well public zen's blog is a member of the german parliament from chair from chancellor akhil c.d.u. party he's also a member of the parliamentary committee that question mr moss and yesterday i asked him to tell us what he'd heard from the domestic intelligence chief. he said that he is just describing this kind of video that media is using this kind of video as an evidence and we don't know whether video comes from who made it we don't know how the scenery began we don't know how the scenery ends and it was just published on a platform that's called second base so a very a left wing platform we don't know who is the owner of this platform so a lot of questions are open and he said. media should ask where the videos coming from if it's authentic and he said it's not authentic because there was a headline it was written with mentioned yard so that's not an evidence for him to questions one do you believe that video is authentic and second is it really his job to go out publicly and comment on on material like that yes so it's not a fake media and that is something that mohsen describ

legal expertise to defend big business he represented facebook and the consumer credit rating agency akhil fact before taking up the position and ask him up and reports there are now accusations of possible conflict of interest. it's job is pretty simple protect americans from the might of big business the job of the consumer protection bureau of the united states is to make sure that the products americans purchase are safe and to make sure they don't buy into false advertising the f.t.c. was given the power to investigate and stop unfair methods of competition and deceptive practices so meet the man whose job it is to protect american consumers from dangerous products he was just appointed by the trumpet ministration his name andrew smith now anderson is knows quite a bit about corporations who get dragged into court for harming the public why does he know all about it well he's been representing those corporations for most of his life as a corporate lawyer in fact the two most high profile cases facebook and equifax are both his former clients now that little fact did not go unnoticed.

akhil: sure. but, again, the question is, compared to what? and on some issues i actually would -- will take my chances with brett kavanaugh over other judges that could be possible nominees because i think brett kavanaugh has thought about the constitution more carefully than most other lower court judges. it's very impressive. their job discription day in and day out typically does not involve constitutional law. it's hard to actually study the constitution in great detail. i think he has done that. and on various issues, i actually think, because the constitution is not an invariably conservative document, it often stands for very important liberal principles. if you study the document and you are a constitutional expert, you are prepared to think about the document, i think, actually, as a liberal, we will do better with him than with others who have not thought as deeply about the constitution. i like what he has written also off the bench about the constitution, where he talked about the importance of the reconstruction amendments. that

association gave him their highest qualification and why yale university law professor who's liberal, akhil testified today saying he is an excellent choice. >> what do you make of folks who say, "you could do much worse with republicans"? this is a guy who they believe is going to adhere to the constitution. >> yeah, and they're wrong. >> based on what? >> let me answer the question, or try to at least for you. what's striking to me is what we learned this week from the papers that senate republicans tried to keep secret and cory booker and others helped to force into the light. let me try to make this point because i think it goes directly to your question. look at judge kavanaugh's position even on roe v wade and women's reproductive rights. we know for a fact that when he was a counsel for president bush that he made a point to say it's not. what that suggests is that -- while he understands that precedent is precedent, he is completely open and recognizes the possibility that a supreme court can -- >>i need to stop you right there because we want to talk about this in a factual way so

akhil amar knows kavanaugh well and testified on his behalf.r, thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> so you are, by your own description, a hillary clinton voter, probably vote differently from brett kavanaugh. why would you support his confirmation? >> because he's a student of this document, the constitution. he studied it with intelligence and diligence. i believe he is the single best republican sitting federal judge under age 60 available. he's the best person for the job, the best person on the horizon. i'm not a supporter of many of the things that the trump administration has done, but here they've picked someone who is really sane, sober. any republican judge -- any republican president should have had someone like brett kavanaugh at the top of his list because the most important thing the supreme court does is constitution interpretation and brett kavanaugh takes the constitution very seriously. >> well, that is a great and sober and honest endorsement. what do you make, given the criteria you use to make that decision,

in a new op-ed in the yale daily news monday titled "second thoughts on kavanaugh," professor akhil amarrote -- "i believe that these accusations deserve the best and most professional investigation possible -- even if that means a brief additional delay on the ultimate vote on judge kavanaugh, and even if that investigatory delay imperils his confirmation." this is amar on cnn. >> i have secondnd thoughts becacause a second issssue has s arisen, anand it is s an issue abobout , frfrankly, i d don't have the f. i don't thinanany americanan yet has the factcts. amy: f for more, we go to yale university where we're joined by samantha peltz, a second year yale law school student who helped organize monday's protest there. welcome to d democracy now! samantha, it is greatt to have you with us. talk about what you are doing at yale. brett kavanaugh, a yale alum. >> as you previously said on monday, we hosted a sit in, the first 30 minutes we sat in silence, took in the silence that diffuses women whose allegations go unreported, sometimes for decades. after that, we did a teach-in and we were

those who came forward to support judge kavanaugh including my own professor from yale law school akhil amar and an organization i've long belong to the american bar association has spoken up to all so request, a thorough and professional background investigation. i think to ask for a week is not to ask for too much. when professor anita hill came forward, the white house cooperated, and in four days, in four days a hearing was put together with 22 witnesses. i think that's what dr. ford deserves. i think that's what her bravery deserves and i think that's what our nation deserves. i will not go through a long point by point refutation of what we just heard from some of my colleagues but let me simply say a few things about dr. ford's testimony. as i said she bore the pain of this attack for far too long but her memories did not stay hers alone. dr. ford told her now husband in 2002. in 2002. she told therapists in 2012, in 2013. she told friends in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 and has submitted testimony about all of that to this committee. dr. ford when she came forward yesterday had nothin