and he said it was from his beautiful wife, anita. he said she gave it to him because on those tough days when maybe a few people wanted to say something as pleasant as he wanted it to be, she said, if you come in your office, and you look at mickey, you can't help but smile. so that immediately made me feel welcomed into his office. i immediately discovered the same way he made me feel that welcome, he was that considerate and thoughtful to anyone from c.e.o.s to the young people in our schools. i had the opportunity to walk classes with him, visit schools. any time he was with a child, his attention immediately went to the children, and he just broke into conversations with thim about their futures. he and i coshared the our children, our families council. it's a 42 member advisory body, charged with promoting coordination and increasing accessibility and enhancing the effectiveness of programs for the children and youth of san francisco. as you also heard, he brokered the relationship between sales force.org and our district which

/edwin and anita lee newcomer school community. we celebrate the power in our chinatown community, we celebrate the power in our san francisco city community. look at us today. in a time when our leadership in washington, d.c. is making immigrants and refugees unwelcome, san francisco's city and district leaders as well as our voters are telling our immigrant families that not only do we welcome you, but your voices are valued and need to be heard. so we invite you to vote in the election of our school board. leadership matters, and ladies and gentlemen, san francisco is on the right side of history. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee, thank you, anita, thank you, lee family, sfusd leadership, superintendent, our school board for supporting our request to rename our school. today, we stand so proudly to share in a part of history for generations to come as we rename the chinese education center to be the edwin and anita lee new comers school. [applause] right now, you have a real treat. we -- i want to introduce you to o

tell us your thoughts, anita. you were both at the funeral, talk about the funeral and what does a first lady mean to us at a time like that. >> she was like a mother and a grandmother so the nation and really left an imprint of her example, someone who loved her husband, loved her family and country. lived her life openly and with such great joy to be each of those things, mother, wife, and first lady of our nation. and i think she was also a very gracious second lady and, you know, in the shadows of mrs. reagan, which of course couldn't have been very easy. but she presided over the white house with such joy and really one of the things she said to her staff and people knew this about her when she became first lady, she gathered her staff and said "i want to do something that helps an american every single day." and that is quite a charge to give to the staff and that's what they set about doing. if she had another four years or he had another four years, who knows what that could have been. but his both preside

she assisted anita hill's legal team.iece for "the new york times" last week was headlined "w"we still haven't learned from anita hill's testimony." welcome to democracy now! this is now after the testimony of dr. blase ford and brett kavanaugh. your assessment of it? >> my assessment is both parties learned a lesson about objects, but not much about substance. the factor republicans realized that they could not themselves be in a position of interrogating dr. ford and therefore outsource that responsibility to someone else was a reflection of their understanding. i also think the democrats truly understood that one of the things that went so wrong in the last hearing was that anita hill had no support. there was still indication whatsoever that the democrats acactually believed her. of course, the republicans pretty much raped her over the coals. so we did not have either of those things happening this time. but i think what we ststill foud out is there e is a huge lack of balance between the discursive capital, the abil

anita served as an assistant to president george w. bush as well as chief of staff to first lady laura bush. she directed the first lady's travel to 67 countries in four years, to support foreign policy objectives in human rights, women's empowerment, global health, and education. she's a member of the u.s. afghan women's council, the international republican institute's women's diplomacy network, the national italian american foundation, and most importantly, a board member of the white house historical association and chair of the committee that organized the presidential site's summit. mark is a president and ceo of the lbj foundation in austin, texas. until recently, he served as the director of the lyndon johnson library and museum for eight years. he has authored four books on presidential history, including his newest book, "the last republicans: inside the extraordinary relationship between george h.w. bush and george w. bush." mark is a commentator for abc news, good morning america, and "this week." and finally, our third pan

hill and we we re i was on a panel with anita hill and we were talking about precisely that is, what the fact that this issue is still being presented in many of the same ways to the same and? and with all things, there is, one has to look at roath what has gotten better and what has not. i think what has gotten better is the idea, would lease the recognition that these claims have two at least appear to be taken more seriously than they we re be taken more seriously than they were taken 27 be taken more seriously than they were ta ken 27 years be taken more seriously than they were taken 27 years ago. —— or at least. so we were able to see that in the way it, for example, that dr christine blasey ford was questioned not by an all—white male judiciary committee, but by rachel mitchell. i think there was a recognition that the optics were important, i think there was a recognition on the democratic side as well. one of the differences that i noticed between what happened with anita hill and dr blasey ford was that the democrats in this instance were very clear that they saw the allega

>> anita hill. >> whose court is it? >> our court. >> whose court is it? >> our court. >> whose court is it? our court. [crowded chanting] >> this is what democracy looks like. >> show me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> they need to hear us. >> we believe survivors. we believe survivors. we believe survivors. [crowded chanting] >> women, we run this country get up, get down >> we will never be divided, women united our voices united, we will never be divided our voices united, we will never be divided. >> we told him that you are the last gasp of white supremacy. [applause] enjoy it. you are the past, but we are the future. [crowd chanting] >> he stayed in his office and he never, ever met with us. i want to say to cory gardner, in november we will [crowd chanting] >> vote him out. >> vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. [crowd chanting] vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. [applause] >> we deserve better than this, so we will not stop fighting. [crowd cheering] [crowd chanting] >> w

we have another hour on before this, anita. thank you all. i really do appreciate it. >>> the white house says there is no limit to the fbi investigation into brett kavanaugh, but what are the limits? what will the fbi be allowed to ask? what can they find out about the drinking and the memory loss? we will speak to two former fbi agents next. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein. in two great flavors. new ensure max protein. but mania, such as unusualrder can rchanges in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking your healthcare provider about vraylar. vraylar treats acute mania of bipolar i disorder. vraylar significantly re

and the clarence thomas hearings were reopened, and law professor anita hill testified about what she says she experienced in terms of sexual harassment and sexual humiliation from her boss, clarence thomas. for her trouble, professor hill was berated by the all-male judiciary committee. she became an object of derision and defamation for clarence thomas supporters. she became something between a hero and a cautionary tale for women of all persuasions across the country as they saw how professor hill was treated. but hill's testimony put senator alan dixon, democrat of illinois, in a little bit of a personal pickle, because he had made that personal promise to the republican president george bush before anita hill ever came forward with this accusation. he had promised that he would vote yes on thomas before he ever heard of any of these allegations from her. what would he do now, now that he had heard what she had to say? >> professor hill's testimony was moving and credible. judge thomas' denial was forceful and equally credible. so what should the senate do? >> what should the sena

and the clarence thomas hearings were reopened, and law professor anita hill testified about what she experienced in terms of sexual harassment and sexual humiliation from her boss, clarence thomas. for her trouble, professor hill was berated by the all male judiciary committee. she became an object of derision and defamation for clarence thomas supporters. she became something between a hero and a cautionary tale for women of all persuasions across the country as they saw how professor hill was treated. but hill's testimony put senator alan dixon, democrat of illinois in a little bit of a personal pickle, because he had made that personal promise to the republican president george bush before anita hill ever came forward with this accusation. he had promised that he would vote yes on thomas before he ever heard of any of these allegations from her. what would he do now, now that he had heard what she had to say? >> professor hill's testimony was moving and credible. judge thomas's denial was forceful and equally credible. so what should the senate do? >> what should the senate do? se

hill be heard they knocked on joe biden store and kennedy's door they wanted anita hill to be heard she had an opportunity to be heard president george herbert walker bush conducted a thorough and full investigation of all the facts so women need to be heard. i am sad the republicans would call the taxpayers mobs that is from the civil rights age to see people of color to have a seat at the table they would call the mobs. that is insulting to the men and women who stood up to be heard. they work for us. if they can takeno the heat or speak truth to power maybe they should step aside. >> good morning. >>caller: i am 55 years old i have been around a long time so i will speak what i understandnd in the last election with hillary and donald trump. african-american women whether we are democrats or republicans we vote as a block on the main issue what happened with hillary i believe 50 percent of white women independent democrats educated soccer moms and they voted on race because donald those comments with the negativity about women and let's not forget donald trump and that central pa

>> reporter: well, she, you're not going to hear directly from anita hill today, because she would not do any interviews, and she also would not allow us to record her spaech, but i can tell you that she told the audience that if she had it to do all over again she would still testify against clarence thomas, because she still feels that was the right thing hearings that riveted the nation. anita hill testified about sexual harassment she says she faced from supreme court nominee clarence thomas. that was 27 years ago. fast forward to this year when palo alto professor christine blasey ford testified about her sexual assault allegation against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. hill says dr. ford did not have the privilege from hearing her because they believe their minds were already made up. she outlines ways people canllo. she's a professor of social policy law and chairs the hollywood commission on sexual harassment. she says sexual violence is not just a women's issue. >> her voice also gives us some hope that we will journey as a community to improve the way women are support

>> i think a lot of people have that question, anita. i think that's an excellent question. until christine blasey-ford's revelation came forward it didn't seem relevant. excessive drinking in high school, excessive drinking in college. sadly that, is part of our culture, we now know how -- just how stark it is. suddenly when there's this claim, now the drinking does seem to be part and parcel of that. joe, you know how these things work, when the white house gives a scope of what they want the investigation to follow, can they follow other leads or is it limited to a narrow scope about christine blasey-ford and debbie ramirez? >> it will be limited. what we found from the beginning is that there's something that they don't want us all to know. in rushing this through, the overall story doesn't hold up. >> who is "they"? >> the white house. senator republicans, the kavanaugh team. if you go back now a week or ten days, the fox news interview was a disaster for kavanaugh because it set up this picture that they couldn't then deliver on. he set up this image of an altar boy, w

but more people actually believed clarence thomas over anita hill.only believed by 24%, clarence thomas was believed by 40% 27 years ago. now christine blasey ford is believed by 45%. she is of all the four people we're talking about here the person who's been believed the most in realtime when it was happening. 45%. brett kavanaugh, fewer people believed brett kavanaugh than believed clarence thomas. down to 33%. and so, lisa, that is a kind of grim polling picture of a very slow progress. >> well, i think what you point out before is we have a counter democratic institution in the senate that now is installing someone who is disliked by most american people to an institution of the supreme court that is not subject to real democratic check by the people. and in the face of what we've seen even with the fears i think many people had after the election in 2016 of donald trump and the potential vacancy of the supreme court, i don't think anyone thought he would somehow find a man so close to his image in terms of the lying, in terms of being accused s

anita hymn was only believed by 24%. clarps thomas by 40% 27 years ago. now, christine blasey ford is believed by 45% of all the four people, the person who has been believed the most in real time when it was happening. 45%. brett kavanaugh, fewer people believed brett kavanaugh than clarence thomas, down to 33%. so lisa that is a kind of grim polling picture of a very slow progress. i think what you pointed out before we have a senate disliked by most american people to an institution of the supreme court not subject to real democratic checks by the people. and on the nation of what we have seen, even with the fears i think many people had after the election in 2016 of donald trump and the potential vacancy of the supreme court, i don't think yoen anyone thought they would find a man in terms of his image in terms of the lying and being accused of sexual assault and partisanship and putting forth a baseless conspiracy theories. here we stand. i think the american women in this country and men are not going to stand for. that i think we are seeing a risin

anita, jackie, neera, ariane, thank you. ladies, stay with me, we have more to discuss including how justice kavanaugh's appointment will affect the midterm races. we'll dive into that deeper when we come back. >> he was great, he worked harold, and we got ourselves the finest legal mind, one of the finest human beings. and again, what his family took, the horror that they had to endure by these people, like blumenthal and cory booker who was a disaster as the mayor of newark, new jersey. what they had to take was a disgrace. the only reason to vote democrat is if you're tired of winning, right? tired of winning. we want to win, win, win. we'll never get tired of winning. this place isn't for me. that last place was pretty nice. i don't like this whole thing. i think we can do better. change is hard. try to keep an open mind. come on, dad. this is for me, son? principal. we can help you plan for that. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study wi

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she didn't get herself into this any more than anita hill did. anita hill was subpoenaed.ord's name came out against her will. she didn't want to be there. she did it because she said it was her civic duty. what i think is if i had been anita hill and i had known better, i wouldn't have done it. if i had been christine blasey ford, she didn't expect it to go public, but i would not have done it. even though it's civic duty. look at her. today i read a story she can't live in her own house. she has so many death threats. she's scared for herself, her life, her children, her family. her entire life has been disrupted, and she's always going to be known as this woman who accused brett kavanaugh of sexual assault and couldn't prove it. and, of course, the fbi investigation was a complete sham, because they didn't even interview her or bret kavanaugh or 40 other people who came forward. and so the question is, was it worth it? he got confirmed, and she has to go back to her life that will never be the same again. >> i appreciate your time and writing about your experience. than

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here in times square donating their hair and the singer whose song is inspiring so many thrivers, anitahran, is here performing live. ♪ my faith and have no fear ♪ 'cause i'm a fighter i'm a survivor ♪ >>> and anita cochran is also a thriver. good morning, america. great to have you with us on this "fight like a girl" friday and we cannot wait for our big event. >> really excited for it. people all across the country and in times square are all joining in donating their hair and their money to support this incredible cause, the fight against breast cancer. >> this will be an incredible experience throughout our show. >>> a first, of course, we want to get to that confirmation battle dividing the country right now. overnight judge kavanaugh wrote that op-ed and thousands protesting on capitol hill. >> it is not slowing down the senate. a crucial vote taking place this morning and judge kavanaugh could be confirmed as early as tomorrow. it could all come down to four senators and our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce starts us off on capitol hill with the very latest. good mor

>> anita maio, pillsbury. i'm just a little confused why the commission would want to propose legislation declared unconstitutional when there was similar legislation or it was interpreted in your previous version of the campaign law -- >> vice chair kopp: all right. i will answer you. my answer would be that i trust whatever is adopted will be the constitution. hope springs eternal. that's the time attention and effort with groups that i will characterize experts in the field, as well as our staff who are, which is composed of people who are experts in the field. >> i understand that. based on precedence there are major issues. >> vice chair kopp: my deceased friend and lawyer, fred s. cooper of alameda county said anything that makes work for lawyers can't be all bad. okay. any other public comment? if not -- >> i want to add one other thing if i may, chair kopp before the commission votes on this matter. >> vice chair kopp: what? >> i want to say for my own part i well recognize what is on their plate and t

remember anita hill accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment. the accusation is a felony certainly at the time it would have been it's far more serious an accusation. i wonder whether the senate has learned anything from 1991 and that ordeal. i can tell you this, yes, clarence thomas did go on to the supreme court, perhaps kavanaugh will go on to the supreme court. but the republicans paid a terrible price. that, too, was an election year. it became the year of the woman. i'm not here to make predictions, but i see that coming again whether or not kavanaugh goes on to the court. >> lindsey graham said just now that he wanted christine blasey ford to be heard. he said she was treated with respect inside that hearing. outside the hearing i think we can say it is a different story. inside that hearing he said kavanaugh was treated like crap. do you agree with that? >> i certainly don't. kavanaugh himself, however, came forward in such a way that he ruined his own testimony by coming on as if he were a political figure appearing before a committee r

they were corroborating witnesses who would have said, yes, anita is right. professor hill is right, and they were cooling their heels. what do we have here? 40 people at my count as i read all the news reports, including nbc, who were waiting to ep corroborate exactly what the two women who came forward said. and they were left cooling their heels. this is not justice. and so it's more than even the partisanship. there is such a thing as right and wrong. and this is really about a woman and yet a second woman who camet forward and said this man hurt me. and the first thing the republicans did was this make believe investigation, you know, a wink and a nod investigation,y and jeff flake, sue collins and murkowski, who wisely called for an investigation, should not hide behind it because history will not treat them kindly. the truth has a way of coming out. >> all right, barbara boxer and jim manley, thank you both so much. >>> as the kavanaugh vote looms, outright fraud plays the victim, look at who gets away with things in this country and who doesn't in two

. [♪] anita: live from "america's news headquarters," i'm anita vogel.they have been flooded with tips about a missing wisconsin teen. 13-year-old jayme kloss has not been seen since her parents were killed. authorities released the log of a 911 call from her mother it was inaudible except for the zpleemg the background. a small plane makes an emergency landing in san diego. a student pilot was at the controls. the instructor took over. i'm anita vogel. now back to. "watters' world." ave seen them k conservatives and destroy college campuses. now antifa is sinking to a new low. one protester is targeting a woman who lost her husband on 9/11. >> you are [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] i'm not like your husband, i am not going to punch you. i'm not like your boyfriend who is going to punch you. >> my husband died. >> good for him. ncpd are a bunch of sodomizing i am grants with their bully sticks. your husband can rot in the grave. jesse: i don't condone violence, but this guy should have been knocked out for what he said. he's ugly. this is the face of evil. how

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i'm the old one here, old enough to have actually covered the anita hill hearings.and clarence thomas went on to the court, and they welcomed him. and they were professional about it. and we may still talk about it. but he ruled as people expected. he was a conservative, and so i don't think it cast a cloud over him personally with the other justices. i'm not privy to their private conversations. where i think it cast a cloud and what was interesting to me today was, you know, us is an collins went through chapter and verse about where he stands on the major issues. and obviously, roe is a huge issue. and she said that he made it -- that the case that it was, you know, basically settled law. and feinstein threw her some shade and pushed back on twitter and said, when she spoke with him, he did not say it was settled law. he said it was entitled to respect. that's the kind of thing that could come back at him and then all of the other stuff would kind of flow. also, he's going to be a huge issue in the campaigns. >> yeah. >> so kavanaugh is going to be a bumper stick

. [♪] anita: live from "america's news headquarters," i'm anita vogel.resident trump saying the u.s. will terminate a decades long nuclear arms treaty with russia. it was signed in 1987. but it led to the dismantling of thousands of nuclear weapons. the administration said russia violated the treaty by developing and deploying a new cruz missile. the jackpot for next tuesday's mega millions drawing groats to $1.6 billion. the massive jackpot bringing many first-time players to the lottery. the odds of winning are 1 in 302 million. i'm anita vogel. >> greg: that taylor swift. but, enough about my speedy garment maker. [laughter] mercy clapping. mercy clapping. i will take it anyway. the singer endorsed another democrat this week. congressman jim cooper, i don't care. earlier she endorsed another democrat, i still don't care. meanwhile texas congressman beto o'rourke is trying to out seat ted cruz. there calling him kennedy asked. he sure drives like one. speaking of texas, someone really hates ted cruz. >> be careful. i have about 100 of these. i'm about

i'm anita vogel. now let's take back to justice with judge jeanine.kay toss at the mexico-go- -- guatemala border. chris hahn making a special appearance on "justice" tonight. and katrina pierson. you are familiar with the mob of illegal immigrants, illegal aliens pushing through from guatemala to mexico against police enforcement. and what we saw in those few seconds were virtually all men. tell me, chris, why these people should be allowed to enter in a mob of thousands into the united states. >> look, i'm for controlled borders as are most of people on the left in this country. the president had an opportunity last year when schumer and pelosi offered him daca for the wall. and he was talked out of it by mcconnell and ryan. they are more concerned about the election than solving the problem. judge jeanine: your answer to these illegals violently crossing, resisting law enforcement, all men, that they are concerned about the trump humaner mitch mcconnell fight? >> no, no, no. i am saying -- of course not. unless they are seeking asylum legitimately

. >> we have had some rough lines in the past the most famous would be anita hill and clarence thomas. of a contentious nominations. people grapple with what advise and consent means so at any given time. what is doubly exacerbated it is clearly an effort to destroy the reputation of a good man.

it did mirror what happened with anita hill in 1991. her information also came forward at the conclusion of the confirmation hearings. she initially did not want her name to be used. she reluctantly came forward. if you had to do it over, you would like dr. ford to have made her allegations and the fbi to have been immediately brought in and a serious investigation to have been undertaken. host: from time magazine, how christine blasey ford's testimony moved america. did it? guest: absolutely. more people are sympathetic to hear about sexual misconduct, central salt, rape victims,. with respect to the senate bill, many victims are reeling right now. they don't think that their story or their lives matter because brett kavanaugh is now on the supreme court. i believe every victim needs to be heard. at the same time, you have to hear the other side of the story. with respect to dr. ford's allegations against brett kavanaugh, the facts simply did enough to was not meet the standard for a lot of these republicans. manchin,.or joe whether yo

she broke the story of anita hill's shamplet allegations against clarence thomas in 1991.nell was saying on friday that he believed that the democrats are not going to agree to have limited scope in this case and now today we have learned the democrats have asked for at least 24 more witnesses to be interviewed by the fbi. your thoughts, nina? >> well, i don't know hot 24 are but 24 actually isn't an insurmountable amount, depending on what they have to say. you know, a lot of people have come forward and said that what brett kavanaugh said about his drinking in college, for example, does not comport with what they observed. there may be people later in his life, even when he was in the bush administration who have had that experience. i have no idea. all i know is that 24 more witnesses, depending on who they are can and maybe cannot be done in a week. what we do know is that at least i know this, i remember when i broke the anita hill story, i thought this was the closest kept secret and i managed to find out about it. i later found out there were probably 100 people in

how is anita? >> anita's great. we just had dinner recently. we stayed in her apartment overnight. that was nice. she is, has become, a very fine artist. she's showing in many galleries and she's doing collage and it's beautiful. so she's selling and showing and has gotten a new career for herself. she's great. [applause] >> hi, i'm chris. can you talk just a little bit about the experience of meeting josephine belize he? josephine bought these he was overwhelmedas so with the idea that her family story was going to be turned into a museum exhibit. that was just shocking. and she worked tirelessly with us to show what her apartment looked like, and to tell us stories. and we loved every story. we treated it like a treasure it was. renderer do a rendering of the apartment as she described it. i actually had this rendering. the tenement just has to ask. but this rendering showed near the stove, i think, darkness on the floor. and i showed it to josephine and she said please don't show that to anybody. and i thought she was worried about the crack on the wall, what she described under

she said nobody cry over anita hill. she was cool and professional. maybe men too when christine blasey ford testified. when clarence thomas was confirmed, 11 democrats voted for him. in a senate that was controlled by democrats. the two parties made a mess of things, but it was a bipartisan mess. you couldn't single out one party and say it was their fault. the republicans clearly at fault here and i use some of the same words as senator blumenthal. it was a cover up and a sham fbi investigation. they didn't find it because they didn't want to look for it. >> to be clear, as a participant on the field, you happened to be adorned in blue and that may be a coincidence, but as an analyst, the gender rift is stronger here along party lines. >> i would definitely say that and there is a poison that has been fuel-injected into the supreme court. this is not going to end with this confirmation. journalists are going to continue to seek out people to corroborate dr. ford's story. i think you could have democrats trying again as senator blumenthal pointed out

>> anita hill. -- who do welieve believe? >> christine ford. it -- court is it? >> our court. >> whose court is it? >> our court. >> shut it down. shut it down. [indiscernible] >> shut it down. >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> they need to hear us. we believe survivors. we believe survivors. we believe survivors. we believe survivors. women we run this town. get up, get down. the voices united can never be divided. the voices united can never be divided. our voices united can never be divided. [applause] office we occupy that told you that you are the last -- [applause] [crowd chanting] >> he stayed in his office and he never, ever met with us. i want to say to cory gardner, in november we will [crowd chanting >> vote him out. >> vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. [crowd chanting] vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. vote him out. [app

go ahead, anita. >> come on, david, george w. bush loved you in particular. >> you named your book after him. >> yeah, that's a different point that i am making in terms of the views of the media. >> true. you are seeing prominent republicans speaking out about freedom of the press is absolutely important, and we have been on all signs, and people like george w. bush and others have been attacked really good, and at the end of the day they recognize it's a constitutional right and part of the platform even if they do believe it's biassed. >> if i can respond to one thing that anita said that i think has become a big talking point, is the process was really bad, the process of the hearing -- let's be clear about what the process was. the process was three women came forward and said under oath in various ways that brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted them and they were told, we don't believe you. we don't believe you, we are confirming him anyway. that's the legacy of the hearing. i don't think anybody will remember the process year

with me is anita of a nonprofit that has been around for about 50 years.alk to me about how the imfwranlt community was affected because it is hard enough on people who have english as a first language. when it is your second language, even more challenging. >> absolutely. the immigrant community has many barriers, and community language and other barriers that california human development, when the community needed them we came to the call by opening a wildfire relief center. in that we provided resources for the immigrant community and others affected by the fire. >> what were the priorities immediately in the first days and weeks of the fire? >> first days and weeks people wanted ancillary food, they wanted help with tools and equipment that had been lost during the fires so that they can get back to work. >> and you were able to do that, help raise donation? >> absolutely. transportation. absolutely with the help of the community and some state and federal grants we were able to leverage those to really provide those ancillary assistance to the communi

president, i ran for the senate after i saw what happened to anita hill in 1991. based on everything i'm seeing and hearing across the country, all the anger and energy and focus, i'm confident that if women and their voices are attacked, undermined, and disrespected once again, we are going to see a wave of anger and frustration and activism that makes 1992 look like a ripple. we still have time to do this right. we still have time to do better than the senate did in 1991. we still have time to restore the public's faith that women will be listened to. so i urge my colleagues to join me, vote no tomorrow and end this mad dash to confirmation. thank you. i yield the floor. morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. heinrich: mr. president, i am deeply saddened that the words i'm about to deliver even need to be said in the first place. but i have to ask, how can we possibly continue to move forward or as in the majority leader's own words, plow right through to confirm a lifetime appointment on our nation's supreme court in the wake of both cr