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Because they dont want to do it themselves so theyll sit there mute. >> there is no question there is an optics problem. sarah is right that the real variable is not necessarily gender, it is stupidity. and it is insensitivity and those comments -- i think they have a high potential of having a backlash. but both parties, i think, have to be aware of the optics here. and the way that they handle the -- the questioning. if, in fact, republicans beat up on dr. ford, i think that would be a politic...

Senate judiciary committee, and that committee has other issues. theres recent revelations about a grassley staffer who had a sexual harassment charge against him hes denied and some involvement of a pr firm thats been involved in the dirty tricks this past week weve seen with kavanaughs friend ed wh whalen. they have a duty to ask the questions in their own name and their own voices and have the american people see that. i was the chief counsel for nominations from 2002 through the beginning of...

Coons talks about. hes is one of his hangs out there in the ether and we never actually hear from her. maybe we dont know anymore about the veracity of these claims, anything to substantiate or corroborate or dismiss it. how does the senator going on the committee on the floor and then make an adjudication of that? thats why coons said every senator ought to raise their voices and call for the fbi to investigate so everyone has all the facts before they sit down to do this. keep in mind mitch mc...

I wanted to show all of us member of the committee and her reaction yesterday. >> guess who is perpetuating this? it is the men of the country. i want to say shut up and step up and do the right thing for a change. >> and ley parker, there is a gender distinguishing factor when you have 11 women on the committe committee, and many women voters may be reacting differently to this than the republican leadership in the senate. >> you are absolutely right, and no matter what, this is an optics probl...

Credibility. all our allies around the world depend on the united states for security. george osborne, the former british finance minister said to me when david cameron and i plotted foreign policy we knew america had our back. he said today every european leader is wondering where is america? do we know where it stands? and that sense of uncertainty about americas commitments, is infecting the entire realm of international relations around the world and that means you have not an optics problem...

Putin. and is now scrutinizing. >> thanks very much. joining me now is jennifer rogers, and norm eisen. is this an optics problem? or do you see legal issues here? >> we dont know yet what the answers to the questions are. but there are profound legal and ethical and national security questions that surround thkpoor pattern.

Yesterday saying lets give the benefit of the doubt. this is probably an optics problem. as he is prone to do, the presidents other lawyer blew that out of the water by saying, no, this is a strategy. we are going to benefit from this information. it is the definition of inappropriate. these are conflicted parts. >> are you saying emmett flood was sent to spy on the gang of eight. the irony here is hard to miss. come on. and so heres what the top republican who was here, mitch mcconnell, and the...

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Creating significant risk of overlap between his official activities and his familys business activities. and remember that he stayed invested in a number of these entities. in addition, some of the entities he divested, his lawyers talked to the press and admitted that they sold them to a trust for his family. and so its not as though he sold them off to a third party. i mean, of course, he cant always control what his familys going to do or what they own, but he contributed to the ongoing opti...

Participating in a matter like this can create an appearance that you have lost your impartiality. and people can quible over the technical reading of covered relationship and whether it apply, but there is a catch-all that certainly did apply here and in any other white house, they would certainly have had him recuse. it is rule that is easy to enforce. a person can always say i was unaware, i didnt know. but come on here, this is as common sense ethics as it gets. you dont do this. >> also the...