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May toggle to that it will come back to you. let's start with how delicate a vote senator jeff flake has in this whole process and whether the president does or does not need to be careful in terms of getting a response from flake that might be negative. >> i think flake views himself as the fulcrum and he may indeed be the fulcrum vote here. so i think the president does need to be aware of that but i think he's also going to speak to defend judge kavanaugh. so i hope that senator flake will vote for judge kavanaugh based on the merits of judge kavanaugh and not what any outside person says. ...

We've seen this from charlottesville to helsinki and we saw it again today with collins and flake and murkowski. they all came out and disavowed it but you have to wonder, at the end of the day, if they all vote for brett kavanaugh, what was the president's -- i mean, what effect did any of this have on how they ultimately voted? now, the issue to me, i think, will be really interesting is what does this do in november? how much does this energize female voters who are furious when they see him say something like this? how much do college educated women come out to the polls after watching som...

Satisfied that kavanaugh didn't like him because they also better be a problem, he will get confirmed. >> john: tom, last friday, senator jeff flake of arizona seem to indicate that he would vote for judge kavanaugh, not just in the committee, but in the senate as well. then he said let's do this fbi investigation. now he is going pretty squishy on all of this. >> [laughs] he is. jeff flake thought that, while attention as he might've been that this would restore integrity to the process, and it hasn't done that. we've gotten more allegations come we've had the media, in my opinion, fairly res...

Earlier. the media has behaved terribly irresponsibly throughout this ordeal and in the one-week delay that we have had, has gotten even worse. nbc also produced a report where they implied very strongly that kavanaugh committed perjury before the committee, only to add a clarification later that oh, by the way, he mentioned that in testimony and basically refuted the implication that they were trying to put out there. the media has not covered itself and glory in any way. i agree with steve. this will have lasting impact beyond the election but i think it will impact the election. we are seei...

Revolution on," on the fox news channel. mara liasson, national correspondent for national public radio and tom bevan, realclearpolitics cofounder and president. mara, are the goalposts being shifted? this was about a sexual assault, and i was about personal temperament, not just judicial temperament. it's about judge kavanaugh's tone and tenor at the hearing. >> democrats are trying to do what they can to stop this nomination. if they can use evidence of an accusation, they will, or the way he behaved when he raised his voice, sarcastically interrupted senators, they will use that. it doesn't...