politically, in all sorts of ways for a generation at least. so that is, at the end of the day, the balance. if anybody were still capable of balancing anything in washington, d.c., that republicans and democrats should balance. if it takes another week, they should wait another week. sth a lifetime appointment. so the question is how does that happen when there is such bad faith between republicans and democrats and republicans are likely suspicious and now they re saying we can talk about an fbi investigation. but the one thing we know is there is a big clock ticking.
that s why everybody is open to hearing from a woman. but if she doesn t want to speak, if she doesn t want to testify, you have to wonder what the republicans are supposed to do except demand a vote. this is something that happened in high school. this is going to need her voice. there s no other way around it. no one can do it for her. as miserable as that may be. here is the president talking about a potential fbi investigation. how important is i don t think the fbi really should be involved because they don t want to be involved. the if they wanted to be, i would certainly do that. i think politically speaking, the senators will do a very good job. oh, boy. willie, once again, complete confidence in the united states senate and the processes of the united states senate. here is a man, who by the way, has recommended and commanded
and if the county representative did something like this after a hurricane, they would be run out of office the next day. it falls under the category that we should not be appalled, but he s reportedly, joe, furious with florida s republican candidate for governor, ron desantis who has distanced himself now from trump s allegation through a spokesman about the puerto rican death toll saying in part, desantis does not believe any loss of life has been inflated. politico reports trump has now called close sociologies he views desantis as profoundly disloyal for publicly disagreeing him and has no plans to campaign for him had. desantis rose from the republican nomination on trump s endorsement, even cut this
little bit i think we should be careful with that. i m not sure what dr. ford is saying happened other than he put his hand over her mouth, which is pretty disgusting if that happened and that he held her down. i think another thing, mika, i was a high school girl in the early 80s as i think some of the others were on this panel and i can tell you i remember hearing stories this stuff happened back then with people drinking and with the fact that women didn t talk about because we couldn t talk about it. i think that it s brave of her to come forward, something happened, but kavanaugh is saying he wasn t there and so i do think it s a he said she said and i don t know how you get beyond him saying he wasn t there and she s saying he was. i don t know. and that s what makes this conversation fascinating. mimi, maya and sophia, thank you all for coming on this morning. still ahead, for months now poland has been pushing to have a u.s. military presence in order to deter russia
credible. i m sorry, mika. sophia nelson, i just wanted you to be able to jump in. i do think that pattern is always important in cases like this that draw to character and truthfulness. do they not? i m not a lawyer, but don t you look for patterns of behavior as well if there was an investigation? well, absolutely. i mean, what we ve seen over the past year or two with the me too movement is every time a powerful man is accused of these things there are more alligations that come forth. so that s one thing that you would want to find out. with six background checks already done by the fbi i promise you they would have heard about this by now. two things, there s precedent for this, i said that, the fbi can investigate for a couple weeks and they can come back. the second thing is i was very clear to both of my colleagues that they said this was an alleged rape. i didn t say it was a rape. i ve never said that. i think the allegation it s alleged rape is actually a