just actual bias but it's the appearance of impartiality that a judge might have. that was a performance that was unmasked. and what i worried about was that it was actually president trump's idea of what a judge should be. >> right. >> as opposed to what a judge should be. and in the wall street journal, that was already extraordinary that he felt the need to write an op-ed. and the op-ed was so fundamentally disingenuous. he said that thursday's performance was because he was emotional and acting as a dad and a husband and a father. that performance on thursday was not spontaneous. he rued out that talk. so the notion that you were swept away by emotion doesn't make any sense. the problem is you can't unring that bell. he was unmasked in a way that i thought fundamentally disqualified him from going forward. >> cherilyn, susan collins had a long section in her quite lengthy speech today about presumption of innocence. it's a theme that mitch