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Politicize the appointments of judge kavanaugh? >> i think we saw just record levels of partisan a little bit on both sides, jon, i mean, this is -- this as unprecedented as we have ever seen a time in american politics, and the republicans made a very smart move, i was praying, hoping that the republicans would allow the week's investigation for the fbi to conduct a further background check because dr. ford obviously definitely deserved that but it also gave them the ability to continue to show fairness to the situation when senator cruz was talking about tribalism in his speech yesterday dur...

Compelling when they gave testimony, so hopefully this will shed more light on what happened 36 years ago, the character -- jon: if anything? >> yes. [laughter] jon: go ahead. i didn't mean to -- >> the character of brett kavanaugh as mr. katz there are questions from testimony, his demeanor and he was partisan in his testimony and that is now another issue that has been raised, judges are supposed to be impartial and it was quite shocking to see him talk about a left-wing conspiracy and the clintons and these -- this whole other, the left side ruining his life. jon: it's -- we are in for an i...

This. even though he would like to get rid of rosenstein, maybe he believes now, as we were also told friday, i was told by a source, that the president didn't want to do anything about this until after kavanaugh issue was resolved, that he didn't want two big messes on his hands at the same time. which is why we have seen his restraint on rosenstein on twitter. so it's an incredibly chaotic situation. kelly and rosenstein have been close. and i'm told by one source that, you know, kelly has protected rosenstein over the last months. so maybe this is just i quit/you're fired. maybe rosenstein ...

Congress, perhaps he will see action by the president. >> shepard: effectively, whether this is the goal or not is another matter, i'm not inside his head, i don't know, but the effect of this has been to make the base turn on jeff sessions, which they have. they used to love him. now they don't. i read it. i'm sure. >> turn on the justice department and turn on the fbi and turn on an investigation that the president wishes to discredit. because it is moving towards him. or maybe it's not. we don't know yet. we don't know what mueller has and doesn't have. maybe his final record will say that ...

Attack on law enforcement and to obscure the real issue, which is what did russia do with the 2016 election? >> frank, just in a couple of seconds, it's from your perspective the declassification order? >> reporter: yeah, look, at best, it's a disgraceful attempt to distract from the russia investigation and from the caf knauss matter. at worst, it is that furtherance of obstruction and tampering with an ongoing investigation with the president. deaths could occur from the exposure of sources and methods. this is not a game. >> phil rucker, what what your take on the president, he seems to be ...