government. nancy pelosi saying explain. does he want to have a government closed forever? what s this about? i know he doesn t believe in government. i know he doesn t know that much about what is at risk to shut it down. let s talk about what we can do right now to keep government open. there is strong bipartisan support to do that. the only obstacle is the president of the united states. this to me is a very interesting gambit. she is betting they can t get it through the house. the moderates just lost and have no loyalty tow president trump and the house republicans won t to get it through. the more nancy pelosi talks about that, that won t rally the republicans to say we have to do this and let s not make it about the president, but about leader pelosi. isn t there an issue with physically having enough republicans in place to do a
how dare you talk to women that way! how dare you! [indiscernible] senator, do you believe women? speaking on the floor of the senate this week, majority leader mitch mcconnell said republicans won t be bullied or intimidated by the kavanaugh protesters. if facts and evidence couldn t get the job done, then intimidation tactics and bullying would have to do. i m not suggesting we re the victims here, mr. president, but i want to make it clear to these people who are chasing my members around the hall here or harassing them at the airports or going to their homes, we ll not be intimidated by these people. there is no chance in the world they re going to scare us out of doing our duty.
nominee brett kavanaugh, an allegation kavanaugh denies. even putting aside the massive stakes for both parties, it s shaping up to be a very strange scene. for starters, the 11 republicans of the committee, all of whom are men, are not planning to ask questions. they ve hired a woman instead to do the job. we have hired a female assistant to go on staff and to ask these questions in a respectful and professional way. they don t say who their new assistant is, all we know is that she is an experienced sex crimes prosecutor who republicans won t identify. that, we should note, is contrary to the wishes of dr. ford. her lawyer writing in a later this is not repeatedly expressing concern they re trying to rig the hearing against her. mike davis, playing a central
high school sexual assault allegation against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, an allegation kavanaugh denies. even putting aside the massive stakes for both parties, it s shaping up to be a very strange scene. for starters, the 11 republicans of the committee, all of whom are men, are not planning to ask questions. they ve hired a woman instead to do the job. we have hired a female assistant to go on staff and to ask these questions in a respectful and professional way. they don t say who their new assistant is, all we know is that she is an experienced sex crimes prosecutor who republicans won t identify. that, we should note, is contrary to the wishes of dr. ford. her lawyer writing in a later this is not repeatedly expressing concern they re trying to rig the hearing against her.
so that could happen. it is maybe a little bit less likely. third, maybe kavanaugh fails, maybe there is a hearing, the professor is extremely compelling. republicans won t vote for him. this is we re starting to get into worst case scenarios for republicans because they would have to maybe try to find a new nominee before election day. that would be really hard, traditionally it takes months to get through this process. remember kavanaugh was from july 9. so maybe after election day if republicans win it is not that big a deal, they would just confirm somebody new in the lame duck session. if democrats won and they tried to push somebody through after election day, it would be a huge uproar and that takes us to after election day and january 3, if democrats take control of the senate which is still a huge if, many ifs going on here, maybe they would try to find a