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Of lindsey graham. he did vote for kagan and sotomayor. he is -- maybe its your point, hes up for reelection but i just think -- >> its more than that but none of this started with trump but its exploded. >> maybe you know the answer. the three moderate democrats who are -- who have been on the fence right now, joe mansion, joe donnelley, heidi, how do you think theyre going to react? >> thats a really good question. we dont know the answer to that yet but it is hard to imagine that after what w...

Murkowskis who have raised a lot of doubts about this president, almost every time they voted with him when its all fired up because they fear him. >> the judge came out swinging in his opening statement. he was emotional. he was fiery. you could see him pausing many times. he was crying. but then it really changed when dick durbin, the democratic senator, had this exchange with him followed by lindsey graham. watch this. >> if there is no truth to her charges, the fbi investigation will show th...

>> senator, ill do whatever the committee wants. i wanted a hearing the day after the allegation came up. i wanted to be here that day. instead, ten days passed where all this nonsense is coming out, you know, that im in gangs, im on boats in rhode island, im in colorado, you know, im sighted all over the place. and these things are printed and run breathlessly by cable news. you know, i wanted a hearing the next day. my family has been destroyed by this, senator. destroyed. >> and -- >> and who...

Together. i think thats very common. i dont know if youve been to a super bowl party, for example, senator, and not paid attention to the game and hung out with your friends. i dont know if youve done that or not, but thats what we were referring to on those two occasions. >> senator cornyn. >> judge, i cant think of a more embarrassing scandal for the united states senate since the mccarthy hearings. when the comment was about the cruelty of the process toward the people involved. and the quest...

Been in big trouble. >> it was such a departure from how he was the first time around. >> its the real brett kavanaugh. is it superman or is it the guy, you know, clark kent. >> you think this is a democratic mastermind to derail your nomination but how come neil gorsuch came through and this didnt happen to him. he didnt really answer that question but the white houses perspective of him going after them was it doesnt matter because he wasnt going to get those votes anyway. they would raise int...

Was unfair. so i want to assure senator durbin, regardless of what you say to senator don mcgahn, were not suspending this hearing. proceed to answer the question or if the -- >> id just say this. if you, judge kavanaugh, turn to don mcgahn and to this committee and say for the sake of my reputation, my family name and to get to the bottom of the truth of this, i am not going to be an obstacle to an fbi investigation. i would hope that all the members of the committee would join me in saying wer...

Cant say that i welcome -- >> this was sprung on me at the last minute and after being held by staff, you know, and i called for a hearing immediately. >> if theres no truth to her charges, the fbi investigation will show that. are you afraid that they might not? >> the fbi does not reach -- you know this is -- you know thats a phony question. the fbi doesnt reach conclusions. they provide the 302s. 302s, so i can explain to people that dont know what that is, they just go and do what youre doin...

Do with his life. and i say performance because i knew brett kavanaugh for -- i worked with him in the white house for years and i never saw that side of him. so it was authentic and real. it may not have helped him. it may have hurt him. it may have helped him. but it was raw emotion, and ive never seen that side of him. it was a rebuke of this moment in politics, and i think the question now is, does that overlap with his legislative goals, which is to win enough votes on this committee to hav...

Road. the first is that wildstein, david wildstein, told governor christie on september 11th during the shutdown of these lanes and on the memorial -- at the memorial for the september 11th terrorist attack, that this was a problem. the reason that thats significant -- christies allies are confirming in this report. the reason that thats significant is that there is almost no evidence of chris christie probing his own administration to find out whether this was true or not. in other words, what ...

They got neither. >> here is my obvious question. where is congress in this? why should it fall to you and nonprofits. as far as i understand republicans hold the house of representatives. why are they not holding the irs responsible and stopping these abuses now? >> i think the house committees have done a very good job of getting information. this information helps our lawsuit that we represent the clients. the issue they are supposed to be a criminal investigation, tucker, not because house r...