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Legal court and you have the court of public opinion, and republican senator lindsay graham, as you know, you know, was trying to go ahead with his resolution condemns your whole process. he's got 50 co-sponsors in the senate which means a lot of people are supporting what he's doing who really think what the president did was wrong. president trump bragged about it today. here he is, congressman. >> i haven't even made a phone call. 50 out of 53 and they said you get to 40, that's pretty good or you haven't done anything and we're up to 50. >> even republicans who have slammed it, even mitt r...

The process. >> but why is it a talking point that works, right? whenly children come back at me with a lie it does not become a talking point. >> i think it fuels some of the suspicions when hearings happen behind the scenes and i think that is what they're trying to tap into. democrats have tried to tap into this. there is 40 plus members of congress that have the ability to do the questions on some of them. so it is the process, it is the one thing they're trying to poke hols at because i think it is the one thick they can talk about because it is frustrating the hearings are not happening ...

This process. >> neil: the president will be speaking in 15 minutes. he will want to mention when it comes to michael avenatti and his client with the latest charges. many of your republican colleagues have said please, sir, don't. how do you feel? >> it's probably better at this point to allow the process to play out here on capitol hill. i think that it's been a very -- as i said, a fair, open process. senator grassley has bent over backwards to accommodate anybody that wants to come forward with the accusations and interview them hand get the facts. but at the end of the day, it's probably ...

While they were in charge and julie swetnick, a michael avenatti client, they can do that but then it could concei conceivably become a circus. are you worried? >> i expect that will come up. democrats will use any and all means. they go into this hearing, a bunch of them tomorrow that are running for president, including the attorney of the latest accuser. this is all about politics. they're going to do everything they can to try to turn this into a circus, try to discredit and launch character assassinations at judge kavanaugh. but i think at the end of the day, tomorrow we'll present an opp...

Many democrats think it's a combination of charges here that the judge is damaged goods and should step aside. how do you feel about that? >> i think it's particularly disappointing that senator hirono from hawaii is fund-raising off of this. making statements about the appointment and using it to dry to generate campaign contributions. that is not helpful to the process we're in. i also think it's dangerous if we say that the sum of allegations, the volume of allegations is sufficient to not have to test the voracity or truthfulness or legitimacy of those allegations. we don't want to live in...