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>> and ron, "the wall street journal" op-ed tonight under brett kavanaugh's name is going straight at the temperament issue. that's what the whole op-ed is about. there's a lot of blather in there that's irrelevant. but it all comes down to those lines that about this, saying this is who i'm going to be from this point forward. and that is aimed at jeff flake, who is one of the republicans who voiced a real problem with the behavior that he saw from brett kavanaugh in the hearing room last week. >> well, that's right, lawrence. but i think as your guest said earlier tonight the problem isn't t...

We're back with our reporters and analysts. we've just seen a report in the palm beach post newspaper quoting the retired supreme court justice john paul stevens who initially supported kavanaugh is telling an audience that the judge should be disqualified because of his performance in the senate hearing. let me read the quote. at that time i thought kavanaugh had the qualifications for the supreme court should he be selected. i've changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability. i feel his performance in the hearings ultimately changed my mind. and he said t...

Think, very differently than they otherwise would as a justice coming to the court. . >> i want to ask you, heidi, to weigh in on this idea of how his political problem changed. his political problem 72 hours ago was the compelling credible testimony of professor ford. his political problem today is that republicans, jeff flake, democrats, joe manchin, are now saying that if he lied in his testimony before congress, he's a no go on the supreme court. >> there's the lying in the testimony which, by the way, i don't think we've seen clear evidence of that yet. and also just the investigation, it...

Looked sort of wild eyed. if he is falsely accused, you can imagine that he would feel wild eyed, but this is a man who has been a judge for 12 years, who aspires to be confirmed for a seat on the supreme court. and there is this thing called judicial temperament and we didn't see much of that today. >> do you think that that will become a problem for judge kavanagh moving forward? obviously there is the immediate question as to whether or not he's going to be confirmed to the high court. even if he isn't because his nomination fails in vote or because he's withdrawn, he'll still go back to th...

Answering. and i'm sure the republicans like the feel of how it ended much more than how it began. they headed into a big republican senators meeting tonight with some big new problems when it comes to this nominee. number one, there is a brand-new temperament issue with judge kavanagh that had not previously been an issue. how this is revenge about the clintons. that was him letting the mask slip, the partisan warrior he was his adult career before he got on the bench. that's why it took him years to confirm him to the bench in the first place more than ten years ago. that's why his initial n...