comments yesterday were so unhelpful is because you have seen republican unity surrounding kavanaugh because they believe the allegations are ill motivated, even though nobody knows yet who to believe, and so when the president enter skwrebgts himself in this way, it has the possibility of impacting the votes of the two senators the only two senators, really, that were a possible no on kavanaugh. it s all going to come down to who appears more credible in the hearing. as long as the circumstances don t change where in we have two people that could be telling the truth but we don t have any firsthand corroborating witnesses in the usa today story noted none of them had first-hand knowledge of having been there. the way republicans will act is to say we can move forward with the confirmation