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Eric: look, you have lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine? what do they do? >> any of democrats in trump states concerned about reelection. or concerned about continued empowerment. they too have been looking and were undecided up until now. now the pressure on them from the public. the phone calls and -- eric: and the committee is supposed about this coming week to bring it out of committee to the senate floor. can they reopen the hearings? can democrats press mrs. ford to come t...

Pushing this forward. i think republicans are still worried about collins and murkowski, the two swing republicans who havent said either what they will do, a lot of them will be on them earlier this week. i think at this point the white house is fairly confident it will move forward. >> collins spoke to kavanaugh on the phone for an hour on friday so whatever shes going to do she had full time to ask him about it. lets turn to another interesting story this week. it turns out that former secret...

Forward. i think republicans are worried murkowski who havent said what theyre going attention will the confident to move forward. chris: you do know that collins spoke to kavanaugh on the phone for an hour on friday, she had full time to ask him about it. lets turn to another interesting story this week. it turns out that former secretary of state john kerry has been talking -- this is file taken with the iranian foreign minister several times since leaving august, and he acknowledges that they...

Votes for kavanaugh provided that the two swing gop senators, collins and murkowski, dont vote against him. but theyre still looking at a relatively easy confirmation process. democrats have been trying to delay the hearing for weeks now -- excuse me, the confirmation vote for weeks now because of documents they say the republicans have been holding. its important to note that there have been more documents produced for kavanaugh than the past five supreme court justices combined. so to say that...

But i think that people dont quite know what to do with it. because its an anonymous allegation, its different from this "me too" era that have come forward when you know who the accuser is and whether there are more details or it has been more fully vetted. but in this case the person making the accusation wants to remain anonymous, didnt really want to push the matter, so its creating sort of a challenging moment certainly senator feinstein is experiencing the challenges of that on the other e...

We need to believe victims whenever they come forward. the complication is when the victim wants to remain anonymous and all these years later there is this inability for judge kavanaugh or for the senators overhe overseeing the confirmation hearings to judge that the credibility and the accuracy of it. and all of this is left unresolved and there is sort of this cloud over everybody involved. so, i think first and foremost it is unfortunate for the victim and unfortunate for everybody involved ...

Making the accusation wants to remain anonymous, didnt really want to push the matter. and so its creating sort of a challenging moment. certainly senator feinstein is experiencing the challenges of that on the other end with members of her own party saying well, why did we find about this so late. >> i keep saying about collins and murkowski, they are so interesting for a ton of reasons, starting with the fact that their states are the northern anchors on the east and west of the country. their...

The challenges of that on the other end with members of her own party saying why did we find out about this so late. >> i keep saying about collins and murkowski, they are so interesting for a ton of reasons, starting with the facts that their states are the northern anchors on the east and west of the country. their politics are similar, both pro choice republican women. collins apparently spent a long time on the phone with kavanagh today. murkowski is dealing with a constituency of native ala...

R renquists approach about unenumerated rights. thats one of the disconnects about the position of collins and murkowski, that it now appears that nothing short of a confession is going to really trigger that pledge made to support roe v wade. theyre not going to wheel in a nominee like hanibal lector and say im going to eat roe v wade with a chianti. the supreme court once it gets a majority can flip the result. in favor of kavanaugh, there are plenty of lawyers and judges who believe that roe ...

The key question for them is abortion rights. calf naive coulkavanaugh could t determines whether people could access their constitutional rights. kavanaugh was billed by donald president trump as he could overturn this. you cant have it both ways. the question for senators collins and murkowski is whether they want to be the women who will be responsible for sending this country back to wire hangers and back alley abortions. kristin: ill put the same question to you. do you think theres anythin...