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Commentator and former special assistant to president george w. bush is back with us. welcome, everyone, to the conversation. scott, let me start with you. weve had a little more than 12 hours now since the president has ordered this investigation into these accusations. a little time to think of it. maybe a little time to sleep, not much for us these days. are you convinced that mitch mcconnell is right, that as this goes on, it will be more difficult to support brett kavanaugh, or will it be a...

Three people on the planet who know about it. "los angeles times" also reported as early as last night the fbi moved to speak to the lawyer of one of these other accuser. just for quickly clarify, its mark judge. i know you know that. >> aaron blake, your piece headline -- jeff flake stumbles into taking a stand. how much was the senator as decision last minute? do you think hes expecting the outcome that we saw with the whole vote being delayed? early friday morning he came out with a stateme...

And lets face something here. its a town of a lot of whispering and a lot of cynicism and people, as soon as they heard lindsey graham, thought this was an audition for a cabinet position, perhaps justice, perhaps pentagon at some point in the future. >> ill tell you what it was, brian. someone who was at the capital all day reporting, it was revealing. it was revealing about the republican party. what a split screen. senator graham versus senator flake. senator graham just like judge kavanagh, ...

Have judge kavanagh, a man who until two weeks ago, was a pillar of the legal community. theres been no whisper of misconduct by him in the time hes been a judge. what we have are uncorroborated, unsubstantiated claims from his teenage years. >> after todays hearing, republican senator bob corker of tennessee announced as we said he would be voting for kavanagh. there are several other important votes we dont yet know about. as we mentioned, senators flake, murkowski, collins, joe manchin met in...

Decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined. god bless him. short time after grahams comments, senator orrin hatch of utah echoed some of brett kavanaghs testimony. >> this is a national disgrace the way youre being treated. and in the middle of it all we have judge kavanagh, a man who until two weeks ago, was a pillar of the legal community. theres been no whisper of misconduct by him in the time hes been a judge. what we have are uncorroborated, unsubstantiated cla...

Senator corker one of the possible swing votes, republican retiring said he would support kavanagh. it seems to be moving toward kavanagh, but a lot of votes still in the air. >> we hear this reporting, bob, those on the fence, the collins, murkowski, flake may vote. >> in both the democratic party and the republican party, all of the senators, the red state senators, moderate republicans, that group within the chamber, they are really looking to each other. no one really wants to be out there a...

Revealing. it was revealing about the republican party. what a split screen. senator graham versus senator flake. senator graham just like judge kavanagh, taking the advice of president trump, following the model of president trump, defiant, fight, total political war in this charged america that were all living through and covering. and then theres retiring republican jeff flake of arizona, reluctant to embrace that kind of turn in the republican party, that kind of war mentality when it comes ...

Important votes we dont yet know about. as we mentioned, senators flake, murkowski, collins, joe manchin met in private tonight after the hearing, after their meeting flake told reporters he is facing a tough choice. >> its a close call. you leave with doubts whichever way. thats the nature of this. theres no way you can leave certain youre completely right, hes right, shes wrong, shes right, hes wrong. i mean, youre never certain. you just do the best we can. thats what were trying to do. >> ba...

The testimony compelling. he thought kavanagh, the federal judge needed to come through with his testimony. he urged kavanagh in a phone call to make sure he was defiant in his testimony and by end of day the president decided to stand by the nominee and thought he did a strong job in his testimony and really pushing back against the democrats. but its still tbd in the u.s. not. where are senator collins, senator murkowski, they have decisions to make. senator corker one of the possible swing vo...

Come forward. he has issued another affidavit to the judiciary committee over the past hour where he denied julie swetnicks allegation that he and brett kavanaugh were part of a group of men that spiked the drinks of girls to try to facilitate their gang rapes. i think the fbi will want to press him on one if not both of those incidents, and, of course, if there are inconsistencies between their interview and other interviews. >> if the fbi in the investigation over the next week doesnt come up ...