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You had people accuse judge kavanaugh of being a rapist he says falsely. how do we pick up the pieces? what is your advice to president trump? we have a mid-term election that might be nastier. after that election, how do you pick up the pieces? >> i would say number 1, we have to recognize that sexual violence is real in this country. there's no country for creepy old men or middle aged men, but it's no country at all without due process. people have the right to defend themselves. no one is guilty until proven innocent. you're innocent until proven guilty. >> senator john kennedy, he has bee...

Republicans. >> harris: what do you think it is about this particular subject for republicans to tighten this thing up. >> frankly, the election stopped being a referendum on donald trump where democrats were more motivated to vote them out then republicans were to defend him and became a referendum on brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh and conservativism as a whole. they are being interpreted as character attacks on them and republicans are mad, they are fired up. and that's reflected in all the data we are seeing in all these states. >> harris: is it possible that part of what alex is saying is...

Friday, and we had all known her name. we had known what she was alleging. but to have her lay it out and talk about the pornographic details, to talk about her relationship with then judge thomas and she was very steady, very convincing for her part, just as thomas was for his. but something i was speaking about when, jim, you and poppy were talking earlier about the possible reputational damage to a witness here, what those hearings dissolved into were character attacks. many of the republican senators said if you really felt that thomas had harassed you in this way, why did you stay in touc...

Says about the stuff trump is saying and how it will play in places where republicans need to win if they're going to hold control of the house and the senate. >> well, you have touched on the central problem with all of this, which is that the messages that trump -- the messages trump puts out there, very hard-line on immigration, trade, some of these other issues and also just the general, as you say, rambling kind of character attacks and fairly extreme language about the media, that is woptd ewonderful in a republ primary. one of the problems, earlier in the year when trump stress add desi...

Believes the now released tape that michael cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. he also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president, trump, can be heard on. really what he is doing is keeping up his rapid-fire character attacks on michael cohen. it would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohen's latest assertion that president trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own c...