trump's nominee to the court who until very recently was on a glide path to confirmation on the other side is christine blazin ford the woman alleging that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers judiciary committee chairmanship grassley of iowa has invited duncan for to appear in d.c. on monday to provide her side of the story the doctor for his legal team say that she will not appear without an f.b.i. investigation into her claims against kavanaugh what happens next and will vote on kavanagh's nomination to the court happen next week as talked about that was someone who knows the ins and outs of washington very well david jolley the former republican congresswoman from florida he joins us from capitol hill what do you make of all is david. well good to be with you larry what i make of it politically setting aside the human story here of dr ford and the bravery that she's exhibit

coming forward if you just look at the politics of it through the spectrum of american politics republicans have really found themselves in a situation where they simply can't win but they also can't afford to lose and what i mean by that is they are either going to accept testimony ignore the testimony and confirm kavanaugh or they're going to have to vote down kavanaugh either one is a losing situation politically for republicans but they also can't afford to lose and what i mean by that larry is there is not time to confirm a justice before the november elections if cavanaugh goes down or kavanagh withdraws and in the event the democrats when the senate in november now you're in a scenario where republicans really with a straight face can't move forward with any confirmation mitch mcconnell knows that i think the republican senate is going to ultimately try to push through the cabin on nomination but i think they're going to do so at their own peril and politically they will take a lot of hits for doing so but how about the offers that grassley has made bill

durham with the staff they'll do or how well dole do you think grassley has given in a lot. well i think it's very important that republicans have no other choice you have to hear from miss ford and you have to accommodate whatever environment is most appropriate to hear her testimony i think is the right move by grassley and by republicans i believe what we will hear come from democrats going forward though is that the background check by the f.b.i. is incomplete and so they will demand that the f.b.i. had now complete its background check of kavanaugh based on this additional information democrats will use that as a way to continue to stall the confirmation vote if you will you know the immediate reaction to that though has been one of skepticism from a lot of americans suggesting ms ford has the offer to testify perhaps she should go ahead with the monday meeting we will find out on monday beyond tainting ten of them as the victim trump has been pretty restrained in engine small instances that

he has you know there's been some story lines that he has been counseled by his daughter ivanka that apparently she has suggested it might be time to back off supporting kavanaugh from the white house i think mr trump also knows that if this goes worse it gets worse from here he perhaps does not want to have his fingerprints on the kavanaugh nomination at the end of the day larry and this is just one republican's opinion my recommendation is kavanagh should actually withdraw he should come to the decision himself to withdraw when speaker boehner was speaker of the house and he was facing a challenge to his authority he could have won the vote but he alternately decided to resign and that day that he resigned he said i did not want to put the institution through this turmoil brett kavanaugh should recognize that even if he is confirmed he will have put the supreme court the highest court in the land through turmoil that will be remembered for decades to come the higher honor here

for bread kavanagh i believe is to withdraw. unlikely though. it is unlikely unless it just becomes politically impossible to continue to back him and to your point on the president should the press even even this week the president has suggested that if miss for testifies and her testimony is credible that perhaps cavanagh may need to be his nomination may need to be considered if this goes much worse for republicans i think you could see a withdrawal but right now i think republicans have suggested they're going to fight this one out what do you think. declassifying documents connected to the rush to probe. i think it is a dangerous precedent for a president because i understand he has only declassifying certain documents that are expected to support his side of the investigation or his side of his defense if you will there is an active investigation that whether or not it ultimately impugns the president nine it states he is the subject and his campaign is the subject of

this investigation for the chief executive of the present united states to declassify information related to an investigation into him and his campaign and to do so selectively is wrong it sets a dangerous precedent but i think it also reflects this president's very cavalier attitude towards law and justice in the united states but he says it's total transparency. well except he's not first of all to release any evidence in the midst of an investigation is highly inappropriate but even if you begin to declassify and release information to only do so selectively that would be like a defendant in a court room releasing only the exculpatory information and not actually releasing the evidence that the prosecutors have the president's wrong to do this but one thing we have seen and his posture on this this week is this is a president who fundamentally believes that the investigation is corrupt and he is

intent on exposing corruption and he believes. if he can do so there we he will have served the nation in a very specific and special way however he is not taking into account the criticisms and the skeptics who believe that the investigation should simply continue without be able for the committee again well here's part of the problem is it seems to me that she's ambivalent professor ford has been ambivalent about coming forward she wanted to remain anonymous her name was leaked she felt sort of coerced and pressured because of what was going on in washington and that she would she was being used politically and now here we are that she's not even sure that she wants to go through a hearing so again this this whole process to me has not been handled properly senator feinstein as we know was alerted to you know these allegations in the summer and at that point i think it would have been far more appropriate if she had

referred the matter to the f.b.i. then and she could have done it with the names redacted and prefer protected this woman's privacy and then at the end of that decide to talk with professor yoo the professor if she wants to move forward again more questions than answers here i think republicans are handling it well handling it delicately to just say you know we want to be able to do this in the most respectful way both for the accuser for cavanagh for the american people and the confirmation process. send the feinstein. when she had the information. look it's hard to tell we have to look at all the evidence before making making that decision what i can tell you from up from the victim's perspective and wayman support amos point i mean this woman must be going through a very emotional process is not the one there you know she wakes up and she says let me go do this i mean it's not hard it's not easy going before

a committee hearing in the senate you know some george has been going back and forth whether she wants to do this or not some people have told her maybe to do it some people have done it tough told her not to do it so then of the date it's her experience and what happened or what didn't happen all i can tell you is we have to get the facts straight before we before the senate votes that that's for sure and if i could add another thing that again for me just raises questions that needed to need to be answered that she did hire an attorney i understand that because she knows that this could become as it has you know a big national story a national crisis but when she hired the attorney and said you know this is what is my experience why didn't her attorney say let's get some depositions on the record to back you up you know that as her attorney could have when she was hired in august say let's talk to some of your high school friends put them under oath have a signed document so that if this does become public you're not hanging out there

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a nazi don't you it was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies cretonne head as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company going until it develops into denied a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. yeah she said he's just got choked up minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering they're not all. only want the money i want the revenge. of the bag and politicking continuing this question with. this in the press

secretary of the democratic party c.e.o. of the now strategies consulting firm he's in las vegas and it is york is amy holmes co-host of the p.b.s. show in principle a former staffer to senate majority leader bill frist. has get this of other topics that amy this week president rhomboid a declassification of all documents connected to the russian probe what do you make of that. well he ordered that the texts between lisa page and peter struck be put in the public domain those are not classified documents and you know they were text on government you know handheld devices and computers so hopefully they didn't have any classified documents on them because if they did then those two people involved they would be in a lot of trouble and then he ordered twenty one pages of the files application one particular price affleck application in june of two thousand and seven summer

showing the regions of the country that would be negatively impacted if china you know impose tariffs that seem to be political if that's the case it would be a violation of world trade organization rules but i think with this whole tariff issue the new york times had a really interesting piece the headline was that china used to be tough on trade but is basically losing a lot of its leverage china just announced this week that they're going to impose tariffs on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods and basically that maxes out they won't have any more goods to put tariffs on ironically because of how close their importation system is will donald trump's tactics work will this you know compel the chinese government and chinese economy to play fair or not put their thumbs on the scales with a government subsidies and industry loans from government banks stealing of intellectual property rights i'm not search not so sure about that the chinese have

a much longer time horizon when they're thinking about these things and jack ma the c.e.o. of alibaba is about to step down he said from the chinese perspective this could go on for twenty years but basically what are we going to do nothing's worked out worked when it comes to china up to this point so you know let's try let's try tariffs. i don't think it's a good strategy you because i mean what happened from a trade perspective that you know we import we impose tariffs on them they impose tariffs on us i mean it's a trading war i don't think it's going to identity dace not going to help us as much as the president. legal to believe with it with this whole make america great again i think you should focus more on the u.s. economy and the problems that we have here at home i think it's a total waste of time on this a lot more things and more priorities of the president should be focusing on a couple of other things joses stormy day those are said to release are full disclosure as a title of the book full disclosure amy shaking her head. and supposedly very well written as i understand. i mean here it's

a literary faster and better jose has i mean anything on a personal note what about milan and their baby son. well who will let me say something they're young slug i think i think there's a lot better books out there that we could be reading from an intellectual perspective. i think the author here is obviously clearer clearly trying to make make some money i haven't read i think it would just come out is about to come out but. i got better things to read but he doesn't doesn't you know doesn't go away from the fact that the president did. you know have affairs multiple affairs with various woman's and so i get to go through play with the character of the president but you don't need to read the book on to know that i think any nothing's out there on the president in the end i think this book is going to have about as much artistic merit as her felons yeah that's easy to make fun of me but you know

they had an affair and well no actually no it was one of the most expensive one night stands in history. twelve years ago at a short tournaments of me that as it may has been wise and. yes and i think stormy daniels she has comported herself very poorly actually she agreed to sign a nondisclosure not to reveal publicly her relationship whatever it was with president trump she took the check one hundred thirty thousand one hundred thirty grand cashed it and then she decided i can make more money by you know breaking this agreement with donald trump and larry you know as well as i do they're non-disclosures about a lot of things and a lot of hollywood celebrities should be very worried that you can break a nondisclosure this is all in the president has he did on the airplane deny any knowledge of the hundred thirty thousand and we did a lot i. well as he would because it was supposed to be

a non-disclosure agreement where nobody's talking about it but the american people don't care about his private life it was well known it's been well known for decades and decades he talked about it on howard stern he loved being on the cover of the new york post he brags about his. personal life if you want to put it that way his womanizing and so forth you know his wife is his third wife his second wife very famously he took ivana and marla on the same ski trip and they got in a fight that was on the front the front page of the new york post i don't think this is going to have is going to change anybody's minds about who donald trump is jose what do you make of this i think gamey can't deny all the chaos in this administration the woodward book as separate. you know it's it's so hard to keep up with this white house i mean from the very beginning people resign left and right leaks pretty much on

a weekly basis books been reading articles been written from an anonymous basis you know that you know that the president united states is supposed to be one of the most respected human beings in the world around the country yet in the country and president trump is not very well respected because of the scare her of the person that he is the way that he treats employees people the way that he talks about you know things he doesn't like the way that i mean just going to his twitter account and you can see it for yourself. i'm not surprised this is going to continue until the very end of his presidency and it's just because who he is as a person and who i do or logis leaders the right continue to support him. you know that's an interesting question and one that i actually posed to ralph reed you probably you know remember. of course and you know a very famous evangelical political leader and i asked him that very question and he said look we wanted a fighter not

a saint and remember evangelicals supported ronald reagan and he was a divorced man so he said basically they support president trump's policies they certainly like his supreme court justice choices putting them on the bench and the third you know kind of playing a long game and aren't so concerned with donald trump's personal sins no a little hypocritical. well actually a lot of evangelical everybody that i've heard they way they would tell well they would they would tell you that we are all born in sin and you you know find salvation through jesus christ and there's forgiveness and redemption i don't know that donald trump is personally seeking it but i don't think evangelicals hold people necessarily hold political leaders to some sainthood status in the jose thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking thank you larry thank you where and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking another you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't

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