Hey, pull up a chair. It's tax on tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Mike Murphy, how you doing, brother?

I'm doing good, Ax. I'm doing good. I'm a little worried looking at the world's situation,

the telecated politics in the Middle East, just what President Trump was created to handle.

And of course, we're back to the Supreme Court nomination battle again.

We have a way back machine here.

A lot of stuff to cover because we now have the aftermath of the debate and we ought to

go through it and see what it all meant. But yeah, Kavanaugh, back in the news, and

new revelations in a book by a couple of New York Times reporters suggesting that additional

evidence was overlooked by the FBI, maybe by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And President Trump energetically leaped into that debate and as did Mitch McConnell,

talked about the far left and be smirching this good man.

At least four Democratic presidential candidates, maybe five immediately called for Kavanaugh's

impeachment. What do you think the politics of this is?

This is classic base food on the right conservatives. They like Kavanaugh. They think he got a

bum rap. They're not sure. I think if they were honest about it, about what happened all

those decades ago was a drunken college student, but they think he's led an exemplary life

since then. And they're seeing an attempt to bring a can opener to the Supreme Court.

On the other hand, the Democratic base sees somebody who lied is guilty of sexual assault

and therefore I get why the Democratic candidates are piling on. But in the general election,

I don't know. Again, this is yet another thing that Republicans will create a wedge issue

out of for being a conservative. He's being totally maligned. It's messy and the incentives

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