the the human story here of dr ford and the bravery that she's exhibited 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 kavanagh goes down or cavanaugh withdraws and in the event the democrats win 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 old says that it was really has me bill doer and the staff still doing power well bill do you think grassley is giving middle honest. 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 ms ford has the offer to testify perhaps she should go ahead with the monday meeting we will find out on monday. beyond painting

kavanagh 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 his 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 kavanaugh 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 of declassifying documents connected to the russian probe. i think it is a dangerous precedent for a president because understand he has only declassifying certain documents that are expected to support his side of the investigation are 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 then 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 this evidence being released david all the time we talked to nancy you so much. you are really in the minority in your party aren't you why why don't you switch parties. stay tuned larry stay stay tuned. look i'll be very honest with you. i have thought it is the the higher duty to stay and fight to try to reclaim the party i believe in in the united states there simply is not a third alternative and 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 who i didn't send the feinstein to new orleans 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 to aim and support amy's point i mean this woman must be going through a very emotional process is not the one day 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 e a committee hearing in the senate you know as i'm sure she's 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'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 man you know i'm amy holmes our guests more with them have done this. aeroflot russian airlines. break anything big. it could i mean it's hard to tell there's so much things going on as to pertains to this investigations and i agree with amy i mean what we want us republicans democrats 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 has done an outstanding

job i think he should continue to do it as 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. the president has treated the china is openly trying to him back been changing our

legend by attacking our farmers ranges 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 try to 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 locking 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 is i think jamie can't deny all the chaos in this administration the woodward book as cetera. 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 at pretty much on a weekly basis books been reading articles been written from an anonymous basis you know 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 it's going to continue until the very end of his presidency and it's just because who his is a person and why do religious 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 that 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 any 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 forget use the politicking hash tag that's all for this edition of politic.

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