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The president, saying that he found her credible, to then four hours later at the culmination of brett kavanaugh's testimony, which was fiery? >> yes. exactly right, alex. you combine the rage that brett kavanaugh expressed, the rage that lindsey graham expressed, that had a galvanizing effect at kind of a primal level with republicans that republican conservatives tended to think thereafter brett kavanaugh and thereafter me too. that got people voting. i heard that from republican voters. >> what's your sense, melanie, of the political impact of kavanaugh's confirmation? >> mitch mcconnell sa...

Would have issues about whether you're going to stand for the national anthem or not. >> tim lee a veteran, served in vietnam, in june of 1971, he stepped on a land mine. in november, where will you stand? >> it's a powerful ad. and it tells you a couple of things. it tells you that republicans like ted cruz believe this will help turn out their base, it also tells you he knows he's in trouble. >> and he knows he might not be the best person for his own message, he's not on that ad, he's kind of using the cultural war that trump has stirred up, and certainly a galvanizing effect for his base, ...

>> i think johanna is right is that there is difficulty and honestly they went to a rough patch in 2009 and 2010 but part of that is because of what they were doing. when you look at what the democratic agenda was, the government takeover of healthcare had a galvanizing effect on people because it was something that negatively affected their lives and made the motivated to go to the polls and vote out the democrats who supported that legislation. now, the galvanizing piece of legislation above is pushed is a tax-cut that helps 85 or 90% of the people and it's across the board. this is a good t...

President is under attack. he's being treated unfairly. there are a lot of positive things going on in their life in terms of the economy. but they are not seeing that on their television screens. does this have a galvanizing effect? >> republican confidence in the media, republican belief in the media is down to 14%. only 14% of republican voters in this country believe the media is reporting real news. this didn't happen overnight. this isn't just about president obama. the reason president trump was elected was because republicans were fed up and finally took a stand against the mainstream ...

President? do necessity view of this as the president is under attack. he's being treated unfairly. there are a lot of positive things going on in their life in terms of the economy. but they are not seeing that on their television screens. does this have a galvanizing effect? >> republican confidence in the media, republican belief in the media is down to 14%. only 14% of republican voters in this country believe the media is reporting real news. this didn't happen overnight. this isn't just about president obama. the reason president trump was elected was because republicans were fed up and ...