satisfied that kavanaugh didn t like him because they also better be a problem, he will get confirmed. john: tom, last friday, senator jeff flake of arizona seem to indicate that he would vote for judge kavanaugh, not just in the committee, but in the senate as well. then he said let s do this fbi investigation. now he is going pretty squishy on all of this. [laughs] he is. jeff flake thought that, while attention as he might ve been that this would restore integrity to the process, and it hasn t done that. we ve gotten more allegations come we ve had the media, in my opinion, fairly responsible for putting people on television with uncorroborated allegationse leaks coming out talking about bar fights, ice cubes, whatnot. it hasn t brought to the process any closer to a conclusion. i think we will end up where we started. mitch mcconnell will hold the boat. john: steve, a lot is being made over the tone that judge kavanaugh took them at hearing on friday. let s roll the clock bac
earlier. the media has behaved terribly irresponsibly throughout this ordeal and in the one-week delay that we have had, has gotten even worse. nbc also produced a report where they implied very strongly that kavanaugh committed perjury before the committee, only to add a clarification later that oh, by the way, he mentioned that in testimony and basically refuted the implication that they were trying to put out there. the media has not covered itself and glory in any way. i agree with steve. this will have lasting impact beyond the election but i think it will impact the election. we are seeing republicans around the country colonizing around this issue and it may pay dividends for them in the senate if not now not now. john: steve, and the time we have left, 30 seconds, the midterm elections, more than a month away, but we ve got the vote, probably saturday or maybe a little after that. we don t know how flake is going to vote. i m hearing that lisa murkowski, senator collins may b
revolution on, on the fox news channel. mara liasson, national correspondent for national public radio and tom bevan, realclearpolitics cofounder and president. mara, are the goalposts being shifted? this was about a sexual assault, and i was about personal temperament, not just judicial temperament. it s about judge kavanaugh s tone and tenor at the hearing. democrats are trying to do what they can to stop this nomination. if they can use evidence of an accusation, they will, or the way he behaved when he raised his voice, sarcastically interrupted senators, they will use that. it doesn t matter if democrats are moving the goalposts. what matters is if mitch mcconnell can convince flake, collins, and lisa murkowski pray that it is his audience. he s got an audience of three. if they think the process is fair, and they are satisfied there is no corroborating evidence to dr. ford s charges and if there wow they are
the independence of the fbi and feels, as he said last night, that they should be looking at anything they think is credible within this limited scope. what does that mean, limited scope? that s up to the fbi. in other words, i m not involved in those specific conversations. don mcgahn say, you can interview these witnesses but don t interview these witnesses? i don t think don mcgahn would do that but i ve not talked to him about it. legality me make cle let me make clear we re not trying to interfere. it s the president saying go ahead. it s the republican senators, senator flake and others who said please go forward with this fbi investigation. if you parse every word there from kellyanne conway with my colleague jake tapper, you can see she leaves a little wiggle room there, room for gray in her answer about this. but given the questions here, michael, about limitations, do you see this as an investigation that can really bear anything new? if the investigators have fre
martha: let me ask you about your colleague, senator flake. he made a number of appearances after friday, on 60 minutes, did an event in central park in new york where he talked to the crowd about maybe i have seen you in the elevator, referring to the women who were confronting him in the elevator, he did another appearance in boston. what do you make of all that? jeff is going to have to vote his conscience. and he and senator coons got together and decided that we needed a delay. i have yet to hear senator coons, who is a good friend of mine, i have a world of respect for him, but i haven t yet i will bet you right now about how chris votes on this nomination finally. i just don t think there is anything that we can do to get democratic votes. i don t. maybe joe manchin, maybe heidi heitkamp come but i think