energize republican women to say why respect there more republican women sitting on that other side of the senate judiciary committee, or in the senate, period? so i think that is a very important issue here, thanks to both of you. i want to turn now to the new york times editorial board. a sexual assault survivor. and lisa lara and gene robinson for the washington post. my thanks to all of you. lisa, starting with you. what do you think is important now? we are a long ways, as i mentioned in the open, from president trump claim thing isn t what the fbi does or they should do it with a narrow account of who they can talk to. what s important is what has always been important, the votes of senators flake, kol listens,
murkowski, maybe manchin. more issues seem to come out, but if mitch mcconnell feels he has the vote to push it through, he will push it through. so the deciding voices on this will be that said of three or five senators, if they feel satisfied with what has happened in the past week, then he ll bring it to a vote. if jeff flake does not feel satisfied, then it s hard to see how and then republicans are in a tough spot. right. and jean robinson, what lisa is referring to is the fact that this is a somewhat public, messy process. no one is claiming it s all that logical and rational. although as i was pushing the senator on it, if you want more time and witnesses, this would seem to be going in that direction. take a look at the president today. i want them to do a very comprehensive investigation. with that being said, i would like it to go quickly.
republican leadership s response not to attend the event. where we re talking about ferguson, where we re talking about eric garner, where we see another unarmed young blackman killed by police. i know the people i talked to are outside the beltway, they don t remember mccarthy decided to come or that alabama representative martha robie had a large roam. republicans didn t show up. neither of the clintons didn t show up. exactly. first, was this a political speech? yes, it was a political speech. selma was a political event. secondly, look who was there. president bush. the fact that president bush was there who did authorize the vote yeah. there s a reason why more people should follow president bush s example. lastly, the president s speech in that moment was worthy of grant. that will be covered in grant. that was american exceptionalism.
before she was talking about launching a formal campaign so i think a lot of democrats around town have been saying to me and other people, why wasn t this handled back in august months and months and months before april which is before she comes out talking about something formally. get this out there, deal with it, have this buffer of more than six months to have these things processed through? instead you have this whole scandal, all of these questions coming out before real quickly, the president wasn t being nice. that was a cover up by semantics. the only thing he should be answering is i want that server back, that belongs to the people and the administration. give me that server. not the first time democrats have had public support, private trepidation when the clintons are involved in a conversation that involves secrecy. no doubt about it. what this has given republicans on a silver platter is a new reason to ask these questions. people had largely forgotten about the
that will pose a problem for them. these are questions you don t want to be answering as you launch your presidential campaign and we ll all assume hillary clinton will run for president. she s forcing us into an uncomfortable position. it gives republicans in the house ammunition to run with. this will dominate a lot of what she was hoping would be a clean launch for a campaign. there s been a lot of whispers about pay to play from inside the clinton team, pay to play at the clinton administration. those will become shouts unless she releases the e-mails. one question, do republicans overreach? the history of the clintons is forgive me you had the monica lewinsky scandal and two republicans lost their jobs. the public believed the republicans overreached. ted cruz is talking about this e-mail controversy. look, there are very legitimate issues about why it was at her home. listen to ted cruz s take.