are turning against kavanaugh s favor. that s before what happened last night and before michael avenatt. you had jane mayer. she said 100% stood behind those allegation. whense kavanaugh s name started circling it became a topic of conversation among these yale alumni isn t this going to be an issue. b there are people to talk to. so i think that pumping the brakes and getting to the bottom of it. too much is at stake here. nick confessore, the gender gap and concern for republicans facing this story and the blow back from it.ck it s a huge problem for them,
wants to go on the record and corroborate it, and yet this is something according to the story that was talked about at the time, that was e-mailed around after judge kavanaugh s name came up for the supreme court and, kasie hunt, jane is exactly right and, again, we don t know what the truth s that s why we re saying there needs to be an fbi investigation, but people will say one thing to a reporter, they will say quite another to an fbi agent and of course the fbi they are not the super cops, but they do, of course, have the ability to say tell me the truth or else you may be going to jail well, and as special counsel bob mueller and the fbi agents working with him are busily demonstrating, if you lie to law enforcement bad things happen. it is a bad plan and i think everybody realizes that it s more significant obviously i think, you know, when they re speaking with jane everybody wants to be honest in their conversations but i certainly have a feeling i would
are going to have a vote andrea, we ve been talking an awful lot about a story you covered, clarence thomas and anita hill i got to tell you, this reminds me more of what happened with john tower i covered that. yeah. a few years before but i know there were a lot of people in washington, d.c. saying wait a second you re not going to let a guy be sucked out because he drinks and he acts the way a lot of people in washington, d.c. act that was a game changer for the late 80s. but now it seems that we re doing the same thing for how bluntly back in the 1980s a lot of high school students conducted themselves at elite private prep schools we are. the problem is memories fade and alcohol is involved. but as you point out what s the rush there is no question that if
but there will be an explosion on capitol hill and i think throughout the country if trump tries to ourselves the person overseeing the russia investigation before the mid temples take pla terms take place. and getting sarah s view on all of these problems, you as a white house political director know very well what the stakes are here, let s talk first about judge kavanagh. well, stakes are pretty high and i think that s reflected in the late nature of these allegations. to the conversation around the fbi, the fbi s done an investigation. in fact they have done six investigations on brett kavanagh, they have talked to his college friends at multiple times in the past and nothing has come forward. so now there are two charges, neither of them have anyone, not one person who can corroborate the story.
your sources telling you about what the future of rod rosenstein is or is not? andrea, it s a big question mark as kristen was just underscoring. we re hearing conflicting information, the white house has not put out an official line as to what is going on right now with rod rosenstein, whether he s resigning, whether he s going to be fired, whether he s going to stay in his job and patch things up with kelly, which is a possibility as pete was saying, but right now it s chaos within the administration as they try to get their story straight and my colleagues and i are hearing different accounts from the justice department, from sources close to rod rosenstein than the accounts that we re hearing from the white house, which is that he had offered over the weekend, verbally in a conversation with chief of staff john kelly had offered to resign. that is the account from people at the white house and close to the president. and phil, there s also a disconnect on the original story, th