professor, you walked in with anita hill to her hearing. you accompanied her. lk about the parallels now. and this point that professor hill also made, that if you were ofreverse the disposition these two people, the rage, the anger, the evasiveness, the attacking judge -- if that were christine blasey ford and kavanaugh wasnd apologetic, soft-spoken, cooperative, can you imagine if dr. ford acted like judge kavanaugh did at the hearing? >> it is absolutely unimaginable. and that is the deeper reality behind sexual harassment, sexual abuse, gender injustice. it is not just the acts that happen. it is the broader context in which men have far more power, not only to create harm, but to deny responsibility for the harm they create. that weand importantly see happening right now, is when they are called to be accountable for what they have done, when something that , perhaps27 years ago in a context in which kavanaugh did not think there was any social sanction to have to worry about, ultimately catches up with him, what we get is the righteous indignation, the rag

i'm here in philadelphia because just last night i was on a panel with anita hill, and we were talkinghat. what do we make of, 27 years later, the fact that this issue is still being presented in many of the same ways, to the same end? and with all things, there is, one has to look at both what has gotten better and what has not. i think what has gotten better is the idea, or at least the recognition that these claims have to at least appear to be taken more seriously than they were taken 27 years ago. so we were able to see that in the way, for example, that dr 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 is that the democrats in this instance were very clear that they saw the allegations as credible, they saw her as credible, and they wanted to affirm her. that's not what happened with anita hill, even the democra

>> 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

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

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 park j

>> 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

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

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

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

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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

. >> 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.

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 minutes. mattr

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

>> 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

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

that was wrong. >> and the senate brought in 22 witnesses to testify about anita hill's accusations. of course, we sue they didn't bring in any witnesses beyond dr. ford. and here, this brings us to james roach's tweet. james roach is a i don't rememberer yale roommate of brett kavanaugh. he tweeted tonight he has been tweeting about this thing regularly. he said i just heard about another classmate at yale who reached out to the local fbi field office to describe kavanaugh drinking, a nasty drunk, definitely blackout and gambling, no reply. and that's one of what now is several people from yale who had information and wanted to bring it to the fbi? yeah. i think lisa and jill are absolutely right. i would say it's even worse than we are talking about it right now. they didn't even imply a presumption of innocence to kavanaugh. they implied a presumption they were going to approve him no matter what. and that point, lawrence, is the most important, that they intentionally ignored evidence that someone who was being considered for the highest court of the happened may have actually li

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

and we do know that women were recruited after anita hill. look no further than dianne feinstein who came in on the year of the woman. >> who came in on the year of the woman. >> and carol mosly braun defeating a democrat allen dixen in a primary because he was supportive of clarence thomas. >> i want you to listen to this key moment during senator susan collins' speech, she is one of the key votes to cinch judge kavanaugh's expected confirmation. listen to what she said. >> i have been alarmed and disturbed however by some who have suggested that unless judge kavanaugh's nomination is rejected, the senate is somehow condoning sexual assault. nothing could be further from the truth. >> so her point there that voting yes to kavanaugh is not the senate condoning sexual assault. obviously there are a lot of survivors that believe otherwise. gloria, what message in your mind does his confirmation send to those who can ofs themselves a part of the -- who consider themselves a part of the me too movement. >> i think it is truly ironic that women wo

we still talk about anita hill and clarence thomas. what would heidi heitkamp consider now she faces kevin cramer? heidi heitkamp, the statements she made on that were striking. i could i do not think look myself in the mirror if i voted for brett kavanaugh. she does look like she is in trouble. i will say though the moment she made that statement and said the way her vote was going to fall, i saw various liberal groups on twitter saying, we are going to raise money for her. this has the potential to fire people up either way. host: when it comes to money raising, what about republican groups lined up with the help and senate and democratic groups? what are they casting for women? hast: the democratic side more infrastructure. small in theout 90's or late 80's. if you are a woman candidate and heck ofsupport, that is a forced to have behind you. has susan ban side anthony. it is tied to being pro-life. on the democratic side, you have that 500 pound curtain role of that supports women candidates so they tend to have more of that. and,

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 t

i still believe anita hill. i think we have some time now for questions from the audience if you can, to the mix here. so we can actually hear you. anybody in the audience have a question. while they are positioning themselves. i want to pick up on the fact that you do believe that this is the turnaround point we feel it also acutely some people were saying in the past these kind of things when it happened. this is life as we know it. i'm just ready for the to come up with some strategy. this is fbi investigation. civic duty. the young who has a question or how as a daughter how did you where i in as back when i i just took the and that's how i of this is had that come up in their mess up my daughter goes and be nonpartisan because we should experience as what is your opinion of that actually because they although i with the fact of the hearings they figured no or if they were they would be dying to watch not entirely how can we communicate there is a lot of talk about how then everyone is too afraid don't want

>> we believe anita hill. we believe anita hill. heather: this is "fox and friends first". happening right now at 4:00 am a fox news alert, hundreds of people arrested as protests rage against brett kavanaugh. how the supreme court nominee is fighting to clear his name just hours ahead of the senate vote. planned parenthood taking aim at senators planning to vote yes for the judge. the veiled threats against republicans. >> a kid through crayon on the wall or something. i never heard the kids threatening. shannon: might be time to switch. the toddler whose parents say broke into his savings and put it through the shredder. "fox and friends first" starts now. ♪ tuesday wednesday ♪ thursday friday ♪ heather: the your this morning, what we are starting with, it is friday and hopefully your loving "fox and friends first" because we love that you are watching us. welcome on friday morning. thank you for starting your day with us. fox news alert, 300 people are arrested as anti-brett kavanaugh protests rage throughout the night outside capitol hill. all day, thousands heard chant

and i think we saw that after anita hill. that was a loss. clarence thomas was appointed to the court. and yet the fury that people felt about anita hill's poor treatment in front of that senate judiciary committee 27 years ago led women to run for and win elected offices in record numbers. i think it's the antecedent to the me too movement that we are in the midst of right now. these things have long-term impacts we can't predict today. >> and the anita hill moment, as you said, was the big moment for women running and now exponentially, i mean, hundreds and hundreds, nearly 500 women are running in these next elections. so that is sort of a cause and effect and a lot of anger is being expressed. as you mentioned, the women's march and there's all sorts of marches and journalists fighting back and all the rest of it in their own profession. what i want to ask you because you do refer back to history, just remind us, give us some historical, you know, notes about how this anger and maybe a backlash. you write about the reagan era where women'

anita hill sat right where dr. blasey ford did. she went through the same kind of cross-examination. she was disbelieved. she was patronized. she was disrespected. and we said that we would never put another woman through that. we said that we learned the lessons from that fiasco. and we said it would never happen again, but it did, and i really believe the process over the last few weeks was shameful. we should have learned from our mistakes, and we should be doing much better. but i can tell you, mr. president, america's women are watching. they are watching what our leaders decide to do. they are watching who is listening and who is not. and they have made a decision that i could have never imagined or predicted. so many women in this country and men have made a decision since president trump was elected that they are going to be heard. they are going to march. they are showing up at town halls. they are showing up at federal offices. they are coming-to-washington, knocking on senate doors, speaking out, protesting, carrying sig

anything like it not even the one thousand nine hundred one clarence thomas nomination process where anita hill came out and accused him of sexual misconduct this it was very special and make no mistake this is a huge win for the trump white house and for the republicans they have their base now energized and stoked up a huge win politically and of course this will determine a lot for the next decades to come in u.s. policy when it comes to decisions regarding the constitution because this is now a solidly conservative supreme court summons in washington thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world aid agencies in indonesia are warning that more than six hundred thousand children have been affected by last week's earthquake and tsunami the number of deaths is now risen to more than fifteen hundred the country's national search and rescue agency says more than a thousand people still missing. a jury in the u.s. city of chicago has found former police superintendent jason van dyke guilty of second degree murder in the death of a black teenager and twenty fourteen he sh

>> thanks to the long-standing leadership like women like toronto burke and and anita hill , and over the course of the last year, the incredible courage on the part of thousands of survivors who have come forward to speak their truths, we are finally having a cultural conversation about the reality of sexual assault and harassment in our society. a truth telling that is long overdue and profound. leaderstarting to see in the private sector and in government really respond to that truth telling and seek out solutions and i think what we are seeing, unfortunately, in the senate right now, is leaders trying to take us in the opposite direction. a real response on the part of women and survivors all over the country to say no, we will not go back, we will continue to take this forward. mary: caitlin, where are we in the ark of me too? >> being 56, i see the ark beginning before the movement. 235 years ago, when women said, this is a big problem. women got together, feminist women got together and created the idea of date rape and courts quickly heard cases on it and said, yes, men cannot

in 2018, the republican majority conducted a hearing that made the anita hill hearings in 1991 look faircomparison. >> what do you think of that, jesse? >> well, listen it's a huge difference in that story. the bottom line, chuck lost and mitch mcconnell won. it was a huge victory for mitch mcconnell. just as big for grassley and for donald trump. think about what happened here. you have a window. two year window. you have the white house and the senate and you have the house. the amount of stuff that this congress and this about the got done in this very small window, historic opportunity. was enormous. you think about two supreme court justices. isis, and north korea and tax cuts and repealing obamacare. >> new nafta. >> a sweep of the agenda for the conservative cause. i think people respect the fact that this president did not back down. that mitch mcconnell did not back down. a lot of republicans would have gotten squishy in this situation in the face of this hysterical democratic onslaught. they hung tough and based it on facts. i believe they will be rewarded for that in the mid-t

i think that what anita hill did and what dr.ey gave up their anonymity for the sake of our democracy, and i think that that is admirable and courageous. i wish that we could have had a more searching and fearless look into what has actually happened, but, you know, i think what i'm really excited about is the midterms. i just think all of these events that are happening -- been happening, the kavanaugh hearings or the pipe bombs or the tree of life synagogue or voter suppression in this country, there is so much to be upset about, but rather than just be upset, we have to do what we democracy does, we have to show up and vote and make sure we make the decisions about who is running our country and states and cities and neighborhoods. we have to show up at the polls and vote and let people know who we are and who we want our country to be, and everyone has to show up. you know, we -- i believe that everyone should vote, and i think anybody who e's invested in the idea of suppressing a particularly vote because it doesn't agree wi

fbi to conduct the investigation. >> the fbi investigation saying it took three days for the -- anita hill. >> the latest quinnipiac poll puts 40% of americans opposes confirmation, 50%, mitch mcconnell is looking at this in the midterms. it is not a good political move to fast-track this thing. >> the fbi investigation is done what is your objection? >> the senate will have to assess. i think there are enough people with very serious concerns about how extreme this nominee is, a dangerous judicial philosophy of legitimate concerns about his independence and temperament. >> you think this is about more than brett kavanaugh the man. this is how he would vote and impact the court for decades. >> absolutely. it is about stopping an originalist judicial conservative from making it onto the court, stopping the next one that was nominated should he be withdrawn and worst-case scenario he makes on the court, delegitimizing the supreme court of 5 vote conservative supreme court, delegitimizing the united states up in court, something we were told we should not be doing, that is what this is about.

it makes it seem quite likely indeed those allegations by anita hill were correct.imilar way more people come forward against kavanaugh and tend to confirm those allegations, that will further undermine not just him but the entire court. i think that's a real possibility. >> hay, pete. i know you made the point that judges don't tend to recuse themselves on the supreme court for lots of reasons, particularly when it comes to political ideology. does the fact in his testimony brent kavanaugh spoke of democrats, spoke of the clintons, spoke of left wing groups? they're going to be left wing groups that bring cases to the supreme court. do they have any standing to say i don't think this guy can listen to my case? >> well, if they can bring their case successfully before the standing is a question about whether they're allowed through the courthouse door to bring their case. then they have to make a tactical decision about whether they want to seek recusal. they can. it sometimes does happen. you can say, you know, you're just too biased to hear this case. i guess the

in 1991 anita hill was given that opportunity. and it was very bothering to individuals that the -- dr. ford put forward a list of eight individuals that she asked the f.b.i. to talk to to be corroborating witnesses, and the f.b.i. could only talk to those within the scoping document that comes from the white house. because at that moment they are not doing a criminal investigation, they are doing a background check investigation, and they have to follow the president's instructions. and those instructions, we are told, were not to talk to any of the corroborating witnesses, not those eight that she put forward and not the 20 that were put forward by debbie ramirez. so 28 individuals not brought before the committee and not talked to by the f.b.i. i hope we have lots of opportunity to share our perspectives across the aisle to understand this as we struggle with the issue of fairness because for many of us fairness has not been achieved and the bigger message is to these two women who came forward to share their journeys, to share

blasey ford compared to what happened in 1991 with anita hill?with anita hill, there was a full fbi investigation before there was ever a hearing. that did not occur here. this process was far worse. >> we thought it was bad back in 1991, and it's even worse today. the political climate and how women are treated. >> my thanks to the attorneys for sitting down with me this week. mark, i've got to say, i'm not convinced that republicans haven't done irreparable damage to their party with women voters. >> i think they showed dr. ford a lot of courtesy when they brought her in. they worked dill gently to bring her in on her terms. made a lot of different offers to bring her in and let her testify. at the end of the day, her story could still not be backed up. the witnesses that she named that were supposedly at this alleged party that -- where this incident took place, none of them could actually testify that that happened or they knew about it. so i hope that america and everyone will allow dr. ford to return to the life that she wants to have in th

-- clarence thomas and anita hill. it is a question whether democrats can wrangle their voters forward and republicans can wrangle their voters forward. that remains to be seen if that can happen. it's definitely a year of the woman, but it's also now a little built of a test across the board -- little bit of a test across the board now there's so much more enthusiasm from both sides. jon: this was also supposed to be the year of the blue wave. democrats were counting on winning back control of the house. what's developed in the last couple of weeks really puts that in question, i guess, take a look at the latest real clear politics projections. it says that democrats are likely to win 205 seats. republicans likely to win 201. and there are 29 toss-ups. so there is -- there's been a surge in interest in republican races or a surge of interest among republican voters, perhaps, i should say, and it's not at all clear that the democrats are going to win back the house this time around. >> it's not necessarily clear anymor

supreme court nominee had sexually harassed her, anita hill had a private meeting with e committee. she said thomas cleary used work subjects and frequently asked her out despite her refusal. he was confirmed. she'll be at the inspire luncheon about the continuing work of sexual harassment. >>> and google will stage a walk without on tuesday to protest the handling of sexual harassment aspirations. google paid $90 to a top executive to leave the company after he coerced the me into a sex act. he denied any allegation and they have had 48 complaints of sexual harassment in the last several years. >>> lawmakers expect to hear from people from the north bay wildfires as well as industry experts. they want to know if homeowners are abe buying enough insurance to make it possible to get back on their feet. and how quickly homes can be rebuilt. >>> and they want to know if insurance policies do what they're designed to do. the information is growing more important as weather experts forecast huge wildfires will become more common. >>> four highway patrol officers are responsible for rescu