we are here with senator lindsey graham. we heard from those people and many said i wasn't at the party and don't have reckless. >> we told that to the committee. the senators would like to double-check. ms. ramirez has refused to talk to us. her allegations wouldn't be printed by the new york times for a good reason. we'll vote this coming week. the fbi supplemental investigation should be done early this week. we'll have a final passage vote later in the week. i'm highly confident he'll be conif confirmed. he's a good man. he's the best choice president trump could have made. i'll tell you what will happen next if you will allow. >> please. >> okay, this is what's going to happen. i'll ask senator grassily about how this hearing process was hijacked beyond ethical aspects. the slash and burn aspects of it and abuse dr. ford's trust. we'll start with the following concept. dr. ford said at the hearing she didn't know the committee would come to california and take her testimony in a private setting. this is what she said. i

a bunch of garbage, says lindsey graham. dr. christine blasey ford said that brett kavanaugh and his friend mark judge tried to rape her. it was an attempted rape according to dr. ford by two guys against a 15-year-old girl. there are other gang rape accusations against brett kavanaugh that were made this week by someone else primarily of him witnessing two or more boys taking advantage of a girl at a party. but lindsey graham lumped all of that together today as garbage. joining us now msnbc contributor and president of voter latino, and our senate staffers lisa grave, the former chief counsel for nominations on the senate judiciary committee, and adam johnson, former deputy chief of staff to senator harry reed. and lisa, i want to get reaction to what you saw take place in your former committee today. >> well, i had two observations. one was to see the brave words of the women at the elevator and to see the compelling dialogue of senator coons affect senator flake was just so moving. and for a long time i've embraced a philoso

lindsey graham's attacks, okay. but this nominee unleashed an equal equal equally vitriolic attack on a vast left wing conspiracy that he blamed on this courageous woman, dr. blasey ford, and two other survivors coming forward. that is to disrespect and demean survivors everywhere, including these individuals. they came forth voluntarily. there was no encouragement from anyone of the democratic senators or anyone else to them in sharing their stories and they braved a lot at great cost and personal sacrifice. >> senator blumenthal, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >>> all right. "outfront" with me now, david gergen is here, former presidential adviser to two presidents, joan walsh, the nation's national affairs correspondent, mark short, former white house director of legislative affairs for president trump, mark preston, cnn's senior political analyst, wendy murphy is here and jenny beth martin is cofounder and national coordinator of the tea party patriots. thank you all for being here. an amazing th

lou: senator lindsey graham. president trump standing by the side of his nominee, not in any way diminishing his support. he tweeted this after the hearing - they are scheduled to do so tomorrow morning. joining us tonight congressman, both who are members of the house judiciary committee and the house freedom caucus. gentlemen, good to have you with us. we witnessed the most extra ordinary senate judiciary hearing sense that of clarence thomas in 1991. i have to say that unlike those moments, senators stood up for the president's nominee, lindsey graham - congressman, i will start with you, if i may. senator graham. i am almost speechless because i am not a person who is easily impressed by rhetoric but this man impressed. i suspect, he reminded the republican members of the u.s. senate of their consciences. >> yeah, lindsey and i have had a lot of disagreements but i'm telling you what - lindsay reached down into his soul and he was righteous and he was right and he was defensive of a process. lou, i was having

lindsey graham did a tremendous job of calling this what it was. when the democrats are reduced to talk about fart jokes in a yearbook, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. this ended up a good day for judge kavanaugh. >> lou: i mean, senator whitehouse really will never -- >> of all people to be talking about person's ferocity. he -- a person's veracity. he is a joke. >> lou: he is a joke. if he were not before he is today forever more. he was ludicrous. >> it was a comedy routine and kavanaugh played it very, very well. going, the white house, basing everything on a newspaper article that he had read about stuff that was in brett kavanaugh's yearbook. so, it was a really, really two-part day. i had to say i thought the morning was very, very bad for republicans. i could not figure out the questioning of rachel mitchell. >> lou: five-minute alternates. >> lou: that didn't work for her. and she dwelled on the little stuff. >> obviously republicans resent how the democrats handle this and they want to see who told you to get this polyg

. >> well it quickly dissolved into a -- evolved into a explosive partisan battle with lindsey graham of south carolina going after his democratic colleagues personally. >> what you want to go is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. you said that. not me. i would never do to them what you've done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. and if you really want to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. are you a gang rapist? >> no. >> to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. i hope you're on the supreme court. that is exactly where you should be. and i hope that the american people will see through this charade. >> well when the hearing today concluded, the president trump tweeted judge kavanaugh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful and honest and riveting. democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful. and this process has been a total sham and an effo

lindsey graham, congressman gohmert, i will start with you if i may. senator graham, i'm almost speechless because i am not a person who is easily impressed by rhetoric. this man impressed. he, i suspect, reminded the republican members of the u.s. senate of their consciences. >> yeah. lindsey and i have had a lot of disagreements but i tell you what. lindsey reached down into his soul and he was righteous and he was right and he was defensive of a process. lou, i was having dinner today, we had a late dinner with a former president of the czech republic. and he said he had seen some of the hearings and things that were going on here. he said, "we always look to america as that light on the hill. we didn't always agree but we knew you were trying to do what was right and be fair. we're not seeing the light so much." i'm telling you, lindsey got light in him today. he was righteous. >> i'm sorry, congressman. >> go ahead. >> lou: this business they started with. well, first of all, it's not all light in the senate judiciary committee. >> no, it wasn't.

republican senator lindsey graham blaming democratssen. lindsey graham / -r- south carolina: "this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics."as senate republicans work to see if they have the votes to confirm their nominee to the supreme court -- kavanaugh emphatic he still wants the job.brett kavanaugh /supreme court nominee: "you'll never get me to quit. never."

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lindsey graham is a snake here. in 2016 he said that donald trump was a xenophobic races and he didn't vote for trump of it's one of the ig aboute eses esese biggest 180s we've seen. he wants to go into the cabinet, trying to anger the base, deep state crowd. he became a hero on sean hannity's show. basically, joy, it's really sad but dr. ford became road kill on lindsey graham's ambition here. >> she described it as feeling like she had to throw her body in front of a train that's going where i was going anyway. that's an incredibly sad way to think about it. she became a hero to women. corrine, david, anita, thank you very much. coming up at the top of the hour, a closer look at brett kavanaugh's calendar and the role it could play in the investigation. up next more "am joy." d play in investigation. up next more "am joy." able. see, they know it's confusing. i literally have no idea what i'm getting, dennis quaid. that's why they're making it simple, man in cafe. and more affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you'

a democratic plot, lindsey graham would say. i think he's going to have to get at how gut wrenching it been for him, for his family, how unfair he feels it is. you saw some of that with his fox interview. he was slightly wooden but there were times when he was almost seeming like he was breaking down and crying and his wife was sitting there next to him. i think one of the issues he's going to have, though, are those yearbook interviews, where he does portray himself as a party boy, beach week, in the club, whatever. in the fox interview he was saying he was a choir boy, he was at church. i think if you're a democrat, you're going to go after that. >> the question i have about kavanaugh's testimony and i don't know the right answ

we heard some fiery questioning from lindsey graham, from south carolina. democrats continuing their questioning, focusing a lot on the fbi investigation that has not happened. and what moves forward. do we have judge andrew napolitano in new york? we don't, actually. but he's really good. when we bring him in. shannon, what are we looking for from the rest of the democrats, mazie hirono, kamala harris, cory booker. those are people in the past who have been pretty aggressive and likely will be today. >> i think will be interesting to look at his reaction to them because these are people who are used to prosecuting cases. they have depth and experience of doing that. they've only got 5 minutes. it's a short time. not like the 20 or 30 minutes they had the traditional hearing. i think they're going to be looking to land punches as quickly and cleanly as i can. i think he is pretty fired up and pretty wound up in feeling very much-maligned and a sense of injustice about what's happened to him because of the committee. we will see. i think it will be very comb

god bless lindsey graham and what he said. things like that is shameful attempt from the leftist to justify. rachel: why you want to have this speech on a loop. we want to hear what you think about that. pete: yes. 74 times over four hours. griff: to to another honest guy rick reichmuth who has the weather outside. >> do what you just did. >> i'm so excited. hi, everybody. hi mom and dad. rick: all right. take a look at the weather map and show you what's going on. i don't have much time. wind chill, i haven't done wind chill yet this year. back is 24 degrees is when what it feels like in international falls this morning. cold air, freeze advisories in effect across parts of the far northern plains, still very warm across areas of the south. a few showers across south florida today. heavier rain across coastal parts of texas. some of that could cause localized flooding. look at this. this is a hurricane, rosa and it is going to bring big rain across parts of the southwest including rachel and my homeland. take a look at that r

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the lindsey graham clip and what happened to the occasionally independent minded lindsey graham. that was the phoniest sympathy trying to deny her agency, saying she is just a pawn of the democrats. no. she is someone who voluntarily came forward knowing the kind of grief -- and i'm being gentle about it -- she would take for doing so. and the mike pence clip goes to the hypocrisy of this whole process. republicans are trying to say to their moderates, this isn't about ideology. this is about a competent jurist. but there is mike pence right there saying, no, no, no. this is about ideology. we can count on his vote. that's what's wrong with this whole process. and i think you are going to see democrats pressing on the veracity issue as vernita suggested, not only about these charges, but they are going to revisit some of the things he said during the hearings they think were untrue. >> suzanne collins is also there having to be the responder. here she is responding to donald trump questioning the legitimacy of dr. ford's allegation. >> we know that allegations of sexual assault a

well, as senator lindsey graham said, yeah, it doesn't work that way. it's not up to you jeff flake and we realize that your vote is important when it comes to the full senate floor, however, it's up to chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell to work out a deal. mitch mcconnell is the majority leader, chuck schumer is the minority leader. you are neither of those and when this gets to the full senate, they can talk about it and we can see if there could be an fbi investigation. jeff flake says though if you want my vote on the full floor, this is what it's gonna take. who does he take with him? does he bring lisa murkowski of alaska? does he bring senator susan collins? does he bring those swing votes along with him if he says nope, i'm not going to vote unless you give an fbi investigation a week's time to move forward. and then there were questions. you saw. so democrats were not even clear on what this meant. dianne feinstein, what are we voting on what did i just say? i am in favor of an fbi investigation. so what does that mean? and how do we know it's j

no one seems to put this in better perspective than senator lindsey graham. and please take a look. >> i hope you win in 2020, and you said that, not me. you have nothing to apologize for. when you see justice sotomayor or and kagan, i voted for them but i would never do to them what you have done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. i cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. you all want power, i hope you never get it. i hope the american people can see through the sham, that you knew about it and you held it. you had no intention of protecting dr. ford. none. she's as much of a victim as you are. god, i hate to say that because these have been my friends, but let me tell you, when it comes to this, you are looking for a fair process? you came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. >> sean: senator graham will join us in studio in just a moment, and after those passiona

. >> shannon: senator lindsey graham, whose blasted republicans for failing to defend kavanaugh, and call the democrats for playing politics with the process. >> if you wanted an fbi investigation, you could have come to us! what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020! you have said that! not me. >> shannon: ford said she had done her civic duty and kavanaugh said he'll continue doing has. refusing to withdraw. >> you may defeat me in the final vote, but you'll never get me to quit. never. >> shannon: republican senator lindsey graham, you saw there, reportedly entering a closed door g.o.p. meeting tonight to thunderous applause after his impassioned defense of kavanaugh and attacks of the democrats. >> this is the most unethical sham since i have been in politics. if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure has hell didn't do what you've done to this guy. boy, you want power. i hope you never get it. help the american people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it. you had no intention of protecting dr.

and we had this very special moment when lindsey graham basically fired a lightning bolt into the democratic committee hearing and so they were playing partisan politics and destroying a good man's career based on very little information, and making at the political fight that it had been, or that it clearly was, and that the republicans were fighting with one armed tied behind their back with rachel mitchell, the prosecutor from arizona doing the questioning. since then it's been pretty quiet. >> i wonder what happened to rachel mitchell, if she is still sitting in the room or if they wonder if they are coming to her next. the things they are focusing on, they want the fbi investigation and they've been shot down on that time and time again. we will see if they continue to hammer that and they are also going after the suggestion that maybe he forgot something. so just like we saw with christine ford and questioning her credibility and her memory, we are seeing whether or not was could have potentially happened because he blacked out at haviny given point in their life. how successful do you

that is lindsey graham. moments ago in the hallway. he was chased down the hallway by the protesters. supporters of dr. chrstine blasey ford. emotions continue to run high on all of this. here now mark, enterprise scholar and juanita tolliver, campaign director for the action fund. good to have you with us today. we witnessed an extraordinary day. on both sides. i think a lot of people, i think everybody was sympathetic to chrstine blasey ford. she presented herself effectively today. very much from the heart. and then we saw their powerful performance this afternoon from judge kavanaugh. your thoughts on what we saw today? >> i honestly this was a difficult day for dr. ford. she stood resolute in two things. one she was sexually salted and two, it was done by brett kavanaugh. what is interesting and what voters will take away from this is the question how the republicans, panel of 11 white male republicans opted to have a female shield protect them and ask questions of dr. ford. instead of engaging her while -- >> martha: would you ra

preposterous what they did and lindsey graham, worst moment of the week. in the car with my 13-year-old daughter listening to that and used horrible language to describe how i was feeling about him. the most ethical time in the senate. two words. merrick garland and a bunch of others he's been involved with. vote for the iraq war. save it. we're done with him. >> looking at brett kavanaugh. let's look at jeff flake a moment now. what did you see in him yesterday? he looked weary facing these decisions in the past, but there was a special hang dog in this yesterday as he walked into that hearing room. >> we'll speak more about the extraordinary elevator encounter in a moment. what jeff flake was trying to do rescue not one but two government institutions. both the senate, like lege legendarily a place to reach across the aisle and make consistent decisions, collaborative decisions, but also the judiciary. once again, coming back to temperament. brett kavanaugh kind of reinforced what vic said on capitol hill. it wasn't like a spontaneous outburst he at the

lindsey graham saying it wouldn't matter, is he serious? if another woman comes forward that he shouldn't be able to get a job promotion? that's not life ruining. he would be able to be a federal judge and continue in his current role barring someone else bringing articling of impeachment. >> is he saying he should consider both sides? both have to prove themselves. >> we're not in court. >> let's consider both sides. this is the thing about lindsey graham and so many republicans getting under my skin. let's consider kavanaugh's whole life. he has already lied about his knowledge of sexual misconduct when he was working for alex casinski. he has not been candid about these allegations that are coming out about him from yale law school. his buddies say they have been feeding him clerks because they're pretty. so if we're really going to look oh, and lied to congress. if we're really going to consider, if all brett kavanaugh has is his credibility against dr. ford's, his credibility is the thing that needs to be impeached. >> somewhat unnener

earlier what lindsey graham said what was really going on here. can you play that sound bite for us? >> the avenatti moment tells you what will happen if we keep this farce going. plenty of time, plenty of opportunities to get to the truth. this is never been about the truth. this has been about delay and destruction. melissa: great, delay and destruction. coming in with avenatti like showing up at a bake-off with a box of dunkin' donuts, say you made them yourself. the label around the edge says you're a liar. you show up with avenatti. there is the pile-on. do you think this opens the door to that obviously over the next couple days, how do they deal with that? >> sure. it does. we've, the avenatti allegations were explosive and there was just about no substance to them. "the new york times" said so. and we had a bunch of less well-covered allegations that came and went over the last 48 hours. we can expect more of it. look, there is a lot of people in this country, a lot of democratic party are simply committed to opposing any nominee that pres

also the white house very pleased with senator lindsey graham's performance. kellyanne conway and sara sanders tweeted about it during the hearing. white house press secretary said quote lindsey graham had more decency encouraged in any democrat member combined to god bless him. that was a turning point and so is kavanaugh's opening statement that after many the west wing considered it to be a shaky start because even they can see that dr. ford and a lot of the testimony was credible. overall kennedy president trump very pleased with judge kavanaugh today. kennedy: her credibility and herb poise is what makes it so tough for some of those senators who are on the fence. i talked to shannon and chat about at moments ago. it's the moderate republicans who feel they are confident enough to vote for judge kavanaugh i think the red state democrats do the same thing to do what is interesting is the diametric turn we have had from this point from yesterday morning when the third accuser came forward. it was heard much from her today? >> haven't heard much from her and

your overall thoughts on lindsey graham. you can see the passion inside of him. >> this was where everyone was passionate about what was happening yesterday whether it was doctor ford, brett kavanaugh and senator graham. it is really unfortunate that doctor ford's story has been held for this long which does sort of give credit to the fact that this was a politically motivated attack in order to withhold brett kavanaugh's nomination. with that said i also think this kind of shows a little bit about what is happening on capitol hill right now. there is a lot of divisiveness whether it is on the left or the right. for republicans it is about credibility. who do you believe? who is believable? they are looking at this as a coherent, not what you know, what we saw yesterday was doctor ford was not able to corroborate her story and brett kavanaugh was. heather: what did you think about the passion that went back and forth from all sides? >> senator graham was exactly right. on my twitter feed i follow a wide range of people from

graham said because apparently lindsey graham want to go to war with you. >> i'm very suspicious of this coming out before the confirmation vote, i'm very suspicious of michael avenatti. here's what i think. if you're a serial rapist -- power over women in the workplace -- everyone said he's very respectful. >> your reaction to lindsey graham? well, i guess lindsey got it memo that the republican party must have sent out this afternoon with the talking points how to attack michael avenatti. i find this to be very curious, lawrence. they want to make me the issue, and the reason is because they have no answer for all of these allegations by all of these women. i'd be happy to go up against lindsey graham, donald trump or any of the other republican hacks they happen to trot out. i noticed don junior got in the mix by calling me a porn star lawyer. evidently he forgot his father was the one who had unprotected sex with my quote porn star, unquote, client. >> thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> when we come back my panel will join us with

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. >> lindsey graham's tirade got noticed across town. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders posting this after hearing that. quote, lindsey graham has more decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined. god bless him. short time after graham's comments, senator orrin hatch of utah echoed some of brett kavanagh's testimony. >> this is a national disgrace the way you're being treated. and in the middle of it all we have judge kavanagh, a man who until two weeks ago, was a pillar of the legal community. there's been no whisper of misconduct by him in the time he's been a judge. what we have are uncorroborated, unsubstantiated claims from his teenage years. >> after today's hearing, republican senator bob corker of tennessee announced as we said he would be voting for kavanagh. there are several other important votes we don't yet know about. as we mentioned, senators flake, murkowski, collins, joe manchin met in private tonight after the hearing, after their meeting flake told reporters he is facing a tough choice

watching lindsey graham give that speech. we truncated it. it's worth pulling up and watching the whole thing. not reading from notes. most of the people are reading directly from a script. he meant that. >> yeah. i think he spoke to a lot of people who feel like the same part of the country has been taken hostage by the insane part of the country. what we have witnessed in the last couple of weeks is a travesty. anyone who cares about the rule of law, resumption of innocence, having legal and political institutions is wondering what is going on. the media is throwing their credibility away and diminishing their standards and the democratic partisans behaved shamefully, shamelessly depending how you look at it. >> tucker: both. >> something that people don't understand what was unleashed by the behavior by democrats and the media. there is extreme sadness at what we saw happen to this man. >> tucker: yes. >> there is so much anger, too. >> tucker: i agree. >> desire to make sure we do not let it happen. regardless liberal or conservative, dem

maria: that's exactly what lindsey graham said yesterday. the senator said exactly what so many people were thinking. joining the conversation this morning, white house senior advisor, mercedes shlapp is here. former aol ceo steve case is here. an economist will join us, and former white house press secretary under president trump, sean spicer is here as well. we kick it off, an emotionally charged day yesterday. dr. christine blasey ford and supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh publicly testifying before the senate judiciary committee over sexual harassment allegations. watch. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life for a very long time. i was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone these details. it is not my responsibility to determine whether mr. kavanaugh deserves to sit on the supreme court. my responsibility is to tell you the truth. >> let's go back to the incident. what is the strongest memory you have? >> inde in the h.i. be hippocame laughter between the two and they're having fun at my expense. >> with what degree of

graham has met his match, that lindsey graham is not going to beat dr. ford at this game. >> i think that's right. you know, this is a very strategic thing they've done, but it's also the right thing that they're asking to do. >> right, exactly. that is a very important point, bob. i don't mean to reduce this to a strategic issue. as senate insiders, i'm hugely impressed at that level. your point is the important one. it is the right thing to do. >> right from the start when these allegations finally became public, my thought back to the anita hill hearing was that exactly the wrong way to determine whether the allegations that dr. ford has made are true and whether brett kavanagh is telling the truth when he categorically denies them is to have a hearing with 19 senators going back and forth in 10-minute rounds questioning these two witnesses. an investigation which allows for all people with relevant information to be questioned and for the facts to be assembled in a way that senators can then understand what is known and what is not known and perhaps

so there's lindsey graham. manu, i interrupted you. you were telling our viewers what happens now. >> well, it's unclear. i mean, that's the bottom line. talking to republicans who are leaving this meeting, they were surprised by this 11th hour request and they themselves are uncertain. john cornyn just talked to reporters as he was leaving and he said it's unclear because in one week's time how much clarity can the fbi actually give on this incident from more than three decades ago? also, the white house presumably would have to call on the fbi to reopen that investigation or initiate this investigation. so there are some steps in the process that have to happen. now, if mitch mcconnell were to ignore jeff flake's request and still push ahead to begin the process this weekend and push for a confirmation vote next week, he probably would not have the votes to do that if jeff flake were to withhold his support and if lisa murkowski and susan collins also were to withhold their support. >> here's lindsey graham. >> do you support the one

lindsey graham. i believe facts are facts and witnesses are witnesses and seeing it is believing it. >> i'm told there's a still picture from "the washington post" of republicans. this is the republican side of the committee room. closest to the lens is john, no relation, kennedy, of louisiana, and then curl around there, eventually to senator hatch on the far right. lin linda, this is a rare combination, to my question to joyce, of personality and education and intellect, what we're seeing here. >> very, very rare combination. and as joyce said, the expert witness piece within. did she take that route. did she do the psychological thing to deal with her own trauma, to help her understand why this has impacted her. it's really fascinating. >> yes. joyce, go ahead. we're just watching members of the republican caucus go back in. there's mike lee and jeff flake. >> i was going to say, one point we haven't touched on is her compelling reason for coming forward. and it's not to get revenge it and it's no

graham that the president says, oh, it is true that lindsey graham told me that. >> the tape between trump and woodward. >> so at the very least, we know that the president was aware of it and admits that. these -- if his staff did not tell him that bob woodward wanted to do an interview with him, which i find very hard to believe, they weren't doing their jobs. that's -- if bob woodward is writing a book about you, you say to the president, he would like an interview. the other thing that i think is true, and i wasn't sure if it was in lindsey graham's sound right there is he has said now on the record, bob woodward is a good reporter. and what i can tell you about the book is that there are dozens of inner circle administration white house former and current people who are interviewed. there are hundreds of hours of audiotapes. almost everybody allowed woodward to interview them and record it on tape. but we should explain what deep background is. that gives these people the protection to say, i didn't do it. deny. because what bob woodward has done is he said you tell me everythin

you heard lindsey graham erupt and really sideline the prosecutor. she was done with her and then they all jumped in. but tucker carlson i think epitomized it the most. i think he summed up what the beef really is with this idea of raising these accusations against brett kavanaugh from that fox news oriented point of view. let's listen. >> at this point kavanaugh isn't just a supreme court nominee. he is a folk hero to many people. an inspiration to millions. people who spent the last two years being brow beaten and bullied by their moral inferiors were buoyed by what he said. these are people that were told they were worthless and bigoted, and they are in the way of other people gaining power, they have been commanded to shut up and obey. >> and you saw in the picture behind him was white women. but he is really talking about men, right? he is talking about white guys. and the white guys aren't going to take it anymore. >> the entire orthodoxy under donald trump is about old white guys still wanting their way. anytime anybody of a different creed, a

. >> seeing senator lindsey graham there as well, his closest friend really in the senate, ron claiborne, when i think about that 2008 campaign, there were a lot of dark times but they went from town to town together. it was a real buddy show and you could see the difficulties that terry was talking about the speech lindsey graham gave on the senate floor as a senator caught between his friend john mccain and his president donald trump. >> atm is saying that he's trying to work with the president and yet his best friend in the senate was someone who had this tremendous clash with the president. senator graham in many ways trying to straddle two fences. i remember from the campaign, though, at the very end when it was clear from the internal polling that john mccain was not going to win that election and lindsey graham was there every day introducing him and i remember watching at some campaign event senator graham during the introduction senator mccain was watching him with this look of love like this is my buddy sticking with me right to the end. those guys got along. they were tremendo

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frankly, my colleague lindsey graham launched into an angry -- at one point that was unprecedented in my eight years here in the senate. and i thought the opening moments of judge kavanaugh's very lengthy opening statement where he accused the democrats of a left wing conspiracy fueled by the desire for revenge by the clintons was very offputing. and not a very judicial temperament. that exchange with senator klobuchar was very striking. >> i should note he did come back after recess and apologize for that exchange. senator chris coons, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, chris. >>> i'm joined by people two people who were in the room. the former head of the justice department civil rights division, current president of the -- and senior editor and legal correspondent for slate magazine. dalia, you have covered stuff like this before. what was it like in there? >> it was like nothing i've ever, ever seen, chris. it was -- it was -- i think one thing that you only get if you're in the room is how tiny the room is and that sound is suddenly -- you could barely hear dr. blasey