And they say, what is going what is happening in our country . I dont know. Im scared. Whats going on . I mean, its i think sometimes were too close to it, the forest through the trees, that we just dont see how this is crazy. I hear you. I understand that perspective. I cannot own it myself because i am into this 24 7 365. I think of nothing else. When im shaving all five whiskers on my chin, im thinking about this while im shaving. I cannot get away from it because i do not want to. Thats why i started the radio show today. I need more, d. Lemon. Even when youre putting on your toupee, im sure youre thinking about that as well. I paid a lot for this. Yeah, its nice. Grecian formula helps. Thank you for your dog donating the hair by the way. Youre a nut. Hey, good to see you. Pleasure. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. And make no mistake, the russia investigation is on the line right now. Its on the line. So President Trumps nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, that is on the line as well. Him to the Supreme Court. Either or both could decide the course of the trump presidency. And incredibly theyre both coming to a head on the same day, and thats thursday. And thats throwing the white house and all of washington into chaos. And all of this chaos, everything were seeing right now, the russia investigation, the Supreme Court, it looks like a direct result of what you could call the devils bargain that conservatives made with a president who is not exactly their natural ally. The deal . Well, well support this president no matter what he says or does as long as we get a couple of key victories tax cuts, done. And the Supreme Court. Well, the president s second pick for the highest court in the land, its not going exactly as smoothly as the gorsuch confirmation. That is why judge Brett Kavanaugh is fighting back, doing an interview on fox news, an interview that just might be aimed at an audience of one. Guess who that is. President trump. Im not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process and, you know, were looking for a fair process where i can be heard and defend my integrity. Im not going anywhere. Thats the kind of fighting spirit the president likes. The Washington Post reporting trump has been frustrated by the slow pace of the kavanaugh hearings and has demanded a quick vote. And after being uncharacteristically restrained when Christine Blasey fords accusations that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers, when they first came out, the president is now insisting its all just politics. I am with judge kavanaugh, and i look forward to a vote. And for people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago and 30 years ago and never mentioned it, all of a sudden it happens, in my opinion, its totally political. It is totally political. So a lot of republicans on the same page. Orrin hatch is on the same page as the president , senator orrin hatch. Thats no surprise with his comments today about Deborah Ramirez who accuses kavanaugh of inappropriate sexual behavior when they were both at yale university. Well, its amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute and that they werent brought up earlier in this process. And its not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap. And tonight, some republicans hinting to cnn they might push through a vote on kavanaugh this week, even though they dont they wont even hear from ford until thursday. They want to push it through this week. So much for a full investigation, right . And senator Mitch Mcconnell, the man who said this this was 2016. Watch. One of my proudest moments is when i looked at barack obama in the eye, and i said, mr. President , you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy. Well, now the senator is echoing what sure sounds like a republican talking point, claiming the accusations against judge kavanaugh are these are his words a Smear Campaign. But even by the far lefts standards, this shameful, shameful Smear Campaign has hit a new low. A Smear Campaign, pure and simple. It sounds like a choreographed Smear Campaign. Democrats wouldnt let a few inconvenient things like a complete lack of evidence or an accusers request for confidentiality to get between them and a good smear. But the Smear Campaign didnt stop there. Lets put aside this lastminute, unsubstantiated smear. Lets return to the facts. Phrase of the day, kids, Smear Campaign. With both sides battling tooth and nail over the Supreme Court, the russia investigation could be hanging by a thread. Rod rosenstein, the man who is overseeing that investigation, was expecting the ax to fall today when he went to a meeting at the white house. Instead he got an unexpected reprieve after the New York Times bombshell report last week that rosenstein had suggested secretly recording President Trump and even considering invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. Rosenstein denied it, but you cant blame you cant blame the man for thinking that he was surely on the chopping block with the notoriously thin skin donald trump, President Trump. Instead, the president said this. Im meeting with Rod Rosenstein on thursday when i get back from all of these meetings, and well be meeting at the white house, and well be determining whats going on. We want to have transparency. We want to have openness, and i look forward to meeting with rod at that time. Doesnt sound like a ringing endorsement, does it, because its not a ringing endorsement. And it comes after the president said this to geraldo rivera. Will you fire Rod Rosenstein based on this treachery . I dont want to comment on it. I dont want to comment on it until i get all the facts. I havent gotten all the facts. But certainly its being looked at in terms of what took place, if anything took place, and ill make a determination sometime later. But i dont have the facts. I want to refresh your memory now. Remember when a noncommittal Sarah Sanders said this after the fbi raid on former trump fixer and keeper of secrets michael cohen. Is the president considering firing or in other ways pushing out rosenstein . I dont have any personal announcements at this front. Just one other thing. Paul ryan today said hes been given assurances by the white house that the president isnt planning to fire rosenstein or mueller. Do you know where hes getting those assurances . Is it coming from the president . Is it coming from others . Where is it coming from . Again, i dont have any announcements on that front. Well, today she couldnt even muster a no comment, instead defaulting to a statement, saying, quote this is a quote, at the request of Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories. Because the president is at the United Nations General Assembly and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they will meet on thursday when the president returns to washington, d. C. Convenient. You got to wonder whether Team Trump Even wants to fire rosenstein and potentially open a whole new bunch of obstruction charges, or do they prefer to stick to their strategy of discrediting the investigation . Well, so will the president fire Rod Rosenstein on thursday . Will the kavanaugh nomination crash and burn on thursday . And are republicans about to pay a price for the bargain they made with President Trump . Lets discuss now. Cnns White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins is here as well as cnn Global Affairs analyst Susan Glasser and mark mckinnon, a former adviser to george w. Bush and john mccain, who is now executive producer of the circus on showtime sunday nights. Good evening to one and all. Good to have you on the program tonight. Susan, im going to start with you because you say it is not normal to start a monday morning wondering if were having a constitutional crisis and a confirmation crisis. I happen to think were already in a constitutional crisis. So talk to us about todays incredible developments. Well, first of all, don, i think youre right that in many ways the crisis every day, people say is this it . Is this the crisis . Well, if trump does x, if trump does y, if he fires rosenstein, this is the constitutional crisis. But arguably its been going on ever since january of 2017 in the sense that you have a president who is willing to challenge any number of norms. And so its left us guessing much of the time. But even by those standards today was a pretty crazy day. We can all agree upon that. I think it took 2 hour and 40 minutes. Thats what the post reported between the initial reports that rosenstein was preparing to offer his resignation or did offer his resignation to the white house chief of staff. And when Sarah Sanders put out that statement saying, well, let us put this on hold till thursday. Scenes of chaos and uncertainty that to me are a remind he to me, number one, we really have a government by just one person, the president at this point. There is no such thing really is a regular order because even trumps own advisers are very uncertain as to what the president is actually going to do at any given moment. It makes it very hard for them obviously to run the country when they dont know. So the president is 250 miles away in new york meeting with World Leaders gathered for the annual u. N. General assembly. They must be thinking, look at the United States in this, you know, political chaos, internally divided, inwardlooking. The message it sends about americas leadership in the world is something really quite remarkable, i think. A sight to behold. Mark, what happens if the president does fire rosenstein on thursday . What happens . Well, the larger perception will be that all hell breaks loose because theres the broader perception that this is the first domino to fall, and the ultimate dominoes falling means thats the end of the Mueller Investigation. Now, there are plenty of people who think that under any circumstance, that thats not going to happen and that people close to bob mueller say he will plant acorns everywhere, believe me, and already has. But, you know, i do think i like the cuomo strategy actually. I think the do nothing strategy would be a brilliant move, totally unexpected, dramatic, which trump likes, and sets the right tone for the midterms. I think sean hannity, by the way, was suggesting not just that it leads to further collusion evidence, but i think he was thinking more about the midterms, that it just throws more chaos and uncertainty into the midterms when really a lot of republicans would rather focus on the kavanaugh nomination. It just republicans have enough trouble right now with the midterms, and just throwing that uncertainty into the mix is a gamble i dont think a lot of republicans would like to take right now. Why not wait until after the midterms . This thursday on the reality tv network, will the president fire i mean thats what it sounds like. Showdown at the ok corral. Showdown at the ok corral. Tune in on thursday night at 10 00 if youre going to do it. But, kaitlan, rosensteins job has really been in jeopardy before. But todays summoning to the white house, it set washington on edge. Whats going on behind the scenes . Could the thursday meeting with the president could that be it for rosenstein, you think . Well, thats the question. What happened today didnt resolve that question. It just simply postponed it for a few more days until the president returns from new york. But, don, i cant overstate the chaos that was in the west wing or among senior officials this morning after it was reported about rosenstein offering to resign to john kelly because it really set off this mad dash to figure out what it was that had happened, what conversations had transpired, and that is why we didnt see the white house respond with any kind of statement for hours. That is why you saw no press secretary coming out and saying, this isnt true. This hasnt happened. Its because they themselves were trying to figure out what happened. Part of that is because john kelly, the chief of staff, is here in washington. President trump hasnt been here since on thursday because he was traveling last week, then was in new jersey and now is in new york this week. But what we do know is that Rod Rosenstein simply miscalculated just how angry he believed the president was going to be to that New York Times reporting. Whenever they had reached out for comment, he essentially, of course, as you noted their relationship has been pretty bad before to where the president openly talked about firing him. So when this story came out, the natural prediction was that President Trump would be so angry that his Deputy Attorney general had floated the idea of wearing a wire to meet with him, that he would fire him. So Rod Rosenstein was prepared. He offered his resignation. He said he was willing to quit. John kelly was under the impression that he had accepted his resignation, and that is what led and jumpstarted all the chaos that happened today. Of course, President Trump wasnt actually as angry as people thought. On friday, he did ask people, should i fire this guy . What should i do . We saw him make that comment at the rally about a lingering stench. But really, don, over the weekend, President Trump was much more preoccupied with what was happening with Brett Kavanaugh and the drama surrounding his nomination than he was with Rod Rosenstein. And thats not what rosenstein saw coming, which is what led to so much of that chaos today. Well, hes stood behind Brett Kavanaugh saying, you know, hes a good man. I cant believe this is happening. This is a Smear Campaign. This is the worst thing and im paraphrasing. So you set me up because were going to talk about that when we come back. When we come back, i want to talk about the other big drama that has the white house and capitol hill in turmoil. Thats what kaitlan just mentioned. Judge Brett Kavanaugh trying to save his Supreme Court bid. 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Judge Brett Kavanaugh fighting to keep his Supreme Court bid alive tonight in the face of serious accusations against him by Christine Blasey ford who says he sexually assaulted her at a party when they were both teenagers and by Deborah Ramirez who told the new yorker that kavanaugh engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior when they were both students at yale. Cnn so far has not spoken to anyone who is willing to corroborate her story. Back with me now is Kaitlan Collins, Susan Glasser, and mark mckinnon. Kaitlan, since you mentioned this Brett Kavanaugh thing before, lets talk about it. But lets watch him defending himself on fox news earlier tonight. The truth is ive never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise. I am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr. Ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place. But what i know is ive never sexually assaulted anyone. Unprecedented, kaitlan, the very fact that he did this interview. I mean thats unprecedented, isnt it . It is. Even when Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing anita hill and there was that incredibly dramatic testimony on capitol hill, he never did an interview until a month after he was confirmed during that vote to Supreme Court. So we are seeing something totally extraordinary here. That is why so many people commented on the fact. What this shows us is just how concerned the white house and judge kavanaugh truly are about this nomination and the point that we reached because last week when we had just this one accusation from professor ford, the white houses response was, lets hear her. Lets hear what she has to say, but lets also let Brett Kavanaugh defend himself. Today we saw that media strategy completely shift after that allegation in the new yorker came out, and that started with Kellyanne Conway this morning saying this was a leftwing conspiracy. Then we saw Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell come out and say this is going to be brought to a vote. Then even President Trump saying this is all political, he thinks, and that people are coming out of the woodwork to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of these things. What we are witnessing is seeing the white house shift their strategy to more of an offensive one. That is why they had Brett Kavanaugh come out to do this interview to defend himself, something he did not seem prepared to do last week, but with this latest allegation, we saw that strategy completely do a 180 today. Mark, you heard what kaitlan just said. It shows you how seriously theyre taking it. Would this even be happening if they didnt think his confirmation was in serious trouble . No, i dont think so, don. But i do think that its a smart thing to do, and i think they were kind of caught on their heels last week. I think when you have a good witness, go ahead and get him out there as much as you can. I saw the interview tonight. I thought kavanaugh did very well. You know, its odd and unusual that it was narrowcast, but its not unusual given the culture were in today, but 20 years ago you would have done that on all the broadcast networks and on cnn. And i thought he was pretty compelling. So i think actually its a good strategy by the white house right now. Im one of the few republicans that actually think overtime would be good rather than trying to run out the clock, which everybody else is trying to do, and rush the vote because i think that could be potentially a shortterm win. Maybe you get kavanaugh, but thats a longterm loss for the Republican Party as people look at that and think it was politically rushed through because you didnt give witnesses time to testify. You didnt get all the facts. Republicans and friends of mine on the hill have been saying, we want the facts. Well, if you want the facts, just he said she said testimony doesnt provide more facts. Give us some more time. Let the fbi or some authorities in there to give you more facts so that in the course of this, you not only make the right judgment, ultimately its a good political judgment too because the rest of the country will say they gave it time, they looked for the facts, and they gave it a full hearing. Susan, Christine Blasey ford alleges he sexually assaulted her. This was at a party. This is more of what kavanaugh had to say about that. Watch this. I was never at any such party. The other people who are alleged to be present have said they do not remember any such party. A woman who was present, another woman who was present who is dr. Fords lifelong friend, has said she doesnt know me and never remembers being at a party with me at any time in her life. So thats pretty much hes categorically denying all the allegations because a woman said he didnt she didnt know him, and she doesnt remember. She doesnt say it didnt happen, but does this help him or hurt him going into thursday . Well, first of all, don, important point, he left out the other part of her statement, which is that she believes dr. Ford if this is what dr. Ford recalls. So thats one important thing. You know, i think it probably made sense in the current political atmosphere where you have kavanaugh essentially acting like a political candidate in a way that weve never seen someone up for a Supreme Court seat act before. But this is such a politicized time. Essentially hes appealing to republican senators and to republican voters. Its very clear that theyve given up to a large extent on the vote of democrats, even democrats from red states. Initially they thought that they might get several even as many as four or five democratic votes in favor of kavanaugh. I think once the allegations emerged last week, it was clear that those democrats had a clearcut reason not to vote for kavanaugh anymore. So now its a much more partisan confirmation strategy than originally, and theyre playing to keep republicans together. But of course what are we sacrificing here is any pretense of a real investigation or an effort to actually get to the truth of what happened. And so you have kavanaugh in this interview over and over again, he said 14 different times someone counted 14 times he talked about wanting to have a fair process, and yet theres no process at all except that he says something, and she says something. There are no other witnesses. Theres no independent investigation of this. So the entire public is going to be left going through this wrenching political debate without ever any even hope of hoping to get to the bottom of it. Thats as of now. But as you know as of now. Things sometimes take a uturn, do a 180 here. So, listen, thank you, kaitlan. Thank you, susan, and a man of many hats, mark mckinnon, who is oh, there he is. Look, you come through for me. There you go. Thank you, guys. When we come back, is the russia investigation in jeopardy . Im going to ask former director of National Intelligence James Clapper what he thinks the possible exit of Rod Rosenstein could mean for team mueller. Cnn has learned that Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein discussed whether he should step down with both white house chief of staff john kelly and White House Counsel Don Mcgahn after that New York Times bombshell report alleged rosenstein suggested secretly taping the president and invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. So the Deputy Attorney general is probably not feeling really optimistic about his meeting with President Trump on thursday. But for now anyway, rosenstein is still at the doj and still in charge of the russia investigation. The question is for how long, though, and what happens to the special counsel if rosenstein leaves . I want to bring in now Cnn National Security analyst James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence. Good evening, sir, or good afternoon from australia. Good to have you on. So, director clapper, the Deputy Attorney general and the president , theyre expected to meet on thursday. Do you think President Trump is going to fire him . I dont think so, don. I think this could possibly be nothing more than perhaps an air clearing. Thats the good news. I think, though, the fact that theyre having this meeting is yet another indicator that i think Rod Rosensteins days are numbered. At some point, he is going to leave. I think a logical maybe the most elegant outcome of all this would be agreement to leave after the Mueller Investigation is over. Now, i may be being an unrealistic optimist here. Listen, this is what jerry nadler said. Hes a house democrat. He told my colleague kate bolduan that were watching a slow motion saturday night massacre. What do you think of that . Well, you know, weve been saying that for some time. Thats not the first time someone has said that. Every time theres some revelation about the president s desire or intent to fire and then you can fill in the blank and so far that hasnt happened. You know what i would hope, again, being unrealistic maybe, is its really in the president s best interest to see this thing to a conclusion. And by this thing, i mean the Mueller Investigation. So even if Rod Rosenstein leaves, of course that sets up a set of complexities occasioned by whats known as the vacancy reform act, which is an ambiguous piece of legislation. And then, you know, a key thing here would be who might replace rosenstein if he is, in fact, fired or resigned, and that is important as we saw during the turnover at the veterans administration, you know, just what that reading is. But, really, as ive said this before, there is a huge cloud hanging over this president , this presidency, this administration, and, for that matter, over the nation, which i think can only be resolved by mueller completing his investigation, whenever that happens. And it shouldnt be aborted because if it is, that cloud will stay there for the rest of this president s time in office. Do you think hes close to completion . Thats a good question. I dont know. Just, you know, watching this where you start out at the outer periphery and work in closer and closer to the inner circle, if you believe that has a bearing on the timing and tenor of this investigation, well, i would say hes closer to the end than he is to the beginning. And in the larger scheme of things, this investigation hasnt gone on all that long in comparison to others. Especially when you consider the benghazi investigation and other investigations that went on for years. But i got to ask you that was a very diplomatic answer. Hes closer to the end than he is to the beginning. I like that. But i want to ask you about a particular strategy that the topranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff. Heres what he tweeted. He said, rosenstein should continue to do his job, protect the independence of the doj, and if the president intends to obstruct justice, force trump to fire him. Do you agree with that advice or strategy . Im sorry, don. I didnt hear that. Could you just repeat the last line . Yeah. Ill read the whole thing. Its short. Ill read the whole thing. He said, rosenstein should continue to do his job, protect the independence of the doj, and if the president intends to obstruct justice, force trump to fire him. Well, wow. I have Great Respect for adam schiff. Hes a stalwart, but im not sure i understand the logic of what hes suggesting there. That for me, that would be a takehome question. I gotcha. I think hes saying if you i think hes basically saying call him at his bluff, and hes calling it obstruction of justice if he you know, if he continues to meddle in the investigation or if he fires him, hes saying its its obstruction of justice. Well, yeah, that you could certainly make a case for that, and adams a former prosecutor. And so hes a better judge of what constitutes obstruction than i am. And of course there are depending on your point of view here, obviously there are other things that have happened that could be construed as obstruction. Im saying that as a layman. And i suppose if rosenstein were fired, you know, that could be the case. Now, if rosenstein ostensibly, in air quotes, voluntarily resigns, then maybe thats you know, that casts a different light on this issue. I think that might be tough because then he gets to determine what he can and cannot say. If they fire him, maybe they can set the terms. Maybe if he just quits, hell say, look, i can say what i want. Im a free agent. Who knows . Who knows . Who knows . Thank you. Exactly. Go on. Well, no. Youre right. Im just agreeing with you. All kinds of combinations of permutations here depending on whether he resigns or is fired. Enjoy your time down under. Gday, mate. Always a pleasure. Gday, mate. Thanks, don. When we come back, is the Republican Party in denial . One of my next guests says the gop may not really want to get the truth about the russia investigation and about the allegations against judge kavanaugh. Two giants of journalism, carl bernstein, dan rather. They join me next. My name is jeff sheldon, and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. Its great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize ive got a hundred orders i have to ship out. Shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. 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Judge Brett Kavanaugh tonight fighting back against a claim of Sexual Misconduct when he was at yale, and the allegation of Sexual Assault when he was a teenager. The Supreme Court nominee denying both allegations saying he wont be intimidated to withdraw his name. Thursday, his first accuser, professor Christine Blasey ford, will testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary committee. That is the same day that President Trump will meet face to face with Rod Rosenstein. Will trump fire the Deputy Attorney general, or will rosenstein quit first . Two major stories. Huge consequences. Both coming to a head on thursday. So lets discuss now with two iconic journalists. Dan rather, the host of the big interview on access tv, and carl bernstein, cnn political analyst. Good to see both of you. Thank you for coming on this evening. So, dan, republican senator Susan Collins tweeted this today, i am very concerned by he reports that deputy a. G. Rosenstein will either be fired or forced to resign. So it seems like republicans are very concerned about a variety of things. Why arent they acting on that concern, though . Well, its a little lack of courage, but i think were ahead of ourselves. I will say, don, oscar wilde once wrote that the truth is rarely pure and never simple. And so it is with so much in this case, the kavanaugh case, and whats happening with the rosenstein situation. My own guess and i am guessing i think theres a pretty good chance that President Trump will keep rosenstein until after the election. Yes. Because hed be asking for trouble, some within his own party, trouble for the elections. It makes political sense for donald trump to say, well, rosensteins going to stay. And as soon as the midterms are over, whether he keeps the house or loses the house, he lets him go then. That phrase that was used in the program earlier, saturday night massacre by stealth, slow, slow motion saturday night massacre because lets make no mistake. Both of these stories, the rosenstein story and the kavanaugh story, what theyre about is President Trumps fear. Yes. Fear that somethings going to be found out criminal about him. So see the overall arc of the story. Theyre both connected. He chose kavanaugh because of kavanaughs record of saying, well, hes not so sure a president can be subpoenaed. So kavanaugh is protection for him on the Supreme Court. And this whole business of should rosenstein stay or go is about trying to strangle the Mueller Investigation. With the cyclonic motion of news today, its easy to get that thats what this is all about. Very well stated, mr. Rather. I told, you iconic journalist. Carl, im going to bring you in and let you respond. You say that the Republican Party has shown no interest in learning the truth regarding kavanaugh allegations or the russia investigation for that matter. Go on. Explain. Well, i think thats right. I think dan has it exactly right, but lets go to part two of that equation. And that is that the president of the United States has shown repeatedly that he has no interest whatsoever in the truth emerging from either the Mueller Investigation or the appointment of judge kavanaugh and whether or not these events occurred that have been alleged. And there is a very convenient and effective means to try and get at the truth, and that is legitimate investigation involving the fbi in the case of judge kavanaugh, which the republicans on the hill refuse to allow, which the president is also refusing to endorse. And similarly, we know from the people closest to the president of the United States, he intends to shut down the Mueller Investigation to whatever extent he possibly can when the midterms are over. So what we have is a president of the United States who is determined to suppress the truth and to see that the institutions of our government that are charged with getting the truth the department of justice that those institutions fail because of his own selfish interest above those of the truth and the national interest. Thats what all of this is about. Theres a cold civil war. You and i have talked about this a good bit going on, and right now we see the two great battles of the socalled civil war, the antietam and gettysburg as it were coming forward in these two events. The Mueller Investigation and the kavanaugh nomination. Dan, can we go back to something you touched on a little bit because you talked about the slow saturday night massacre. There have been a lot of, you know, parallels and people have been making parallels to this, talking about them at least, to this and watergate. Do you agree with that . Well, there certainly is a lot of similarities between what happened with the widespread criminal conspiracy led by president nixon, which was eventually exposed. But did nixon see everything to your point you said, and this is sort of narcissistic behavior, everything and everyone is a reflection of you, especially if it doesnt go right. Was nixon that same kind of person . No. There are some similarities in their personality, which is that each of them ill say this gently had a strong strain of paranoia. But president nixon was had a much broader and deeper intellect than President Trump, and thats not necessarily an insult because nixon was a very experienced politician, and he was basically a smart person. But where theyre similar is president nixon, he didnt want to just beat his political opponents. He wanted to destroy them and the same way with donald trump. In that case, they are similar. But, you know, this is a different time here in the second decade of the 21st century. And the country has changed a lot. You know, in these theories of evolution, we talk about what happened to the dinosaurs. They were yesterdays animal, and they got to be extinct. If the Republican Party isnt careful, thats whats going to happen to them because they may be able to push through the kavanaugh railroad through the kavanaugh nomination with what is on on the known, the old bulls, the older white men that have the power. But this cant last because america is changing. For example, when Clarence Thomas got approved, when the anita hill case in the early 1990s, one of the things going for thomas is so many people of africanamerican heritage were pulling for thomas. Theyre not pulling for kavanaugh. You want to talk about that, carl, because my question too, carl, is what has happened to the Republican Party . I try to understand and figure it out every day, and i just dont get it. I dont know what happened to them. Well, i think the Republican Party right now has been captured by donald trump. Its moved rightward for the last 20, 25 years. And trump embodies a lot of things that those who call themselves republicans want to see happen in this country, and hes taken issues of race, of immigration, anger at the elites. Hes been very smart about the way hes done it the president , and the way he campaigned. He won the presidency by following his own instincts. But the result is he is president of his base. He is not president of the people of this country in any united way. And what were seeing right now is an attempt to win the midterm elections through his base as a means of staying in power. Its not at all clear hes going to succeed. But whats also clear is the demographics of the country are changing, and that base is not reflective of the larger america. And that base is actually a smaller and smaller part of the larger america. But in the interim, donald trump has raised the temperature of this cold civil war to the point of ignition, and hes done it by obliterating a regard for truth, for competence, what we see in the bob woodward book, what we see, indeed, in what Rod Rosenstein is supposed to have said about needing the 25th amendment. Rosenstein, we know from inside, was horrified at what he was seeing regardless of whether he was joking or not. Just as Bob Woodwards book goes to the question of the competence and coherence of this presidency and the president , this is what rosenstein was addressing, halfjokingly or not. So its not to be dismissed what he said about the 25th amendment. Yeah. To the constitution. Yeah. Even with the denial. Ive got to run, though, carl. It has some relevance to what weve heard in the last two weeks. Thank you, carl. Thank you, dan. I appreciate it. Dont forget tomorrow is Voter National Voter Registration day. Thank you, sir. Its always a pleasure. Its always a pleasure, carl. A roommate of judge kavanaugh joins us next. Im ken jacobus, im the owner of good start packaging. We distribute environmentallyfriendly packaging for restaurants. And weve grown substantially. So i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy. And last year, i earned 36,000 in cash back. Thats right, 36,000. Which i used to offer Health Insurance to my employees. My unlimited 2 cash back is more than just a perk, its our healthcare. Can i say it . Whats in your wallet . When you rent from national. Its kind of like playing your own version of best ball. Because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if its a better car class than the one you reserved. 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Tell me, how do you know Brett Kavanagh . Well, we were clas mates back in law school. Yale law has small classes, about 160 people at that time. And so pretty much everybody knew one another and i did run in some of the same Social Circles that brett did. So i knew him. We were on law journal together. He was a face i saw quite a bit. The reason i had roommate on the brain is because i read this, this is from mark kavanaghs freshman roommate. His name is james roche, also happens to know the accuser Deborah Ramirez. Heres what he says, hes out with a statement. Although brett was normally reserved, he was a notably heavy drinker. He became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. Based on my time with debbie, i cannot imagine her making this up. Based on my time with brett, i believe that he and his Social Circle were capable of actions that debbie described. So, listen, he was at yale as an undergrad, not at yale law like you. Did you ever hear anything regarding the allegations made against kavanagh now or anything similar to that . You know, i did not. I did not then and i havent since then until now. That doesnt mean that theyre not true, the fact that i havent heard those. But i cant say that i had. You and your law school classmates, you signed a letter supporting his nomination to the Supreme Court, but you say you would not sign that letter now. Why is that . Well, i think first i want to say why i signed it in the first place, which is, you know, the letter sets out and i think this is fair, that theres a lot of things that Brett Kavanagh believes legally and politically that i dont agree with. Other signatories didnt agree with. We thought he was qualified to be on the court. It appears that theres facts we didnt know that have not been fully investigated and certainly what dr. Ford has come forward with is part of the story that needs to be examined. And so if someone sent me a letter like that right now, despite the truth of the fact that his qualifications from the bench are fine, i would not sign that letter. So this was before these allegations came out that you signed that letter . Yes, it was also before the hearings. Before the hearings. So now you say no. Yes. Okay, gotcha. You were a former federal prosecutor, right . What do you think an investigation of the allegations, what would it look like . I think the fbi is very good at this kind of investigation because what needs to be looked for is corroborating information that corroborates dr. Fords story or possibly Brett Kavanaghs story. The fbi would go out and conduct interviews. Thats what theyre trained in. Thats what they do. The people who will were there, and not just the people who were there, but the people that were around and close to those individuals at that time. For example, i dont know if dr. Fords parents are alive, but thats typically someone who might be talked to. Was her behavior different . Did she change . Was something troubling her . Or did she seem happy that whole year . Either way, thats something thats going to tend to show ones story or the other more likely to be true. Hey, ive got about you need time to do that. Ive got about 20 seconds left. Im going to be honest and tell our viewers in the break, man, i wish we were talking about something that was better for the country and that educated the country. Im paraphrasing here, than what were talking about now. Why did you say that in because i think criminal law reform clemency reform is a vital issue that needs to be addressed. I wish that we had a Better Process for getting through things like this and addressing it so that we could be focused on those things that are also going to be deeply meaningful. Yeah. Thank you, sir. I appreciate you joining me. All right, thank you. 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