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Lot of charges and counter-charges about judge kavanaugh. but as those who have known him best have attested, he has been an exemplary public servant, judge, teacher, coach, husband, and father. despite the turbulent, bitter fight, surrounding his nomination, my fervent hope is that brett kavanaugh will work to lessen the divisions in the supreme court, so that we have far fewer 5-4 decisions, and so that public confidence in our judiciary and our highest court is restored. mr. president, i will vote to

Condoning sexual assault. nothing could be further from the truth. >> so her point there that voting yes to kavanaugh is not the senate condoning sexual assault. obviously there are a lot of survivors that believe otherwise. gloria, what message in your mind does his confirmation send to those who can ofs themselves a part of the -- who consider themselves a part of the me too movement. >> i think it is truly ironic that women would be the cornerstone to the kavanaugh confirmation. you have to think about all of the work that went into getting women into positions of political power, and this ...

Context that she is in right now. but she knew what she was getting into when she took questions in the context of the kavanaugh hearing and dr. ford. so i think she went as far as i think she felt she could go. and it wasn't very far. >> right. exactly. i want to get your take on this, what critics are saying about her fashion, she obviously talks a lot, she uses her voice through her clothes in many way, and when she was on safari, in nairobi, she wore a white pect ha -- white pith hat and many people accused her of echoing european colonialism about that garb and she was asked about that th...

Or has the partisanship there grown to the level that regardless of how well they know joe manchin, the fact that he is not a republican is going to make it tough for them to vote for him? >> right, well, i think he has really found this good mode of likeability and he has had a lot of success in elections where republicans have performed pretty well on the ballot. so i think he has found his niche, he identifies himself as a west virginia democrat. and i don't know exactly what that means but it something to the effect of i'm not this monolithic national democratic party person, i am my own p...

And gloria brown marshall, she wrote the book "the voting rights war" and a constitutional professor at the john j college of criminal justice. gloria, let's start with you. once judge kavanaugh is seated, becomes justice kavanaugh, how does the court improve its appearance of impartiality and can the court even do that? >> i think it is nearly impossible for the court to keep the same level of credibility and neutrality that it appeared to have before this fiasco around judge kavanaugh. and one of the major reasons is because the court is supposed to be apolitical, that's why the justices don...