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Dara. keep an eye on the enthusiasm numbers, i think progressives are fired up about what happened. >> any sense of how long this will reverberate, the confirmation and the investigation, will we see it last and rise elsewhere? >> absolutely. i think youre going to see this, especially within the next four weeks. i dont think theres anything that can get done here at all. >> emily, you write that republicans and democrats are claiming an edge among energized voters. how is that? >> the poll that...

Well bring that to you. the protests we saw today outside the supreme court for a sign of passions running high on the left. republicans are saying this fight as energized their base, too. >> our base is fired up. we finally discovered the one thing that would fire up the republican base. the other side did it. >> joining me now, liz smith who worked on the obama campaign and rick tyler, spokesman for ted cruzs campaign. and msnbc analyst. thank you for being here. liz, every time i say it, an...

The crowds that are outside, as a body that gropes to have a middle, rather than just figuring out what the law is and applying it to the facts. so, i must say, i think thats part of what the big problem is. >> ap i think that people might add that congress is also at fault there as well. i want to bring in marie down there in d.c. from a democratic perspective. you know, this has been a wild few weeks. and i wonder if you think that the democrats, as much as they are disappointed, that this nom...

Thats the reason donald trump was on the side suddenly of the accusers against bill clinton because he wasnt on their side back when the accusers came out initially. it was only when they were politically expedeient for him. ive got a lot of thoughts. im going to try and narrow them down. >> no narrowing. >> you asked lydia what lawmakers should say to dr. ford today. i think its simple. i think if you are going to vote for brett kavanaugh because theres not enough evidence in your mind as susan...

>> right. and this is -- theres two distinctions i want to make here. one is, theres an issue that maya was talking about, about this being a bigger issue, a referendum on view and treat victims of sexual assault who come forward. theres the issue of judicial temperament and the rage, his outbursts, almost seeming instability and he can apologize and say that was because of his emotional -- the emotion of the time but, guess what. its emotional in courtrooms and someone has to be able to control...

>> no doubt. both sides of responsible for the deterioration of any kind of consensus candidate. that doesnt exist anymore. when people are talking about it got so partisan, that has infected the process of the courts as well. if you look over history, take the nine or eight currently serving justices and look at their votes. their confirmation votes. ruth bader ginsburg had 90 something votes to confirm. you are over this last generation, you have seen the narrowing of the vote and the more par...

The supreme court credit. we didnt think anything could blot out the sun that donald trump has, but it there is a coordinated western ally attack of sorts today or i guess you call it a clearly some coordination fingering the russians for a whole slew of different things. and it happened. these werent coincidences today and denmark. you had london. i think the canadians put out a supplemental report. i think the australians did too. not connected to mueller, but it is connected to putins motivat...

You have been involved in calling it like you see it. i was very anxious because i have real anxiety about this. are we being delivered or duped is really my concern here. at the end of the day, if we dont have enough time, with seven days, if there is a narrowing of the scope, are we sitting here next sunday morning saying he was confirmed but they got the investigation and the jeff flakes of the world can vote yes saying i got what i wanted, we wanted investigation and they just appeared to ha...

Of pressure, political pressure, and wants to make sure that this is an independent investigation. that credible allegations are being pursued. i dont think thats what we are hearing from the white house. if one person, the president said free reign and you have a narrowing of it by both the general counsel and senate republicans, this is not intended to be what we all thought it was going to be. >> this is what your colleague jerry nadler had to say this morning on abc. >> i would hope senator ...

They thought about bringing in a female to question her. republicans are discussing that as a possibility. two sources that told them that was part of the things they were discussing, bringing in outside counsel to come forward. its unclear if thats what the republicans are going to propose. there will be a formal proposal later today. democrats are rejecting the notion of any outside counsel questioning ford and kavanaugh. one senior democratic aide said republicans need to do the questioning. ...