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Questions. john? >> three people most important in the process are senators murkowski, collins and flake. this morning two of those senators, flake and collins, were extremely upset that -- how the president described christine blasey ford at that rally in mississippi. knowing how sensitive this issue is and how important it would be if the fbi investigation shows no other compelling evidence to keep judge kavanaugh for the court, these people need to be comfortable with voting for him, why did the president say what he did last night and the way he said it? >> the president was stating the fa...

Know, he's just going to be working his republicans very hard to make sure he does have those votes. >> houugh, every day, this gets little harder. >> well, it does. i spoke with three republican senators on the record this morning, the whip, john cornyn, joni ernst and david purdue from georgia, which is a swing state. all three of them are solid for kavanaugh, if anything explosive comes out in the fbi report, it would be up for grabs. i spoke with a senior republican leader, not in the senate, they are 90% certain, according to this individual of confirmation, however, if they don't confirm...

Year that michael cohen was acting on his own in an arbitration proceeding to prevent stormy daniels from doing a tv interview when the president directed that? >> i won't get into a back and forth. that's an issue for the president's outside counsel. i direct you there for an answer. john? >> thank you, sarah. two brief questions. first. the impact of the president's comments in mississippi notwithstanding it is a fact that senators collins, murkowski, flake and manchin are undecided votes critical to the vote. are there any plans for the president to call them between now and next week and m...

Sexual assault. what do you get out of that? is that to help kavanaugh's nomination? is this to rally the base? is this gonna help with the midterms? what's the point in doing that? >> again, i dispute that it was anything other than the president stating facts. facts that were laid out in the prosecutor's memo that she put forward to the senate. >> dana: south dakota senator john thune, you saw him yesterday after the policy lunch. he came to the podium. thanks for being on the show today. question on the exchange you just heard between sarah sanders and the reporter about the president's com...

Her. normally a chatty guy to reporters, not engaging on this. he believes the fbi can and will do their job here. he doesn't think it is appropriate to talk about this process until the fbi finishes its job. he was in the room after the hearing on thursday with the judge kavanaugh hearing on thursday. he was in the room with senators murkowski, collins and flake as they discussed how to go forward here. you have to think, at least to some degree he is on board with the general discussions they have been having about this nominee and what happens going forward from this point. again, a lot of ...