obama? it certainly helps. barack obama is hugely popular in the democratic party and it helps protect his base among african-american voters which is significant. that s what harris is trying to erode and booker was trying to erode by bringing this up. the question that democrats have to ask is what is the damage that could be done in beating trump if some of these disputes move from issues to personal character questions. if you are saying i don t believe you are a racist, you are about to unload a critique that said i think you kind of were a little bit in this way. what is the effect of this on the nominee if biden were to become the nominee and the effect on the debates if they move in this more personal direction? also, it has the effect of changing the way we understand
vietnam draft deferment. after using a deferment long enough to avoid the draft, clinton backed out of his deal to join the rotc program. clinton called the charges a tired, old story. the character questions chipped away at clinton s poll numbers. less than a week before the new hampshire primary, he suddenly trailed by double digits. if you didn t finish first or second in new hampshire, it was over. bill clinton! but bill clinton wouldn t go down without a fight. his back against the wall, he surged to a second-place finish in new hampshire. new hampshire, tonight, has made bill clinton the comeback kid. [ cheers and applause ] with his new momentum, a wave of national reporters descended on little rock, arkansas. he was the democratic front-runner. so digging into who he was and into his past was a key part of what we do. march of 92, there was an article on the front of
characterizing tom feedler s reporting as faulty and irresponsible. for a while, the dam would hold. for about 36 to 48 hours, it is possible to believe that this is going to blow over and in fact, for days the hart team is winning. most of the media was revialed by what the herald was done. there was a big debate over the miami herald story, was it reasonable, was it fair, i was not convinced that it was journalistcally ethical. i sensed that the rules were being changed willy-nilly right around me as i was sitting at the computer righting these stories. there is a thin line between character questions and character assassinations. and of course they denigrated the whole thing, that we were slimy about this and you have
be on a plane to d.c. tonight. i guess he did that. he ll come to terms of it. in the end i thought the i m a conservative. i m happy to see a conservative judge who os eminently qualified, but i m a fan of the institution. it s not a step forward for the country. i have a lot of confidence he will rule well as a judge, but these character questions will be a live political issues, whether they s to be or not, going forward. i think president will be running for president in 2020 screaming about it. i m out of time. i do wish the president had chose others, and avoiding this mess. better politics, but you know, again i don t know what happened. i was sympathetic to dr. ford. i kind of believed her. i believed him. i m a useless truth detector here, but i do worry about the institution. never useless, mike murphy.
mueller walking like horse blinders. let me look at this one little thing. it makes the point on the mueller investigation why rosenstein is so important. you can tell whoever is in charge of the investigation is in a position to alter the investigation. if a trumpee was in charge of mueller he could reduce the budget and say we are not going to travel overseas. this thing is completely rigged. the fact that they would not does it pass the smell test? they finish tonight at midnight and don t talk to the accuser or the accused and don t follow up on the character questions. it doesn t pass my smell test. that is not the important thing. the important thing is whether it passes jeff flake, lisa murkowski and susan collins smell test. if they feel this gives enough sort of cover, it that is what