. ben: whether kavanaugh accuser christine blasey ford is telling the truth or getting story wrong, it s obvious democrats are engaged in politicking, not trying to hide it anymore. that s the promise democrats are making, either elect them to stop kavanaugh from being elected or elect them to impeach kavanaugh. here is senator sheldon from rhode island, explaining democrats will move to get rid of kavanaugh if they take the senate. there is a whole investigative process that can and should take place, and you know what? this is such bad practice that even if they were to ram this guy through, as soon as democrats get gavels, we re going to want to get to the bottom of this. ben: this is never-ending, democrats are going to use the election as a referendum on the court. elizabeth warren is fund-raising off the accusations, sent out an e-mail saying, quote
definitions. bob woodward has chronicled nine presidents. and i ve watched this as i ve been in politics for 30 years now. and everyone speaks to bob woodward, they know that he is the first draft of history. everyone bitches and complains, says oh, he got the story wrong, he got this detail the guy goes back, he does dozens of interviews with all these principals and the people that deny it are embarrassed in the end. everybody makes mistakes. but the scope of bob woodward s work, the overall content of his work, has proven to be an incredibly infallible guide to presidential history. he s had an insight into operations of the oval office, and when he looks at this as the most chaotic, shambolic and dangerous he s seen i believe him. i ve got ten seconds if you want to respond to that. steve or april. look, i would say this. i do think when you talk about the scope, i do believe this is happening. i believe there s a cabal of crony insiders within the administration who are wo
theory for the first time that many of us were going after the story wrong, and the airing of the tape was a guiliani method of lessening cohen s value. in fact, in the piece you contributed to in the times tonight, i m looking at this giuliani quote about lanny davis. he s basically destroying his client as a witness because he really isn t a criminal lawyer, he s playing it like a shill as opposed to a lawyer. his whole theory, you bring it all out, that s great, but now the guy s ruined as a witness. what prosecutor is going to use him? you see where i m going, that it s diminishing of cohen s potential value as a flip. yeah, and it s interesting because, to phil s point about how michael cohen feels, you know, out in the wilderness, cohen s lawyers actually approached rudy giuliani and said, you know, is the president planning to pardon michael cohen, how is this going to go? and giuliani kind of like, eh,
it. and because of that, he feels wounded, he feels scared, he feels isolated and alone. this is according to his associates. and he s decided in the last few weeks to really, you know, at this point break from the president, break with him. and lanny davis is helping him do it. there s a lot of suspicionuspici brian, in the trump orbit, about lanny davis. this was somebody close to the clintons, he had a book party here in washington about his new book about the campaign and hillary clinton was a guest and spoke in his honor. there s a lot of suspicion around the president. matt, you were last on this broadcast friday night when a reporter was proffering the theory for the first time that many of us were going after the story wrong, and the airing of the tape was a guiliani method of lessening cohen s value. in fact, in the piece you contributed to in the times tonight, i m looking at this matt, you were last on this broadcast friday night when a reporter was proffering the
book about the campaign and hillary clinton was a guest and spoke in his honor. there s a lot of suspicion around the president. matt, you were last on this broadcast friday night when a reporter was proffering the theory for the first time that many of us were going after the story wrong, and the airing of the tape was a guiliani method of lessening cohen s value. in fact, in the piece you contributed to in the times tonight, i m looking at this giuliani quote about lanny davis. he s basically destroying his client as a witness because he really isn t a criminal lawyer, he s playing it like a shill as opposed to a lawyer. his whole theory, you bring it all out, that s great, but now the guy s ruined as a witness. what prosecutor is going to use him? you see where i m going, that it s diminishing of cohen s potential value as a flip. yeah, and it s interesting because, to phil s point about how michael cohen feels, you