testify? anyone who watched the last round of hearings and who watched the senate hearings regularly recognizes that having a professional investigator is going to make things cleaner and more coherent. major trials in the past have had that. the iran-contra investigation. the waterhouse hearing the whitewater hearing. that was the watergate was, you know, was months long and and took a long time. you can t compare the watergate hearings or iran-contra to this, can you? absolutely. they re important hearings. this is something the senate judiciary committee does. somethi something that senator collins said both sides would do. i know the 2020 candidates in the senate judiciary committee would rather be doing the questioning, themselves. i think everyone who s watched hearings agrees, having a single experienced questioner doing it on either side would make for a better process. i don t think dr. ford agrees. professor ford. jeff yeah, i think there s something bleakley
investigation. at this point, i mean, doesn t seem like there s any real appetite on the other side of the aisle among republicans to support that. i think it s unfortunate, again, today, we saw them make statements. in other words, whenever they have a microphone in front of them, they say, look, we want bob mueller to be able to do his investigation and he ought to have the opportunity to be independent. we appreciate it. but then when it comes to passing legislation, it would really put some teeth behind that rhetoric. they aren t there. so what s your message to the president tonight about whether or not he should fire rosenstein? or what would happen if he did? my message to the president tonight is that interfering with the mueller investigation is the wrong thing to do. it s the wrong thing to do for our country. it in effect says that the president is above the law and donald trump shouldn t go there. do you think having the
i think america saw that and was disgusted by it. if they re having a professional sex crimes prosecutor ask the questions because they don t want male republican men to ask the questions and have it look bad, doesn t that give it the aura of a court and why not then have actual people with actual corroboration or no corroboration called in to testify? anyone who watched the last round of hearings and who watched the senate hearings regularly recognizes that having a professional investigator is going to make things cleaner and more coherent. major trials in the past have had that. the iran-contra investigation. the waterhouse hearing the whitewater hearing. that was the watergate was, you know, was months long and took a long time. you can t compare the watergate hearings or iran-contra to this, can you? absolutely. they re important hearings. this is something the senate judiciary committee does. something that senator collins said both sides should do.
repeating over and over that you want a fair process but not really answering the questions, i don t think necessarily bolsters him, but for the audience that they wanted to reach, i think it will have its intended effect which is to portray him as somebody who s being persecuted and it will rally the troops around him. that s what s really has kept the republicans on track is this fear of the base not turning out in the midterms because they re angry that they re not moving if they don t move forward with this nomination. carrie, one thing that kavanaugh didn t say in the interview is he d welcome an fbi investigation into this or continuation of the background check. wouldn t you think he would want that if this is all a smear campaign as he says, just to fully and completely clear his name? what he said he wants is a hearing and this investigative process he s been going through for the past week. there s nothing magical about putting the words, fbi, in front of it. we have a
meeting on thursday is to distract from the kavanaugh hearings? my sense is today was really right out of the trump playbook. whenever they got problems, they go out and create some chaos. they create some distraction. we were getting reports on the hill that this was the smoke bomb today to distract from the kavanaugh allegations. again, the bottom line is a lot of us are very concerned about this. that bob mueller is really in a race against time, is that the president should not interfere with this investigation. senator ron wyden, appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. coming up, along those lines, our jeff toobin has just written a piece in the new yorker saying if rosenstein is out, then the mueller investigation could be, in his words, kind of toast. he s back along with preet bharara and i ll try not to sneeze during this next interview, next. people confuse nice and kind. but they re different. it s nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we ch