florence is still wreaking havoc in the carolinas. >> breaking rainfall records. >> catastrophic flooding. >> the worst may be yet to come. >> this is historic and unprecedented. >> we've still got several days to go. >> and the response to hurricane maria last year became an issue this week. >> the president said that 3,000 number didn't exist. >> this was done by democrats, this number to make me look as bad as possible. >> does fema accept that number? >> we don't count this. i always say emergency management successful zagser response recovery. >> manafort is cooperating. >> is the special counsel witness a potentially enormous value in. >> manafort is a sherpa for the key moments. >> this was a very bad day for the trump administration. >> brett kavanaugh is denying a serious allegation of sexual misconduct. >> he should certainly not be confirmed before this is

explored. >> it's a very serious allegation. >> accusations about kavanaugh. he's evil and he hates women, hates children, little warm puppies. senator feinstein's had the letter since july for three months. she said nothing. congress has hit rock bottom and started to dig. >> welcome back to kasie d c. starting the hour to talk about all of this, chief washington reporter for the boston herald, kimberley atkins, jonathan swan, maria cumar, and joining us in new york emily jane fox, a senior reporter at "vanity fair." they're all msnbc contributors. let's just start.

the future of brett kavanaugh as a supreme court justice, we thought it was going to be on a glide path. but it appears to be in jeopardy because the woman accusing him of sexual assault has now come forward. and in one case it has a republican senator saying that the confirmation should be put on pause, and that's a key republican senator jeff flake who sits on the committee. he could make that difference. christine ford tells "the washington post" that she wrote the confidential letter to senator diane feinstein alleging kavanaugh assaulted her more than three decades ago when they were in high school. "the post" reports that since wednesday she's watched, drawing a blanket denial from kavanaugh, a roiling nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed. now ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it. that story involves allegations that a teenage brett kavanaugh, pinned her to a bed, groped her

and attempted to take her clothes off. ford alleges when she tried to scream, kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth to the point she thought, quote, he might inadvertently kill her. he's unequivocally denied the a allegations. but a growing number of senators are calling for that vote to be delayed. and republican senator jeff flake told multiple outlets today he's not comfortable moving forward with the vote until he hears more from kavanaugh's accuser. susan collins of maine had this to say today. >> well, i obviously was very surprised, and it's an issue that i brought up with him last friday, and he denied as he did in his written statement. that's really all i have to say at this point. >> so susan collins there

acknowledging she did have this conversation about judge kavanaugh. but jonathan swan, what are the options here if you drew the republicans in congress and the demand is, and jeff flake really can hold this up because he's on the committee. they called her to testify, do they call for the fbi to investigate, and they're going to have to keep it on a tight time line if they actually want to push forward as they say they do. >> i just spoke to a source close to process, and they are of the view that chuck grassly, the senate judiciary should call to expedite this and get it to a vote. that more just reflects to you how they haven't really budged. like the operation that's around this in the white house and around the white house, they are

forging ahead, and they don't want to take a backward step. and frankly, that response from susan collins would not fill you with confidence if you were pushing the kavanaugh confirmation. >> maria. >> i think the challenge is before this weekend we did not have a name. now we have a name and someone coming forward and saying very explicitly she wants to be part of this conversation. and the republicans are in a really difficult spot, because if they don't take the totality where we are right now in the me too movement and you look back on how anita hill was treated, republicans, it seems they were pushing this through regardless of story and then i think it's going to hurt them in the mid-terms. >> and not just how anita hill was treated. remember both senators collin and murkowski, for example, called for al franken to resign when he was accused of sexual harassment. senator collins saying the person who was making this

accusation was credible. you now have someone coming forward and she took a lie detector test, records she got from therapy years ago, things that bolster her credibility. >> and she's working with a lawyer and debracats who's very experienced. the number of democrats calling to delay kavanaugh's confirmation vote is mounting in the wake of that "the washington post" report. senator feinstein was the first and the rest you see here were already planning to vote against kavanaugh. but doug jones tweeted that quote, this was a very brave step to come forward, it is more important than ever to hit the pause button on kavanaugh's confirmation vote until we can fully investigate these serious and disturbing allegations. but he also added, quote, if

miss ford was to provide information to the committee i would gladly listen to what she has to say and compare that against all other information we have received about judge kavanaugh. so we have flake saying he's not ready to vote yes that effectively could kill this thursday vote in the committee if they don't satisfy him. we have lindsey graham kicking the door open to say i want to hear more information from this woman. so if question is if you are christy ford, do you testify? >> she wasn't initially willing. she thought maybe she could pass on this information and stay silent. but after her identity got out anyway, she said i'm going to control the narrative. i can't imagine she would speak publicly to "the washington post" and not do the same to lawmakers and tell her story going forward. >> that's a big step, though, going -- the media circus going to the hill, the cameras, i mean that is an order of magnitude difference, right, than talking to a newspaper.

>> i think you'd know that would be the next step that's coming. we saw anita hill and others coming before her. i think given the stakes of this, it would be very difficult for her just to issue a statement, just to speak to a newspaper and leave it at that. >> i think by saying she took a polygraph test under scrutiny to come forward, i think she's setting up her place to be seen as something that's very, very credible. >> all of this draws comparison to, which of course something that happened 26 years ago. on october 7, 1991 law professor anita hill came forward had her claims against then supreme court nominee clarence thomas. claiming he'd harassed her years before in the 1980s. she'd previously expressed she didn't want to be named. but when reporters began investigating hill like ford wanted to tell her own story of what happened. >> i took no initiative to

inform anyone, but when i was asked by a representative of this committee to report my experience i felt that i had to tell the truth. i could not keep silent. >> democrats, of course said voting on kavanaugh's confirmation should be delay after the story broke. and republicans accused hill of what they called an 11th hour attack -- excuse me, thomas, not kavanaugh. hill did testify exactly eight days, and thomas was confirmed to the supreme court 52-48. emily jane fox, i want to get into the dynamics how that played out on capitol hill in a second. but someone who follows the trump family pretty closely and knows the kind of play book hat the president would run against potentially something like this, as we were talking about, you know, taking the step to testify to go in front of those cameras, to open yourself up to that

level of public scrutiny, it takes a lots. and the president is likely -- we don't know this, we're working on reporting out exactly what their response to going to be. but it's likely based on what we've seen before there would be an all out assault on her character. >> we saw that happen with stormy daniels recently, and then candidate trump was saying for women who came forward with their stories of sexual harassment and assault, stories that over the years he was saying they couldn't have happened because of the way that the women looked. so if his past behavior is any indication of future behavior and often with him it is, it is almost sure that he would weigh in on something like this. though, it is different because it is not his own behavior. but he weighed in with roy moore at the end of last year. so i think it is almost certain the president will weigh in. what i have been trying to figure out in my reporting and i have not received any response yet, is what the trump women might say.

i mean we have ivanka trump who is in the white house who is there solely to be an advocate for women and children and for families. and i have reached out for a comment to multiple people in the white house to see if she would say something. he did say something in the roy moore election and i have not heard back in. sometimes the first lady is the only person in the white house who will come out with her own independent statement or opinion in a time like this that will go against her husband. and so i'm curious if either of them will have something to say. >> interesting thing to watch. and i'm watching jonathan swan as well. if you look back to the anita hill example, there was a lot of pressure, joe biden was among them, a critical player there. in this case you have jeff flake, but when we get to the bigger question the two key players and susan collins and lisa murkowski.

>> i mean, we always do focus on susan collins and lisa murkowski because they are genuine swing votes. but, you know, flake popped up out of nowhere. i wouldn't be surprised if you see, you know, what does bob corker say about this, someone who doesn't have their political fate tied to this president? >> but kasie, i really want to talk about the fact this woman has come forward and everything she's sacrificing and the sabotaging of her career as a result. it's interesting to see in this day and time if she's able to come forward with that penalty. anita hill really had to navigate and basically sabotage her own career and come forward with what is considered truthful evidence. >> senator king, great to see you. thanks for being here tonight.

>> thanks, kasie. glad to be with you. >> let's start with the breaking news this afternoon. christine ford coming forward, putting her name to this allegation. all of your colleagues with the exception of diane feinstein on the committee didn't get a chance to actually see this letter until wednesday night last week. what is your view of what the committee should do, how they should handle it and how senator feinstein handled this? >> well, i think it's important to meng ation and you've alludeo it, but the committee is 11 to 10. so if one republican member of the committee says i'm not ready to take this vote, which is scheduled for thursday, that will by itself slow it down. and i think the second question to be asked, and it's sort of looming behind all this discussion is what's the rush? the seat that merit garland should have been considered for

was held open by these same people for 14 months. and in fact some of them said if a democrat gets elected president we'll hold the seat open for four years. soicidely there's this arbitrary deadline for the end of september, which frankly doesn't relate to anything in particular. so why not slow down? i came out against the kavanaugh nomination earlier this week having nothing to do with these allegations. i knew nothing about it. based in part upon a lack of a documents that have been presented on his record when he was at the bush white house, plus some real concerns about his views on policy. so i think -- i like the word -- i think jeff flake mentioned it, said let's pause it. because there isn't any rush. there's no deadline here that would forestall a full investigation. both his record at the bush white house and also this latest allegation which appears at least very serious and ought to be resolved. >> you note that it's very

serious. what are your views should be the standard for how something like this should be handled? let's try to put the partisan politics aside, say this was a democratic president who picked a nominee, this the something that could up on either side of the aisle. sexual misbehavior doesn't know any partisan bounds. do you think she needs to testify, for example, your colleagues have called for an fbi investigation but so far have not called for public testimony from her. >> well, i think at some point if this really is in the court of the commity they are the ones that are going to have to make the decision on this nomination initially before it comes to the floor of the senate. so i believe at some point she's going to have to talk to the committee. perhaps the first step would be an fbi investigation, which could fill out some of the details, and be an important part of informing the committee's inquiry. but i think ultimately she's

going to have to come forward. and of course this was an enormous decision for her. it's going to change her life forever. but she has decided, professor ford has decided to come forward, and i think the committee is going to have to look at tis. this isn't a minor allegation. this is a serious allegation even though it took place some time ago. and there's a second issue, which is judge kavanaugh has categorically and unequivocally denied anything happened. and if -- and this is all speculation. but if there's verification in some way this did happen, then there are questions of his credibility that arise, which is a separate issue unto itself. >> let's switch gears because naturally in this environment we never have one major news story at a time. we also have paul manafort who has now agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. you are someone who's gotten an inside view of this investigation in the senate

intelligence committee through your role there. and i'm curious to know what you think the special prosecutor is opening up there. i mean, what is your line of questioning for paul man inter, and what do you think he can illuminate that other witnesses that so far have agreed to cooperate with the special counsel simply couldn't? >> well, first, i think it's important to distinguish between the senate intelligence committee investigation and the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation is looking for violations of law. it's a prosecution. they're looking for were there legal violations involved in the campaign or others that are uncovered in the course of the investigation. we're really focused on what happened and what are the facts of what happened and particularly how we prevent it happening in the future. i think -- and ironically we're now at the part of our committee's work focusing on was there a relationship between the trump campaign and the russians.

and clearly paul manafort has potentially significant information because he was in the middle of the campaign during the summer of 2016 and was at that famous meeting at trump tower. so his testimony i think is going to pea important. i certainly hope that we're going to be able to get him before our committee. now, it's a complicated relationship between our committee and mueller. we don't want to provide immunity, for example, which then would somehow impair their investigation. but this guilty plea may well open up mr. manafort to testimony where he won't be able to resist or plead the fifth amendment in order to talk to our committee. those are the kind of things i know our chair richard burr and mark warner, vice chair are going to be talking to mueller about and i suspect talking to paul manafort's lawyers. >> while i have i'm actually interested in a general status update on the intelligence

committee's investigation. because this has dragged on much longer than people thought that it might. is there a new target when kind of a definitive report from your committee might actually emerge? >> well, i have to point out that we've been doing this in phases, and the first phase was did the russians -- were the russians involved in the 2016 presidential election? did they try to assist the trump -- president trump to be elected. the answer to that is yes. we've determined that. i think it's safe to say. secondly, were the russians trying to interfere with state election systems around the country? the answer to that was yes. did how the obama administration reacted to this was the third piece that we've looked at. and we're now wrapping up the involvement of the russians and others in social media disinformation campaigns in 2016. there's no doubt that the russians were doing that in a big way and that they're still doing it trying to sew

dissension and distress in our country. as i say ironically at the manafort guilty plea we're not entering the phase of our investigation, which is was there some cooperation or the word of course is collusion between the trump campaign -- >> you should have said the most interesting phase of your investigation. >> i wish i could give you a specific date. i don't think it will be in the next month or so. this is very complex matter. we've got a sizable staff working full time on this. the committee has devoted an enormous amount of time. public hearings, closed hearings. we're doing our best. but i'd rather get it right than get it fast, kasie. >> senator angus king, thanks very much for being on tonight. nice to see you. and jonathan swan, thanks so much to you as well. very much appreciate it. we're going to talk more about paul manafort in just a moment. plus dig into emily jane fox's

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of october, a source close to quote, the president says, quote, this is all just an annoyance, i did nothing. he's somewhat arrogant about it but this investigation is a classic cam beano style rollp. you vus to the anticipate this roll-up will reach everyone in this administration. can you sort of fill in why that imagery would make sense to the trump family, to president trump? it's a very distinct type of approach, and something that those of not from new york maybe are a little less familiar. >> so what we see going on here is anyone who's close to the president, who's worked with the president both on private business and on the campaign, investigators are one by one ticking them off, having them either plead guilty or cooperate in some way, shape or form with the end goal potentially being

figuring out what the president did wrong. so we've seen that now with rick gates. we saw that with paul man trt. we saw that when michael cohen, his long time personal attorney and somewhat of a fixer pleaded guilty to eight counts in new york last week. we know at least at least in weeks to come that investigators may or may not be looking at what don junior has been involved in, jared kushner has been involved in. they're not just looking at these people for the fun of it but because they want to know what the president knew as well. this is not a tactic that you use because you want to just take down lower level people in the campaign like jogeorge papadopoulos. this is tactic you want to use when you get to the very top of the chain of command. >> and it's not manpert offense work with foreign governments was a secret.

on the eve of the national republican convention two years ago, quote, manafort's problem after all those years on the lam with thugs and autocrats is that he can't recognize principle and integrity. he's brought great professionalism direct from kiev to trump world. and you may remember paul manafort's time as chairman. >> so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what the position is. >> well, that's deeply uncomfortable. >> that's what he says. >> the best people, right, they say it's like he's dismissing -- paul manafort not that big of a deal, yet he came in to save and

run. >> he did have those relationships with autocrats because he basically helped prop up the ukrainian president that was backed by the russians. it wasn't a surprise when all of a sudden he land there in washington handling donald trump's campaign. if you recall there's actually a tape of the gop leadership laughing, saying, wait a second maybe trump does have a relationship with russians. >> just maybe. >> and this is during the campaign trail, if you recall. >> and i also remember, kimberley, working with paul manafort. working with him, during interviews with him. and the fancy clothes and shoes and jackets, if you were not going to notice these things were going on with paul manafort you were willfully ignoring them. >> right. they were really clear. and the problem is the white house has been consistently pushing this narrative saying

this has to do with things long before he started the campaign and has nothing to do with this. if you knew he had deep ties to russian and you bring him in to run your campaign, to be the chairman, that brings up a lot of questions. and b, he was also the chairman of the campaign. he knows a lot of othings. the things he may be charged with may not have to do with the campaign, but if he is cooperating with mueller everything is on the table and everything can come up. so that narrative just doesn't work. >> he was in the room where it happened, so oo to speak. reports surfaced that michael cohen is also talking to and perhaps cooperating with robert mueller. sources confirmed "vanity fair," it's quote common knowledge. emily jane fox, you speak

regularly with michael cohen or at least have spoken regularly with him. what's your reporting on the status of these conversations, and is it something where, you know -- i can't figure out yum watching kind of their public moves, are they desperately trying to get robert mueller to reach out and offer them a plea deal? does he have information that they really want? where does your reporting stand on this? >> as i reported last week it's really unclear what the status of these are. it's unclur if it's to reach a cooperation agreement, if he's to be before a grand jury. it's hard to state just how much michael cohen has been blinking that i'm open for business sign since about july. the president and michael cohen were engaged in somewhat over a

fight over legal fees when it came to his case in the southern district in new york. and that was really the period of time where cohen decided, look, i'm done trying to protect this guy. this guy has done absolutely nothing to try and protect me. he's not even trying to, you know, protect me and bring me on his to his side by just paying whatever my legal fees are. and at that point he said my loyalty is to my family. i'm not going to bankrupt myself. i'm hopefully going to spend as little time in jail as i possibly can. and that's when you really saw him turn on the public, i'm ready to talk both in the southern district and special counsel's office. now, it is unclear whether or not he has information that will in fact lessen his prison sentence either in the southern district or with robert mueller's team. but that's certainly what he's after here in trying to share whatever it is he does know.

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tropical depression, but a full picture of the devastation is only starting to emerge. at least 16 people have died from the impact of the storm, and hundreds of thousands of people in the region have been left without power. flood waters remain extremely dangerous. both north and south carolina have seen record rainfall. nearly 3 feet of water in some places. parts of i-95, one of the country's busiest highways have been closed because they are submerged with water. and there are fears a levy at a nearby river could soon breach. earlier today north carolina governor roy cooper joined state and coast guard officials to survey the immense damage caused by florence. >> i will say this to the people of north carolina, eventually the skies will clear and the flood waters will recede. and when they do, we're ready to take on the challenge of rebuilding our communities.

>> and joining me now from charlotte is former north carolina governor pat mcquiry. thanks for being on the show tonight. this obviously a state you have given so much of your life to serve. what does the damage look like on the ground, and what would you say to residents about whether it's going to get worse before it gets better? >> in some areas it's going to get worse. in areas you have water issues of life and death. over 28 people two years ago to next month died due to drowning in their cars. and because we have so many of road wash outs right now the big danger is people will drive through the barricades or the roads will actually collapse. that's a major issue from ashville all the way down to wilmington all the way down to new bern. the area is just an unbelievable challenge involving

infrastructure, roads and water. and then we've got an environmental issue. you've got environmental concerns with hog waste potential coming into the water, sewage overflows. and this is very, very dangerous water. and you've also got the farming community issues regarding economic loss. and a lot of businesses may be going under water between now and tuesday as certain rivers peak, which we have not yet seen, especially the cape fear river around wilmington. all that water that's been going from wilmington all the way to mountains now has been dropping, and it'll all be going back down to the coast making the rivers again overrun their banks and running people out of their homes, apartments and trailers. and the saddest thing about all of this is it's often the poorest of the poor that are impacted the most because they had nowhere to go. and so a lot of them are going to be in shelters. this is the hard work now. we still have rescues to do, and i commend everyone working on this, but the recovery will be a

very difficult long, drawn out period. and people will start getting impatient as they get through the shock of what just happened to them. >> you were the governor when matthew hit back in 2016. what kind of resources did you have to bring to bear for that recovery as you mentioned? and has the state ever been by anything like florence? >> i would say florence is very similar to matthew, but a little bit stronger and a little bit more water. so kind of similar trends in some of the same areas are being flooded m flooded. i'm especially concerned about the pembroke area and you have a lot of people living on trailers in low land which has been flooded. even their schools have been flooded which we saw in hurricane matthew. in fact, they haven't recovered

from hurricane matthew yet, and here you see these small towns getting inundated again with water and people being pushed out of their homes. and i guarantee you tonight there's still search and rescue. and some of the resources, thank god, are the coast guard, the military using their helicopters and police and highway patrol. everyone's coming together to help, and i'm very impressed with the team right here in north carolina working together with fema. >> you have, though, been critical of your successor roy cooper saying that there was a quote, lack of action. what do you mean by that? what do you think this governor should be doing differently? >> i think there's been a lack of action regarding hurricane matthew. and yet we haven't recovered from 150 to i think $102 million from the federal government. almost not a dime has been spent on housing for those in lummerten and fair bluff and

fairmont, and i'm not so critical of this. in fact, i'll do everything i can to support the current governor and the current administration, the state and local officials. in fact, i tomorrow i hope to get the five former governors together to help raise money for the poorest of the poor that are really being impacted by this tremendously powerful hurricane. and again i wish we'd go back to rating hurricanes not by wind but also by water because it really confuses the citizens by lowering the rating of hurricanes when the most deadly part of a hurricane is actually the water, not necessarily the wind. but right now we have a lot of trees fallen on houses, including right here in charlotte where i'm at. my own brother's tree was hit by a house -- the house was hit by a tree late last night. a neighbor of mine's house was hit by an oak tree. and sadly we heard about a story

in esan antonio of a baby 1-year-old who's house was hit by a tree. and of course that's knocking out electricity and blocking roads. there could be a shortage of gas in wilmington, so there's a different issue in every part of the state that the president, the governor and all local officials are going to have to deal with not just this week but in coming months and even coming years. >> we take note of your kind words about that response and the plan moving formered. and our thoughts with your brother and with that family. >> thank god he's safe, and my prayers are with all the emergency rescue workers. they're out their risking their life right now and all these nonprofits helping people in shellers. we thank god for them. >> thank you for your time, sir. still to come, this week you could get a text message straight from president trump.

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this weekend marked the 10-year anniversary of the largest bankruptcy filing in u.s. history. the fall of financial giant lehman brothers. lehman had leveraged its investments into mortgage-backed securities and as the bottom fell out of the housing market, lehman went down with it. along with much of the middle class in america. economics writer nelson schwartz writes in the "new york times" quote the scars of the financial crisis and the ensuing great recession are still with us. just below the surface. the most profound of these is that the uneven nature of the recovery compounded a long-term imbalance in the accumulation of wealth. as a consequence, what it means to be secure has changed.

wealth, real wealth now comes from investment portfolios, not salaries. fortunes are made through an initial public offering, a buy-out or another form of what high net worth individuals call a liquidity event. the financial crisis didn't just kill the dream of getting rich from your day job. it also put an end to the fundamental belief of the middle class that owning a home was always a good idea because prices moved only in one direction -- up. and maria theresa, i feel like we don't talk about this enough. and that the you know the underlying realities of not just the crisis, but also how we decided to fix the crisis, really under, underpine all of our political, all the stressors in our political system today. people feeling on both the right and the left so disconnected from the way people who are already in power make decisions. >> think if we were to pinpoint one of the reasons why we have a

populist movement, you could point to 2008 when we decided we were not only going to bail out the banks, but we were not going to redistribute the wealth to the middle class that was already suffering. whenning you talk about a shared economy, when you talk about not wanting to buy a house, but they're okay with not buying a car, instead focusing on airbnbs and ubers, they've decided that maybe that middle clas is so out of reach. they're not going to invest in the initial offerings of maybe buying the first car or the first home. for many people, kind of system, there really doesn't seem like there's any way out and playing by the rules doesn't work out for you. >> it doesn't. if you look at what's happening here in washington, about whether this could happen again, what has happened since then? we've seen dodd-frank rolled back. we've seen the cfpb have its fangs taken out. these were the institutions that were put in place after this crash. to protect that from happening again.

to allow americans to have a way to bet back to at least where they were before this. and those watchdogs are no longer there. think that's adding fuel to this idea that for some people this sort of financial dream is out of reach. and that continues. >> and for the 2016 election, we like to focus on this idea that it was about race. i actually when you take this -- i believe it was deeply around a generational divide where the majority of white women voted for trump. but the average age of a white woman was 45 years old. if the only thing that the progressives were talking about was choice, not talking about the fact that they were trying to retool. they lost their safety net. their husband might have tried to figure out how to work on this economy and the millennial son is sleeping on the couch this is an economic message. >> this explains why the great economy is not resonating with voters, because they still are not feeling it in many ways. what to watch for in the week ahead.

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before we dw, we want to talk about what we're watching in the week ahead. there's a consensus at the table that we agree that what's going to happen with kavanaugh and the allegations from a dr. christine ford and a little bit of breaking news here. senator bob corker now saying that he believes that the vote should not be held until they have a chance for ford to speak to the committee. if she wishes to do so, though, he says she should do it promptly. he adds that he thinks that this would be the best course of action for all involved.

including the nominee, brett kavanaugh, that's another republican who says we need to hear from this woman before we move forward on this. >> it's flake and corker are recognizing that in the best interests of the republican party to make sure that this woman gets heard out. especially in the time of the hashtag #metoo movement. >> and the political reability that mid-terms are seven and a half weeks away. they cannot be seen as looking like they are trying to as you said, railroad someone. they have to let her be heard. >> it will be difficult and interesting week on capitol hill this week. that does it for us, tonight here on kasie d.c. we'll be back with you next week from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. our reminder that the "meet the press" film festival is happening october 7 and 8 in washington. tickets are available now. i will be there, so should you. coming up next, msnbc's headliners takes an in-depth

look at michael cohen. how does he transition from president trump's leading defender to a major liability. good night from washington. michael cohen pled guilty on the eight counts today. michael cohen was the president's fixer. >> if anybody else was in his mind going after his boss, he was going to fight back. and the keeper of his secrets. >> of all the individuals in trump's orbit that knew where the bodies were buried, if you will. michael cohen was at the top of the list. >> he swore he would do anything to protect the president. >> he told me woe take a bullet for the president. >> but an fbi raid changed everything. >> i heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys.