coming out is this idea that i mean look this morning for no good reason then i see tweets about al franken resignation and all these trashing senator gillibrand and everybody all the white female senators who stood up and said look if he did this he should step down if you gauge this kind of behavior and he's making excuses for you to step down now they're the enemy because now we don't have al franken vote. why does anyone even ask why we don't report things why does anyone even ask anymore when you clearly this shows it should show democrats and republicans alike. you don't ever ask me again why women don't want to give you a laundry list of why women don't report and i think what the worst part of all of this is where we've made some several good advances of the last two years and with the me to move it this now probably is the biggest dagger in the politicization of the me too movement and i think the question is right now you have cavanaugh who has been confirmed several times he's had to appear why is the story just now coming out when he's coming out for the highest office you alway

she stood up for the creep al franken. it's political. none of the people they are attacking -- here, judge kavanaugh, none of them have gone after keith ellison, number two of the dnc, congressman. doesn't that prove the hypocrisy? >> it not only proves the hypocrisy. but since when does truth and justice or guilt and innocence depend on your political party? i fear the nation that this is the standard. you believe any >> sean: judge, what would happen. you saw the moveon.org -- we believe you, your story is incredible. we don't know what happened and neither do they. it's a serious allegation. rightly the president has taken it seriously. the they are trying to accommodate professor ford every way they can. i agree with that. but if there was an ad that said, you are credible, judge kavanaugh, we believe you, with the reaction be? >> they would hit the ceiling. a contradiction beyond anything i've ever seen. i worry for the country. i do not want these people who sit on juries. it's no longer about the facts, truth and justice. it's abo

she supported al franken.enator feinstein is claiming the media somehow outed professor ford that only feinstein and her fellow democrats had access to. i don't believe them, they were the only ones that had the information. senate democrats will not even show a senate republicans since july the unredacted letter where ford makes her first allegations. why won't they allow the republicans to see this? this is some sort of political game and it's not. these are real lives in play. democrats? they never wanted him to be confirmed. we saw how they acted during the hearings, we see how they are acting now. this is why every americanct hs a right to be skeptical tonight. we know the democratic party, we know their track record on claims of sexual misconduct.ke it is beyond suspect. take, for example, right now, not 36 years ago, congressman keith ellison, he's the deputy chair, number two guy, of the democratic party. in august, a month ago, his ex-girlfriend went public with claims that keith ellison, congressman

again, al franken resigning in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.d pledged your team had pledged to return all of the donations that came from his camp. why did you only return or donate half of them? >> well, i did. i requested that they return all of it, and they did, and tin tht election. however, there was some donated in the previous election. that election was closed, so i told them to go back and contribute that to charity as well. and as you all brought it to light, that's what i've said, and that's what's being done today. >> okay. so that's being done today. senator, let's now try to talk about what you're doing there in -- to support puerto rico. what are you hoping to accomplish with your appearance at this rally today? >> well, puerto rico has been tre treated the citizens as second class citizens. they're our fellow u.s. citizens. you just don't treat fellow u.s. citizens that over 10 months they don't get electricity restored. i've been to the mountains, places totally cut off. it took two weeks to even open up some roads. i went to a

i was thinking about al franken.ot of back and forth about whether al franken should have resigned. i remember his female colleagues said we cannot take this anymore. how many women is it going to take before al franken resigns and he ended up leaving. >> clair atkinson, i want to touch on the severance package for les moonves because it's an important part of this story. $20 million will go to me too. a lot of pressure to say no perhaps $100 million parachute for you. it seems they're trying to punt this out of the spotlight and perhaps give him a major severance package. >> the phrasing of the statement certainly suggests that while he might not be walking away with $100 million that there might be something after the investigations wrap up. i think it's really important that we keep in mind that the cbs directors are probably asking themselves, can we get sued if we give les moonves $100 million to leave with. that certainly is something they might be thinking and there's a precedent for this with michael ovitz wh

especially with paula jones and al franken.d you make of "the new york times" blockbuster about rod rosenstein and taping the president? >> if i can start on this one. dr.gorka, i apologize. i'm a democrat but a trained lawyer. this is outrageous. i don't see how we can continue to supervise the mueller investigation, which i do think should finish but the only way it can finish fairly is with him out of the picture recused or fired and he really think we need to look at this justice department. >> sean: dr.gorka, last word? >> i always want to ask the first question. who does this profit? "the new york times," why aree they burning rod rosenstein right now? martha may be right. this may be a political trap for the president. but doug is also correct. this guy is so conflicted from the get-go, the man that signed the fisa warrant and escorted his best friend, escorted mueller to the interview with the president that he failed when-- >> sean: the last point is all of this is going to be exposed very expeditiously. release the do

. >> al franken lost his job in the senate. >> and a number of other democrats should have the same type of scrutiny. >> what's the answer to my question? every single time the president has taken the side of the man against women accusers. >> that's not true. and in this case, the president knows brett kavanaugh. he has heard his story. there hasn't been a shred of evidence to corroborate the other individual stories, and there has been a lot of individuals that have come forward and talked about the brett kavanaugh that they know and they're confident these things didn't happen. >> final question, what does the president hope to achieve at the u.n. today? >> i think that his speech this morning is going to be a great moment for the president. we've had a tremendous amount of success particularly when it comes to the foreign policy front over the last year since he gave his last speech. if you'll remember the rhetoric last year was extremely tough with north korea. i think you'll see certainly a different tone and a lot of progress has been made on that front in large part due to the pr

we should look at who they are as well. >> he worked for senator al franken for many years. earlier this year he resigned. he said in the midst of his cell and me me too program committee studies done the right thing. did he seek counsel with you on this decision and do you believe this treatment was fair? >> i will comment on any conversations i may or may not have had with him at the time, but i will say for the senator in what i've always known is that he was going to do the right thing for the people of minnesota when it was clear to him what the right thing to do was. and i think that this moment we are in and the conversation that we are having really arguably for the first time is really, really important. i think we need to continue having conversations about where we go from here. and so you really have any, should that have happened to al franken? there is a spectrum of things. he was in a perfect storm moment where he made the right decision for his outfit that moment. times change monthly at this point it's not daily. we have to look at how we are handling each a

. >> what al franken was accused of doing is less than what we're talking about here. >> reporter: this is sort of an open wound here in congress. this is something that has still not been settled after we went through this me, too, moment here earlier in the year. both houses, the senate and the house passed bills that would change reporting requirements, that would speed up the process, that would make it easier for folks to lodge complaints when there were sexual harassment or sexual assault allegations, and those two bills have not been reconciled. they have not been able to agree to one process out of these two to send to the president's desk, which means we're still looking at the same antiquated system here that was an issue before al franken, before any of these other scandals that have popped up on capitol hill. there are bills that have been passed, but nothing that has moved yet to take the force of law. it's a frustrating thing, quite honestly, for people who work on capitol hill that they have not been able to come to an agreement on this issue, and it stayed a little bit u

wow.sa then defended al franken. that's the one dianne feinstein recommended.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. >> sean

so you're really asking me should that have happened to al franken, there's a spectrum of things. he was in a perfect storm moment where he made the right decision for himself at that moment. times change monthly at this point, if not daily. looking atontinue how we are handling each and every one of these situations. very carefully. it should not be a one-size-fits-all. we should have a conversation. and that's why i think with happening right now, we should have a conversation about what happened 35 plus years ago with judge kavanaugh, i think it's important to know. coming back to midterms, if the house flips to democratic control, do you think nancy pelosi should be speaker, or should she passed the torch to someone else within the democratic party? first off, when the house flips. it's going to be a very exciting moment for women in this country. although the questions about nancy pelosi, i will say i find just a little frustrating because here's the thing -- she was one of the best speakers we've ever had. do know how hard it is to run the house of representatives? it's real

we should look at who they are as well. >> you worked with senator al franken for many years. earlier this year he resigned, and you've said in the midst of his own me too moment. at the time, you said he had done the right thing. did he seek counsel with you on this decision, and do you believe that his treatment was fair? >> and i won't comment on any conversations i may or may not have had with him at the time. but i will say for the senator and what i've always known about senator franken is that he was going to do the right thing for the people of minnesota. when it was clear to him what the right thing to do was, he did it. and i think that in this moment that we're in and these conversations that we are having really arguably for the first time as loud as we're having is really, really important. i think we need to start to continue having those conversations about where we go from here. and so you're really asking me should that have happened to al franken, there is a spectrum of things. he was in a perfect storm moment where he made the right decision for himself at t

the one exception was al franken who was fushed out o pushed oute senate. but republicans soft pedal the investigations of the republicans or explain them away. democrats haven't pushed for investigations on allegations on their side. it's like team sports and no one is willing to say everything should be investigated. jesse: i think what you're investigating is the congressman up in wisconsin who i think wants to run for attorney general there, keith ellison. >> minnesota. the midwest. jesse: no one believes the woman. no democrats according to the polls believe the woman that ellison allegedly abused in some capacity. and the there's not a lot of calls for investigations among democrats for his alleged victim. so marie is right. it's become team sport politicians whapoliticians wheno these issues. >> i would disagree. it's the republicans saying yes, we want to accuser to speak. we're giving her a hearing on monday. by contrast, keith ellison, this woman making the l gaition has medical records, she's confessed to four witnesses and has text messages flp'

even in the al franken example -- i think he should have gone and i think what he did was very bad andsed by multiple people, you know, many women, same stories. and he did it as an adult. and he did it recently, within the last decade. so we're not talking about something about kids, 30 years ago. >> margaret, do you think if this is true -- if you believe her, you'll never be able to know 100%. if the preponderance of the evidence suggests this is true, should it be disqualifying for brett kavanaugh? >> that's such a hypothetical. we need to characterize or remind people, brett kavanaugh said this did not happen. he categorically says this is not true. this did not happen. for us to stipulate hypotheticals on if it is true, i mean, this is going to -- it sounds like it's one person's word against another. >> that may very well be. >> these lawmakers are tasked with deciding, tasked with who they believe, who is most credible. they'll have to make a decision whether they vote yes or no. >> yes, they're going to have to make a decision. people, the debris and the senators will have to

then, she defended al franken. context is relevant. de not do this as a member of a senate but in the capacity as someone who was still functioning as an entertainer. excuse me. al franken was a senator when this, in fact, occurred. that's issue one. we are going to talk about what it is bill clinton did to paula jones. he dropped his pants, exposed himself to a woman he didn't know, and said, kiss it. now, paula jones won a settlement agreement of $850,000. but, the point here is that the lawyer for professor ford while clearly she has a political agenda, inconsistent views on this topic. the daily caller today uncovered that back in 2017, this same lawyer vowed to resist president trump. take a look for yourself. >> finally, over the finish line, the new attorney general this morning grateful to the colleagues who fought for him. >> i can't express how appreciative i am for those of you who have stood by me during this difficult time. >> it was a better feud to the very end. >> we are going to fight back. >> that's her resisting. why

perpetrators according to their politics, according to their -- do you think i would work -- >> al franken lost his job, harvey weinstein lost his job. >> let's not compare harvey weinstein and bill cosby to what's happened here. >> you're saying that society, media or someone is looking at these things through a political lens. >> i think this week was that way. and it shouldn't be that way. >> it hasn't been that way in the last year. i don't disagree with you about what you're saying about clinton and his behavior and -- >> it shouldn't be a footnote. what about those women? >> there was a huge investigation. brett kavanaugh worked on that investigation. and he was very strongly of the opinion that bill clinton needed to answer for what he did. >> do you know what a liberal democratic woman told me this week who supports brett kavanaugh because she worked with him for a long time? she said kellyanne, i'm so -- everybody is so emotionally drain orded or disgusted based the range of emotions. >> or both. >> or both. i feel badly for brett kavanaugh. i think the democrats could have avoide

she managed the political campaigns in 2006 and al franken in 2008. were happy stephanie has taking time out of her scheduled to be with us. please welcome and join me in welcoming to the national press club, emily's list president, stephanie. [applause] >> thank you so much. it is a pleasure. >> good afternoon. before i start, i just want to start the founder and chair of our board of emily's list, for being here today. we often think of this moment and you'll hear about it as the history making moment that none of this happens immediately. we all stand upon the shoulders of giants before us. and those are allen's. thank you for being here today. [applause] thank you for inviting me to the national press club, at a time when the presses under fire every day in this country. i am grateful to have a chance to speak to you and would like to start by thanking you for the work you do to bring the truth to the public every day. i know your job is in ec. this is such an unbelievable an unprecedented time in the news, with a lot of drama coming at you, parti

then, she defended al franken. context is relevant. de not do this as a member of a senate but in the capacity as someone who was still functioning as an entertainer. excuse me. al franken was a senator when this, in fact, occurred. that's issue one. we are going to talk about what it is bill clinton did to paula jones. he dropped his pants, exposed himself to a woman he didn't know, and said, kiss it. now, paula jones won a settlement agreement of $850,000. but, the point here is that the lawyer for professor ford while clearly she has a political agenda, inconsistent views on this topic. the daily caller today uncovered that back in 2017, this same lawyer vowed to resist president trump. take a look for yourself. >> finally, over the finish line, the new attorney general this morning grateful to the colleagues who fought for him. >> i can't express how appreciative i am for those of you who have stood by me during this difficult time. >> it was a better feud to the very end. >> we are going to fight back. >> that's her resisting. why

then defended al franken. that's the one diane feinstein recommended. they're saying they want artificial deadlines here. the fbi should be able to do this, i would imagine, say they spend eight hours with every 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. tape 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. miracle he had them, in real-time. it corroborates what he said. >> sean: if they have something else planned. somebody admits, i got it wrong and committed a felony. their hope is one of the four committed a 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. >> sean: are they going to call for an fbi investigation into keith ellison and bill clinton

me if i'm wrong, senators michalski and collins, where they part of the group that called for al franken to resign? how does that play out? guest: to the caller's point, the me to movement is lumped sometimes as one generic thing. it is nothing like that. these are complicated and individual questions and they are different is surrounding each one. franken was knocked out of the senate very surprisingly. john conyers, longest-serving -- longest-serving member of the house, a few months before franken. has gone after members of both parties depending on the circumstances. there happens on republicans and some democrats and people have fallen again from both parties. again, the movement and its effect on elections especially from collins, it will be a fascinating dynamic. were among those who were critical of franken. now they will be under pressure to do the same here with brett kavanaugh. no doubt about it. from tennessee, teresa, go ahead. you're on with our guest. is a bribe for susan collins to vote against kavanaugh. just want to put that on the table. but the democrat party, where a

. >> i believe al franken was on the senate judiciary committee. put into perspective the amount of people including lisa murkowski who called for al franken to step down. >> we'll see. we've seen a lot of republicans now, more than i would have expected starting to say maybe there ought to be a pause. surprising. if you think about it senator grassley was out with a statement within an hour of the washington post article being published. basically saying the whole thing was a democratic plot to thwart the nomination at the last minute. didn't consider the substance of the allegation that much. over the course of the rest of the day and today we're seeing more reflection from republicans. it's up to susan collins at this point for her to put the brakes on this. this is on her now. >> the brakes or a pause are not withdraw your nomination. they're simply a pause. >> right. we don't know what conversations are going on at the white house between kavanaugh and the president. but i am puzzled why we all back into corners on this sort of thing. we don't

i need to remind our audience, she knew enough to tell al franken to step down. >> amen. >> all senators are under pressure but what position does this push susan collins and lisa murkowski? >> in a difficult position. as the two kind of more moderate members of the party. they are accountable to constituencies that do want them to be pro woman. that do want them to not be this kind of far right typical misogynists. they're also women. this is unfair. we should expect male senators are just as accountable to women as female senators are. but the reality is collins and murkowski are being held to a slightly different standard because of their gender. collins is right. maybe she doesn't know enough. give the woman the opportunity to testify. you know, give senators the opportunity to ask her questions. and to be able to fully assess and vet this nominee. this has been a remarkably opaque process. cavanaugh has not been a particularly transparent nominee to the courts. and this is one more example of one of those skeletons that, you know, frankly i wish had come forward earlier but now that

from alyssa milano, who has pointed out what senator collins had said some months ago on senator al franken. so she writes, a little reminder, senator collins, this from 2017, one week after the allegations. collins, franken allegations credible, disgusting, appalling. she says, your move, the women of america are waiting. you spoke to how we are in a different place women now and also, i'm just wondering, do you think in terms of, you know, red state democrats, collin murkowski, do they have more cover given that this is happening? >> well, it's a good question. also, another difference from 1991 to now, when anita hill went to go testify before the senate judiciary committee, she was testifying before a panel entirely made up of men >> that's a great point. >> so it would also look very different, just in terms of who the senators are that she'd be talking to. there are several women on that committee now. so that also would be a different dynamic at play. in terms of -- collins and murkowski, as we've always known, are the two republican key votes here. they remain so -- even more so now

seeing al franken, who had to resign from the senate because there was the pressure on him from his femaleolleagues, because of allegations of sexual -- major garrett: some admitted misbehavior his part, yet. brian: i have to ask you what it is like working on cbs when your ceo ran out and possibility will pick up $120 million before it is all over and charlie roast rose, one of the biggest names in the business, was fired. what is it like in your own organization, having to deal with this? major: it is difficult. people you know, respect and admire. i knew and interacted with charlie rose all the time. from my perch in washington. i would occasionally go up to new york. i saw him on the set. i walked off the set. honored enough, once, to be a substitute host on his pbs show, one of the great thrills of my life area because charlie rose had this place in our industry. --les moonves has a place in our industry as an accomplished television executive. they have the other aspects of their lives. what happened to me and i think matter to everybody, is that reckoning now goes all the way. .he e

it is former senator al franken questioning jeff sessions, who was one of his colleagues at the time. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i am not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have any communications with the russians. and i am unable to comment on it. >> very well. without divulging sensitive information -- brian: what's the importance of that, to you, in the book? major garrett: the importance is two-fold. one, that answer -- "i had no communications," turned out to be something that became disputed in the sense that jeff sessions as a senator and as a surrogate, had had communications. there is a separate debate about how important those communications were, what they actually led to or did not lead to, but on that basis, "i did not have any communications" -- that was not a defensible assertion by jeff sessions. that answer and the dispute over that

other side of the aisle, we certainly saw what happened to another prominent , ascrat, senator al franken soon as the stories and photos of his behavior began circulating, he was essentially forced to resign from the senate . democrats said they would not tolerate that. those are the questions about mr. ellison, mr. brooker, i'm not working on that story, i know others are looking into whatever those allegations are. but at this point, the focus in front of us is the situation with whether or not judge kavanaugh will be confirmed in a matter of days or weeks, to the supreme court. host: stewart is in mechanicsville, virginia. on the line for those that support the nomination. caller: i think i am leaning toward having a smart idea to have secured lawyers doing the questioning, rather than listening to all the speeches and grandstanding, like spartacus, like a spartacus moment. that was a joke. here is the point. a good, skilled lawyer should ask on the democratic side, you guys have been knowing this, how many of you have been no one does, how long have you known about it? with regard to

plenty of interest in al franken was taken out based on this right so i don't think at all this is somethingthat is simply by focused on one political party with that said though in this moment right now given. for women's reproductive justice and roe v wade in the supreme court this is what we're doing now we're dealing with looking at the character the ideology and the politics of a man that has been appointed that is putting a lot of people believe some very important things in danger of being overturned and i think there's a some very serious implications there is not and that i understand the road again general that i hear your. disagreements in the fear that roe v wade is going to be overturned but again these are more media allegations these are more allegations from from liberal stating that if trump has his people and if conservatives come in that then roe v wade will be overturned and all of this that's simply not due process of the american legal system or of the supreme court they can't just come in and overturn laws there have to be cases there have to be precedent i mean the wo

ed: democrats took down al franken.larious. i think biden and trump would be great as well. pete: all auditioning to be the one. jedediah: only problem joe biden administration which was what was voted out and why people went to donald trump. i don't see how he could do that successfully. ed: president and joe biden have talked about like fighting outside the high school gym. pete: i am originally from minnesota. democrats there regret what happened to al franken that's why they haven't gone after keith ellison who has serious allegations against him as well. ride this out and let him stay where he is it's not surprising thing to say which is unfortunate. ed: bill maher recently was cheering on the idea of a recession. i want a recession so we can take donald trump out. he wants to hurt your pocketbook. he wants to see you feel some economic pain. jedediah: that scares people the links they will go to to hurt donald trump including hurting the american people. it's madness. that's hyper partisanship a at its best. jeded

al franken, pushed out of the senate.michigan pushed out because of allegations of sexual assault. democrats have set up in the context of the political arena of saying enough is enough, but offering the violence against women act making sure was reauthorized in 2015 which is more important than the political rhetoric, my question is why is keith ellison getting a pass and other democrats cannot and is that because of the staffer in the party? heather: that worrisome? sounds like it is. >> every single victim needs to be listened to and every person who has been accused, those individuals, doesn't matter who they are or what position they have, nobody is above the law or being held accountable. todd: i will go out on a limb and say you probably agree with what you are hearing. >> undoubtedly. the question is whether keith ellison's stature is shielding him from being targeted and serious questions being asked about domestic violence allegations in light of the fact there is ample evidence against keith ellison, and four i

find them.re you can the former senator, al al franken, the democrat from served on the committee from 2009 to 2018 as hearing today. here is the title gop hypocrisy. at the way chairman chuck grassley has treated acuments as senior official in the george w. bush administration and a former assist and and close friend of calf mau and the attorney for several figures to sort through the papers to decide which should be released publicly i can only imagine what that was like. quote not guilty, smoking gun, not guilty, smoking gun. thousands of documents were declared confidential and withheld although they were relevantd extremely top ekes such as torture during terror y. the secrecy. why the. bass they are to protect the counselt from special robert muleer's investigation. he guess on this morning. you can find that globulin at the u.s.a. today website. al prank in who served on the us thoughts ong the process that played out over the last couple of days. democrat's line. hi. >> caller: hi. good morning. let me -- i wish he everybody crying especially the republicans about judge kavanau

senators like al franken and others. he is gone, thankfully, but there are others. how come you want release the list of all of these allegations of the senators and members of the house that sexually harassed women, for who you paid $17 million in hush money to shut them up? >> you are trying to make it sound like there were complaints against me, and that is completely false. you just think you can make it up, without any facts. >> who is making things up? >> i have been working to reform what is an antiquated policy to make it better and i have been the one that forced the senate ethics committee to release the information about the settlements that have been paid. any settlement that has been paid should be on the table and i have been on the front of that. >> not only do you oppose brett kavanaugh, but you voted against neil gorsuch. doesn't it proof that you are making an ideological decision over a basic qualification decision when it comes to supreme court nominees? >> here is what i do when a supreme court nominee is out there. i take everything they have w

senators like al franken and others. he is gone thankfully. how come you won't release the list? how come you won't release a list of all of these allegations of senators and members of the house the harassed women for whom you paid $17 million in hush money to shut them up. >> you just tried to slip in that there were complaints against me and that is completely false. you just think you can make it up. >> who is making things up? >> i've been working to reform policy to make it better and i've been the one that forced the senate efficacy committee to release information about the settlements that have been paid. any settlement that has been paid should be on the table. i've been on the forefront of that. >> let me go to the supreme court question for you. not only do you oppose kavanaugh but you voted against gore said. a senior opposition of gorsuch's prove that you're making an ideological decision over basic qualification decision when it comes to supreme court nominees? >> i'm glad to talk about justice gorsuch's. i read everything that they have written that law review art

leadership and have not said what these allegations are going to do for their vote, but both asked al frankenstep aside when he was accused of making inappropriate comments. there were multiple allegations for franken and only one for kavanaugh, but keep your eyes on these ladies. >> they were up for reelection in red states. >> mcconnell had been waging this pressure campaign for senate democrats up for reelection this fall in states that trump carried, knowing they will need republican voters. perhaps they can pressure them to backing kavanaugh and all three of these up here voted for neal gorsuch in the past. they thought perhaps they could pressure them to vote for kavanaugh, but i would say that pressure baited for now. all three expressed concerns and they want to see an investigation of these allegations. they can't get on these votes. >> excellent explanation. brett kavanaugh is vowing to defend his integrity and getting help with the judicial network plans with a $1.5 million ad campaign to support kavanaugh and they called the accusations a last minute smear campaign. joining us is

and senator al franken, he stepped aside, and if we realize there's mistakes made we need to do whatthank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> an unexpected moment during a football game. what one player did at half-time that has everybody talking today. the bleacher report is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ olly. >>> things around the buffalo bills have become so bad that one player just quit at half-time. andy scholes has more in the bleacher report. never seen anything like this. >> never seen a healthy player quit and retire mid game in the nfl, but that's what devonte davis did yesterday. he is in his tenth season. he started for the bills yesterday but he did not come out for the second half, and the bills' coach said davis pulled himself out telling them he was done. davis' teammates were not very pleased with him leaving them hanging mid game. >> i have never seen it ever, pop warner, high school, college, pros, never heard of it and never seen it and it's just completely disrespectful to his teammates. >> did he say anything to you? >> he didn't say nothing to nobody. >> he left? >> yeah, you k

from harvey weinstein to matt lauer to bill o'reilly and al franken. there were other people who came on board and corroborated a pattern. same thing with roy moore. if you have a guy who is going to get blacked out drunk and try to rape someone. it doesn't seem like city would be an isolated incident. >> i have three daughters. no sons. if something like this happened to one of my daughters i would be more inclined to handle this in the private sector having my even visit with the young man. i think the woman should be heard, but it doesn't give her the right to up end the process and set all these conditions. senator grassley has been more than acome dating to let her testify behind closed doors and allowing people to go talk to her. the democrats don't want anything that would reach a conclusion. they want to delay. that's what all this is about. the question is whether she is being used by them. kennedy: if she is, it's unfortunate. now it's her reputation, not just judge kavanaugh's reppization takes. we still don't know how it's going to end. bil

narrative especially in the metoo era, especially how they responded to what happened with senator al franken. this is a really difficult position for both of them to be in. we're hoping to hear from susan collins at a bit more length later on today. i think there's some real risk for mcconnell if he pushes through this committee vote without hearing publicly from dr. ford as susan collins demands. >> you make a key point there. when the senate is as closely divided, every vote does count. that means power to these individual senators. i'm sure we'll be hearing a lot from you this week as the story unfolds. >>> coming up, more midterm polls. more reasons for democrats to be hopeful not just in the house but maybe the senate. >>> we'll check in on the carolin carolinas. florence still lingering. officials warning the worst have yet to come. >>> the next steps for paul manafort after his guilty plea and greagreement to work with b muell mueller's team. resh and delicio? only eggland's best. which egg has 6 times more vitamin d, 10 times more vitamin e, and 25% less saturated fat? only eggland's

what i meant was that it was just a few years ago that al franken was under attack for hugging and touchingmedic routine. all my friends on the democratic said, what is the big deal? it's just a hug. it is comedy. this is nothing. and we all switched sides again. it is hard not to notice everybody on the democratic side is sort of saying, it's an attempted rape. people on the republican side don't know quite what to say. is, is this is, is this really the key issue for kavanaugh? i have a lot of issues in terms of his position on choice, on guns on assault weapons, but i'm not sure how we will get to the bottom of what happens at a party 30 years ago, and i'm not sure we should be trying on national television after the hearings are already over. if you are back in your old job at the judiciary committee, and it would be greater teddy kennedy was with us, would you be urging him not to call her as a witness and not keep the hearings open? would you just say let's have a vote? susan: what i don't understand about this is when you get a report like this, whether it is on a nominee -- i went t

allegations against others including former president bill clinton and former minnesota senator al franken argues kavanaugh tried to force himself on her client more than 35 years ago at a high school party in maryland. kavanaugh calls the allegation completely false, spoke at a conference call with senate judiciary members today about the false claim. in a statement afterwards, senator orrin hatch's office said kavanaugh told senator hatch he was not at a party like the one she describes, and that dr. ford, who acknowledged to "the washington post" that she quote, did not remember some of the key details of the incident, end quote, may be mistaking him for someone else. despite the efforts by the radical dems to stop the kavanaugh confirmation, president trump telling reporters today he believes kavanaugh is still on track to be confirmed. >> oh, i think he's on track, yeah. i think he's very much on track. i wish the democrats could have done this a lot sooner. they shouldn't have waited until literally the last days. they should have done it a lot sooner. lou: joining us tonight, ed rol

. >> harvey weinstein, al franken, all these men that have been brought down by variations on some kindtion of sexual behavior and i think that a lot of women have realized the extent to which these men's perspectives shaped our world. and that applies to the supreme court as well, to look at a supreme court that has been overwhelmingly male and to realize the degree to which that determines how the laws are interpreted in this country, in the same way that who populates the senate determines what gets turned into law. and so, you know, this was already the major cultural dynamic of our time and so to have this come out about the supreme court nominee, who was already controversial for reasons relating to a lot of these same themes, who the -- his supporters from the very beginning took pains to present as a friend to women. he talked so much about his mother and daughters and had the coach support him as he start this had hearing. >> his daughter zpls and his daughters and to have this become the central controversy is almost too fitting for the times we live in. >> it really is. yet y

the comedy was so much about the senators trying to get dating tips from clarence thomas, even al frankenmittee asking for dating tips and flash forward now and it's much more about brett kavanaugh. the comedy has evolved because times have changed. in that time it was much easier for the men sitting around, not necessary necessarily showing concern for anita hill. that was the comedy. now the comedy is are conservative men moving forward the same way snl's comedy has? that's what they'll wait and watch on the series in terms of politics. he suppled up brett kavanaugh as a grown-up frat boy. a high school guy, college guy. had fun, drank. he is a different person today but remnants are still there with today's brett kavanaugh. cory booker, the whole people on the left and the right can take a break and i know we're very passionate about politics. laugh. have some fun about this. i think it's a great sketch. >> it needs to be a little bit lighter. might rub people the wrong way. take a look. >>ite want to point out that democrats in this committee have acted like cowards. if you would forg