that the person who is going to be confirmed for the highest court in the land has the integrity that is required of a justice of a court of that standing. just very quickly, before this second allegation went public, we also learned the mock questioning with kavanagh in preparation for his own testimony thursday was not going well because he was refusing to answer some questions that he found too personal. how problematic could that prove to be on thursday when he will have to answer some of those questions? >> well, it may or may not actually change any minds in the united states senate. but it certainly has repercussions in the court of public opinion more broadly. again, i think in 1991, some of those democratic senators were very uncomfortable with the way that they questioned anita hill and in the end, you had in the following spring anna dixon, an incumbent senator from illinois who actually lost his primary, a