, or before something else comes out. they all want to vote for him, confirm him, jam this through and that they at least have the illusion of taking her charges seriously without actually having to dig into them. >> lets take a step back about why that is. this process is fundamentally broken. were the only advanced democracy in the world that puts people in the supreme co...

", that the committee move forward and this is taken asap." as ford, you can testify publicly, privately, we can send people to california. it doesnt have to be senators asking the questions. and she and her attorney are saying im not going into a kangaroo court, i want an fbi investigation. >> its interesting that lindsey graham is saying that we must -- its imperative that we rush this process, its imperative that we take the vote on monday, when lindsey graham and chuck grassley and the entir...

The committee on monday. what do you make of that? why the deadlines? why not allow the time for this issue to be properly investigated? >> well, you know, we could be having a discussion about the need to move this through at an ex peditious pace if chuck grassley and mcconnell and their fellow republicans had not just sat there for 293 days without giving merrick garland so much as an interview let alone a hearing. of course its absurd on its face for the process to say this needs to be moved ...

There are these very serious allegations hanging over the head of a nominee who has emphatically denied them, and thats just not a good way for us to end. so, i think she needs to come forward, and i think we need to provide her with any protection that she may ask for for herself and her family. >> thats senator susan collins. senator lindsey graham, another republican, pushed back against fords calls for an investigation into her allegation against kavanaugh. graham tweeting, "requiring an fbi...

>> this may be a rare moment i agree with senator grassley. it is imperative for doctor ford to come forward. i understand as a person who has survived sexual assault how difficult it can be to face your accuser. in this instance it is critical for her to do so simply because the narrative being pushed out by republicans is it is unbelievable because there is speculation she doesnt recall much of what happened and i am not an attorney so you or lawrence could correct me on that but i dont think ...

But if someone were to raise something in an investigation that came up, this is the important point about process. even if we had completed an initial process and put forward a name, if something came up after that that caused us to think we should go back and sort of do our diligence in order to do what i said before which is confirm for us and the american people that someone is fit to hold the public trust theres no reason not to do that. the only reason youre not to do that is some sort of ...