offered this by a way of comparison. i think dr. ford was treated well. i think the roles were reversed. the slut whore drunk was kavanaugh. mike barnicle, what would john mccain do? what would john mccain say? i think what john mccain would say is, lindsey, who are you? what has happened to you? because clearly, i mean, he morphed into donald trump, into a donald trump supporter, before john mccain was even put in the ground in annapolis. it is shocking how quickly he switched over to maybe who he really is. we don t know who he really is. we ve had him on here, joe and mika, as you know, numerous times, he is engaging, he can be funny, he can be sort of introspective about things like
conservative would be very concerned about because a traditional conservative would be concerned about conserving our institutions and placing somebody like brett kavanaugh on the court now under these circumstances with a cloud over his head and with his partisan divisive rhetoric i think that will undermine the legitimacy of the supreme court. i don t think this is something that real conservatives should be celebrating. let s pretend donald trump is, indeed, a conservative. what are the differences, your conservative, your philosophy and his? well the differences, in how long do you have here? the differences are so vast. i grew up in the 1980s under such a different kind of conservatism. ronald reagan, sunny, optimistic, inclusive, pro immigration, pro free trade. never engaged in this kind of hateful racist rhetoric that donald trump routinely engages in. donald trump is against trade. he s against america s international leadership. he s not in favor of limited
it up on tv for herself. people in tennessee and places where you come from, joe, don t really like hollywood getting involved. i was also just in texas and i spent 40 years there and i ve been saying it s going to take the will take the second coming of christ for a democrat to win in texas. but beto o rourke s supporters think he walks on water. but this race is settling where it is and the kavanaugh thing has had an effect. certainly last week. which way? energized republican voters. certainly cruz was talking a lot about that. the other thing i heard from cruz s people from his campaign manager is there was a viral video that cruz did on the national anthem which was compelling and powerful and good news for beto and cruz went with paid media and it s their opinion that hurt cruz. again very wrong way i m sorry.
paid or what do you make of this? no, i don t think the protesters are paid by george soros, but even further, what i want to say is that the republican party and a lot of the republican leadership are really acting like donald trump. i ve been taken aback by covering president trump and all this conversation that people had about him coming in and maybe being somehow watered down by the republican leadership and maybe there are adults in the room who will make president trump act in a different way. what we ve seen and said is that everyone starts acting like president trump. when brett kavanaugh testified he was talking about the clintons revenge, talking about the 2016 election, lindsey graham is using the word slu slut whore. this is the idea that president trump has lowered the decorum of what you can say and have allowed people to be more raw. some people like that. there are trump supporters that say we like the brash talk and the idea that people aren t being politically corr
we ve even been mocked on saturday night live for it. i thought last week the untold story was just how biassed top to bottom the press was on reporting the story. mika also expressed real concerns about political commentators going on networks and calling brett kavanaugh a rapist. columnists, respected columnists calling him a serial sexual predator. and there didn t seem to be the push back that there should have been from network executives, from opinion page editors. i thought the whole thing was a bit out of control despite all of our concerns about donald trump and bluntly about our concerns we had about brett kavanaugh. yeah. i mean what we ve been through has ripped off all the scabs of politics and gender and sexual assault. it s a very difficult story to cover in the best of times. in this hyper critical and hyper