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More than 400 people turned out on Tuesday to hear Iron County officials answer questions about future water availability.

Iron County officials discuss growth, conservation and plans to pipe water from just north of the county at a public meeting Tuesday night.

Other key votes, senator flake and murkowski also nervous and expressing reservations about the new allegations. john and alisyn, i talked to a committee source and asked about the mood and the course said we are all just holding our breath. >> joining us now is cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, laura cotts, and david callen and john avalon. john avalon and john berman, i want to start with you, and i remember how anita hill testified and we were all riveted. look, this is all of ...

Gets to what laura was saying, today was not about who is telling the truth. today is not going to be about fact finding and actually get to the root of what happened in 1982. thats not what today is about. today is about a credibility test, and its about a credibility test of each of the witnesses that are there, and its so important to understand that so much hangs tkr-- the president said it himself yesterday, the truth hangs in the balance here, and really for those key swing senators. the p...

Framing, wasnt it? it was also a subtle framing, david, and im glad you picked up. its not about winning or losing in theory, but its about hearing their stories. its interesting for the president to think it was a win if brett kavanaugh is more convincing. i want to say one other thing here, we have not heard from professor ford. >> we have not seen her, really, and that old photo of skiing or something, and its amazing how few photos there are circulating of her out there. >> and this is a pho...

>> we have seen the words that you just read out loud and we read the words and we have not heard them from professor ford. we have not heard professor ford at all, and thats pivotal here, laura. what are you looking for in terms of the testimony from christine blasey ford? >> were all going to be jurors in a sense and looking at our guts and assessing and evaluating credibility and seeing something that may remind us of something we know or ourselves and we will put ourselves in that position o...