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Actually just withdraw his own nomination. we have you have the governor of alaska giving murkowski cover, i think hes going to back out. >> is this a double edged sword for the gop or make an argument there is, as kellyanne conway put it today, a vast left wing conspiracy, and would that help at the polls? enthusiasm for the gop is up according to the latest poll. >> they can try, i dont think it will work. placing him on the court is so worthwhile and important to conservatives, that it is wor...

Everybody is going to eat glass if they look too deep into it. republicans will try and resist it. seems to me that senators collins and murkowski have a lot of power here. theres not a lot of margin for error. the democrats, the red-state democrats seen as likely to support kavanaugh, they have a very clear off-ramp from a political standpoint. the pressure will be incredible because the headline is horrible even if its a different level of sexual harassment at the level of confirmation hearing...

Weeks could seem like an eternity. but do watch jeff flake of arizona. see if he supports the democrats to say this is a process that is full rather than rushed through. and beyond that, when this gets through committee, were looking at murkowski of alaska and collins of maine. how they get confirmation will turn out from the testimony we eventually get over the next week, but on the reactions to the testimony, for example, susan collins was quite unsettled last friday when donald trump sought t...

Trumps. they are solid, true blue republican conservatives. and they will have to ask themselves whether they in good conscience can vote for someone against whom there is a credible allegation of sexual assault. it may come down to the decisions of only a handful of people. >> mm-hmm. >> if they should decide that they cannot endorse judge kavanaugh, then well have the situation we had in 1991, when clarence thomas nomination was passed to the full senate without a recommendation from the judic...

Washington post when this extraordinary why i didnt report hashtag went viral at least 200,000 posts at least as of i believe the first day it was up. you said that these and the womens stories that we read all share common features. someone usually male uses his power, physical, spiritual, executive uses his power to make them feel small. "the cycle" is reinforced and the message is conveyed. victims pay a terrible price for stepping forward. the difference here is that dr. ford holds a lot of ...

That. the problem republicans face is this, the longer they wait to vote and determine as to whether or not kavanaugh can be confirmed, the closer it becomes an impact on senate races that are happening across the country. that is what theyre so terrified of and that is why they want to rush this through but the problem is this, the longer they wait and the more conflicts the more people pay attention. and quiet is kept. it doesnt matter that mitch mcconnell said we have the votes. i dont think ...

Get someone new confirmed before the nominations. >> if she doesnt want to testify for some reason or other, there can be a reasonable doubt that we dont have the whole story and were not going to get the whole story. >> that sounds right for them. >> and then he could get through also. >> thats up with flake and murkowski and mcconnell. >> i think from what we saw today this is going to get pushed through is kind of set the deck for her to feel that way. >> in other words, shell be afraid of th...

Right? obviously the red state democrats would vote probably, they would flip their votes and vote against him. and then you would look at collins and murkowski and perhaps even a couple of other republican senators. if kavanaugh, if his denials do not hold up, and she is credible and sympathetic, you could see thats a scenario where you could see his nomination not go through the senate. thats probably the only scenario. ed: real quick on that point before we go to the last scenario. you are sa...

Lets say it breaks down and she refuses to testify. what do you think happens? >> they are going to hold a vote. i think republicans vote him out of committee and he gets -- kavanaugh gets confirmed. ed: and then what if she does testify but is not credible? it turns out that maybe this story doesnt add up. maybe there is some holes? >> yeah. if her story does not hold up under questioning and testimony, and, again, if kavanaughs rebuttal is strong and solid and republicans feel you know, is he ...

Kavanaugh about the ed whelan conspiracy theory where a middle schoolteacher was smeared and publicly identified as the person who possibly did that, if that was a coordinated strategy -- im not suggest fog a second that brett kavanaugh had any knowledge about it. i say this as someone who ran two of these, the nominees dont have much say in the political strategy, but if he knew, then i think that disqualifies and has to go down. at the end of the days this, collins and murkowski will be the tw...