To get to the US Senate, one must have a degree of ruthlessness to get through the statewide nominating process and all the roadblocks put up to stop undesirables or to save the favored elite. Hatch is demonstrating that.
He put her in a lose/lose. If she's lying about not knowing about the offer (if I were betting I'd choose that), she's a liar. If she in fact did not know, the lawyers are in very serious trouble.
How could she not know, it was all over the eneMedia, unless she was held in that closet in Maryland.
Yes. It's very good. And it is why her life is now far less valuable to them. She knows too much and probably will be too distressed to not have a very bad accident or commit suicide.