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Majority leader mitch mcconnell that the vote was going to go on. and suzanne collins sent a tweet saying, no, no. we need to hear from them publically, which forced this hearing. but it might not be enough. and i think we should really hone in on the reporting that phil mattingly talked about in the last hour from a critical meeting last night behind closed doors when suzanne collins said to fellow republican chairman, wait a second. what about mark judge? what about getting other information? ...

Judgment call that theyre not working. i think the president seems to work overtime in trying to convince everybody that things are as good as he says they are. and so it strikes me that hes going to be talking to a domestic audience. he should be talking to an international audience and setting the terms for u.s. engagement and what he expects both from our allies and our foes, and we have myriad challenges. whats happening in china, whats going on in the middle east, the russians. these are ar...

>> harris: we have always taken them seriously. >> right now we have to hear both sides. >> harris: people liken this to the anita hill situation and that investigation, that was still only a two day fbi investigation, you are working to have to shore up evidence that there were no witnesses. in that way this might be similar. its 36 years old, you had some people say they dont know why they are being dragged in as witnesses because they werent, so now you are going to hear from both parties on ...

Investigations. they are not doing the investigation. >> we have the fbi to exactly do this? why didnt the fbi doing this? >> the fbis role is to allow for a confidential investigation after the allegations became public, and it goes to the senate because the senators are the ones making the judgment call, not the fbi. >> you are making this up. thats not true. this is what happened with anita hill. >> jeff, we had this discussion already. they did the fbi investigation when it was confidential,...

In a post-filibuster senate, to vet something like an allegation of sexual misconduct in a political institution like the senate where it all descends to politics, what weve been seeing as political posturing on both sides in a way that makes it very difficult to get to the facts of actually what happened. at the end of the day, it will be a judgment call as to who do you believe is more credible, judge kavanaugh or dr. ford and all of the political messaging that has preceded whatever were goin...

As it says, has already completed its investigation. right now what we need is the senate to be able to make the judgment call and they have every opportunity the fbi has. they can call the witnesses and theyve done so and i hope well have an opportunity to hear dr. ford testify. theyre trying to make this hearing comfortable for her, whether its closed order open or by the phone or in california or here. they have this opportunity. she would be under penalty of perjury. and so would judge kavan...

Listen. >> obviously, if judge kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. >> and the reason the senator said "obviously" is because it is obvious. the problem is, its equally obvious that its so unlikely to be proven. so how do we judge this allegation from dr. ford? lets bring in aisha rangappa and ken cuccinelli. good to have you both. lets deal with that issue and then i want to get to how the politicians are dealing with this. aisha, she said it happened, he said it...

>> and the reason the senator said "obviously" is because it is obvious. the problem is, its equally obvious that its so unlikely to be proven. so how do we judge this allegation from dr. ford? lets bring in aisha rangappa and ken cuccinelli. good to have you both. lets get to that issue and then i want to talk about how the politicians are dealing with this. aisha, she said it happened, he said it didnt. she said/he said is nothing unusual in the law. how do we assess in a court of public opini...

They plead to something that. >> mig-- might happen, but it wd be a judgment call, probably in consultation with rod rosenstein, the acting attorney general would need to make if they had a major new charging decision to make. >> and ill note president trump not on the ballot in ballot. carrie cordero, josh, max boot, thank you for being with us. next, the presidents poll numbers and whatific they could have. david axelrod joins us live. also, remembering john mccain. washingtonians power in...

Question, and might be something he would recuse himself on, why did he not give the president a heads up that he was going to recuse himself? >> first of all, the investigation was not public when the attorney general was confirmed. if you go back to the confirmation hearing, he was asked the question if there was a hypothetical investigation into the president, would you recuse yourself? the attorney general said that he would consult with the officials and make a decision on that. when he got...