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We've said let's handle this case just like we did with president clinton, fair is fair. >> we haven't ruled out witnesses. what do you say to that? >> well, he hadn't ruled them out, but at the same time, he's very clever. and when jeff flake stood up and would have been the vote that would have stopped kavanaugh from getting on the supreme court, mcconnell got him to let the vote out of judiciary committee and go to the floor where flake didn't have the deciding vote and then flake caved and kavanaugh was confirmed. mcconnell engineered that and gave the impression they have a type of fairne...

Pedophilia fascination. i think they had to go into everything, including his fascination with japanese anime. but they say he never acted on any of that. >> weird. why didn't she say something? >> by the way, didn't even know where he lived. so maybe she could have, but then wouldn't have known what to say or to whom. >> i know. we watch ashleigh primetime justice on our sister network hln at 6:00 p.m. eastern. i'm brooke baldwin. we're going to send it to "the lead" a little early today. jake tapper is up. "the lead" starts now. thanks, brooke. president trump today blaming the press for m...

Collect intelligence on high value target in the area and not that their mission was to kill or capture that individual. david mckenzie is live in niger. david, what are you learning on the investigation? so many hugs questiohuge questi unanswered. that's right. brooke. so many unanswered. one of the key questions is what level of intelligence came in that they were told that this mission was a routine one that didn't necessarily have any huge risks attached to it. but let me put it into perspective. where i'm standing in the capitol, just a couple of hours is where the ambush happened, it's...

This. >> you're speaking from the white house, you're doing reporting there. you think the dots do connect. that nunez denied it but this is partly a response wanting to talk about hillary clinton's e-mail again. >> the white house didn't exactly deny that today either. when sarah huckabee sanders was asked about it, she pointed pout president trump and the white house had repeatedly brought up these issues. so they're drawing a line. and i wouldn't be surprised if we saw donald trump dealing with it in the future and taking some credit for it. >> i would never be surprised if we saw tweeting....

Republicans have taken on trade and protectionism and against the commerce secretary who has protectionist views. they say flake didn't take the stances. is that fair criticism of flake? >> i think he makes a good point on the trade issue, but, at the same time, you know, actions speak louder than words. if you are going to make such statements about free trade and the short, he abused the presidents policy of not looking long ball. they need to look at long term strategy with regard to trade. if that's the case, put together legislation for the argument. he makes good points, but without foll...