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Consent. i think he was acting like a predator personally. >> does her view matter? she's told anderson it was completely consensual, she was not victimized. she doesn't want to associate herself with people who were truly assaulted. >> she says that very clearly. then as she described her thought process in the moment -- >> right. >> i talked to a lot of women who said, wait a minute, maybe she doesn't recognize it as such, but who are saying, oh, i deserved this. i put myself in a bad situation. bad things are going to happen. i deserve this. i got to do this. >> one of the things about thes...

Someone who had ethics and integrity to be the republican nominee, and he didn't make it. we ended up with donald trump. i think at this stage of the game, we have to understand this is who we have. he is tremendously flawed, but at the end of the day, he is our president. and clearly the reason he's being quiet here is because he knows he's wrong here. he knows that these women -- despite their careers and playboy playmate and porn stars, he knows that they're right, and there's nothing he can say about it. and attribute that's why we have -- >> rob, why do you think he's being silent? >> i t...

In power and specifically the president and his party. i think that will be the case this election, and all the other issues will be secondary or tertiary to the president. this will be a straight up referendum on the president and his conduct. so i think these issues will have an impact. >> congressman dent, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> let's bring in the panel. hopefully they are not remaining silent. ryan lizza, kirsten powers, rob astorino, alice stewart and frank bruni. frank, you wrote about this, about president trump's silence. you said it was, quote, a g...

Team of ninjas. like they are in their respective fields, they are top of their fields. >> exactly. they are on top of all of the doctrinal aspects of constitutional law and in the weeds prosecutorial experience. so he has a formidable legal team and he has all the money in the world to get the best legal representation, and it's amazing that he can't. he's kind of like that character from peanuts, pig-pen, you know? he's got this legal hot mess cloud that kind of follows him, and i think when you're a lawyer looking at it, you're like, this guy fires people. there's porn stars with secret con...

Now. but tomorrow he will have something he really needs to distract from, and we'll want everyone to start talking about stormy daniels so they won't talk about the crazy thing he's done tomorrow. so i think we need to be careful about predicting that we've seen some kind of pattern here. >> you've raised this idea as well that you can't underestimate just the personal aspect to this. i mean he's got a wife obviously. i don't know what he has said previously to her, if that contradicts what stormy daniels is saying. you know, this was allegedly shortly after she gave birth. there could be jus...