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Peoples minds right now according to the most recent pollings health health care. that is going to be a big issue. battleground states like nevada, with dean heller, who has flip-flopped his position in health care thats going be a problem. >> trish: i think kavanaugh is a big issue. if he doesnt get confirmed, if we see collins and murkowski vote the other way on him, republicans are going to be really mad and they are going to be storming out to those polls. it could be a big turnout for conse...

Murkowski. senator flake told us today that he is not as concerned about the lack of candor, the drinking allegations as he is on dr. fords allegations. that appears to be at the heart of this. unless something explosive comes out it doesnt seem to change where he stands at the end of the day. >> rebecca bird posted this tweet. nowhere in the six fbi reports which the committee reviewed on a bipartisan basis was there ever a whiff of any issue at all related in any way to inappropriate sexual be...

Moderate republican base thinks of. jeff flake has been true to his name with the back-and-forth from day one. what is your bet on what happened? >> jon: he is a little bit, and we can expect for him to vote in favor of moving out because he will probably say "it will only be right to have the debate, so lets hear them out and let everyone have an opportunity to talk about that." and what will really matter is actually how he votes when it comes to a final vote. >> melissa: do you think you will...

Out, not a very heavy drinker. there is testimony that suggests that may not be the case. so i think what we have got to do is let the fbi do its job and i dont know that they can do that job in a week, or in five days. and then mcconnell wants to rush this thing through, has everything to do with politics and very little to do with gaining the truth of the matter. >> the politics of this, it seems to me, and im curious to hear your thoughts, is it seems to me hes trying to call his own caucus o...

Senators are republican -- as much as they want to focus on the hocus-pocus of the democrats and all of this stuff, its about the republicans who are on the fence. whether or not they can go home, flake is retiring but particularly collins and murkowski to a national campaign against and for his confirmation to their voters and defend the process. defend the fbi investigation. if it was just a routine background check and they didnt follow up on enough leads, we learned more about this, those tw...

Not the case. he suggests he was not involved in discussing torture in the bush administration. turns out that may not have been the case. more recently he tells husband drinking problem was not all that serious, he never blacked out, not a very heavy drinker. there is testimony that suggests that may not be the case. so i think what we have got to do is let the fbi do its job and i dont know that they can do that job in a week, or in five days. and then mcconnell wants to rush this thing throug...

Weve seen this from charlottesville to helsinki and we saw it again today with collins and flake and murkowski. they all came out and disavowed it but you have to wonder, at the end of the day, if they all vote for brett kavanaugh, what was the presidents -- i mean, what effect did any of this have on how they ultimately voted? now, the issue to me, i think, will be really interesting is what does this do in november? how much does this energize female voters who are furious when they see him sa...

Account of the majority, nowhere referring to the past six fbi reports which the committee has reported on a bipartisan basis was there ever a whiff of any issue related in any way to inappropriate behavior or alcohol abuse. senator dick durbin said this tweet is not accurate, committee republicans must correct it. eight of the ten democrats have sent a letter saying youve got to fix this. in the senate judiciary tweets back nothing in the tweet is inaccurate or misleading, the committee stands ...

But not a political institution -- of course, its a political institution. they dont necessarily act as politicians, and i think they make an attempt to act as judges, not politicians. but whether theyre effective or not is another story. >> so he could go on and serve on the court and do you think hell be confirmed. >> i said hed not be confirmed and then i said six hours later he would be. it really depends on what the fbi turns up. i also think it depends on whats going on in the offices of s...

Steve: blumenthal. brian: blumenthal and elizabeth warren. he doesnt call her that one of the key moments is going to be, you can talk about rhetoric and democrats and the president has a strong case to make. tfns going to come down to jeff flake. jeff flake said last night that he will be in the next. dialogue with the white house counsels office to make sure that the investigation is up to standards. there is no good to have an investigation that just gives more cover. so, jeff flake go either...