on that basis alone, think he should have never been let out of committee, the nomination never let out of committee. but i think the response of the public, even if you like his politics and ideology and judicial philosophy, the response of the public has been wow, this man does not have the temperament to be a judge, period. >> yet i'm looking at the president's tweet right after that in which he writes judge kavanaugh showed america why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful, honest, riveting. he obviously interpreted it in a much different way. let me move the conversation forward. i want to look at the picture from professor ford's perspective. she's looking at this wall of men behind the prosecutor, mitchell, rachel mitchell who was brought in to question her on their behalf. do you think republicans made a mistake not addressing ford at all? >> i think it was an interesting decision. you can understand why they did it. you had 11 male senators, male