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And tomorrow, of course, is just professor ford. so if you are a republican in the senate now who has been arguing that you want a vote on friday in the committee, that you want a hearing just with professor ford, you have the president of the united states saying now, well, no, i think i want to hear from all of the women. and on rosenstein, i would just say that i think he s listened to his attorneys. i think he has listened to people who say, this will backfire against you politically not the timing of it, but just the firing of rod rosenstein and it could affect the kavanaugh votes in fact, particularly among some red state democrats. it may give them an opportunity if they you know, if they want to vote against trump i mean against kavanaugh. so i think the president did a disservice actually to his republican side because he believes he is the best spokesman, he is always the best spokesman. what we heard today is the real ....
Even though people predicted he would and would have this out burst. he was too busy over the weekend with the drama surrounding kavanaugh. rosenstein expected that. that s why he offered to resign to john kelly. why we had that botched resignation on monday and now that s why we re here where we. president trump wasn t going to. i talked to someone before trump held this press conference and they said there s no plan to fire rod rosenstein. that s why he had the phone call with him in new york. it was calm and collected. said let s tack about this lk a thursday and now they are delaying this. very big day tomorrow. we know the president will be watching. it s a huge day. it s a cultural moment in this country just in many ways like anita hill was. i think it will turn into a he said, she said. i don t know if it will change anyone s mind. who knows what happens ....
It was looking out for president trump. he made very clear he is ready for this to go either way, that his nomination could be confirmed and he s right there to say, i defended him, i stood by him, i said he is wrongly accused. he also left room to drop brett kavanaugh by saying, i can easily be convinced, i can be persuaded, i m going to listen, i want to hear these women. that reflects what we ve heard president trump say all week, privately voicing his complaints he didn t think brett kavanaugh did a good enough job defending himself, that he hasn t been forceful enough and aggressive enough. president trump set up the room there where he can be with him if he gets confirmed or drop him if it looks like he is not going to get confirmed and he s not going to get those votes. but that s the smaller message here. the overall message, which was really reflected at the end, is this is the president of the united states who is about to have his party go through a pretty rough midterms fro ....
That president trump has said that have upset susan collins and lisa murkowski and jeff flake. jeff flake on the senate floor today made the point that whether or not you believe kavanaugh or believe christine blasey ford, the idea that you should doubt a woman s allegation because she didn t go to law enforcement when we know how rare it is that that actually happens, most sexual assaults are not reported, it is stunning. so i think he did hips no favors when it came to the idea of supporting kavanaugh. a few times during this press conference he did say things to try to suggest that he had an open mind about it, he wants to hear, he could be persuaded. but i think overwhelmingly the idea was this is a con job, these women are lying, their accusations are false, i don t believe it. and he started going into this whole rambling affair about, and what happens if i if i pull his name and then i go to somebody else, and then more false allegations. ....
Meeting. that i know the white house says that he s backing kavanaugh 100%, but that is not the sound of somebody who believes 100% that kavanaugh is guaranteed that seat on the supreme court. yeah. we know how loyal the president is. jeffrey toobin is with us. on the one hand the president says the whole attack on kavanaugh is a big fat con job, on the other hand he wants the hear what this woman has to say tomorrow. in donald trump s world in the relation between the sexes, it is always 1957 and he s the head of the rat pack. that s how he sees relations between men and women. everything we ve learned about how women are sexually harassed, how they respond to sexual harassment and sexual violence, he doesn t buy any of it. it is like, deal with it. and the victims here, the only victims he ever talks about are men, including today. it is like, oh, well, the terrible message. he s not going to get anybody to ....