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Calculus changes. everything that happened before, put that in context. what happens now means flake has power of when the timing of the vote is. he can persuade other colleagues and the decision maker is mitch mcconnell. what does he want? he wabnts brett kavanaugh to be confirmed. likely it will take jeff flake s vote. many people have been asking th themselves what would john mccain do. both very close to senator mccain. john, meachum what is your take here? just 20 minutes ago we were saying this is about metoo. t t tribali tribalism. what about now? this is a triumph of common ....
The week when you have the entire fbi there. who knows what the outcome of this is. if you were in flavor of more information, of trying to introduce reason instead of reflexive passion, this is a good afternoon. as we ve been saying for the last couple of hours, you re a historian. you write these things as it happens. this is not how we thought would happen. this does, to kelly s point, it changes everything now. everything that happened until this point half an hour ago is different. one senator, one senator is very powerful. it could give cover to other senators to do something. we could come out with a slightly different view than what you called the cloud that was over it until this point. ....
In college about some of these gang rapes that are alleged through michael avenatti s client. barbara is right, the scope of this is open. mark judge has a lot to talk about here and particularly even as dr. ford testified they locked eyes. mark judge also somewhat oddly seemed to jump on them as brett kavanaugh was allegedly assaulting which is an odd thing to do. you ve been waiting patiently. thank you. as the presidential historian among us, i want to you wrap this up for us. what is today? where will it go down in history? and will it, i guess, will it mean more if ultimately this nomination does not go through? or will it mean more if it does go through? where do you think? what do you think? that s a great question, and i think it will mean more if it ....
We re adjourned. what? i was thinking that. it s kind of remarkable. i have to say this. jeff flake has tried to be thoughtful about this. chuck grassley s behavior in this is kind of remarkable. the rush with which flake hadn t finished speaking suggesting a one week delay so the fbi investigate. the minute he said i ll vote to advance this to report this to the senate which means his vote goes through. the second he said that, chuck grassley was call the role. the clerk had to call the role. senator dianne feinstein didn t know what they were voting on. she s going i m sorry, what. let s bring in nbc kelly o donnell and we still have presidential historian john me chum who anchors this today historic hour. kelly, to you first. ....
Her obsession over this alleged tape. nancy cook, a white house reporter for politico. danny cevallos is an msnbc legal analyst. john me chum, let me ask you a big picture question. when you see what s going on. when you see people taping each other, including in the situation room, when you have the president tweeting and calling a woman a dog. it goes on and on and on. what does it say about the culture of this white house, john? it s not recorded whether jefferson and washington taped each other in washington s cabinet. my picture s a little fuzzy. this is exhibit 6,012 so to speak but who s counting? exactly. of this hobsian world that the president has brought to the highest levels. it is an absolute free for all. ....