she s a fact witness, but she s also her own built-in expert witness. and you can see how she must have compensated for the stress that this incident imposed upon her by becoming the consummate professional. i think it makes her oeven more believable. you see how she dealt with these events. how she became the strong woman who is ultimately able to come forward. lindsey graham s big complaint about her is she can t tell you when and where it happened so you can t believe her. and perhaps he ll find some folks who will agree without those details she s not credible. but her explanation and the explanation that mimi give, which is what every prosecutor knows, about how memory functions, says when she tells you what s indelibly imprinted on her memory is their laughter, and their laughter at her expense, it s really hard to believe there won t be a couple of republican senators in that room who cannot bring themselves to vote for kavanaugh. and mimi, you do law and not politics, but i
and excused. and it s going to be quite a change of tone, tenor, demeanor. the atmospherics in the room when kavanaugh walks in. it is. again, you know, having remembering how kavanaugh was when he testified originally, i really do not think he is going to fair well. he s just not a credible speaker, when he speaks. i don t know if that s how he normally is or that s how he is when he isn t telling the truth, which is what it seems to me. i do think her sincerity is going to be very striking when he comes out. you re going to sort of see it even more. again, when he testified originally, when he was being asked questions that he had obviously rehearsed, he sounded good and prepared and, you know, reasonableable. when he was asked questions by senator harris he, you know, pretended to not know the name of of a law firm, cakasowitz,
argument that mccabe lied to federal investigators, he did it on multiple occasions, and members of the trump administration had to do big deals with the special counsel because they admitted to lying to federal investigators. they say there s got to be a uniformed standard here if you re going to get guilty pleas from members of the trump administration, you should also see if prosecution was warranted in the mccabe case. dana: what s going on with the mueller investigation? reporter: that s what i was up here to really cover originally on the hill. we re outside the judiciary committee hearing room. they had a business meeting this morning that lasted about an hour. kind of a procedural event. for now they put off action on this bipartisan legislation to protect the special counsel. as you know, the senate majority leader expressed opposition to this legislation. what we heard from the committee s republican chairman,
is provoking them. bret, the russian ministry of defense felt compelled to answer the comment tonight, issuing a statement decrying the british defense secretary, the coarse language, something they said perfectly characterizes his intellectual impotence. no one here expects this furthering sense of siege in russia is going to have any negative impact on president vladimir putin s popularity. bret: amy kellogg come alive in moscow. thank you. let s get reaction to the news involving russia, the latest to the investigation surrounding russia in the u.s. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley and member lindsey graham. i sat down with them this afternoon in the judiciary committee hearing room on capitol hill and started by asking about the administration s new sanctions against russia.