bill: are you predicting 53? i m predicting we pick up two to three seats. republican voters need to turn out. five weeks from tomorrow. here is klobuchar from cbs over the weekend, the democrat senator from minnesota said this. yes, they can order a background check when they put a nomination in place but they cannot say oh, hey, only interview the people in their neighborhood on one side of the street or only interview people from a certain period of their life. you let the men and women of the f.b.i., the profession always, do their jobs. we don t know whether or not it wraps up by the end of the week. that s what she said last week. we ll see if the schedule sticks. do you think republicans in the senate have the votes without flake getting the one-week extension. it appears we needed to do the extension. flake was iffy as was collins and murcowski. they wanted this investigation and asked for it and allowed it to move forward. it was a deceptive sound bite
murcowski or collins can be peeled off. he is on the committee and he is considering. one vote difference between democrats and republicans. he said this woman should be heard. jay sekulow spoke out on hannity last night about the response from kavanaugh. and how this should play out. here is how he detailed that. no one can question whether judge kavanaugh has the intellect to serve on the supreme court of the united states. if you re looking at judicial philosophy 300 published opinions. you have to look at this in this day and time i understand this, allegation has been made, judge kavanaugh will respond, that s the appropriate way. the accuser will have her time as well. it should be an orderly and appropriate process. sandra: that s all we can we know at this point. that s all that can play out at this point. what do you expect is going to happen on monday if she accepts this invitation? i think she probably will. she was somebody who didn t
the late senator arlin specter. i don t think that can happen today in the #metoo era. she can t be treated as aggressively as senator specer treated professor hill. it is an entirely different era. she may well be a victim, a liar, a dupe. here is my questions. what happens at 5:00 monday afternoon it s a draw? there are no rules. this is not a court of law where she has to prove her case by more evidence or he has to disprove her case by more evidence. it is a question of impression. who more likely than not was the truth teller? sandra: what s the answer to that? that will be determined by four people. senators flake, corker, collins and murcowski. the four republicans who may be looking for a reason not to vote for him, who may be
victim or that person is a liar. you don t have any mid point. if you finish mid point, the jury tends to rule against the defendant. so the republicans will be in a tough position. they ll either have to address this or not. i m not quite as gloomy as my colleague and friend professor turley. i think a tie can still go to judge kavanaugh. at the end of the clarence thomas, anita hill hearing it was a tie even though senator specter rattled her she didn t change her allegations. the senate judiciary committee voted no preference. they voted to send the nomination to the floor. which is why i think it will be determined by the four corker, flake, collins and murcowski, only senator flake actually sits on the committee. sandra: meanwhile there are no rules here. sandra: that s why there are so many question marks as to what will happen. do you think she will accept
change their mind, most of them. the republicans however can be peeled off by the democrats. if you have flake, corker, murcowski and collins. they could be pulled back and an election issue for a vacant seat or confirming. eric: what do you think they ll do? they haven t come out and said they said they want to hear this information. kavanaugh, i think, has a lot of burden of proof. he categorically denied it. no room for error. if he can say he wasn t at this party starting to come out now that s the thing that might push them over. sandra: collins has spoken out saying the obvious. she said this woman should be heard and if judge kavanaugh has lied at any point in this process he should be disqualified. anything beyond that we have not heard though. that s right. i think this is what we re used to hearing from folks like murcowski and collins. you will see the hearing on monday that will be