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Welcome back. time for "the lid." panel is back. eugene scott, daniela gibbs, matthew, i hate doing this since its not your organization that broke this, its a "new york times" story, a big piece that chronicles the trump familys ability to sort of avoid paying taxes over decades. to some who follow donald trumps career, theyll be shocked theres gambling going on in this establishment, meaning donald trump ducking taxes is something he bragged about at times during the campaign. but we now have ...

Years hes been on the court. >> danielle, would you concede that while, yes, he worked for ken starr, yes he dropped that clinton little weird bomb during his testimony, which i think is understandable why some people took that the wrong way, is there evidence when hes been in a courtroom hes been a partisan like this. >> i mean, no, but you cant discount what you saw with your own eyes. and you cant discount his history. and the reflex to immediately go to left wing conspiracies and the clinton...

The interaction with the members was sharp and partisan and that concerns me. and i tell myself, you give a little leeway because of what hes been through, but on the other hand, we cant have this on the court. we simply cant. >> did flake just signal hes voting no? anyway, so, this begs the question, what will decide bret kavanaughs fate? sexual assault allegations, his drinking history, his honesty about his drinking his temperate? a combination of all these factors? or perhaps none of them? j...

Is this moving the goal posts? >> i think any reasonable person would say, if you are going to reopen the investigation and they are giving you corroborating witnesses, that the fbi would interview all of those people. they have a week. so, i dont think its moving the goal post. i think this is what -- im pretty sure this is what flake would have expected to happen. >> i understand the public may think that, but does it make sense that the fbi interview -- they already have her, they know the pe...

On now. there are quite a few people that are arguing that everything is connected. his honesty, his past behavior in college involving alcohol and, of course, sexual misconduct. >> matthew? what do you think were debating? >> i think what really matters is what flake, collins and murkowski think were debate, and then in a second group, manchin and heitkamp. those are the five senators that im focused, like a laser, on, and the truth is, we dont know, chuck, whats going through their head. like ...