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Republican women who i think are sympathetic to the position that susan collins articulated. >> they haven't been vocal enough. >> i appreciate that there is, and i think what you put your finger on, tara, is a conversation happening in this country and moments like this are inflection points and fault lines in the debates and in this national conversation where we raise awareness and have a conversation about what is acceptable behavior and what's not and why women don't come forward, right? they don't come forward for the reasons you articulated. there's fear, there's shame and there's frank...

Republican party with women voters moving forward. this is a grave mistake. >> tara and margaret, there's certainly an opportunity for a better broader conversation and i will leave you with this from a former assistant dachlt, moving forward our societal response to accusations must take as given that sexual misconduct is wrong, wrong decades ago and wrong now. it will be interesting to see if the senate takes this as a starting point. look at the #whyididn'treport. >> we do want to stay on our breaking news, this bombshell report in the "new york times" the deputy attorney general rod rosens...

Scout, you know, because one woman made an allegation, sorry, i don't buy it. >> but in the grand scheme of things, my goodness, there was no intercourse. there was maybe a touch. can we -- really? 36 years later? she's still stuck on that had it happened. >> joining me now to discuss cnn political commentators tara setmeyer and margaret hoover. tara, let's get to your reaction to what you just heard. >> i think it's a shame that tribalism has become so intense that even women are eating their own in this case. i mean, we as women go through unique experiences all the time and i'm sure almost ...

Republicans and the -- >> all right, a tale of two political dramas for the president t. best of times after a major legislative win as he passed the gop tax bill via the senate 51-49. also potentially the worst of times of times in the russia investigation with michael flynn pleading to one count of lying to the fbi. joining me now is jonathon alter, and tara setmeyer. welcome and good morning to you both. tara, i'll reach out to you first. assess the president's day. overall bad because of the flynn news or overall good because of the tax plan win? >> yes, i think some would try to categoriz...

But also that famous meeting on airforce one when the president and his advisors were crafting the initial misleading explanation of that trump tower meeting in june 2016 between his son, donald trump jr., and lawyers who said that they were offering -- russian lawyers offering damaging information on hillary clinton. so a number of topics, a number of paths that the special counsel is going down with these interviews. >> jim sciutto. jim, thanks. i want to bring in the panel. bakari sellers is here, alice stewart, jeffrey toobin, tara setmeyer and michael scheer. michael, how big a concern is...