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>> i know in this week in particular, you are not allowed to have a beer if you are a conservative. if you are a liberal, you can do cocaine and you can be the president, but thats okay. its okay. well hold ourselves to a higher standard. its fine. >> politics of victimhood. >> also, lets be clear, if you are a republican you can have 15 or more allegations of sexual assault, of sexual harassment against you. he did not mention that part of the double standard. >> is this a potent argument or wh...

>> well, lets be clear, trish. everyone is being used here by both parties. serve playing politics. this is a partisan process. i do not know why dianne feinstein did not share this letter. she says its because the woman wanted to remain confidential. i take her at her word. the challenge is we are where we are today. and i think jeff flake and lisa murkowski and susan collins realized that the optics of jamming through this nomination may be barely squeaking by when we are 40 days from a mid-te...

Catholic, if he can be destroyed by a 36-year-old uncorroborated, lets be clear, she may believe in her mind what she believes and it may or may notten true. she is a psychologist. she ought to understand people often believe things 36 years later that just arent true if this can be done to him why would any conservative again allow themselves to be nominated? why would you put your family through -- have you no idea what the next allegation is. and you know that the left is building a machine w...

Inappropriate sexual conduct as pled or as stated in the declaration. i think that would be a matter for state authorities in the state of maryland and we may very well do that. we may plead out a criminal complaint. but, chris, lets be clear. even if we were to do that today or last week or over the weekend, that would not change or have any impact formally on the judicial nominee process before the senate judiciary committee. >> all right. next question about this just in terms of looking at i...

Have all been part of an orchestrated political hit, and are you basically calling her some kind of political operatives? >> judge kavanaugh: ive said it, my family has no ill will toward dr. ford. she wanted confidentiality and her confidentiality was blown by the actions of this committee and it has turned -- >> sir, lets be clear. in other words you have problems with the senator is up here and how we conducted it but you are not saying in any way that she is a political pawn, political opera...

Tomorrow and learn something we dont already know and doesnt seem like its the case. >> garrett, lets be clear. jeff merkley filing suit to block the vote is not about the these new allegations and the christine blasey ford allegations but documents that the senate asked for, the senators asked for, that have not been made available. >> reporter: thats correct. its return to the argument that the democrats were making before we got do this point. >> correct. >> reporter: of the sexual assault al...

But, youre going to hear me participate in questioning both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh tomorrow. >> martha: all right. i want to play a piece of sound from the other night. i want to get your thoughts on this because its raised a lot of questions. >> it is judge kavanaugh who is seeking a lifetime appointment to the supreme court and who i think now bears the burden of disproving these allegations rather than dr. ford and ms. ramirez. >> martha: you say its his burden to prove that he is innoc...

>> i -- >> laura: i love the trailing off there, perfect for a friday night. lets not forget that rosenstein even threatened to subpoena e-mails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on the house intel committee. they did that earlier this year. now, lets be clear, if "the new york times" reporting is accurate, the president tonight should seriously consider whether rod rosenstein should remain on the job. the white house should be devoting every resource it can to determin...

But one of the other problems is its so late, and its already knocked the senate off their schedule, and thats been the democrats strategy all along. not seeing dr. ford is participating in that. but if youre the senate and allow this to get knocked back anymore, then every single, lets be clear, male republican nominee for the supreme court will have someone come forward, and itll be at the end. and itll be oh, gee, we should hear this out. >> that assumes theres an allegati allegation -- time ...

>> one of the other problems is, its so late. and its already knocked the senate off the schedule. if youre the senate and you allow this to get knocked back any more. every single lets be clear, male republican nominee for the supreme court will have someone come forward? >> what? >> it will be the end. and well say, oh, gee, we should hear this out. >> time doesnt mean that youre going to have people jump out. that shouldnt be the risk of having more time in the process. >> i want to get your ...