those pages. that does it for the beat. hard ball with chris matthews starts right now. the midnight special? let's play hardball. ♪ good evening. the fbi is just three more days to complete its background investigation to president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. nbc news has learned that the investigation could wrap up as early as tonight. it's tuesday night according to sources familiar with the matter. even as the fbi continued their work today, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he is full speed ahead on the vote. >> one thing for sure, the senate will vote on judge kavanaugh here on this floor this week. >> as for the investigation

itself, today attorneys for christine blasey ford's whose allegation of sexual assault against kavanaugh sparked the entire background probe told nbc news the fbi has not contacted her. dr. ford has not even heard from the fbi. the fbi has completed its interview on mark judge, kavanaugh's friend who ford identified as being in the room when she was allegedly assaulted. an attorney for deborah ramirez who alleged kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party at yale said she spoke to the fbi for over two hours. at the end of the interview her lawyers provided the fbi with names and known contact information of additional witnesses totaling more than 20 people. we are not aware of the fbi affirmatively reaching out to those witnesses. they are not interviewing ford, kavanaugh and leads that they get. kavanaugh has denied both

allegations, of course. at the white house today president trump once again expressed optimism about kavanaugh's fate and defended him. >> i think that judge kavanaugh is doing pretty well over the last 24 hours. a lot is going to depend on what comes back from the fbi in terms of their additional number seven investigation. i think that judge kavanaugh is doing very well right now. hopefully as mitch said they will have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote, but it will be dependent on what comes back from the fbi. if you can be an exemplary person for 35 years and then somebody comes and they say you did this or that and they give three witnesses and the three witnesses at this point do not corroborate what you were saying, it's a very scary situation where you are guilty until proven incent. >> republican senator jeff flake

who forced the investigation said the fbi's work should not be restricted. >> we both hope and have been pushing the white house to make sure it is a fulsome investigation and it is not unduly limited. i hope they are doing it to find fact. my hope is that they, as they interview the individuals they will immediately follow up on other leads that they might have. >> the "washington post" reports that while the white house al w allowed the bureau to expand the probe they wrote -- the people familiar with the matter said. i'm joined now by former federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official and columnist for the "washington post." i'm glad i have you here.

i'm stunned. they are not going to talk to dr. ford. they are not going to talk to the person she has accused. they are not following up on character questions or any witnesses. they are doing the minimum. >> it is important to understand why they are not doing those things. the reason is this. in a background investigation they work for the white house. the white house is the client. the white house directs the background investigation. if this were the other thing, a criminal investigation they would have the latitude to do all of that. it is the difference between capability which they absolutely have and authority which they do not have. >> this is what most people think trump would like the mueller probe to be like. don't look too far. if you see something, don't say something. it's exactly what he wants.

mueller walking like horse blinders. let me look at this one little thing. >> it makes the point on the mueller investigation why rosenstein is so important. you can tell whoever is in charge of the investigation is in a position to alter the investigation. if a trumpee was in charge of mueller he could reduce the budget and say we are not going to travel overseas. this thing is completely rigged. the fact that they would not -- >> does it pass the smell test? they finish tonight at midnight and don't talk to the accuser or the accused and don't follow up on the character questions. >> it doesn't pass my smell test. that is not the important thing. the important thing is whether it passes jeff flake, lisa murkowski and susan collins' smell test. if they feel this gives enough sort of cover, it that is what

they are looking for, in order to vote for kavanaugh, then the fix is in. i'm not sure about that yet. >> we know senator collins has said i want to know about swetnick. she said so. >> i hope they talk to everyone. in an investigation, chris, you talk to people who know a lot of stuff. you talk to people who know a little bit of stuff and talk to people who are making stuff up. you talk to everybody. that is the point of a full investigation. i have no sense who is telling the truth and who is not. i have a sense of how good investigations are done. in good investigations you have the latitude to talk to everyone with whom you need to speak. >> there is new articles depicting kavanaugh as a member of a small clique of football

players. his circle celebrated a culture of heavy drinking. the "new york times" obtained a letter that kavanaugh allegedly wrote to high school classmates who rented a beach front property back in 1983. in the letter kavanaugh wrote whoever arrived first at the condo should warn the neighbors that we are loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. this guy carries a poster around with him. >> if they are not going to look into it, the fix is in. if all collins wants to do is find out about the last third accusation, i will tell you even though chuck is correct, you want to track everything down, it's not -- >> i was going to say, the thing that disturbs me is that they are not having any further contact with dr. blasey ford.

to me, a very credible allegation was made in that hearing on thursday by a witness who had no reason that we know of to lie, who didn't, as far as we know, have a pattern of why, a very credible person, a scholar, a phd, a successful academic, kind of witness you would put some stock in. >> she's accused him of hot she believed at the time that she was the victim and locked the door. these guys take her in the room. this wasn't romancing anybody. this is taking a person they don't really know, take them in the room and lock the door and turn up the music to cover up whatever they think will happen. and she has a right to believe

i'm in trouble here. these people are about to assault me in some way. i have a right and i better damn well do everything i can to escape from this situation because it looks criminal to me. >> there is an important witness that the fbi isn't bothering to interview which is important to the identification, the guy that she was dating, they are not interviewing, he introduced her to that crowd, that clique. that is how we know that she knew him. >> judge kavanaugh said that on july 1 of that year he went out for a brewsky party with these five guys. he listed the guys. he says i don't remember anything like that. he wrote it in his diary. >> they should all be interviewed. one caveat when we are talking about the mueller investigation, you always save your most

important witnesses for the end. you work up the ladder. you work from the outside in. just maybe they are talking to everyone else first and saving the most important witnesses for the end. i hope that is the case. >> if it is not the fbi will be blamed. despite what you say -- >> it is unfair. >> it is unfair because you say. the fbi is supposed to be looking out for us. they are supposed to protect us. now you are saying -- are they private guards. >> they can't do what they are not authorized to do. >> why doesn't christopher wray quit? >> there is a long-time standing protocol between the fbi and white house for background investigations where the white house is the client. so they want it reopened, you reopen it. >> what does the congress --

>> it's really the nominee is the president's nominee. >> we have a narrow directive. congress will say we asked them to do an investigation but we weren't going to vote. we didn't know he would narrow it. talk to the politics of this. it looks like it is possible that they will confirm this guy and flake will say it was the president. susan collins will say i wish they would ask more questions. they still vote for the guy. >> then the focus is on flake and collins and murkowski and other republican senators who were going along with such a charade. because it is kind of obvious you can't just say the white house -- we demand it. they demand it. >> it wasn't trump's idea. >> they demanded an actual investigation. if they don't get one, how are

they going to -- >> it doesn't look like they are going to get one. >> after the mid terms, my guess is if the democrats take the house all the memos will be subpoenaed. >> to what effect? >> it's important to have the transparency and to find out exactly what happened. >> cow is out of the barn, milk spilled. reporting by the fbi, it is reporting that the fbi could be wrapping up tonight. today senator mitch mcconnell indicated it will not be made public. nobody will get to see it except 100 senators. see if that stays secret. >> we'll get an fbi report soon. it will be made available to each senator and only senators will be allowed to look at it. that is the way these reports are always handled. >> how much time do you plan it to take senators to read the

report? >> it shouldn't take long. they will read it as quickly as they can. it will not be used as another reason for delay. >> does anybody know how they deliver the packets of joy? most senators rely on staff. they have a chief of staff and all kinds of communications people. they sit down with their peeps. they don't go sneaking into a back room and then rip it up and put it in the burner. do you believe that the republican leader thinks he can sequester this document with 100 senators looking at it? >> seems unlikely, but on the other hand, that is the protocol. you don't release these things publically. the fbi treats it confidentially. >> suppose the report comes out mr. chad ludington said he drank

too much and chris dudley said he never saw him drink too much. do those accounts show up? >> what the fbi will do is interview whoever they interview and write up a report of the interview. they are not going to conclude that one is telling the truth and the other is not. they are going to say here you go. >> suppose they think one of them is lying. do they say that? >> we don't put in our reports of interview what we think. we put in what we are told. >> how about a person who gives inconsistent testimony? >> that goes in. >> he said x and then seven minutes later in the interview he said y. >> you don't characterize it. >> how about if i asked if bart kavanaugh is brett kavanaugh and

he said no. the fate of judge kavanaugh's confirmation most likely comes down to a few undecided senators. let's listen to what some of the key people have to say today. >> the fbi is doing its investigation. we need them to do their investigation. and what i'm going to do is i'm going to wait to see what comes back. >> can i ask you if it turns out kavanaugh lied -- >> that finishes everything. >> i was very troubled by the tone of the remarks, the interactions with the members was sharp and partisan. that concerns me. i told myself you give a little leeway because of what he has been through, but on the other hand, we can't have this on the court. we simply can't. >> the big five are these, three republicans and two democrats. >> that's the big five that we know of.

there are other republican senators who haven't had a lot to say about this nomination all along. >> you think corker is in play in. >> i have no reason to believe that he is. he hasn't talked a lot. tim scott hasn't talked a lot. one assumes what you have to assume, they are inside the tent unless they are not. we don't know. >> there are more than two republican women. thank you. thanks for your expertise. it's the sultry news. thank you. coming up, the picture of donald trump as a self-made billionaire, forget about it. he apparently inherited $400 million by today's values.

according to the times the president owes this in part to dubious tax schemes and instances of outright fraud. according to a book president trump was close to meeting with robert mueller. call it the kavanaugh effect. donald trump says this is a scary time for young men or all men. can the republican party stoke the anxiety of male voters? let me finish with trump watch. this is hardball. finish with this is hardball.

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welcome back. late today the "new york times" dropped a bombshell report about the source of president trump's money, a report that dramatically challenges trump's carefully crafted image. the times investigation based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns reveals that mr. trump received equivalent today of $413 million of his father's real estate empire starting when he was a toddler. this details the lengths his

father would go to transferring over $1 billion while managing to pay only five percent in gift and inheritance taxes. it should be 55%. most damaging in that, president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s including instances of outright fraud that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents. in a statement to the times a lawyer called the report 100% false saying there was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. it could be accurate. the attorney added president trump had virtually no involvement with the matters. i am joined by the author and one of the "new york times" reporters who broke this story. this story does open up the question, i was doing the math,

$400 million -- it's about 50 million back then. it is still a hell of a lot of money back then. how did he get that money to his son? >> we documented 295 different ways that fred trump found ways to funnel money to his children and especially to donald trump. it started when donald was a toddler, age 3. and it has continued throughout donald trump's adolescence into adulthood and well into his 40s and 50s. and what fred trump did was as much as a genius as he was about real estate, he was also endlessly creative and kind of

concocting new ways to get money to his son. so he didn't just put him on his payroll, but he also made him his banker and his landlord and a consult skplultant and purcha agent. he gave him laundry money from his buildings. one big component is to describe the extent to which donald trump's wealth was really intertwined very much so with his father's wealth. the second really important point is that the amount of money that fred trump passed to his son through gift and inheritance was greatly increased by a number of very dubious tax schemes including instances of outright fraud. in one case as we describe in the story, the trump family set up a sham corporation that was basically designed to siphon

cash out of fred trump's empire and into the pockets of the trump children in a way that would evade the 55% tax on gifts. there are a number of other things that we lay out in this story which we also, i should note, went to great lengths to actually make available to our readers the source documents, the actual tax returns and financial documents that form the basis of this investigation. >> a hell of a story. thank you for joining us by phone. it seems to me that one of the alfred hitchcock questions going in to this was how come unlike every other presidential candidate including hillary clinton we never get to see his tax returns. here we are, a classic example, if this is all true, he was hiding this. he wasn't a self-made

billionaire. he was an inherited rich kid. >> we always thought donald trump was born on third base, but this shows he was born in the trophy case. donald trump can come clean and release his tax returns or house republicans could demand that. >> does mueller have them? >> i suspect he does. i don't think he needs them. if we win the house we will do all the investigations that they have been unwilling to do. >> the issue with kavanaugh, donald trump has repeated again and again the claim that he only received a small loan from his father which he turned into this vast fortune of his. let's watch him doing that promise against the reality we just discovered thanks to the times piece. >> it has not been easy for me. i started off in brooklyn. my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.

i came into manhattan and i had to pay him back with interest. i started buying up properties and i did great. >> what do you make of that claim? according to the times in this article, trump's father gave him loan over loan again and again and provided money for his car, employees, money for his first manhattan offices, gave him three trust funds, shares of multiple partnerships, $10,000 christmas checks, laundry revenue from his buildings. this guy was not born on first base. >> that's right. since when is one million dollars a small loan. if the reporting is true there does seem to be a decades long pattern and practice of not just outright fraud but sort of death by a thousand cuts of the tax code and small ways of

outsmarting and performing illegal sort of maneuvers in many cases under valuing the price of certain properties when it behooves them. so the hall mark of any criminal prosecution is a knowing and willful violation of the law even though the statute of limitations has long since passed on a criminal charge. certainly there still could be civil charges up for debate in here. >> he has an amazing ability to slip out from under claims. he is a little guy who made it big and then you find that he is not. he slips right through these things. let me just say something else -- >> to be an effective president you have to be a trusted president. right now the american people deserve to know if he is a fraud. if the president has convinced them that he was successful and

the way he became successful is fraudulent, how can they believe he will make them successful? >> do you think somebody running against him for president will be able to make a case that he is the guy who pulled the con? >> he heard and saw a lot of people who were not heard and seen. because he is so fraudulent and a cheat he not the able to deliver for them. those issues are still there. >> i wonder whether that old phrase for the average guy or average woman will buy the fact that he is one of them now. >> it looks like based on the statement that charles harder gave about the times reporting, it looks like they are going to employ some sort of advice of counsel defense which is the tax code is endlessly complicated for the average man to understand. it is basically hiding behind your lawyers saying i had no idea what was going on here. we employed legitimate people

for the purposes of doing our taxes and so on and so forth. who knows if that will pass muster. it seems clear that he was well aware of what was going on. >> his taxes are being audited. he says that every time we bring it up. you think the auditors might be able to look at the new information. they don't exist. thank you so much. up next, a new book is out detailing previously unreported details about russian interference in the 2016 elections and the mueller probe. you don't want to miss this. there is a lot of new stuff about collusion. this is hardball where the action is. is hardball where te action is. read earnings reports, looked at chart patterns. i've even built my own historic trading model. and you're still not sure if you want to make the trade? exactly. sounds like a case of analysis paralysis. is there a cure? td ameritrade's trade desk. they can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. sounds perfect. see, your stress level was here and i got you down to here,

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robert mueller continues to threaten the future of trump's presidency. greg miller is out with a new book entitled the apprentice, a reference to his own civility to russian leader vladimir putin. it's a detailed narrative story, a history revealing unreported details about russia's interference. despite the standoff that continues, miller reports that last january the president and his attorneys had embraced a plan to sit down with the

special counsel. they had a plan. the plan had progressed to the point that trump's lawyers and mueller had set a date for the interview. it was going to be january 27. and then seemingly out of nowhere trump lawyer pulled the plug on that investigation. i am joined by the author of that book. a couple of things. i want to start at the end. when you do all of this work about what russia was up to in 2016, how they tried to screw with our electoral process, how they were helping, you had evidence of the russians helping trump, the republican candidate who won the electoral college. did you conclude that there was collusion? >> i will tell you what cia people told me, that the collusion was in the open. we don't know whether there was a smoking gun memo. >> what evidence of collusion

was in plain sight? >> the interactions in public between the kremlin and trump throughout the campaign that carried forward. a lot of it was visible. >> trump tower. >> i was always fascinated. >> the republican convention. >> correct. all of these contacts. russia, if you are listening, all of his praise and flattery of vladimir putin. some of that was returned. and then you layer in all the stuff we weren't seeing at that time. when trump says russia, if you are listening, russia is listening. they are launching spear fishing attacks. >> it jumped out that the republican party from the time i was a kid was so anti-russian. the very word kremlin was awful. now we find a republican candidate trying to win the nomination of his party, the

republican party, the anti-russian party by cooing across the world to vladimir putin. how else to explain it besides there was something there? >> there are theories that putin had come to trump in moscow or some hidden financial connections to russia. some of the theories may prove to be true. i think one thing we learn from helsinki is putin knows how far russia went in trying to propel him into the oval office. that is the secret that trump can never sort of acknowledge. he clings to that fiction most fiercely. it would be devastating to him if putin were to come forward and say we absolutely interfered in the u.s. election. >> what are the gems in here? >> i think there are details -- i'm not the most biassed reader, of course. there are details about so much

of the story from much of which we broke at the "washington post" at the time. the former national security adviser's interactions with the russian ambassador. there are scenes about lawyers racing down when flynn is meeting with the fbi in secret. >> how did flynn who was working for trump at the time, why would he meet and talk about sanctions, the very thing the russians wanted removed and then lie about it? he must have known he was violating the logan act or something. what made him think he should do something in the interest of his candidate but then deny it on the record? >> i think he ends up being trapped by this. against all odds, it is true of so many characters around trump. none of them expect him to win and be vaulted into the senior positions in government. and then they have to account for the behavior that occurred

before he is sworn in. and flynn is doing -- we know he has checked with the trump campaign in florida before he has this conversation with the russian ambassador. and hethen he has to hide it. he decides to lie about it. >> it is the story of our time. the apprentice, he is the apprentice in your book to vladimir putin. it's kind of embarrassing for a grown man to be admitted you have a relationship like that. a tale of two trumps. by day he tells reporters that the fbi should interview whoever they want. and by night he accuses democrats of trying to destroy brett kavanaugh. does he want a real investigation or a quickie that is done by midnight tonight? qu is done by midnight tonight? i'md i'm a broker. do you offer $4.95 online equity trades? great question. see, for a full service brokerage like ours, that's tough to do. schwab does it. next question.

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can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very difficult time. what's happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a supreme court justice. >> welcome back. somebody has to do a study on this guy's gestures. they are amazing. that was president trump saying the fight over brett kavanaugh is bigger than just a supreme court nomination. according to the "washington post" the al gag legations have sparked a wave of anxiety from many republican men who say tha are in danger of being swept up. it is politics plus me too together. let's bring in the round table. ruth marcus, deputy editorial editor for the "washington post" and former spokesman for house speaker john boehner. >> do you feel anxious?

>> don't be nervous. >> i do think that president trump is wrong because old men are the ones who are nervous. men who are worried about -- >> how old? >> i would say over 25 or 30 or 35. there are people brought up in the standards of today probably aren't that worried. the men brought up in a different era and may have done something that they regret, yeah, they are scared. >> you are closer to my age but not there. >> thanks, chris. >> do you believe it or -- the behavior was acceptable? >> i think there were times when it was considered -- and i'm not condoning this in any way, but considered more acceptable and more in the nature of boys will be boys rough housing than it is today. >> locking the door, turning up the music to cover up a crime is rough housing? >> you asked if there was a day

when it was considered more acceptable. don't get me into more trouble than i'm already in. i want to talk about the really skewed nature of the president's epiathy here. he looks at the situation. who does he feel for? not the woman who we saw who was clearly traumatized by having to testify, traumatized by what had happened to her, not worried about the many, many women that we have heard about who had similar things happen to them who had been unable to speak up and unwilling to speak up after all these years. he thinks about the potential for these hordes of victims and false accusations that are conjured up. >> i have a different theory. it's not that he believes the women are wrong, it's that he knows they are right. >> i can't speak to that. i will say he is very selective

in where he does his empathy. this is a person who went after the five before they were convicted and took out a big ad in the "new york times." they were acquitted and then he says they were guilty. >> he wanted them executed. >> he has not taken that back. he felt that they were guilty before they were proven. >> president trump hasn't shied away from the cameras discussing kavanaugh at both an official press conference and a campaign rally yesterday. his tone changed from telling reporters he supported the fbi investigation to now telling supporters that the democrats were out to destroy kavanaugh. he is turning here. let's watch. >> i think the fbi should interview anybody that they want within reason. >> they have been trying to destroy him since the very first second he was announced. >> i feel badly for all parties. i feel badly for everybody. i feel badly for our country. >> democrats are willing to do

anything and hurt anyone to get their way like they are doing with judge kavanaugh. >> i have a very open mind. i think he is an outstanding person. i think he has been treated horribly. even if you are going to bring up some of the subjects that were brought up, they didn't have to treat him so viciously and so violently as they treated him. >> never had a problem. all of a sudden let's go back to high school and then maybe before high school. >> he is flipping back and forth. >> it's mixed messages. i think he is trying to set it up so that even if kavanaugh goes down he can just blame the dems a democrats and say they were doing dirty tricks and to defend himself to say it's not that i picked the bad guy, it is that the democrats are going way back into the past and trying to take someone down. >> he always has this thing where he creates this rhetorical escape hatch for himself. >> you heard it today. >> he is very upset about

democrats, poor judge kavanaugh but also maybe if something comes out that he always said maybe it can come out and maybe it should be believable. >> he has two audiences and two objectives, his base which he wants to get fired up. they want to see the fight and see him angry, but the audience of three, the three senators who presumably hold judge kavanaugh's fate in their hands, they are going to want to see the most complete, thorough, fair and transparent investigation. >> did he get away to playing to both crowds? >> that is the night and day trump. >> do you believe those women? you know the two women senators from alaska and maine and flake from arizona and perhaps a couple of other people like donelly from indiana and joe mansion. do you think they will buy a quickie report like comes out tonight? >> i am mystified by why once they went to doing the fbi

investigation they didn't go through all the real investigation. they knew it was going to be contained in time. just interview all the people, the basic witnesses involved. and so flake had to push them to do at least as much as they have had. i think this has been a mistake. will they buy it? probably. >> are you that -- >> it will take a lot for them to be the senators, to block kavanaugh. that is a very big stand to take. i don't know if you can -- that is not an easy bet. >> i don't know. you are watching hardball. >> i don't know. you are watching hardball. i kno, "i don't want to hear about insurance." cause let's be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance, right? which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i'm highly likable. i like dennis quaid. awww. and they want me to let you know that, cue overdramatic music,

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record for the most network coverage of his confirmation battle. 329 minutes as of friday afternoon. justice thomas, 397 minutes. by contrast, neil gorsuch, 66 minutes. >> how many times did he say he likes beer? >> more minutes on beer than any nominee. >> they do a text message to raise money every week. the one two days after the kavanaugh testimony brought in twice as much money as the one the week before. >> if you add up all the money, republicans are beating democrats. koch brothers, your party is winning. >> i think so. >> that's what i hear. when we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. you're watching "hardball."

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trump watch tuesday, october 2nd, 2018. it seems to me that a little common sense and a trace of skepticism demands we get surn results of this fbi investigation into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. we need eyewitness accounts of that night that dr. ford says she will never forget. i especially on the to hear from kavanaugh's drinking buddy mark judge. judge has written about a fella named bart o'kavanaugh. was that a reference to his real

life buddy brett kavanaugh. am i only the one who remembers the maverick brothers on television. brett and bart. could this be the way author mark judge meant to disguise brett and his accounts of wild drinking and associated horrors. i want to know everything mr. judge can tell us and more. if he says he can't remember, the fbi agents should get judge to admit that. it can't be served up as mr. judge's alibi for himself and perhaps future justice kavanaugh. we need of get a full reading of what happened that night with deborah ram nez and michael avenatti's client julia swetnick. we need a solid probe of kavanaugh's drinking habits. h did he alternate between bad guy

and good guy depending on his consumption. that could tell us that once on the supreme court he could find himself pulled to the hard right by the people who pushed this nomination in the first place and got him this far, you know who they are. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on at all in. >> the senate will vote on judge kavanaugh here on this floor this week. >> republicans push to end the kavanaugh investigation. >> i don't think he should lie to congress. >> as christine blasey ford says the fbi has get to interview her. >> to me that would not be acceptable. >> tonight the new push for a fast vote and the latest on the kavanaugh probe. plus -- >> well, i say it's a very scary time for young men in america where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. >> the anger about the anger

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