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Ethics investigation, could roy moore be expelled? this is a very big deal that senate republicans are girding for less than 24 hours from where he sit right now. >> senator, i mean, imagine if you were on capitol hill, right, you've been in a different set of shoes, not with this case necessarily, but take us behind the scenes. i mean, what are their options? what will this meeting look like? >> every republican senator is in a panic if roy moore wins this race because of the impact on the 2018 election and the fact that roy moore will be tied around the neck of every republican up for electi...

When you watched him make this announcement, what was going tl your mind? >> i was extremely unhappy how this played out. he was there for me through a personal tragedy. i trust him with my life. he is a remarkable human being and i'm very uneasy how this all played out. i'm with "the washington post" and slate and national monthly and many others who said we have lost our capacity to have any calibration here. zero tolerance a peace in the national monthly said when we tried it in schools a girl trying a science experience had an explosion and got expelled and ruined her life. and if we can't...

Territory as the president is going all in for roy moore. that's a movement and a shift. >> the ethics process is not only establishment swampish, what happens if you succeed in that, you are back to the prospect of maybe we lose a seat. >> i don't know that they have the cuts to expel him to be honest. would they have if you have mcconnell talk about it's up to the voters. he wanted him to step aside and will they have the guts to expel him from the senate should he win? i'm not betting on it. they need time to find the candidate and this was in the last month of his campaign. >> if the presi...

Done with al franken, without making him go through the ethics process is just kind of amp up the disillusionment that people on both sides of the political he spectrum feel about washington in general, that basically they're all corrupt. >> can you handicap the government shutdown? >> republicans have aid nair whoa window to get their tax bill cut passed. basically a week from now, a little more than a week. and then three or four days to get a government funding bill done. i think the odds are good they can pull off both things. on the tax cut front there are republicans saying, if you do a,...

Do this for the political reasons that you laid out. they didn't need to do the same thing with senator menendez, actually kind of amazing that we have had a senator under indictment and under trial and paid so little athe engs to it. but as you say, we are in the middle of this revolution and we're sort of writing the rules for how to conduct the revolution as it's occurring. we need to figure out a -- dahlia and i are both process people. you probably are, too. we need to figure out a way that does not take three years because the public mood does not -- you know, we are in the age of the ip...