if that the democrats feel an opportunity to undermine president trump's presidency and his prospects for a second them by attacking him on foreign policy issues including iran so i think that is part of a broader set of foreign policy issues. that when the come to the foreground as me draw close it to me ten elections in november well that's it for me for naught but larry king's latest episode of politicking is up in moments and then to make it in thirty with more of the news making friday's headlines. thanks guys by that'll survival. when customers go by your disappearing. well we do some our. that's undercutting but what's good for food market the stock

good for the global economy. won't thing as brett kavanaugh was nomination to the supreme court hangs in the balance will the f.b.i. investigate a sexual assault accusation against him. testified before the committee and will the republicans move forward with a vote on kavanagh next week we'll take a look at that on this edition. of the politic. this is the capitol hill on one side the republican led senate judiciary committee and brett kavanaugh president trumps nominee to the court who until very recently was on a glide to confirmation on the other side is christine blazin ford the woman on.

alleging that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers judiciary committee chairman sent grassley of iowa is invited on from four to appear in d.c. on monday to revive 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 kavanagh 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 how about the offers that grassley has made bill durham for the staff the door and powwow toll 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. now complete its background check of cabin all 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 miss ford has the offer to testify perhaps he should go ahead with the monday meeting we will find out on monday. beyond painting kevin was the victim trump has been pretty restrained in his response and says 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 it 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 more discussion on kavin or in other matters the hose there is the moon you know the former deputy national press secretary of the democratic party and c.e.o. of the now own strategies consulting firm he joins us from las vegas and in new york gamely holmes now the co-host of the p.b.s. show in principle former staffer to senate majority leader bill frist and amy i'll start with you as a woman does this concern you the kavanaugh. crisis.

as woman as an american as an observer this whole process concerns me and i just have a lot more questions than we have answers it's very fast moving we understand that . professor the professor that she does not necessarily want to talk to the senators she has said that she would prefer an f.b.i. investigation happen first chuck grassley the senate judiciary committee chairman has said he wants to offer options to talk to senators behind closed doors a hearing behind closed doors or in public and now possibly even to have judiciary staffers flights or her in california in order to get her story. you know as i i say. that the whole thing is very bewildering to me frankly jose what do you see oh. look it's very concerning larry it's just this is the person that will be

appointed to the highest court of the land and for this sort of allegations to come forward it's concerning i think. congress ought to to the american people this administration owes it to the american people to hear this all the geisha and to take the time needed to potentially confirm or not confirm. the judge this is this is important and and i got to say we have to remember that no woman will want to put themselves through this process and for some people to to doubt this is this woman to say that this is this is a pull this is for political reasons or political gain is just absurd but we have to remember anita hill when she went through a similar process with clarence thomas clarence and that all being confirmed to the court so my point is this she needs to be heard we need to give her the time and congress needs to i don't know i says very very closely it's my believe that the f.b.i. from. anita hill also came late and

there was have a geisha and thomas was called back to 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 will 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 what 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 jose why didn't send the feinstein turning over the f.b.i. when she had the information. look it's hard to tell we have to look at all of 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 advent 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 to dry holes they're used to moan you know i'm amy holmes our guests more with them have do this.

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of russian airlines. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very chaotic at a time time to sit down and talk. of

a bag of volunteer gigs continuing this question is sure to be in the press and. into the democratic party the c.e.o. of the now and strategies consulting firm he's in las vegas and in the you want his name homes coersion the p.b.s. show in principle a former staffer to senate majority leader bill frist who gives good design other topics to amy this week president drone border classification of all documents connected to the russian probe. 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 texts 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 press africa application in june twenty seventh he'd to be redacted the president has the ultimate authority as a constitutional authority to declassify anything he wants presidents do it all the time president obama spoke very openly about the osama bin laden raid and even vice president joe biden he said it in effect he even named who was on the raise a navy seal team six which had actually been withheld from the public so i don't really buy a lot of the criticism that president trump is somehow being. reckless or you know overstepping his authority the constitution invests in the president the ultimate authority to declassify whatever he wants but david jolley said he hasn't declassified all of it he's calling it total transparency and congressman jolly said it's not total transparency so i would be for more declassification more information not less jose what do you make of it. i think the president very

clearly is cherry picking certain documents that could be in approach with other projects is he simply trying to destruct american people trying to clean his name we already know we already know that the russians were involved in the twenty sixteen elections and robert mueller day by day gets closer to the white house gets closer to the president and the president ought to know what to do so he's trying to from a strategic perspective trying to instruct the american public by cherry picking information that's what i believe and he was less than a week ago the former campaign manager paul man of ford made him plead the agreement is robert muller are you concerned. i am not concerned i want the truth to come out i i hope that he is truthful with the special counsel but here's kind of the interesting thing in terms of legally that it's taken away whatever leverage that anybody might have thought a pardon could apply because basically if he's cooperate with robert with mr mueller then

a pardon doesn't really matter if you pardon him for his tax evasion or what are these other charges he's already he's already talking. jose do you think this is going to break anything big. it could i mean it's hard to tell there is so much things going on as to pertains to this investigations and i agree with amy i mean what we want us republicans democrats is that we want to get to the bottom of this i want this whole investigation to to be over but it takes time so i i think robert mueller is doing an outstanding job i think he should continue to do it as a fast as we can. i think a lot of folks a lot of you know a lot of folks in washington were hoping that this investigation was going to finish before the november election that's clearly not going to happen so time will tell but i can tell you it's it's a lot going on and i don't think it's looking very good for the president. but larry i do want to add that these redactions might not look very good for the

f.b.i. or the d.o.j. and certainly civil liberties libertarians myself included included are concerned that this secret fice a court was misused to surveil an american citizen in a court that is supposed to be about national security we'll find out from those redactions if that indeed was the case or if it was pretty flimsy. amy the president has tweeted that china is openly trying to mbak been kane's our elected by attacking our farmers ranchers and industrial workers because of their loyalty to me that's trump talking about himself what's your take. well there was an ad that china put out over the 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 protect 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 because i mean what happens 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 press that are. legal to believe with 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 there's 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 turly so full disclosure as a title of the book full disclosure amy shaking her head. and supposedly very well written as i understand. i mean sure it's a literary faster and is less than that jose. has i mean anything on a personal note what about milan and their babies. who were let me say

something or 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 still 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 it 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 women's and so i get to go through play with the character of the president but you don't need to read the book to know that i think any nothing's out there on the president and me and i think this book is going to have about as much artistic merit as her felton's amy yeah that's easy to make fun of anyone 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 shark tournaments and he that as it may has

a wife and child yes and i think starting 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 there are 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 the he did on the airplane deny any knowledge of the hundred thirty thousand and he did lawdy 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 you know 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 i said to it. you know it's it's so hard to keep up with this white house i mean from the very beginning people resigned 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 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 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 that they support president trump's policy as they certainly like his supreme court justice choices putting them on the bench and

the thoroughly you know kind of playing a long game and aren't so concerned with donald trump's personal sense no a little hypocritical. well actually a lot of even tell their employees that everywhere they went they would tell me what they would tell you that we are all born in sin and you you know find salvation through jesus christ and there is 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 and the jose thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking thank you larry thank you mayor 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 forget use the politicking hash tag that's all for this edition of politicking.

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