♪ this morning it all comes down to a crucial vote. republicans on the senate judiciary committee are pushing ahead with a vote on brett kavanagh. president trump has made it clear he is standing behind his supreme court nominee. today kavanaugh's fate appears to be in the hands of several key republican senators. ♪ good morning, everyone. it is friday, september 28th. i'm ayman mohyeldin. after a long and emotional day of testimony in the united states senate yesterday, it appears some senators will have to decide just in a few hours

from now with a vote slated for the judiciary committee on brett kavanagh's nomination to the supreme court. senator mitch mcconnell plans a procedural vote on saturday with a full floor vote as soon as this tuesday. as for today, republicans senator jeff flake told reporters it will be a tough decision, adding that he found both ford and kavanaugh to be credible. quote, if you're making an allegation, you want there to be some corroboration and that's a tough standard. i want to give it some thought. corroborating evidence is what senator corker says he is basing his vote to confirm kavanaugh on, stating last night, while both individuals provided compelling testimony, nothing that has been presented corroborates the allegation. a small pack of senators are undecided including susan collins and lisa murkowski. according to politico, aides and senators expect collins and

murkowski to vote in a block with undecided democrats joe donnelly and joe manchin. >> is temperament also an important trait for us to consider? >> for 12 years, everyone who's appears before me on the d.c. circuit has praised my judicial temperament. that's why you have the unanimous well qualified rating from the american bar association. >> last night the american bar association called for a pause in the confirmation process so an fbi investigation can take place. president robert carlson writing, each appointment to our nation's highest court, as with all others, is simply too important to rush to a vote. >> president trump, whose accounts remained silent all day, endorsed kavanaugh in a tweet after the hearing's conclusion. quote, judge kavanagh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful,

honest and riveting. democrats' search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct and resist. the senate must vote. vice president pence wrote, i stand with judge kavanagh, a person of integrity and impeccable credentials. take the vote. >> dr. christine blasey ford testified yesterday before the senate committee recounting the day supreme court nominee judge kavanagh allegedly sexual assaulted her when they were both high school students back in 1982. >> i don't have all the answers and i don't remember as much as i would like to, but the details about that night that bring me here today are the ones i will never forget. they have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult. i was pushed onto the bed and brett got on top of me. he began running his hands over

my body and grinding into me. i yelled, hoping that someone downstairs might hear me, and i tried to get away from him but his weight was heavy. brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. he had a hard time because he was very ineast binebriated. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. it was hard for me to breathe and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me. >> ford also defended the timing of her allegation, telling the committee that she had tried to reach out early in the nomination process. >> i saw press reports stating that brett kavanagh was on the

short list of a list of very well qualified supreme court nominees. i thought it was my civic duty to relay the information i had about mr. kavanaugh's conduct so that those considering his nomination would know about this assault. on july 6th, i had a sense of urgency to relay the information to the senate and the president as soon as possible before a nominee was selected. >> meanwhile, ford was asked about her certainty that brett kavanagh was the person who assaulted her. this is what she had to say. >> last night, the republican staff of this committee released to the media a timeline that shows that they've interviewed two people who claim they were the ones who actually assaulted you. i'm asking you to address this new defense of mistaken identity directly. dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanagh assaulted you?

>> 100%. >> now, some of the most emotional moments of yesterday's hearing were when dr. ford answered democratic senators' questions recounting the alleged assault by brett kavanagh that happened over 30 years ago in a maryland home. watch this. >> what is the strongest memory you have, memory of the incident, something you cannot forget? take whatever time you need. >> indelible in the hippocampus is the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense. >> you've never forgotten them laughing at you? >> they were laughing with each other. >> and you were the object of the laughter?

>> i was, you know, underneath one of them while the two laughed, two friends having a really good time with one another. >> meanwhile, judge kavanagh came out swinging with an angry and emotional opening statement denying the allegations and slamming the process. >> i was not at the party described by dr. ford. this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. since my nomination in july, there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything, to block my confirmation. the day after the allegation appeared, i told this committee that i wanted a hearing as soon as possible to clear my name.

i demanded a hearing for the very next day. unfortunately, it took the committee ten days to get to this hearing. in those ten long days, as was predictable and as i predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. the ten-day delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the supreme court and to the country. this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fuelled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revek nge on

behalf of the clintons and millions of dollars of money from left wing outside opposition groups. this is a circus. >> there's one thing democrats kept hammering away at. it was the need for an fbi investigation. here's one notable exchange between kavanaugh and senator dick durbin. >> judge kavanagh, turn to don mcgahn and to this committee and say for the sake of my reputation, my family name and to get to the bottom of the truth of this, i am not going to be an obstacle to an fbi investigation. i would hope that all the members of the committee would join me in saying we will have that investigation. >> i welcome whatever the committee wants to do because i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do. >> i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do. >> i'm innocent of this charge. >> then you're prepared for an fbi investigation? >> they don't reach conclusions. >> but they do investigate questions. if there is no truth to her

charges, the fbi investigation will show that. are you afraid they might not? >> come on. you know that's a phony question, because the fbi doesn't reach conclusions. >> judge kavanagh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? >> i will do whatever the committee wants. >> personally do you think that's the best thing for us to do? you won't answer? >> look, senator, i -- i've said i wanted a hearing and i said i would welcome anything. i'm innocent. >> kavanaugh also got into it with several senators who questioned his beer drinking in high school. here's senator sheldon whitehouse referring to an entry in the nominee's yearbook. >> let's look at beach week ralph club biggest contributor.

>> that probably refers to throwing up. i'm known to have a weak stomach. anyone who's known me my whole life know, you know, i got a weak stomach whether it's with beer or spicy food or anything. >> so the vomiting that you reference in the ralph club reference related to the consumption of alcohol? >> senator, i was at the top of my class academically, busted my butt in school. >> and did the word ralph you used in your yearbook -- >> i already answered the question. >> did it relate to alcohol? >> i like beer. i like beer. do you like beer, senator, or not? what do you like to drink? >> next one is -- >> senator, what do you like to drink? >> drinking is one thing, but the concern is about truthfulness. in your written testimony you said sometimes you had too many drinks. was there ever a time when you drank so much that you couldn't remember what happened or part

of what happened the night before? >> no. i remember what happened. and i think you've probably had beers, senator. >> so you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> you're asking about a blackout. i don't know. have you? >> could you answer the question, judge? so that's not happened, is that your answer? >> yeah. i'm curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> nor do i. >> now, just before that exchange, she shared her other father's struggle with alcoholism. kavanaugh later apologized for asking the senator if she'd ever been blackout drunk. still ahead, we're going to have much, much more on yesterday's hearing on capitol hill, including the senators who we should be watching closely

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see so many people in various senators' offices gathered around televisions trying to watch. and this is more so with dr. ford, watching what was going on before them. the house members were keeping an eye on it as well. the senate essentially shut down after one vote earlier in the morning to let this process go forward. the other thing that was particularly compelling was that during that first vote at about noontime -- so this is midway through dr. ford's testimony -- republican senators, you know, talked to me and they said, you know, she's very credible, she's compelling. they seemed worried. they were questioning the tactic that the republican senators were using during that questioning period, allowing an outside counsel to ask the questions and not -- a lot of these guys are former prosecutors and attorneys -- and

not acting on their probably gut instinct to jump in and ask more aggressive questions. >> that obviously didn't last for judge kavanagh. we saw lindsey graham and others subsequently after that, they didn't allow her to ask judge kavanagh any statements. they took over. obviously that part is now over. the question that the republican leadership is pushing forward with is whether or not he will pass committee and ultimately senate confirmation. who are the senators that we should be watching out for in these final hours? who do you think is still on the fence and which way are they le leaning. >> jeff flake on the fence. he's on the judiciary committee. the judiciary committee is going to vote today and they will vote his nomination out of committee. it's a matter of how it is voted. is it voted with a favorable recommendation, without

recommendation, or sit repois i reported out with an unfavorable recommendation to confirm? that's the big question. from what i understand, depending on what happens this morning, perhaps it could go to sending the nomination to the floor without recommendation. unclear if it would be unfavorable. as for when it gets to the senate floor, you've got to keep your eye on lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins from maine, of course jeff flake. bob corker was a question mark aft. he came out after the testimony yesterday and said he's on board. john kyle was one of the so-called sherpas who essentially escorted judge kavanagh around during this whole process. their big argument to these folks is, well, if the democrats

had been sitting on this for 45 days, why did they do that? >> senator graham turned to joseph flake and sa jeff flake and said, if you block this, it would be sha shameful. >> lindsey graham received a few rounds of applause when he walks into that room. president trump had a priva -- his private meeting with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has been pushed to next week. rosenstein has denied the report. trump initially wanted to meet with rosenstein yesterday after returning to the white house from the u.n. general assembly but he later said he didn't want to distract from yesterday's senate hearing. trump and rosenstein spoke yesterday and agreed to meet

next week zbh. the house intelligence kmitd tee is set to vote on whether or not to release the transcripts of the dozens of interviews as part of its now defunct russia investigation. the testimony includes donald junior, jared kushner, hope hicks, michael cohen, dan coats, jeff sessions and steve bannon. several prominent officials in the obama administration testified as well. the chairman of the committee devin nunes initially resisted calls from democrats to release the transcripts to the public, but now says he wants to do so before the midterm election. if approved for release, the documents would first go to the director of national intelligence for declassification review. still ahead, we're going to take a break from politics. week four kicks off in the nfl. but can the rams stay undefeated? highlights from thursday night football next. highlights from thursday night football next. sometimes, the pressures of today's world can make it tough

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♪ welcome back on this friday morning. let's start with the morning's top stories. during much of christine blasey ford's testimony yesterday, republicans on the judiciary committee sat in silence behind prosecutor rachel mitchell. they did not even speak to yield their time to her with chairman grassley speaking for them.

he beg >> did you consume alcohol during your high school years? >> yes. we drank beer, my friends and i, boys and girls. yes, we drank beer. i liked beer, still like beer. we drank beer. the drinking age as i noted was 18, so the seniors were legal. senior year in high school, people were legal to drink. yeah, we drank beer. i said sometimes probably had too many beers and sometimes other people had too many beers. we drank beer. we liked beer. >> what do you consider to be too many beers? >> i don't know. you know what the chart says, the blood alcohol chart. >> later mitchell was relegated to the sidelines once republican senators led by lindsey graham took over the questioning. when she left the hearing, she did not respond to repeated questions. >> another undecided senator came off the fence last night. democrat doug jones of alabama

posted on twitter that he has called for complete disclosure of all documents, a subpoena of mark judge and to postpone the vote. quote, dr. ford was credible and courageous. what message whereill we send tr daughters and sons, let alone sexual assault victims? the message is this. i vote no. eight senators are undecided on the nomination. among them susan collins, lisa murkowski, jeff flake and democrat joe manchin, who huddled together after yesterday's hearing. >> judge kavanagh refused to say whether he wanted his high school friend mark judge, who dr. ford claims witnessed the assault, to testify before lawmakers. >> he authored a book titled "wasted, tales of a genx drunk." is that you he's talking about?

>> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you he's talking about? >> i'll explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem, an addiction problem, that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from. he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his therapy or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fictionalized book and an account. i think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close to what -- for characters in the book. >> we don't know whether that's you or not? >> we could sit here and make fun of some guy who has an

addiction. >> i'm trying to get a straight answer from you under oath. are you bart kavanaugh that he's referring to? >> you'd have to ask him. >> well, agree with you there. that's why i wish the chairman had him here under oath. >> in a letter that chairman grassley's office sent last night, mark judge was not recall the events and his lawyer says that he does not want to comment publicly and will not respond to any media inquiries. >> judge kavanagh became emotional while disputing the allegations against him in discussing a request by his 10-year-old daughter. >> i'm not questioning that dr. ford may have been sexual assaulted by some person in some place at some time. but i have never done this to her or to anyone.

that's not who i am. it is not who i was. i am innocent of this charge. i intend no ill will to dr. ford and her family. the other night my daughter said her prayers. and little liza, all of 10 years old, said to ashley, we should pray for the woman. that's a lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old. >> one of the lefting mome iriv there in crucial testimony. we heard that and we heard also when it comes to kickoff's testimony the defiance, the anger. how are republicans responding to that span of emotions from kavanaugh yesterday? >> well, that's actually one of

the interesting things that i wanted to add to the first question. one thing that was remarkable after kavanaugh started speaking was when i went around and i was talking to some of my republican sources, in particular some house lawmakers as well as a few senators. the one thing they said is, brett kavanagh, the way that he answered these questions and the way he came out guns blazing but also vulnerable actually ended up uniting a lot of people on the republicans. the reason i say a lot of republicans is i talked to a more moderate house member and then somebody who supports donald trump, somebody who's not necessarily for donald trump, the anti-trumpers and the pro trumpers who have been on opposite pages for so long, this testimony and their belief that the democrats sat on this until the very last minute, you know, creating this situation in which a guy who's been a federal judge

for years who's gone through confirmation hearings before, his life is in upheaval. they said that's not fair. that's one interesting thing that came out of this that i wasn't necessarily expecting. you could even see that when ben sass, who's actually a vocal critic of the president was near tears when he interjected for a minute during that hearing. >> americans yesterday were all captivated by this. we've seen social media images of people on planes watching this, at bars, at work. regardless of what happens today with the vote, we know that both republicans and democrats obviously are very invested in this, so is the country. but could this impact the november elections regardless of how the vote goes down today with judge kavanagh? >> well, i think that the republicans are taking it very seriously. it's one reason why you didn't see republican senators asking dr. ford questions.

she was a very credible witness. it was compelling to hear testimony -- and this is something i did hear from a republican senator, from an individual who experienced something like that, but who's a psychologist. she's a psychiatrist. so she was able to sort of also stand back and analyze it from that perspective. it brought a lot of credibility to her own testimony. and that's something especially given what's going on with the me too movement, that's one of the reasons why republican senators held their tongue during that portion of the hearing, which is why i think that after the kavanaugh appearance, they were glad that they did. >> the expertise she showed, the word choice, her terminology she was using in describing her memories, you couldn't help notice that. thank you. joining us on set susan.

great to have you. grade for us the performance of judge kavanagh and the republicans who are on that dais yesterday. you had the prosecutor rachel mitchell begin the line of questioning until lindsey graham intervened. then we saw 180 degree shift in the tone of that session. >> i think what we saw was after such a credible testimony given by dr. ford, everyone at halftime, if you will, was wondering how is kavanaugh going to come off. i think he did exactly what his goals were, which was to basically convince the president that he should stand by him. as far as the questioning goes, this was either bad or horrible for the republicans. having rachel mitchell there asking questions was a smart move on dr. ford and it proved when lindsey graham jumped in exactly why they shouldn't be asking questions of dr. ford. they went in and this became a partisan fight and they turned the tone of that hearing around

and they basically were sending a message, we are going to get this confirmation through. >> where does that leave them, the undecideds, that cluster after the hearings? >> there's a lot to weigh. i think it's going to come down to that john mccain moment that we saw on health care. is it going to be thumbs up or thumbs down? we may not know until the very end. i know they don't want to bring it to a vote unless they have to. it's interesting because it's in the republicans' and democrats' best interest to bring this to a vote, i think, today, because i don't think anyone could be any stronger than they are today. >> quickly, if you're advising any of these republican senators, is this a vote your conscious moment? or how would you encourage them to go about analyzing which way to vote? >> i think you're going to see people who are afraid of a

primary, or people who want to seek a higher office, whether it be senator flake who's retiring but there's talk about him running for president. if he votes no, it's going to be very hard for him to run in a primary. it's the typical washington environment that we live in. vote your interest, now vote your conscious. the republicans are willing to lose the senate for two cycles, three cycles if it means changing the court. >> thank you so much. still ahead, the u.s. and russia butting heads at the united nations over steps to get north korea to denuclearization. details on the move by moscow that could undermine the international message to pong angelina jol pyongyang. pyongyang. if you have psoriasis, ...

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year, all in order to lay the foundation for a second summit between trump and the north korean dictator. it is a soggy morning for a lot of us in the northeast. bill karins has a check of the forecast. >> the weekend we have this heavy rain event. it's been a rainy september. it's pouring right over the top of new york city. good news for washington, d.c., looks like the rain is just about gone. philadelphia, looks like most of the rain is just about over with. new york city, let's give it another hour or so and that will be it. connecticut unfortunately, though, and much of massachusetts you're going to be soaked this morning. we're under a flash flood watch. now we're adding about 1-3 inches in a quick period of time from new york city to long island and southern connecticut especially. this is the area that had eight inches of rain only about four days ago so the ground is super saturated already. here we are at 7:00 a.m. this

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welcome back. let's turn to business. elon musk privatization tweets continue to haunt the tesla ceo. after weeks of scrutiny, the s.e.c. is seeking to force him out of the company through a lawsuit filed on thursday. juliana, talk about tweeting yourself into trouble, it's hard to think about tesla without thinking about elon musk. i guess the question is how high are the stakes for musk with this lawsuit? >> yes. the stakes are certainly extremely high. this is just one more challenge for elon musk and tesla. the security and exchange commission announced yesterday

that they are suing the ceo for fraud and attempting to take him from his spot as ceo. they are charging him for misleading and false tweets. earlier this year in august, he tweeted he was considering taking the company private for a price of $420 per share. the s.e.c. alleges that he came to its number because of its reference in marijuana culture and because he thought it would amuse his girlfriend. elon says these claims are unjustified and he is disappointed and saddened by the s.e.c.'s action. uber has settled claims over the ride sharing company data breach to the tune of $148 million. i know they tried to hide the fact that they lost the data in the first place originally. >> yes. so moving from one controversial company to another, uber has settled this lawsuit over the handling of the 2016 data

breach. back in 2016 when they became aware of it, instead of reporting it, uber decided to pay the hackers off and force them to delete the data. now, uber being forced to pay a fine of nearly $150 million. the proceeds of this will be disbursed across the states and in addition to this, they will have to change the way they operate and submit regular reports to regulators around security incidents. back to you. >> thanks so much. still to come, jonathan swan has a look at this morning's one big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," republicans push ahead to confirm brett kavanaugh. >> the morning after the gripping testimony by the judge and dr. christine blahsy ford, they're now set to vote on kavanaugh's supreme court nomination. >> "morning joe" will have the latest on capitol hill including senator sheldon whitehouse including his reaction to yesterday's hearing. including his reaction to yesterday's hearing. oh!

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joining us here now on set with a look at axios a.m., national reporter jonathan swan. how are you, bud? good to have you on set. what's the one big thing for us this morning? >> in a sign of how much more divided this situation is going to be with the supreme court, top the democratic strategists are already telling us that impeachment of brett kavanaugh, should he be confirmed, will be a 2020 campaign issue. the question i think is who is going to be the first to call for it. we all have betts. my bet is michael avanatti. >> let's talk about right now, waking up, all of this being digested and confirmed, what is it with the confirmation hearings and your thoughts? >> based on our conversations and to be clear, these are the not with people inside mcconnell's office, he was count on 38er hard yeses. the three undecideds, jeff

flake, susan collins, lisa murkowski, republicans seemed reasonably optimistic about joe manchion from west virginia. he comes from a very heavy trump state and this would be a big signal to the voters that he needs to turn out. so, again, his people say he is undecided, but that's where the ball game is. >> if there is one thing we know president trump likes is a big theatrical drama on tv and that is how things played out yesterday. what has been the reaction to the way things unfolded? >> it was very hard to get any realtime insight because the president was watching ford when he was on air force one. he was in the front of the plane. all the staff were actually back. as far as i'm aware, i don't know if he made any phone calls off that flight and then he got on to marine one. none of them in the house

thought -- like people were were worried about the situation. i don't think they had any political choice. but later in the day, my understanding is the president was buoyed by brett kavanaugh's pretty aggressive testimony. >> but you can say with that testimony on the other side saying that, yeah, when it comes to the defiance, the anger that he showed, with that when you're talking about somebody that is going to sit on the supreme court, the pendulum swung the other way, a little bit too much especially when it comes to the questioning there with senator cloviture and questioning her with her fare's history of alcoholism and coming back to apologize, did that switch it around there? >> it sort of -- you see what you want to see, right? democrats saw an angry, noncredible man. republicans saw a man -- what i

was hearing from republicans in the white house and on the hill is he should be angry, he's been falsely accused of rape. people are so dug into their trenches, that's where we're at. >> what is the lasting impact of how all of this played out? regardless of the vote today, if judge kavanaugh is confirmed, you have heard him make some very strong political comments in his opening statements and some say it will be difficult to look at him as an impartial judge any more. >> look, it's been a political fight for a long time on the supreme court. only one supreme court justice in history did they try to impeach. they failed. we are heading into a new direction. there are renewed calls on the left for clarence thomas to be impeached for lying about anita

hill. >> a historic and defining moment for the country. >> we're going to see you on "morning joe," as well. we will be reading axios, as well. you, too, can sign up for the newsletter. >> that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. >> last night, the republican staff of this committee released to the media a timeline that shows that they've interviewed two people who claim they were the ones who actually assaulted you. i am asking you to address this new defense of mistaken identity directly. dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you 12347. >> 100%. >> the day after the allegation appeared, i