>> Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, has decided to stick by Joe Biden, calling
the former Vice President's denials in response to Tara Reid's sexual assault allegations
sufficient. Here he is making that case. >> Before, The Me Too movement, women were
not listened to who were telling what had happened to them, since me women are listened
to.
Now, I've heard Joe Biden's explanation, I think it's sufficient. I think he will be
a great candidate. I think he will be a great president. And I think he'll help us take
back the Senate. >> Okay, so there's Schumer saying, you know
what? Biden's denials are sufficient. Is he not merciful?
He allowed her to speak. Even though Biden had nothing to do with her speaking, she finally
felt the need to come forward and share, Her side of the story. But look, before we get
to that, I do wanna just juxtapose what you saw in response to Biden's denials with how
Chuck Schumer responded to Kavanaugh's denials.
And in the video you're about to watch, he's specifically addressing his comments to Mitch
McConnell. But what he's saying does give you a sense of the double standard that was
applied in this case. So let's take a look. >> Instead of looking at what happened, that
a young woman came forward because she felt compelled to knowing she'd risk so much on
herself, which unfortunately has happened.
He seeks to blame somebody else. In this case, the Democrats. Let's remember, Dr. Ford came
forward before Judge Kavanaugh was even nominated. Dr. Ford came forward and called up two people
before anyone even knew of her allegations, including one, a hotline from The Washington
Post, according to her testimony.
And our colleague, my colleague here has engaged in a giant Kabuki game. He knows how believable
Dr. Ford is. He knows how the American people, a majority of them believed Dr. Ford was telling
the truth rather than Judge Kavanaugh. He knows that any focus on Dr. Ford would bring
more feelings that Judge Kavanaugh is the wrong person for the Supreme Court.
But he can't attack Dr. Ford, because of her credibility, greater than Judge Kavanaugh's.
>> We've gone over, so we've gone over the allegations by Reed. And we also did extensive
coverage of the allegations agains Kavanaugh. I absolutely believe Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford. There's no question that I believed her.
That was a difficult story to report on. I also believe the allegations made by Tara
Reid. But the amount of evidence in the Reid story or the Reid case is certainly more than
the corroborating witness evidence that we had in the Christine Blasey Ford case. And
I just find it so fascinating how differently Tara Reid's allegations are being treated.
Look, for me this is, I get it people want to make this political, they wanna make it
about like all we got to be Donald Trump. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong in not taking
that into account when I'm assessing the allegations because I think sexual assault allegations
are serious.
And you should hear out what is being alleged. You should look at what evidence is being
presented. And because someones life is really on the line here not like whether she lives
or dies but like what she went through, right? I think it's important to take the politics
out of it and just access it fairly.
And I hate the fact that it's become so clear that sexual assault and the abuse of women
seems to be nothing more than a weaponized, political prop, and it's gross, it really
is. >> Yeah, look, and I feel like this very similar
to the last time we talked about it.
All we can do is what we think is our ethical duty to accurately report the news, and that's
what we've done. I feel like we were consistent across both of those cases. Yeah, look, I
hate the way that Schumer talked about that obviously. I find his comments insufficient
actually and he'll probably be asked in the future about it although not on like CNN or
MSNBC more than likely.
But now, looking at it, I don't know what we can expect at this point. I mean look obviously,
look, I think it would very easy for the Democrats to both ensure that they have the appearance
of actually caring about moral consistency when it comes to these sorts of allegations.
And also pragmatically benefit themselves likely in the election by choosing another
candidate. A candidate who's not going to have lingering doubts and questions about
this for the rest of the election, they could do that, they're not gonna do that, clearly.
What we in the news have done is try to do our best to make sure that people know about
the story.
And I saw a poll showing that 86% of those polled were familiar with the story now, so
I think that to the extent that that's possible that has been done. But it also shakes down
to about a third believe it, a third don't believe it and a third don't know what to
believe.
And it doesn't appear at this point that anything is likely to come up that is gonna drastically
shift that. And so that sort of leads to even more frustration knowing that we've talked
about the story, we described to the best of our ability. And it looks like the country
is breaking down with the same sort of camps, but they always do.
They shift which camp they're in depending on who's being accused obviously. But it always
seems to be so contingent on the proceeds political consequences.
>> Yeah, and I think, and I know you hate this word because it's been misused so much
by dishonest people. But I think the neoliberal project has always been yeah, we agree with
Republicans on all of these economic policies.
But what makes us better is that we look out for the disenfranchised. We wanna protect
people from abuse. We wanna make sure that we give women a voice. And I just don't see
they're gonna make that an argument now when it's become clear that, when it comes to politics,
and when it comes to convenience or benefiting themselves, they don't actually care about
these things at all, it feels that they don't.
And I wanna also be fair, it's not like every single congressional Democrat has come out
against Reid, there have been Democrats who have said no, she sounds credible. AOC was
the first to finally address it and do so I think in a compassionate way. But some of
these Democrats, including Democratic leadership, the way they've handled this I think really
does make people now question whether they're sincere in their concerns about disenfranchise
or people who have been abused.
>> Yeah. >> And that's-
>> I mean, as a quick answer to your question, they will go back to saying that they're in
support of those people, and the right who are just ecstatic that they can briefly pretend
that they give a damn about anything that's ever happened to a woman, will instantly go
back to viciously attacking them and cheering on a president who mocks the appearance of
the people who accuse them.
They can't wait to turn back to that, this was a fun little game that they played and
then they'll go back to not caring. Both sides will go back and will be left as one of the
few who were trying to be consistent across the entire thing.