potentially precarious position as questions continue to swirl around his credibility. "democratic efforts to highlight sexual assault charges that are more than 30 years old have been dismissed by supporters of judge brett kavanaugh as the dredgings of ancient history. the judge's response to the accusations raised new issues that go to the core of who president trump's supreme court nominee is right now. his truthfulness, his partisanship and his temperament." joining all of us here at the table is michael steele, i've been dying to talk to you about this for days. what do you think? >> well, let's start with what the president said. at a base level, there is -- there is truth in the idea that we don't want to create an environment in which anyone can be accused of something falsely or wrongly to get back, payback, you know, for bad date or something like that. god forbid. but then the question becomes so then what is the resolution of that? how do you begin to solve that particular question? what are you contributing, mr.