allegations, of course. at the white house today president trump once again expressed optimism about kavanaugh s fate and defended him. i think that judge kavanaugh is doing pretty well over the last 24 hours. a lot is going to depend on what comes back from the fbi in terms of their additional number seven investigation. i think that judge kavanaugh is doing very well right now. hopefully as mitch said they will have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote, but it will be dependent on what comes back from the fbi. if you can be an exemplary person for 35 years and then somebody comes and they say you did this or that and they give three witnesses and the three witnesses at this point do not corroborate what you were saying, it s a very scary situation where you are guilty until proven incent. republican senator jeff flake
don t be nervous. i do think that president trump is wrong because old men are the ones who are nervous. men who are worried about how old? i would say over 25 or 30 or 35. there are people brought up in the standards of today probably aren t that worried. the men brought up in a different era and may have done something that they regret, yeah, they are scared. you are closer to my age but not there. thanks, chris. do you believe it or the behavior was acceptable? i think there were times when it was considered and i m not condoning this in any way, but considered more acceptable and more in the nature of boys will be boys rough housing than it is today. locking the door, turning up the music to cover up a crime is rough housing? you asked if there was a day
father would go to transferring over $1 billion while managing to pay only five percent in gift and inheritance taxes. it should be 55%. most damaging in that, president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s including instances of outright fraud that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents. in a statement to the times a lawyer called the report 100% false saying there was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. it could be accurate. the attorney added president trump had virtually no involvement with the matters. i am joined by the author and one of the new york times reporters who broke this story. this story does open up the question, i was doing the math,
can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very difficult time. what s happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a supreme court justice. welcome back. somebody has to do a study on this guy s gestures. they are amazing. that was president trump saying the fight over brett kavanaugh is bigger than just a supreme court nomination. according to the washington post the al gag legations have sparked a wave of anxiety from many republican men who say tha are in danger of being swept up. it is politics plus me too together. let s bring in the round table. ruth marcus, deputy editorial editor for the washington post and former spokesman for house speaker john boehner. do you feel anxious?
it s really the nominee is the president s nominee. we have a narrow directive. congress will say we asked them to do an investigation but we weren t going to vote. we didn t know he would narrow it. talk to the politics of this. it looks like it is possible that they will confirm this guy and flake will say it was the president. susan collins will say i wish they would ask more questions. they still vote for the guy. then the focus is on flake and collins and murkowski and other republican senators who were going along with such a charade. because it is kind of obvious you can t just say the white house we demand it. they demand it. it wasn t trump s idea. they demanded an actual investigation. if they don t get one, how are