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Mark judge holed up in row hoe bath or wherever he was didnt make much sense, and i thought it was terrible optics, and i do think for someone such as senator collins, senator myrrh c -- murkowski, senator flake, they tend to always reflect a real consciousness and independence and be able to explain how theyre going to vote to the other side in a way that even if they dont agree with the vote, even if they might be reluctant to want to agree, they still respect the procedure and pattern by whic...

And i think it also forced senator flake to realize this is the time that you dont make spee speeches. you take action. and i think a lot of people were looking to see him do that. and he did. thats a important first step. >> it was undoubtedly a powerful moment. setting aside what happened in the elevator there, i think jeff flake is a thoughtful person. i was impressed with chris coons in this. i thought of all the democrats, he was the most thoughtful. so its not surprising that they got toge...

Whatever, i feel like there is some real enmity, some real grudges that have been formed over these last couple of weeks. >> harris: i had on senator daines a few minutes ago and he talked about calling judge brett kavanaugh and giving his support and saying how proud he was of him. we know there been some other types of phone calls that have gone on in this process today. you mentioned collins and the other what we would call a swing voter, getting calls from george w. bush and condoleezza rice...

Has been done in this country to many people. >> senator flake said that moment affected him. >> i think everything that ive seen and viewed and experienced in the last couple of weeks has had an impact. so its been everything. >> mike conley has no obligation to honor this commitment. senators murkowski, collins, mansion and heitkamp endorsed the move that the fbi do more investigation and all of them are seen as pooiflt votes when it comes to the judge kavanaughs nomination. heres what moscow ...

Senators murkowski and flake. senator cornyn telling us that there will be an fbi background check investigation lasting no more than one week so were not sure what they know that we dont, if they have been in communication with the president who would have to authorize that, but that is a marked difference from leadership who had previously until this time been saying there was no need to do that, that they were going to push full steam ahead no matter what. this is the result of what we have s...

Senators murkowski and collins in particular is when lindsey graham says that professor ford is almost as much of a victim as you are, judge kavanaugh -- >> mmm-hmm. >> painting judge kavanaugh as the real victim here and not professor ford, who is so emotionally and persuasively testified to the trauma that she received this morning. and then you see on the other hand someone like brett kavanaugh, who is exhibiting much more anger and vitreal and defiance than we saw in his previous hearings. a...

And so far, as i can tell right now, so far, there have been 15 or 16 women who have -- who have alleged that donald trump engaged in sexual misconduct. hes now got three women whove come forward on his top nominee. hes gone to bat for roger ailes in a number of cases of sexual -- charges of sexual misconduct. best i can tell, at least 25 women who have charged misconduct, he has come, he has agreed to only -- zero of those women. he said zero. all of them were essentially liars, the 25 were all...

And in this case, asking for an fbi investigation versus you could make up something thats anonymous and i think if these things really happened, the people need to go on the record. >> you agree that its not fair to ask judge kavanaugh about anonymous allegations? >> yeah. i do because i think once you say these allegations, no one can ever -- you cant put that genie back in the bottle. there will be a certain number of people that will always say, well, you were accused of this and i think jef...

Anonymous that now comes out and says in high school he assaulted her. dianne feinstein has the let earn did not give it to the senate judiciary committee. theres no discussion on it. do you believe that a discussion can move forward or that the vote can move forward without that conversation being had? >> i think it all depends on what senators murkowski and collins do. whether they believe the accusations, you know, whether the woman comes out publicly. if she comes out and doesnt want to, to ...

Court nomination of brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh is a historically unpopular choice. his polling numbers are worse than harriet miers or robert bork, who nominees whose were so unpopular they didnt even make it close to the court. kavanaughs nomination has less support than either of them. in addition, though, specifically senators murkowski and collins are both pro-choice and his staunch anti-abortion will give them pause on roe v. wade alone. they may have some over specific issues with kavanaug...