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Negotiating, it's really all about november 6. >> brit: certainly a part of it is that it is about the delay. the democrats win on this. get past the midterm, witnesses might come forward. so unless and until there is a vote, it is all good for the democrats because you can't move the nomination forward without one, the case remains forward. others will come forward, as we saw within the last 24-36 hours. they are all week, really. democrats have a good talking point. calling for an fbi investigation in political terms is unmistakably a good talking point. now it overlooks a lot, and it certai...

Brett kavanaugh has spent much of the last week behind closed doors at the white house, prepping with lawyers at the white house, with communicators, such as raj shah to prepare for how he's going to answer these kinds of questions in the hearings and in that interview. he stuck to the same talking points. he was what we call on message. it's important to point out the white house had been doing much of the defense of kavanaugh in the days leading up to last night's interview. we've only see a few written statements from kavanaugh. he's not been on camera until last night. but there was a feel...

Doomed at this point? >> it's hard to see a scenario in which the nomination is revived. the problem is that senate republicans are not coming out and defending jackson, and they're not giving any indication that they're ever going to support this nominee. it'll be be a lesson to see how the meetings with the white house staff went. once they start to lose senate republicans with the margin so small there's just no way to move this nomination forward, and sources are worried that these are the kinds of he said, she said allegations that are hard to prove or disprove, that once they're out ther...

Small there's just no way to move this nomination forward, and sources are worried that these are the kinds of he said, she said allegations that are hard to prove or disprove, that once they're out there, once the nomination is so tainted it's really hard to get it jump started again. the damage is done. >> again to both your points that's why a vetting process is so important, a thorough vetting process. you guys mentioned, you know, about getting someone credible after this that people may be concerned about it. because molly during the campaign trump bragged about hiring the best people, b...

Prickly about moving any nomination forward, and i think that leaves jeff sessions right where he is, continuing to do the job with this continuing reign of twitter annoyance, but he will do the job. what won't happen is the rest of the president's agenda will be slowed down by this distraction. >> how so? >> capitol hill is distracted by it. well, because if this is what you're talking about, look at when he had that lunch with the republican senators over health care. suddenly that whole day, and into the next, was spent by republican senators talking about oh, gosh, how can we solve this pr...