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So far I am not hearing a lot of enthusiasm from GOP senators for Stephen Moore on the Federal Reserve. @JohnCornyn said he has “an open mind.” @JoniErnst said: “I think some of the things he’s said are absolutely ridiculous ....I’m not enthused about the nomination.”

Mitt Romney on Stephen Moore’s comments about women; “I hope they’re things he’d like to reconsider.”

Does she think Joe Biden can do that? "I don’t know," Hill told me. "I’m willing to give him the chance. And I hope he will step up." The end.

And finally, she said she wants to elevate gender violence and sexual assault as an issue in the campaign, and wants to hear what all Democratic candidates will do about it. She wants a nominee who "differentiates him or herself from Donald Trump in respect to these issues."

"Would you vote for him?" I asked. "If he can address this problem," she said. "But he has not yet?" I replied. To which she said: "What we have is, we’ve got 20 people running already. So there may be better choices."

Still, Hill told me Biden's conduct at the hearings was not disqualifying. "I’m really open to people changing but it’s not enough to say, “I couldn’t have done anything then.”’

I asked what she meant by "this behavior." She brought up complaints from women about how he touched them: "The kind of behavior that happened to me, the process that he was in charge of, the kind of personal behavior that he has been accused of. All of it."

She wants to hear more from him: "...what I’m still wanting to hear is a full understanding of how as a leader he will hold himself — and then be able to hold others — accountable for this behavior."

And the conversation left her feeling unsatisfied. "But I cannot be satisfied by simply saying, “I’m sorry for what happened to you.” I will be satisfied when I know that there is real change and real accountability and real purpose to correct the issues that are still there."

She was surprised to hear from him a few weeks ago: "I was surprised when I was first approached that it would happen in that way. It was — somebody approached me about, would I accept a phone call. And again, you’re right, it has been 28 years, and I had in fact moved on . . . "

Does she consider Biden's call an apology? "The focus on an apology to me is one thing. But there needs to be an apology to the other witnesses, and there needs to be an apology to the American public because we know now how deeply disappointed women all over the country were ...