and a lot of men, of course, are very sympathic to dr. ford watching her testimony and how compelling and convincing it was but at the same time there s this group of americans experiencing this story in the exact opposite way. there were people moved on both sides. i can tell you mika was watching it. i was too. mika teared up watching dr. ford s testimony and also teared up watching brett kavanaugh s testimony when the talk turned to his daughters, when it turned to his parents, when it turned to remembering his high school days. so i think elise both statements were very moving to a lot of people. they were both moving to me. i think, again, you go into the moments after the prepared remarks that steam be more appealing. i want to ask you somebody who worked for brett kavanaugh and never saw him explode like this,
whatever you believe about judge kavanaugh s behavior with dr. ford, about his past, that having someone who has behaved in such a partisan way in his confirmation hearings and this hearing could be problematic for the court going forward and will also potentially open the door to impeachment hearings if democrats take back control of the house. there are democrats who are already talking about this now and that s also troubling for the court as an institution. al the court as an institution.
yes. joe manchin is more inclined to vote yes than no. lisa murkowski is different because of judge kavanaugh s stance on native issues and some politics in her state. she s the most likely in that group to be inclined to sfloet. if you have flake, collins and manchin you re there. the absence again a lot of questions we discussed about the scope of this fbi inquiry and how it s conducted. if we get to the end of the week under whatever set of circumstances and it looks as though we re still in a he said/she said mode and no break throughs on the investigative front i think president trump and brett kavanaugh will have the votes to put him on the supreme court. last night yef flake along with senator coons they were both on 60 minutes talking about the compromise they made on friday. jeff flake said now i personally don t understand this but i guess this is how people think in washington these days, but he personally said that if he were
susan collins and jeff flake. is there any new information that s disqualifying and do they believe this was a credible probe. my gut is that, you know, and we haven t heard a lot from these thee folks or at least from collins and murkowski. collins is looking for a way to vote yes so i think she potentially could get there. there s a memo that went out late last night from republicans, actually rachel mitchell. that s the first time i ve really seen republicans lay out arguments that question dr. ford s credibility and i think it s a strategy because they are letting somebody else do it. they are letting rachel mitchell say, okay, these are the inconsistencies in her story. all these things are just mixed up. you know, what orrin hatch said in a sound bite she s laying out on paper. that shows me there s a back
94 sweep were talking about the ross perot impact. rightly you point out pat buchanan reshaped the republican party and may have reshaped in his failing bid in 92 and 96, may have reshaped the future of the conservative movement in a way that few others did. it was not just newt gingrich and it s not newt gingrich s party from 94 that we re seeing in 2018. is it not, in fact, pat buchanan s party now boy, you can draw a straight line from what pat buchanan was talking about on running on and galvanizing in the 1990s to what donald trump campaigned on and elected on in 2016. the republican establishment was terrified of it in 1990s and certainly terrified when donald trump was tearing through their primaries. pat buchanan challenged george h.w. bush. he did fairly well especially in new hampshire. it was understood as a protest