chairman grassley has also called for ranking democrat diane dianne feinstein to release a letter she received about those allegations. the a committee for florida saye plan to move forward is unfair. many republicans saying if dr. ford does not testify, that they are prepared to proceed to a vote on the kavanaugh's confirmation. here's former top doj official under president george w. bush, he was on "newsroom" earlier. >> i think dr. ford has to testify, if she doesn't testify i think the senators will rightfully go ahead and devote. otherwise any stray accusation uncorroborated would be enough to shut down the senate and prevent the confirmation of any nominee for any judicial executive branch job and we cannot allow that to happen. >> harris: chief white house correspondent john roberts, that was putting it distinctly. >> he doesn't mince words, i've known him for a long time and he tells it like he believes it is. judge kavanaugh is at the white house again today, officials tight-lipped about what is transpiring at the white house. on tuesday sources told fox news they conducted

>> i don't think that was in dianne feinstein's calculation. she is up against a farther left cad in her state in california. so she has to cater to this rabid left-wing base. for her i think it was political calculation. not only did they wait until the 11th hour. they leaked this woman's name without her permission. democrats had this information, she did not want to come forward with it. kennedy: she had reporters on her doorstep and she knew exactly what they were cornering her over. kennedy: i don't think she is lying. i think something happened to her. but we don't know if it's this guy. we have to find a way to prove or disprove it was him. i feel for her. to have a profile this high out of nowhere under these circumstances sucks. you understand why she would ask dianne feinstein for anonymity which she didn't grant her. she is so political she had to use this as a political move. the drama continues in d.c. as long as the economy is booming. should the rest of the country care? we'll have a report on a record-breaking day on the stock m

they attacked another woman, dianne feinstein. she's the real villain here because she didn't handle the procedure properly. i mean, you know, it happens over and over again. there's always some woman to attack and the woman always loses in this group. >> well, can we just stepping back from who you think is right, who you think is wrong, the dynamics of this, this christine blasey ford had come out and acted the way that brett kaerch did, we would be talking about this very differently. if she had yelled, if she had interrupted, if she had asked the senators the questions they were asking her, i think the reaction would be a lot different to this. but instead, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault comes forward, very mild, very pleasing to the senators in front of her, asking her questions, and it was just a completely different dynamic, and i think it says a lot about the current state. >> both of their opening statements, they were both emotional, i would say. >> he was crying. >> she was teary. he was definitely tear

dianne feinstein holds some responsibility here. this is not acceptable. >> of the six background checks that previously happened, this woman said she's never brought it to the authorities before. it's difficult to think any background check before would have caught this. >> dianne feinstein conducted herself with honor here. >> i disagree with that. >> she put that ahead of her partisan interests. >> before christine kb lase ford's story became public she contacted her congresswoman. >>> my guest tonight, the professor whose team calculated that thousands of people likely died from the storm in puerto rico. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicated to helping protect it today. like alerting you to certain card activity we find suspicious. if it's not your purchase, we'll help you resolve it. it's a new day at wells fargo. but it's a lot like our first day. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and en

number two, dianne feinstein did not tell anybody about this letter, didn't go to the chairman of the committee or other democrats, and was that at the behest of ford? did she want this to remain private just in the senator's hands? >> she did. she asked clearly that the letter be kept confidential, and her lawyer said to me in my story, she said that they felt feinstein really did right by dr. ford and preserved her privacy, and honored her request for confidentiality. >> there's not contemporaneous accounts, ford did not tell anybody at the time of this, and there are notes from couple's therapy in 2012 and also in a conversation with an individual therapist in 2013. is this information that ford and katz together presented to you or is this something you went and got from the two therapists? >> these are records that ford got from her therapist and gave to her lawyer, who then showed them to me. she -- 2012 is the first time christine ford says that she told this story in any detail and she did that during couple's therapy with her husband. her husband recalls this conversation, an

there are discrepancies in the polygraph she sent to dianne feinstein and what she sent to dianne feinstein. the allegation that came out from michael avenatti where the woman claims she was gang raped and kavanaugh was in the room. avenatti will not say exactly what the accusation is. he won't say brett kavanaugh engaged thoo these assaults. kennedy: that language was purposely vague. >> tonight co-has a story out. a man who was her boyfriend filed a restraining order against him in 2001. because after she broke up she threatened him, his wife and child when he was married. this comes down to the facts. because these allegations are so old and being made not in july when he was nominated. but now, it's based on character and who can vouch for them. kennedy: all these things can happen at once. you can be the victim of sexual assault then do horrible things your adulthood. both those things can happen. she should have come forward sooner. i wish all these people had come forward sooner. when kavanaugh's name was floated on the federalist society list. >> i'm not sure if you had a conversati

dianne feinstein/d- california"kavanaugh is the deciding vote."feinstein says she is concerned that kavanaugh supports president trump's belief that trump is "above the law." sen. dianne feinstein/d-california "this nominee believes that the president cannot be investigated cannot be tried is actually supreme. and i find that something an oligarch would have not an american president."kavanaugh was pressed repeatedly during his confirmation hearing about whether he would vote to overturn the abortion rights ruling.sen. dianne feinstein/d- california"to me there are significant issues having to do with roe v wade, and privacy for a woman's body." feinstein, who has talked about her friends who died seeking illegal abortions, says she does not want the supreme court to turn back the clock.sen. dianne feinstein/d- california"control of your own body based on religion, your family, your thoughts not the thoughts of people back in washington voting on a bill." the senator called the supreme court confirmation an ongoing saga, that will play out over th

she penned that letter to make it to senator dianne feinstein de desk. that's part of the judge's file available for senators to review. the judge has denied the claim saying i categorically deny this allegation. i did not do this back in high school or at any time. republicans have dismissed the allegation. the chairman said he plans to go ahead with the vote on thursday. we'll see if this reporting from the washington post complicates that. joining me is jeffrey rosen. jeffrey, let me start with you. i'm going to read a couple more excerpts from this piece. ford said one summer in the early 1980s, kavanaugh and a friend corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house outside of washington, d.c. kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her over her clothes, grinding his besiody against he and clumsily attempting to pull after her bathing suit. when she tried to scream, he put his hand over her mouth. you've been watching all this unfold. what changes now? >> it's impossible not to think back to the clarence thomas situation. anit

it says as the story snowballed after dianne feinstein report having received this left, ford said she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and with the visits from reporters felled her privacy being chipped away and her calculation changed. now you're outside the home ford. what is the scene like there? >> reporter: yeah. so we're in palo alto outside of what we believe is christine ford's home. we didn't see anyone go in and out of the house all afternoon, but about an hour ago had a man came into the house and then went out a few minutes later with a dog. we don't know the man was, but he said that he was friends with the fords and that he was helping to take care of their dog. he said that ford is doing fine but that she's not interested in talking to anybody. he said she's not planning to come back to her house either. he also said that christine in order was a great person but wouldn't really say anything more about her decision to speak out and her deliberations or anything kind of reaction to kavanaugh and denials of forced altercation. i want to get a statement we got

now was very clear that she wanted this to be kept confidential and that's what dianne feinstein was trying to do to protect her identity here but the day in court is the only way forward and we really need to grapple with the fact that we have now become a society that believes women, things are very different from when anita hill stood up there and clarence thomas was getting confirmed. within a lot of very powerful men lose their jobs, lose their seats, al franken lost his seat in the senate as a result of this have to be thoughtful and fair to make sure that every woman knows that her story deserves to be heard and i applaud kellyanne conway for coming out with that message today. it was not what i expected to hear. >> melissa: she was very steady and very firm and what she said from the white house. that lots of people are coming up with mitigating circumstances on every side. there's a report in the montgomery county courthouse that brett kavanaugh's mother judge martha kavanaugh foreclosed on the accuser's parents home. now i'm hearing that she did not rule on that case. his o

both families have been drug through the mud when they didn't have to be because dianne feinstein could have done this in a much more structured process and instead waited until the 11th hour and is playing political games with people's lives and i find that to be disgraceful and disgusting and she certainly needs to shoulder a lot of the blame for what's going on right now. >> you have both ms. ramirez and dr. ford saying there should be an fbi investigation. if they thought they weren't telling the truth they wouldn't be inviting an fbi investigation. why is it wrong to have an fbi investigation on something as important as a supreme court nominee? >> we have a process in place. they have a senate process and we think it should be done through that. no one is trying to hide from this. in fact, brett kavanaugh has been leaning in. he's been begging to come and tell his story and be able to do that, whether it's publicly or privately, he's asked for that opportunity and he's been perfectly open for others to have the opportunity to share their side as well. but let's be clear. from the

you see senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat. jeff flake will go to his seat and see if he makes a statement and delivers a speech before the roll call, if there is going to be a roll call. let's see if there is a delay in all of this. chuck grassley heading back presumably as well and see figure he gavels the suession back into order. dramatic developments are unfolding. as we watch this unfold, what you said the discussions for a week delay, let the fbi do some background checking, that's what the democrats have been asking for for days and days and the republicans rejected that. you heard mitch mcconnell reject it and chuck grassley reject and the senior leadership, john cornyn all rejecting it. the only reason they may be open to it is if they don't have the 50 votes. >> it's all about math. >> susan col ups and lisa murkowski are two key republicans that are undecided. >> say they call murkowski or collins or whatever it is and say look, you have to get it out of committee. that's the first step. if they say to murkowski and

i believe dianne feinstein. this woman, i have seen her cross party lines when it comes to issues of national security, you know, a woman who has been bipartisan in serving her country at times. and sought bipartisan solutions. she's also a woman. you know, the important thing here is that dr. blasey ford made the decision of herself coming forward, herself sharing the story with the washington post. so we now -- what dianne feinstein did or did not do to me is less important than the fact that we have now got an allegation, a credible allegation from a woman who has put her name out there, told her story, come out after 35 years, talked about her trauma, and is telling her story. and this is going to be a huge black cloud on top of judge kavanaugh's career the rest of his life. it is going to be in his obituary, the fact that this allegation came through. so for the supreme court, for the institution, for the highest law in the land, i think it is important that we do the most that we can as possible to be done

. >> melissa: the top democrat on the senate judiciary, dianne feinstein, under increasing scrutiny. republicans and some democrats with big questions about when she knew of the allegations and when and why she chose to share them. plus, the president saying his order to immediately declassify a trove of documents on the russia investigation could be the crowning achievement of his presidency? but now word that the doj is in no rush to comply. we will debate why. and here is republican congressman peter king on those efforts. > allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. >> melissa: president trump ri

in this portion, committee chair chuck grassley and making them or dianne feinstein made opening statements. ford's opening statement follows, and in some of the questioning. republicans hired rachel mitchell to ask questions for them. senate democrats asked their own questions. judge kavanaugh guesses or bottle in about an hour and a half. -- gives his rebuttal in about an hour and a half.

fox news has learned that senator dianne feinstein heard about the claim back in july. annie had during 65 meetings with senators including dianne feinstein, more than 32 hours of confirmation hearings and 1,278 written follow-up questions from democrat to kavanaugh, the matter was never raised until today when senator feinstein sent it to investigators. the fbi says it will include the information in kavanaugh's background file, but we are told any further action on the letter would have to come from the white house. so far the white house has done nothing except call this a democratic delay tactics. john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate and judiciary committee is incredulous saying "let me get this straight, this is a statement about a secret letter regarding a secret matter and an unindicted fied person, right?" they say that this has all of the indications of an 11th hour character assassination. the democrats on the judiciary commit me committee have triedo subpoena documents in time, to w did -- george w. bush, including the enhanced interrogation a

it was the first report dianne feinstein had a secret letter from dr. blasey ford. enter the floods in north carolina. happened,t time this it was matthew. and now i believe the worst is yet to come.e. this is the water rising to another 20 to 25 feet. amy: is the death toll from hurricane florence reaches 32, some undocumented immigrants in faceegion fear they will immigration enforcement if they seek help. this comes as the trump administration has shifted to million dollars from fema to ice . this week marks the 10th anniversary of the collapse of u.s. investment bank lehman brothers that trigger the onset of the global financial crisis. it is also the seventh anniversary of occupy wall street. >> what they're doing here is the assembly. the court demands, i think, seems to be, the right to organize, to have a political conversation in a public space, to show wall s street, so t to spspeak, what t democracy y loos like. amy: we will speak with nathan schneider, an activist with occupy, his new book outlines an alternatative economic model bad on cooperative owner

dianne feinstein getting this letter to the congressman's office in july. dianne feinstein has since said i wish i could have, maybe i should have. she is a statesman. she knows what was wrong to not loop that meant. she's in a very tough election. you have demand justice, a new group: they realized, the democrats, they spent three decades basically not caring about judicial nominations and the republicans and conservatives have been very good about it. the republicans have been quite responsible. okay, she should be heard. she should not be insulted. that was the first thing kellyanne conway said. the president has been quite muted about it. you can be heard. you will be heard. there's a question about this idea, judge napolitano said earlier on the 2:00 show, should the president asked the fbi to take two weeks, see what you can find out, and at the end of that, then vote on him and allow them to get seated by november 1st rather than octobe. that's not what the democrats want to. i don't think they are ever, ever going to be satisfied even if there isn't

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dianne feinstein and the democratic congresswoman had the information from early july on. that seems to have been a way without dragging these two people and the families through the mud, this could have been adjudicated. if not settled, at least disposed of. >> martha: it seems to me that is one of the central flaws in this story is the amount of time that dianne feinstein held on to this. and as chuck grassley was pointing out, grassley, the chairman of the committee, if you brought it to me, we could have kept it confidential and we didn't have to attach anyone's name to it and we could have done the investigation. that seemed to be one of the strongest arguments on the lam side and one of the things that the democrats had the most difficulty pushing back on. that is what makes it appear that the motivation was political in terms of the timing on when they dropped the story. >> chris: i agree. one of the things that the democrats are going to fire back is let's, you want more evidence? let's get mark judge. he was according to chrstine blasey ford he was in the room at

that's the one dianne feinstein recommended. they're saying they don't want artificial deadlines here. the fbi should be able to do this, i would imagine, say they spend eight hours with everyry person, send one agent to each person. could be done tomorrow. >> that's right. >> that's what i said. you should deploy all of the fbi agents. take these interviews tomorrow morning. i think all these folks want to get it over with. talk to her friend leland who i think will be the strongest witness for brett kavanaugh. and i think the diaries are critically important because they were taken in 1982. it's a miracle he had them, in real-time. it corroborates what he said. >> sean: if they have something else planned. under the threat of felony, somebody admits, oh, i got it wrong, and i committed a felony the last time. their hope is one of the four committed aloop felony. >> this whole party, remember, it never happened. they're not even saying what she said is wrong. they don't have a recollection of any of it. it's made up evidence. >

dianne feinstein said she gave the information to the fbi. feinstein's spokesperson writing, the woman made it clear she did not want it to be made public. republicans are blasting it as a last minute allegation that democrats did not see fit to raise for over a month. people who knew kavanaugh have signed a letter saying he treated women with respect. republicans say the committee vote will still happen next week. peter alexander, nbc news. >>> when we come back, more from the storm zone as florence continues to pound the carolinas. pregnant and worriedt radioactivity. the discovery near a bay area couple )s home that has them scared to trust the government. >>> pregnant and worried about radioactivity. scared to trust the government. >> and thumbing his nose at the president. governor brown's plan to put california in space. governor br >>> finally here from wilmington, where we saw firsthand the human toll the storm is taking. a humbling reminder of the power of nature. we're thinking of those families. we're thinking of the first responde

dianne feinstein doing this in this way? >> well, i'm not a political commentator so i don't have a lot to say. >> laura: oh, shucks. >> the way dianne feinstein has handled this aside you from the fact that i believe she takes the concerns of women seriously. if they thought there was a serious credible allegation here she would have come forth sooner and said something. during the fbi background check or the hearing. >> laura: tell us about judge kavanaugh the boss. >> i was a law clerk to judge kavanaugh in 2007 and 2008. i worked closely with him day in and day out. i helped him prepare and decide cases. is he unfailingly kind and representful. respectful. these are contrary to what i have known for a decade. >> laura: there was a tweet from obama's top guy brian fallon or hillary's campaign, committee, and he competed this out today in response to this emily singer tweet. emily singer tweet you had make the whole bring in the daughter's basketball team and talk about how great a coach he was look even more transparent.

. >> sean: dianne feinstein said it. >> it's why it's important. we do it in public jury trials to hear from the lips of the accuser and if he wants, the accused. i'm baffled by the demand of the accuser saying, oh, i want him to testify first. that's backwards. in a court of law, it's always the accuser that first testifies to allow the defendant to be able to respond to her allegations. how can you respond to something -- >> sean: could the demands keep shifting and changing? >> no. senator grassley and the judiciary committee should try to retain control of these proceedings for their constitutional duty is to advise and consent. >> sean: if you care about women -- and i do. it's a serious allegation. wait for all sides to be heard, but you've got to look at the 40 intervening years. i go back to allison. that's august. not saying a word. >> it's not just time with ellison. there are photographs. there are injuries. there are witnesses. there are videos. we have facts. look, i prosecuted these crimes for 30 years. it's what i did for 30 years. y

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feinstein and two other women -- dianne feinstein came in 1992, the year of the woman which in many ways was a backlash to the way that anita hill was treated in the clarence thomas confirmation hearings. >> let's bring in a member of the jisudiciary committee chris coons. you said you will be a vote for judge kavanaugh's nomination. was this because of these allegations from christine ford? >> i take these allegations very seriously. i'm glad we're going give them an open hearing. my reasons for voting against judge kavanaugh are deeply rooted in my grave concerns about his extreme views on presidential power. that's the main thing i focused on in questioning him. he's also got ways in which he has spoken and written and decided on issues about individual liberty and our understanding of the constitution in the modern era that i think are also outside the mainstream. so i thought it was important to make it clear that i already have heard enough to in my view justify a no vote and i intend to fully participate in what i expect will be an open and fair process where dr. ford's distu

leland: dianne feinstein at the center of the question of exactly how dr. ford's name came out publicly within days, if not hours before the vote was scheduled. she's your senator, congressman. are you okay with how this was handled? >> this entire thing has been a very, very difficult process from the very, very beginning. kavanaugh was controversial long before feinstein's letter ever came to light. as i understand it, dr. ford did not want to go public. it took some time for her to actually release that feinstein -- the letter -- leland: the reason it went public is because somebody leaked her name. the question would be -- >> well, i don't know. i just don't know the answer to that. leland: let me ask you this. do you agree with lindsey graham who said part of the investigation should be looking at how dr. ford's name was leaked, how a woman who alleged asexual assault and wanted to remain private was thrust into the public spotlight, should that be investigated as well? >> that doesn't seem to be relevant going forward. leland: really? >> just hang on

i think dianne feinstein said this at the beginning, this is not a criminal trial. this is a job interview. is there proof beyond a reasonable doubt that brett kavanaugh assaulted miss ford? i don't think so. this is a job interview. if someone said to you we're looking to hire a baby-sitter but he was accused by three different people of sexual assault, would you hire this baby-sitter to serve as the next 30 years as the baby-sitter for your kids? that i think is the question here, not should he be put in prison. >> but what's going to happen -- what will really matter is what's going to come in just a matter of minutes, how well he defends himself. he can suggest, come papartmente what you just saw. you mind find her credible and to be the nice lady that people were saying. you want to set that aside. he's not going to attack her. he's probably not even going to minimize what he says happened to her. he's going to try to separate as soon as -- as he said earlier, he said it's not in my character to do this, it's against my religious believes to do this. he can't u

dianne feinstein / -d- california: "if you are confident of your position, why aren't you also asking fbi?"brett kavanaugh /supreme court nominee: "my family has been destroyed."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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bill clinton accuser juanita broadry broadry -- broderick is here with questions for dianne feinstein about her claims and how they were treated 20 years ago. hear exclusively from house intel chair devin nunes with first reaction to the president's decision late this afternoon to declassify documents related to the russia investigation. but first, 1991, all over again. that is the focus of tonight's angle. by now most of you are familiar with the 11th hour charges against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. christine blasey-ford is claiming when she was 15 and kavanaugh was 17, he made unwanted advances toward her at a boozy house party. she claims he tried to force himself upon her. kavanaugh released a statement today emphatically denying the charges for a second time, saying "this is a completely false allegation, i've never done anything like what the accuser describes, to her or to anyone," but the 10 democrats on the judiciary committee were unanimous in calls to delay kavanaugh's scheduled thursday vote. some weak-kneed republicans, no shock there, like flake and corker, jo

caused by dianne feinstein and chuck schumer not requesting her confidential. it has to be tested against the evidence and against proof. we would have known that confidentially inside the judiciary committee -- >> dickerson: are they wasting the time? >> i don't know what the fbi is going to find. the committee staff has already interviewed all the witnesses that miss ford cited, interviewed miss ford and judge kavanaugh for six hours. >> dickerson: mr. judge sent them a letter that wasn't an interview. >> they have either interviewed them for received letters under penalty of perjury. >> dickerson: these are actual interviews. >> if any of these people under penalty of perjury change their claims. >> but that's why we have investigations. have a neutral fact pattern, clearly the members which of the tee want kavanaugh to be confirmed. so why should people want him to be confirmed why not have neutral observessers wrestle the facts to the ground so it's not a waste of time. >> john, we already know what everyone who is alleged to be at the party has said. they

what we will investigate is who in dianne feinstein's office referred dr. ford to miss katz. >> scott, your reaction? >> yeah. you know, this whole narrative has been driven by the gop. the democrats have been put in this political prism. but the reality is that dr. ford has been telling this story since 2012. and she reached out to the dems. she wanted to be anonymous. it was only until it was leaked at the end of the nomination here that dems then said, okay, we are where we are. put it in the political prism. take us away from what is really important in regard to dr. ford and a number of women, millions if not hundreds of thousands of wanting to get to the truth. and the republicans seem like they just want this nomination approved. the democrats want the truth. and all of the women who have suffered in silence in connection to sexual assault or sexual misconduct want the truth. >> yes. >> if we get to the truth, then you vote on him. if he gets in, he gets in. if he doesn't, he doesn't. but these women are still going to vote come november 6th. i think

dianne feinstein received this letter 45 days before she rev l revealed it. she had a private meeting with judge kavanaugh. she held this in her pocket for political reasons. that's not how you treat an allegation that you want to treat seriously that your calling for an fbi investigation. voters are seeing through this. chairman grassley has done such a remarkable job saying we will meet with dr. ford privately, we want to hear her side of the story. we will make accommodations to make sure she has an opportunity to testify. democrats now are doubling down on well, we need an investigation. the only person that can tell her side of the story is dr. ford. democrats put this off to the 11th to delay. these are tactics that they used all along. 451 interruptions with 201 arrests during the hearings. it's shameful, degrading to our nomination process and they should be pushing to have an investigation. they should have done it two months ago and calling out dianne feinstein for sitting on this letter. >> neil: not all of your republican colleagues are -- jeff fl

she -- for two months dianne feinstein sat on this. in that two months, she scrubbed her social media, goes and hires an attorney, a democrat attorney associated with al franken, bill clinton and others. then she goes and takes a polygraph test. it's leaked by the democrats. this has been planned from the get go. she's had every opportunity to come forward. it doesn't have to be public. dine feinstein didn't have to put her identity out there. she had a responsibility to let her other committee members know, and she didn't do it. this is not -- there's going to be no due process in the senate. she has made a criminal allegation against somebody, and that should be tried in a court of law, not in a court of public opinion. not in the court of public opinion. >> hang on. >> listen. there's some things in life that should not be partisan. there's some things that should not be about left and right. they should be about right and wrong. when it comes to sexual abuse, that's one of those things. when it comes to having people that have the

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dianne feinstein was very calm. where he seems to be getting tripped up is when both sides are pressing him on his drinking habits and the culture. he's very adamant, i did not sexually assault anyone. when mrs. mitchell asked him, have you ever passed out drunk, he sort of wavered on that. that's where you'll seal some people pushing harder on the culture of drinking. maybe he doesn't remember things that could have happened. that may be where this goes. >> bret: we didn't know that mrs. mitchell was going to be doing this questioning. actually, we thought the republicans were going to be kind of doing questions with the democrats. it's interesting to see her methodically go. in the first five minutes, she was more to the point than she was on the questioning of christine blasey ford. >> as martha pointed out, she would be going after the person accused. in this point, we know the allegations. it was interesting when he talked to dianne feinstein. she said all of these women that have accused you for fbi investigat

dianne feinstein says she wants more people at that hearing. just getting that note now from the senator's office. look at this look like, with the source another delay or what you hear in? >> we heard yesterday from texas senator that he would be satisfactory just to hear kavanaugh's side of the story, but the senate rules to allow hearing like this for cooperating witnesses on either side so that somebody could potentially backup each side that counts with something they thought they heard at the time. there does seem to be a great appetite on both sides of the aisle just to get as much information as possible out there adhering. the difference between the two sides would be the republicans want to get it all out there right now, they want to have that hearing on monday and then they want to vote next week on kavanaugh where is the democrats want to delay the hearing, delay a vote until a full fbi background check has been redone and not something that could take weeks or months. >> harris: thank you very much for taking that story, we apprec

senator charles grassley has been trying to work with senator dianne feinstein and peter doocy will talk more about this on doing some more interviews. here is the one thing i can tell you. the white house wants to leave this up to congress to figure out. what would the white house prefer? i think they are under the understanding that anything less than a public hearing is going to leave too much unknown by the american public to ever satisfy at least certain people. so they're looking at some sort of public hearing, though they are worried that if had you an opennenned handed public hearing, shep, that could quickly spin out of control and become a circus. if they could get some kind of guarantee from the judiciary committee, that this will be a very tight hearing, i think that they would welcome that because they do want judge kavanaugh to have a chance to tell his story. but, at the same time, they believe that ms. ford should have a chance to tell her story as well. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live on the north lawn. while john was speaking, i was given word through producers who

one and i mean first and foremost is senator dianne feinstein. who pledged confidentiality. >> right. >> lou: that obviously was betrayed. secondly is senator chuck grassley who the nominee demanding a quick hearing and instead ten days of delay, the man, his family dragged as heisted through the mud and through hell. >> i would agree with that. i'd throw schumer in the mix, too. schumer set this thing in motion to stop this man from being on the court. he prove today he deserves to be on the court. there are more fans today for him and more fans for lindsey graham who basically to me became -- did an extraordinary job today. i have not always been a fan of his but today i'm a big fan and i'll continue as long as he performs. >> lou: i may not have been a big fan but i am such a fan of lindsey graham after what he did today. he is stood up today that i can say i have always been a fan of lindsey graham. >> he doesn't want us to always be a fan. he wouldn't do his job. >> i'm always a fan of yours. great to see you. >> great day. >> lou: well, it'

why did dianne feinstein hold this letter from july? well, because she started to get inquiries from reporters. this was something that was going to come to the light of day. i think that senator dianne feinstein felt the need to get this out there. where does this go? i think casey is right. it depends on the two key senators. that's where the focus is going to be. however we are in a different moment. the me too movement. that could change the calculation of a number of different republican senators. we'll have to see how it plays out. >> kristen welker joining me from the house. back with me joyce vance along with beth fooey. i want to start there counter. a lot drew this to what happened with clarence thomas in 1991. what did we learn from the way you will of that transpired. >> it's very different. number one that was of course a republican president. president george bush 43 had nominated clarence thomas. but the senate was controlled by democrats. d it was a different environment. things were much less partisan than they are now.

you look at the fact, dianne feinstein, literally have this in july. she didn't bring it up until no now. then the people that professor ford mentioned, all of them deny it. then you have the new yorker article where ms. ramirez admits that she was inebriated very early, slurring her words, gaps in her memory,ly et cetera. then you have the new face of the democratic party that says, i will review gang rape in the next 48 hours there and what are the american people to think, and so many democrats rushing to judgment, no presumption of innocence. >> i think what the american people should think is that you have a democratic party so desperate to stop the supreme court from becomingesem conservative, that they are prepared to lie, to smear, to be hysterical, to break senate rules, to do whatever they have to do. what you are watching is a party totally desperate, and you have to put this week in context. i was struck earlier today that arthur miller's great play, "the crucible," which is about the salemhe witchcraft trials, actually replace to what is h

dianne feinstein asks republicans not to push for a hearing by wednesday. here's what she said, this is amazing -- feels that she can come before the committee? feels that she can come before the committee? since when do we believe the business of this nation should be held up by someone's feelings for whom we have tremendous sympathy. this is a smear by feinstein claiming that everyone that disagrees with her doesn't care about alleged rape and sexual assault victims. according to democrats, asking questions in the first place is wrong. asking ford to come to a hearing is wrong, according to former obama adviser valerie jarrett who tweeted -- so if republicans ask to speak to ford, they're bullying ford. if they don't speak to ford, they're silencing her. democrats wanted the fbi to investigate originally but the fbi isn't tasked with investigating nonfederal crimes. the senate has no authority to ask the fbi to investigate. ford doesn't either. only the white house does, and the same democrats currently pillaring president trump for interfering for fbi pr