consent, and to do these vetting of these presidential nominees. so you re saying that the constitution is obsolete, and we have to go extra constitutional because you don t like this nominee. i have not said that in any sense. you just said that. i said they have failed their constitutional duty. how? we haven t even had the hearing yet? we re having a hearing on thursday. and they ve already scheduled a vote. they have somehow already scheduled a vote. why wouldn t they also they re not calling relevant witnesses like mark judge. if you re going to say it s political, and margaret made the point. both sides, i think, have, you know, have issues with this. but you cannot say that republicans, meaning lawmakers in washington, have been on the up and up about all of this. and you can t just as you re saying, and i think everyone agrees with you, we have a presumption of innocence first. but also they don t believe this woman at all. what is her presumption? why do they
not done. you re saying the constitution is obsolete. the constitution grants the senate the power to do these confirmations to advise and consent and do vetting. > which they are not doing. you re saying that the constitution is obsolete and we have to go extra constitutional because you don t like this nominee? i have not said that in any sense. i said they have failed their constitution duty. how? we haven t had the hearing yet. we re having a hearing on thursday. they ve already scheduled a vote. they have somehow already scheduled a vote. why wouldn t they. they re not calling relevant witnesses like mark judge. if you re going to say it s political, margaret made the point, both sides have issues with this. but you cannot say that republicans meaning lawmakers in washington have been on the up and up about all of this. just as you re saying and i think everyone agrees with you, we have the presumption of innocence first. but also they don t believe this woman at all
investigation. you are a long way away from deciding by a prosecutor after interviews and after some discussion about whether or not any crimes have been committed and even then whether or not it is appropriate to bring charges. everybody just needs to kind of calm down and stand down for just a moment and at least allow the investigation some time to begin before anybody should expect results from that investigation. just like with any other thing especially when you are talking about the criminal justice system there is a presumption of innocence first. is that correct even so with this in. of course. it is an important thing to remember. the president and the president s people are just as much entitled as they are held to be accountable under the law and no person in the united states including the president is above the law. all of the same constitutional protections apply. one is presumed to be innocent