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Judge will come back and contradict something that brett kavanaugh said, he didn't leave himself a lot of wiggle room on these issues. whatever the reason is it's a credibility factor. >> joining us now from capitol hill, capitol hill correspondent, the host of kasie d. d. d.c., kasie hunt. the vote is still on two hours from now inside the judiciary committee. what will it took like? >> reporter: i was here late last night. when i left republican leaders felt optimistic in their words they were going move ahead with this confirmation of judge kavanaugh. now a couple of things to watch. i also...

Mccabe was not forthcoming if regard to handling the f.b.i. probe and also misled investigators and comey about a media disclosure and authorization. mccabe said he didn't intentionally mislead anyone. does he have evidence to back that up? >> that's going to be one of the questions they're looking at. they'll look at comey's credibility, by the way. at least some of that referral was based on comey's claims that mccabe had not been honest to him. so that's a he said/he said event. prosecutors will be evaluating that. >> julie: all right. then about the statement he issued after he was fired b...

Part of that is -- peter strzok and lisa page partisan. so when you add that together. it has a partisan tone and what we have been saying for six months, let's -- a special counsel to investigate. >> if a partisan sees a crime -- a crime being committed, they should should be discounted. >> we are not saying that. >> but they are -- are we going down that road. >> you need to give the facts. so when a warrant is obtained, they say this is the person giving us the information and here is the credibility factor that you have to weigh in as a judge. and yet that wasn't done. you have lawyers on ...

Could have tweeted about poppy harlow report on the opioid epidemic. lot of topics he could have been tweeting about that were on television. as you said, bill, it comes back to what the personal issues are. >> we lost three servicemembers, he could have been tweet being that. you have the "new york times" reporting on this climate change examination, 13 different federal agencies. that is going to be good test for this administration, bill, because it's going to go to the credibility factor. you got all these scientists from the government, the white house, the sur fwats are going to spin it ...

As he continues to deflect and won't comment, the authenticity factor, the credibility factor lacking? >> it's difficult. you know, he has a difficult job because he has to follow the leader. >> audience of one. >> and the leader sends him off into a lot of different directions. i said this morning that sean should try out for cirque du soleil for all of the bending and twisting that he needs to do to try to keep up here and he's paying a price, there's no doubt about it. sean was one of the best-liked and respected press people in washington and he has sacrificed a lot in these last 70 days t...