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Was president then too. >> biden now has the final word on what you should do if someone is protesting peacefully. biden, the same guy in the summer of 2020 decided that he would allow people to burn down streets and businesses and create all keends of problems. >> if that was a memory lapse, its one that seems to only work in a single partisan direction. republican karl rove says the debate over the bbb plan, which did not pass, itself drives inflation. >> inflation is the number one problem fa...

Mr. sondland has amended his testimony to say, well, actually, there was a quid pro quo, and i was involved in it. which is quite a memory lapse. >> do you buy it? >> no, of course not. look, we keep on using this expression quid pro quo. the actual term for what occurred is extortion. and extortion is a crime. and the president extorted the president of ukraine for political dirt on a prospective political opponent and dangled military aid and the promise of a presidential visit in exchange. th...

>> i want to talk about the soundbite we had a minute ago while it is fresh in our brains. you referenced the name of the firm, fusion gps and robert mueller says im not familiar with that. it is not a trick question. it seems like a bizarre moment in time that he either couldnt confirm that or didnt remember that. what did you make of that? >> there are two parts of looking at that response. it is uncomfortable for people that former director mueller wasnt on his game for whatever reason, wasnt...

Proof of more than just a memory lapse. thank you all. appreciate it. up next, the unrest in venezuela continues as a struggle for power grips the nation the u.s. and russia both have chosen different sides talk to a key figure in this ongoing battle the wife of an imprisoned opposition leader. and gathering in oakland, california, waiting to hear from senator and now presidential candidate kamala harris as she kicks s off her 2020 campaign. along with support, chantix is proven to help you ...

Thing. he can go on any investigation he wants he will have the gravel but hes going to be met by someone whose going to say mr. n adler if you want to go down this path of attacking and attacking finding things weve already looked at if you want to politicize this to a point hes just mad about a presidential election, were going to meet you and meet you firm and meet you and defeat you. it will become so problematic for them to run a committee that they are going to want to say were going to do...

Have serious mental health problems. wolf? >> cnns brian todd, thanks. im wolf blitzer. thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com "outfront" next, the presidents revisionist history. he says he doesnt know his new acting attorney general, but thats not what he said just a month ago. plus, michelle obama versus the president of the united states. who wins this battle of the titans? and a bi...

So its all tied together. >> yeah. and john, that point mimi just made about brett kavanaughs minimizing of his drinking is crucial to his defense because he cant admit he has any memory lapses because that opens up a theoretical window to does he have a memory lapse about dr. ford? and so we have his friends from yale going to a point of having to get together, write an op-ed piece -- they say we each asserted that brett lied to the senate by stating under oath he never drank to the point of fo...

Telling the truth, which by the way a lot of people thought she was after they heard her, and thats gotten erased. and most importantly they really needed to do a probing questioning of kavanaugh. he has not had that. that hearing was not a questioning. it was essentially him giving a written statement but orally. i didnt do it, i never did it but thats it. he was not pres said on it. he was not tested with facts about the drinking, which is relevant to the central issue of -- because if he admi...

That covers everything. >> but not the memory lapse. he says he did not have memory laps. >> he says he did not blackout. theres a growing body of witnesses and evidence that he did drink too much and did have memory lapses. >> there are people that said he must have had memory lapses. its hard to prove he had it without getting in his brain. >> some classmates said he -- >> we have people that say they are aware of his memory laps. >> i think what it shows more than anything else is how brett k...

Christine blasey ford, she said that kavanaugh was inebriated in the alleged attacked, and also the second accuser as well. so perhaps he drank to where he does not remember what events transpired. he notably would not say in the testimony whether he had drank to the point where he blanked out. so it is this idea of whose account is credible and whose account may in fact contain some memory lapse. so they are not unrelated, and we will see if the fbi takes that behavior into account. >> and joe ...