joining me, emily jashinsky, sara fischer, and adrienne elrod. ould the media be wary of embracing this allegation from an unnamed woman from a time when brett kavanaugh was 17 years old. emily: this is one allegation, it's anonymous. this person is not going to come out and vet it. the public hasn't seen the letter dianne feinstein has. we don't know why it took her months for this to come forward. howie: even some liberal commentators at msnbc reacting cautiously. did the "new yorker" provide cover for the rest of the media to say it's safe to jump on this story. sara: now that ronan farrow has developed a reputation, if he's going to come out and say i have seen some reporting on this, i want to go out on it. his reporting on les moonves and others, but it doesn't might's the be all-end all. we don't have enough information, even from what roman farrow reported. howie: we are left with a letter we haven't seen. even hbo's liberal bill maher says it makes us look bad. adrienne: i'm going to disagree with some of these liberal commentators. since

emily jashinsky, and tammy bruce. everyone up there is playing a guessing game. >> this is the best way to get the d.c. rumor mill going. the town is abuzz with speculation about who this might be. i suspect people in other parts of the country do not love this kind of thing and see it as the way washington plays a sick game with politics impacting their lives. as for what's happening in washington, the rumor mill is abuzz. charles: the more i read it, the more i think about it. i think it's a dis of the trump voter. the establishment whining about the fact that someone is in office. he's not a conservative even though he ran on the republican ticket. you, whoever you are do not determine who or what the republican party is. you picked president trump. tammy: that's exactly the reason why trump is president. the fact is it's never really been about donald trump. it's always been about the voter. it's about distain and contempt the establishment has had for voters for generations. they believe they are better than ever

emily jashinsky, the culture editor. sarah fischer and capri cafaro. the media was giving president trump credit for being disciplined, but then they sharply criticized him when he tweeted that about why didn't she report it when she was 15. >> suddenly it flips on a dime and they are happy to scrutinize him again and be critical of him again. this is a really tough story. i have seen good restraint from the media. i have seen not so good restraint from the media. the bottom line it is something everyone is working through. there's some mistakes. howard: i have seen some women coming out like patty davis, ronald reagan's daughter writing an op-ed in the washington host says she never told anyone when she was raped 40 years ago. what about the commentators who say that even if ford's account is true, it was a long time ago, it was high school, maybe he was drunk, and are we really going to hold it against brett kavanaugh? >> i think what we're seeing in the coverage of the kavanaugh ford story right now is this larger sort of picture of the layers that