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Because they don't want to do it themselves so they'll sit there mute. >> there is no question there is an optics problem. sarah is right that the real variable is not necessarily gender, it is stupidity. and it is insensitivity and those comments -- i think they have a high potential of having a backlash. but both parties, i think, have to be aware of the optics here. and the way that they handle the -- the questioning. if, in fact, republicans beat up on dr. ford, i think that would be a political disaster. but i also think that democrats need to understand that if they go over the top in th...

Senate judiciary committee, and that committee has other issues. there's recent revelations about a grassley staffer who had a sexual harassment charge against him he's denied and some involvement of a pr firm that's been involved in the dirty tricks this past week we've seen with kavanaugh's friend ed wh whalen. they have a duty to ask the questions in their own name and their own voices and have the american people see that. i was the chief counsel for nominations from 2002 through the beginning of of 2005, so i didn't work on the supreme court but i worked extensively on brett kavanaugh's n...

Coons talks about. he's is one of his hangs out there in the ether and we never actually hear from her. maybe we don't know anymore about the veracity of these claims, anything to substantiate or corroborate or dismiss it. how does the senator going on the committee on the floor and then make an adjudication of that? that's why coons said every senator ought to raise their voices and call for the fbi to investigate so everyone has all the facts before they sit down to do this. keep in mind mitch mcconnell, majority leader, wants to move this by the first of october. if they were to start monda...

I wanted to show all of us member of the committee and her reaction yesterday. >> guess who is perpetuating this? it is the men of the country. i want to say shut up and step up and do the right thing for a change. >> and ley parker, there is a gender distinguishing factor when you have 11 women on the committe committee, and many women voters may be reacting differently to this than the republican leadership in the senate. >> you are absolutely right, and no matter what, this is an optics problem not just for the white house, but again for a lot of the republicans who are up for re-election i...

Credibility. all our allies around the world depend on the united states for security. george osborne, the former british finance minister said to me when david cameron and i plotted foreign policy we knew america had our back. he said today every european leader is wondering where is america? do we know where it stands? and that sense of uncertainty about america's commitments, is infecting the entire realm of international relations around the world and that means you have not an optics problem or communication problem, you have a central problem with the american-built international order t...