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Well, kind of, in speaking generally in front of -- in this very tense situation, in front of a national audience. so members kind of have to determine their own credibility threshold and figure out who they believe. >> although, the rush here, adam, it seems to me, is partly a kind of confidence game by mcconnell. i think this is a key point here. like all of the rushing, the way theyre conducting this, mcconnell is not bargaining from a position of strength at this point. in terms of the signa...

Minority. there was fallout. nuclear winter froze the senate. theres few things more sacred in the senate than the filibuster. >> unlimited debate is the soul of the senate. people are critical of the filibuster. the filibuster gives the minority their only protection anywhere in the three branches of the government. over the years, the majority has restrained from squashing filibusters. while restraint went out the window in 2013. >> any kid on the school yard will tell you pay backs are hell. ...

You know, perhaps both judge kavanaugh and dr. ford to do well, kind of, in speaking generally in front of -- in this very tense situation, in front of a national audience. so members kind of have to determine their own credibility threshold and figure out who they believe. >> although, the rush here, adam, it seems to me, is partly a kind of confidence game by mcconnell. i think this is a key point here. like all of the rushing, the way theyre conducting this, mcconnell is not bargaining from a...

As judge kavanaugh. and then the committee meeting. and then the floor consideration. then the final vote. several stages ahead. and each of these witnesses who will appear before us on thursday will be under oath to tell the truth. i tho i hope that they do and i hope that we come to a conclusion. in terms of investigati in terms of future investigations, i dont want to go there. >> one other future question. if democrats win the senate, are you open to bringing back the filibuster? because a l...

Sovereignty, how the president is pulling out of the multilateral u.n. arms, whether its the human rights council, or the threshold of refugees come into this country, and what he will do with trade, china and the like. >> it also brings up the question too for leaders around the world is what we are hearing from the president, what is coming out of his mouth and what he is putting out on twitter, and its not always in lockstep. who are the leaders listening to and looking at at this point? >> l...

Evidentiary standard notion for a minute as you said, theres, you know -- beyond a reasonable doubt is an inappropriate standard for something like this, this isnt a courtroom, this is public opinion those who have said that the burden is on this justice to prove himself a competent justice are correct, but we are not talking about how you judge cases here, your legal philosophy, we are talking about potentially criminal allegations. even if we use a preponderance of the evidence standard, we do...

Though. weve also had arkansas pick up areas of very heavy rainfall. the concern going forward is look at where we have all of these flood watches, flood warnings, even flash flood warnings in effect because of the amount of rain. dallas-fort worth, by the way, seven inches they picked up yesterday actually pushed them over the threshold to be the wettest september on record. and diane, when you look at the numbers, they still have more to come. still likely to pick up perhaps an additional two ...

As the paper he drew on, and golf writers became investigative reporters and more media picked up the story, and georgetown media students picked it up as part of their course, and now after 19 years in prison he walked free. this happened because of the power of the press. heres what his lawyer said. once a case crosses a certain threshold of media attention, it matters even though it shouldnt. its imbariousing for the legal system. yes, its extraordinary that a golf magazine freed an innocent ...

Threshold for suspicion that needs to be met for judge kavanaugh to make it or not make it to the supreme court. >> its the same situation we had 27 years ago, when clarence thomas had a similar situation, a woman, an academic coming forward and making the allegations. it was seen then that the senate republicans didnt address hills allegations in a way that seemed fairly. you saw it in the following year, a huge wave election for female democrats. 27 years on we get a chance to see whether th...

Sku discussing everything from trump pardoning him to whether or not those discussions ever took place to what he might know about the russia investigation and the trump campaign ties to anyone within russia. >> thats not all that surprising considering mr. chohn was the trump foundation for about a decade. either cohen is trying to convince prosecutors his cooperation is valuable. we call that proffering or hes crossed that threshold and is cooperating. it seems like those are very similar thin...