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That. this is my objection to the idea that one must believe someone who comes forward on a high profile case. my experience is that you can't believe someone coming forth in a high profile matter is telling the truth. i'm not saying that women don't put themselves at risk when they come forward. but you're talking about a lifetime appointment to the supreme court, people might be seeking to influence the course of the future of american history. >> but i think what you're talking about is what happens at

Don't go into it. they forwarded to the fbi, it didn't go anywhere. the presumption, if she is telling the truth, is that it didn't go somewhere because people were were negligent in dealing with her allegations in the letter. but we don't know that that is true. >> but i'm not sure that that is the case because the fbi can't investigate unless they're asked to reopen the background investigation. and there's been some indication that although the letter was forwarded to them, they no longer had a background investigation in progress so the letter was placed with her file. that may be a good q...

Give these sort of claims the treatment they need. this is a matter of being fair both to the women who have come forward and also to judge kavanaugh because we don't want to unfairly tarnish someone. everyone deserves a fair process here. >> so i've worked in news rooms and around news rooms for 36 years. and one thing you know about any high profile case in a news room -- and i think this is true of high profile cases with police departments and prosecutors -- is that there's a lot of garbage that people call in, tips, reports, they send you e-mails. every day i get e-mails from people alleg...

And in a he said/she said, not come back with anything conclusive and that would be a waste of time. but they don't know that. >> i think they may be worried about something else, actually. >> if the fbi looked into it, they would open the door to something else. >> yeah. >> let's bring in jim vandehyne. let's talk about the stakes here today. this is the swing vote on the supreme court of the united states. what do you think this situation looks like 24 hours from now? >> i'll tell you what the mood inside the white house is. they're pretty nervous about this. a lot of white house officials w...

Administration and the president, he did not want to appoint tower. he was bullied into appointing tower who was the ranking member of the armed services committee. and so when the allegations of drinking came out, there was some interest in the white house in letting this go forward in case they could get the nominee they wanted who turned out the be dick cheney, right? so in this case, the white house clearly thought, you know, this is unfair. it's not true. we're going to push forward to get this nomination through because something is going on here. this is a late hit. >> as it shows in po...