years before he was considered for the supreme court, she tells this story and names him to her husband? that to me says that this has a high degree of credibility. and remember, this is not a court of law. this is not a case in which you have to prove a crime. this is just whether a man is going to be one of the most powerful people in the country. let me bring in our experts on this. elise hogue is with us, attorney nancy erica smith, and liz plank, who has reported on many aspects of this. mya mentioned something i want to put forward, which is a point that can get lost in these stories. what is the best standard to apply in fact finding? the strictest is in criminal trials where you have proof of wronging to beyond a reasonable doubt. courts use a less strict standard in civil cases.
committee said the same thing, asking for the fbi to get involved. kavanaugh denies this allegation. here s what the most powerful democrat in the senate said today. so it is now the fbi s responsibility to investigate these claims, update the analysis to judge kavanaugh s background, and report back to the senate. this has to be done by an independent, outside body. the fbi is the best one. i m joined by the former assistant director for that very fbi. and mya wylie is back with me. should the fbi be investigate thing claim, frank? good question. this is unlike anything else the fbi does, a background investigation is neither a criminal investigation nor a counterintelligence or national security investigation. you have a client, when you conduct a background investigation, and your client is the agency from which the
was looking directly at the jurors to see whether all of their eyes were going to then move in that direction. and i saw one of the alternates look that direction and nobody else. which i thought was interesting because i thought that you would expect to sort of like a tennis match and they would follow the action that direction where the prosecutor was pointing. but the jurors are engaged, they re following what s going on, i ve seen during the presentation of some of the evidence during the trial at times it looked like they were distracted, not so here. but, again, you can t look at them and draw any sort of conclusions. all right, kerry, thanks. let s bring in mya wylie. mya, i m glad you re here, there s something i want to talk about with you. this idea that s sort of come up over the last couple of days if there s an acquittal that many people are starting to predict will come that black folks are going to riot, right? what an insulting idea that we are so inherently violent t
i hit a nerve with a 30-second promotional ad and the nerve that i hit is connected to the central nervous system of our democracy and the synopsises of engagement is the electric cold current that forges our more perfect union. rather than lash out at the offense, allow me to welcome the debate. with me at the table this morning, matt welch one of my favorite libertarian sparring partners and editor in chief ot reason magazine. and mya wylie. matt, i want to start with you because it feels to me like this is a negative/positive freedom. a libertarian versus big state question. where do you fall on? well, i know you re not going to steal my daughter because you didn t do it when you hads the chance. my problem with what your statement was was that from my perspective the premise of it was wrong. right? we don t lack for spending mur
heard from many of you about a promo by me running on this network. haven t seen it? well, here it is. we have never invested in much in public education as we should have. your kid is yours and totally your responsible. we haven t had a very collective notion of these are our children. so part of it is we have to breakthrough the private idea that kids belong to their parents and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. once it s everybody s responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments. so what i thought was a relatively benign statement about the need to invest more resources into the public education system has caused quite a conservative motion. as we trace the fish tail back that has garnered thousands of responses in the form of tv segments, e-mails, tweets and phone calls started as a short item on a conservative blog s weekend traffic. it wasn t enough for sarah palin to find the spot un-flipping-believable. conserva