joining us now i hope, i think, yes, is michael avenatti. mr. avenatti, it's nice to see you.ank you for your time tonight. >> good to see you, rachel. >> so you said online that you were representing a woman with credible information regarding judge kavanaugh and mark judge. what is the nature of the information that she has about judge kavanaugh and his high school classmate? >> well, rachel, i'm representing one client who i can describe as a witness and victim as well as additional corroborating witnesses to what she is going to allege publicly within the next 48 hours. as it relates to her particular allegations, we're not going provide additional information beyond that which is contained within the e-mails that i exchanged with the senate judiciary committee, but let me say this. this woman, when she does surface will be found to be 100% credible by the american public. i would not be representing her if i did not believe her. and if anyone has been paying attention over the last six to seven months, they know that i do not traffic in nonsense or rumor. i utilize facts

avenatti has publicized that. so we know something about the character of the allegations and time frame. the real mystery is who is his client and who are his clients? he says he has a client who can be described as both a witness and a victim and a number of other clients he would describe as corroborating witnesses. so when he says he's going to come forward not just with specific allegations but with evidence about them, we assume that's going to come from the people who he's representing as witnesses. now, what the senate is going to do with that, what the exact nature of those claims is going to be, we don't know bhch but it does mean between now and now and thursday morning we're expecting a lot more news on this subject, which is exactly what the senate does not want. >> and he told you the woman he's representing as a victim has herself passed an fbi background check for presumably a federal government job. >> right, security clearance. he said she'd been cleared for multiple security clearances in the pa

>> reporter: he has characterized avenatti. if we look at this as the 30,000-foot level we've seen a progression with how the president reacted. initially it was an allegation by christine blasey ford, there was restraint from the president. then there was a tweet where he raised questions about her lack of reporting as a 15-year-old if it was as bad as she said. now with michael avenatti coming into the picture with this third accuser, the president is in more comfortable terrain for himself to go after the attorney who has of course been represented stormy daniels, who has been engaged in litigation with the president. so this is more familiar area for the president and so not holding back as much. the setting was awkward. he's at the united nations, with one of his closest friends on the international stage, japanese prime minister shinzo a abe. the president was asked specifically does he believe the allegations. it was actually framed as are the women lying and he said what is the next question. the president did want to g

he'll attack michael avenatti. i'll be listening for how specifically he defends judge kavanaugh and what he says about what he hopes to have happen in this hearing. and then of course if the hearing comes to pass as scheduled, the judge's performance tomorrow will probably be determinetive of how -- basically how hard the white house pushes for the vote on friday. >> wendy sherman, you were advising christine blasey ford about how to approach this testimony tomorrow, she's going to be able to make an opening statement. five minute turns which is very, very brief. highly controlled. how should she handle this given these allegations? should she reference them? talk about other cases? should she just talk about herself? >> i think just tell her story. if she is, you know, having come forward and going through the crucible and she has for many days, put her own security and family's security at risk, tell her story. stick to her own narrative. to the broader point to make with anne, the president, our country is on t

michael avenatti now joins me on the telephone. mr. avenatti, you there? >> yes, i am. how are you? >> i'm well. michael, why wait until 11:30 the morning before the senate judiciary committee is set to hear from this first accuser to drop a bombshell like this? >> well, that's not what happened. we revealed the allegations on sunday. we conversed with the committee on sunday. they didn't need to know the name of my client to begin an investigation. we had detailed correspondence that we sent to them on monday morning, which i have posted and disseminated. they never got back to us. i asked for follow-up on monday evening. they didn't get back to us monday evening. they didn't get back to us yesterday, and we finally disclosed the client's name today because we had to take adequate security procedures, make sure they were in place. this is a very serious matter, and ultimately it's the client's determination, not mine or anybody else's for that matter, as to when her identity is revealed, so we disclosed this days ago, and the fact of the matter is that chairman grassley, mr. davis,

enter michael avenatti. we debate this next. ♪ >> laura: as of the circus surrounding the kavanaugh confirmation fight could not get any uglier, or more absurd, stormy daniels' lawyer, michael avenatti, is now injecting himself into the situation. shocker. lurid allegations against kavanaugh and furthermore, we are joined by fox news national chief correspondent, ed henry, with more. >> laura, great to see you. republican mitch mcconnell called all of these allegations a shameful smear campaign and charged chuck schumer and senate democrats are throwing all this mud he could manufacture, even democrats drawing the line at not being seen as taking dirt for michael avenatti. the attorney for stormy daniels is now claiming in the next 48 hours, he would be unveiling a new accuser or accusers with even more salacious allegations to level against judge brett kavanaugh. yet "politico" is reporting income of the series of top democrats are steering clear of avenatti. senator brian schatz saying, "i have no comment

he is just looking for attention, he says i have avenatti. that has nothing to do with the woman who is come forward. >> avenatti is a firebrand, he said he's running for president. it's completely political for him and i think it's discrediting to have him be a part of this and i think democrats would agree with that, too. avenatti is not somebody with a stellar reputation and somebody that has instilled a lot of trust in a bipartisan way that's bringing this allegation forward. >> harris: i don't know that this helps avenatti's cause but he has just tweeted in response to the president, he says -- some of it i cannot read. "from pretense he is a tough guy, he is nothing of the kind. he grew up spoiled with a silver spoon in his mouth. he was handed everything, this is why the majority of america and the u.n. laughed at him and called him a con but at least putin is a fan." >> is it about michael avenatti on the woman he's representing? i used to say this, when i see a consultant on the tv more than the candidate it's about the consultant. i

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she's represented by michael avenat avenatti. sarah, walk us through this new sworn deposition. >> she has sent this on through her attorney michael avenatti, to the judiciary committee who has said they have received it. her name is julie swetnik. she has made some claims against brett kavanagh. she says this happened between 1980 and 1981. she says that her friend mark judge and she attend eed partie where there was very heavy drinking and inappropriate behavior your on the part of brett kavanagh and mark judge. she's associated working with the federal government, that she has a public trust, u.s. department of treasury clearance, a u.s. mint clearance and an irs clearance. let us get to the allegations that she is making and that she has sent on in a sworn statement to the judiciary committee. she says that she attended well over 100 house parties between 1981 and 1983 where mark judge and brett kavanagh, the supreme court nominee were present. she says that the party were in the area, they occurred every weekend during the s

now i will say this about avenatti. he was correct that the president was aware of the payouts to stormy daniels and the other model whose name i'm forgetting.r that was proven right. he said that weeks before it was proven. but i don't just want to take accusations out of nowhere and say, let's stop the presses. he's right, i think mark judge must testify before this committee, he's a witness everyone -- >> laura: he's already signed a statement by the penalty of perjury that he has no a recollection of these events happening. no one who she claims was in a house party that judge kavanaugh said he was not out has any corroborating information about that party. so he has to testify. no, he doesn't. he could have been brought before the committee during the three and a half days that judge kavanaugh was out there by the democrats, like avenatti, are playing a big timing game here. dan bongino, -- hold on, i willn get to dan and i come back to you. i promise. dan, 48 hours, he promises the big bombshell, and he said if hi

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and of and avenatti countering trump as a, quote, habitual liar. kavanaugh weighed in and said he doesn't know her and calls her accusations from the twilight zone. his attorney said this. >> it's outrageous. really, you witnessed gameng ras and never said anything? you witnessed something like this as a parent of a daughter and two sons? i cannot imagine not coming forward when this man was named. >> what all this means is the hearing scheduled for tomorrow still happening as of now. it will be without two of kavanaugh's two of three accusers and without an fbi investigation. let's start with sarah sidner who has the allegations. tell me more about these graphic allegations. >> as we read through them, they are graphic. she begins with talking about how and where she met him, saying that she had been to about ten different parties where she had seen brett kavanaugh and his friend, mark judge. she mentioned that he and mark judge were joined at the hip and that's a quote. the judiciary committee has agreed that they have received this paperwork fro

michael avenatti is scummy and gross. i don't know what a michael avenatti democrat looks like. i assume it's a few progressive sociopaths, but i don't think that's too much excitement for 2,020, and and this is the disgusting process that we go to. people will want more of that. they want don't want more demagoguery, but this woman is specifically saying that not only is she at parties where women were drugged and by multiple boys, but she was also the victim of such an incident. >> then she accused kavanaugh of it who has said to martha maccallum -- >> yes, she named him in a document, a sworn document. and now it's very unfortunate that michael avenatti has placed himself at the middle of this. and that's where we are. this really changes the tenor of the conversation we are having about the two other accusers, deborah ramirez and dr. ford. she's going to testify tomorrow and when i'm curious about is whether or not this arizona sex crimes, prosecutor is going to be able to talk to her about some of these rumors whether she knows this third accuser and if she heard the same t

and uses that argument to undercut what this accuser is saying through avenatti. again, it's been interesting to watch graham's transformation here as someone seeing this almost entirely through the lens of it being a smear campaign and he is someone when's said unlike the colleague on the judiciary committee jeff flake to be voting for brett kavanaugh unless the bottom falls out tomorrow and learn something we don't already know and doesn't seem like it's the case. >> garrett, let's be clear. jeff merkley filing suit to block the vote is not about the these new allegations and the christine blasey ford allegations but documents that the senate asked for, the senators asked for, that have not been made available. >> reporter: that's correct. it's return to the argument that the democrats were making before we got do this point. >> correct. >> reporter: of the sexual assault allegations saying that the white house playing hide the ball from them and not giving them the information that the senate needs to fulfill the constitutional duty. i think it's clear, democra

we're joined now by michael avenatti. he's the attorney for julie swetnick, the third woman now to accuse brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. and michael avenatti, i want to get into the particulars of exactly what your client, julie swetni swetnick is accusing brett kavanaugh of. i want to go straight to the point of is she accusing brett kavanaugh of specifically sexually assaulting her? >> thanks for having me on. i'm not in a position tonight to fill in the blank or answer that question. my client is going to answer that question to hopefully fbi agents, because we're demanding an fbi investigation proceed forth with. my client is prepared to meet with fbi agents. as crow know lying to an fbi agent carries a very serious potential criminal sentence associated with it. she's willing to sit down with fbi agents, answer any questions they have about all of these allegations, provide additional witnesses, provide additional facts and information. and for the life of us, lawrence, we can't understand why the chairman, th

avenatti. he waved this on some of your programs since last weekend and he never went to the police. as an attorney, i know what my obligation is. it's to my client. if i had represented her, it would have been my duty to go to the police immediately and report this. if this is true, it is a horrible thing. there's nothing that could have stopped mr. avenatti from going to the fbi or the police to stoo start an investigation. as far as i can tell, that wasn't done. >> all the women who have accused your client of misconduct have one similar thing in common. they all say he drank to excess. there are other folks out there from his high school years and from his college years who say the same thing, he drank to excess. your client also admits he did at some times have a few too many beers. if that's the case and if there's a potential out there for him being black out drunk or very drunk, how is he confident of his memories? >> that -- first of all, almost every high school and college student co

does anything michael avenatti says hold any water right now? steve hilton is here. and "reason" magazine editor at large and host of the fifth column nod cast is matt welch. michael avenatti, what is he doing? what's going on? >> i have got to tell you what. he is doing a disservice to women by parading and using the #metoo move. as a football for his own professional career. we can see through this. what he's trying to do. stormy daniels, he's pretty much using her as a political football because of his dislike for trump. i'm sorry. i feel like we have used the me too movement to put away monsters. i feel like when you get someone like avenatti who is someone who is actively work on politics, seeing something like this is nothing but a circus it's a side show. i resent that for the victims that had to come forward and struggle with coming forward and put something one behind bars. kennedy: it's not about victims and it's not about getting to the truth. it's about advancing his own political gain. and it's really gres. some of the language he has been using to descr

avenatti's client to come to the table. as far as i'm concerned.le] >> no, absolutely not. i think two days before the vote, one day before the hearing, from avenatti accusations that just to me don't go to 10 parties and see what she is claiming. did you go to the cops. i think normal people would feel an obligation to do something about it at least i hope they would. and i don't believe brett kavanaugh is a serial rapist. there is nothing in his background to give legitimacy to these claims. as to ms. ford, i look forward to hearing from her tomorrow. as to mr. after after that they, heard now in bipartisan fashion and read about what was said and make your own decision before we vote. >> do you have the votes? [several reporters asking questions] [inaudible] >> julie: senator lindsey graham speaking with reporters basically saying this vote for kavanaugh absolutely should not be delayed. amos, first of all, it was interesting, he was talking and referring to brett kavanaugh as not being a serial rapist. i don't believe that we have actually hear

avenatti, is avenatti going to be able to come back from this?> i want avenatti to run for office. he's a failed attorney. his law firm has been sued many, many times and he owed millions of dollars. i think tucker's takedown of avenatti is exactly what the american people want to see. jesse: maybe avenatti and waters, not me, maxine waters, not me. is john kerry going to prison? we'll tell what you that's about next. to everybody. the most highly recommended bed in america just got better. introducing the all-new, reinvented tempur-pedic. designed with the most pressure relieving material we've ever created. for your most rejuvenating sleep. find your exclusive retailer today at tempurpedic.com forecasters predict another foot and a half over the weekend. jesse: former secretary of state john kerry accused of undermining the trump administration after admitting he met with iranian officials reportedly trying to save the nuke deal and telling the iranians to wait out the presidency until a democrat is in office. >> when i met with the iranians, t

and he didn't do that. >> you're talking about michael avenatti? why did he not take these allegations to the police? >> he did get this sworn statement from her which he did submit to the judiciary committee can. >> as an attorney your obligation is to your client. and if you believe these crimes were committed against you were client, you should go to law enforcement. ask yourself why he didn't go to law enforcement? why is there almost no detail in that affidavit whatsoever? >> i whatnant to go through som these elements in the affidavit. you're a federal prosecutor, you could ask someone to investigate these allegations as well? >> i'm not this woman's attorney. judge kavanagh doesn't know her, this never happened and he's said that over and over again that he never engaged in any of that behavior. i'm asking you why in this process which has been so debased on both sides, why are people who have these serious allegations not going to law enforcement themselves and saying, take a look at this? there must be a reason, as a lawyer, that he didn't

it was attached to michael avenatti and the contents therein. how has that reverberated through the system today? >> well, it's been a bombshell. as you might imagine. republicans really seem kind of frantic and nervous about this. you can tell that by their very vehement statements that this woman is not to be believed. senator lindsey graham said earlier how could she go to ten house parties and watch young women get raped and not say anything? he just said he flat out doesn't believe that it's true. senator orrin hatch i think exclaimed i'm in a really bad mood. and, you know, republicans are just pushing to get this hearing through. they just want to get this over with and get this vote, which they have scheduled in the committee for friday. democrats, on the other hand, not surprisingly, are saying, hey, let's slow it down a little bit. let's let these women be heard. let's have an fbi investigation. many of them are harking back to merritt garland and saying, look, when president obama nominated merritt garland, mitch mcconnell had no trou

avenatti is intimating on his social media that he may run for president. but this is the weaponization of the metoo movement. the metoo movement is so important that folks like harvey weinstein are called out, that bill cosby are called out. but then it's weaponized, people with six different fbi background checks have shown to be a reputable person, one folks across the spectrum, both genders, you name it, all races, in which there is no pattern of serial activity, the presumption is he is guilty because that's the spirit of the age. that's wrong, it can happen to anybody and at some point we have to look at a life's work and judge it against someone else's end if i judge kavanaugh again avenatti, i will go a kavanaugh. >> harris: do you think a vote with just the senate judiciary committee, i know it's being reported that this is the big vote but it's just the committee, do you think the schedule should be upheld or should be there be any delay to take into account anybody else who has come forward in the last couple of days or even our? >> lets recogniz

>> well, i think avenatti is a clown show. i thought that before this ever arose, but i think that his allegations here are in a way of a piece with the other two allegations we've heard. what i mean by that, liz, we are at this point because the process has been abused. what should have happened here is these allegation should have been raised in due order in regular order in connection with the way the hearing worked out so they could have been vetted six weeks ago or more, and what would have happened is kavanaugh would have been asked about them in his 31 hours of testimony, and they would have made up their mind about does he sound credible or not sound credible in refuting them, and then we'd be onto a vote at this point. the only reason we're in this posture where this is teed up as if it were a criminal trial is they abused the hearing process and didn't raise it until after the guy testified to what comes out to about a day and a half in realtime. liz: and we should point out michael avenatti's twitter account was loc

the avenatti ones are truly horrific.understand kind of internally an consistent of going how would this process even have worked? i think it's really turning into a circus. but, you see them as each allegation falls apart. they bring out a new one and some of them, you know, one of the ones yesterday was even rekanted before it was even a few hours old. it's really getting wild here. senator gardner said i got this letter anonymous something happened in car no. follow up. i don't know why he brought it out. no name. can you imagine this? so what do you say to people who are looking at all these things and you are saying holes in these stories and you are right. but you do see a pattern. what do you say to people who say well, there is a pattern here? >> there is a pattern of unsubstantiated and later discredited allegations. that are being pushed forward by the democrats. i'm not saying each of these people is getting in a conspiracy. i'm saying every time the democrats get a whiff of anything, they are trying to bring s

avenatti, is avenatti going to be able to come back from this?avenatti to run for office. he's a failed attorney. his law firm has been sued many, many times and he owed millions of dollars. i think tucker's takedown of avenatti is exactly what the american people want to see. jesse: maybe avenatti and waters, not me, maxine waters, not me. is john kerry going to prison? we'll tell what you that's about next. some debt you plan for, some just... (crash) ...happens. putting it all on credit cards just wasn't working. but a loan through lending club was a cinch. no branch office, no stuffy suits. consolidating our debt saved us nearly $300 a month. that's not sofa change. we had enough to start saving again, and a little extra to send these two to summer camp. being outdoors was good for them? (vo) check your rate at welcometotheclub.com. timeit should be measuredsured byby how long steak & lobster is back at outback. back by popular demand, steak & lobster starting at $15.99! and time...is limited, so hurry in today. outback steakhouse. aussie rul

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a michael avenatti client that goes on to make charges. they're different but part of the theme that the judge was a serial harasser and more. now, the issue we're hearing is that these other women cannot be brought up. that it's christine blasey ford will be the focus of this. that will not stop the democratic senators on that panel when the judge's turn to respond to dr. ford's charges to address these other women. enter emily. this could turn into bedlam, couldn't it? what is your sense? >> yeah. this is a very, very fragile situation. i think there's a reason that there's a seasoned prosecutor that will be doing a lot of the questioning tomorrow. not only because there are no female republican senators on the senate judiciary committee but she's seasoned in investigating sex crimes. i think we'll see her being leaned on heavily and for a reason. but this is a very fragile situation. when you have allegations like this, of course it is. but at the same time, i think it's very, very important to note from what i sense the mood of the rep

avenatti teased his r of this accusation for days. kavanaugh asked about it on fox news earli this week. >> did you ever participate in or were you everf aware any deng rape that happened at a party that you ad? >> that's totally false and outrageous. never done any such thing, known about any such thing. >> reporter: nbc news has not independently corroborated swetnick's claims, an avenatti would not make her available for an interview. top republicans expressing skepticism. >> here's what i think. went to a party once with people being drugged and gang raped, you wouldn't go to the next one. she would tell someone. and you have an obligation if you see people beingo abused come forward. >> reporter: it comes before kavanaugh and accuser christine blasey ford testifying. republicans hiring veteranro se crimescutor rachel mitchell to handle questioning. ford's lawyers releasing the results of h pygraph test where she wrote down the details of her allegation a was asked if any of it was false. >> i'm extremely confident that dr. ford i

she is represented by michael avenatti. he says his client attended high school parties where kavanaugh she claims and she saw kavanaugh and on thers spike alcoholic drinks with drugs and line up for what she described as gang rape. 64 high school friend of kavanaugh signed a letter saying no such thing happened at any of their high school parties. democrats say kavanaugh should just give up. >> there is no way, absolutely no way that this nomination can proceed to a vote without an fbi investigation of this affidavit, sworn under oath with immense detail and corroborating witnesses who will come forward. this woman, a survivor of vicious sexual attack has everything to lose. reporter: that committee hearing is thursday. the vote is set for friday on kavanaugh's nomination. kennedy? kennedy: thank you so for that report. arizona republican senator jeff flake says no matter what happens to kavanaugh in the coming days, the political fight or his nomination has been damaging to the nation. >> the public comments about those o

certainly wasting no effort to take on avenatti in a tweet saying, avenatti is a third-rate lawyer that is good at making false accusations like he did on me and like he's doing on judge brett kavanaugh. he's just looking for attention and doesn't want people to look at his past record and relationships, a total low life. in a bilateral meeting with shinzo abe the last hour, the president in full defense of his nomination nor the supreme court. listen here. >> this lawyer that came out, he's a low-life. he represents democrats. nobody talks about that. he's a democrat lawyer. not a very good one but he's a democrat lawyer. so it's a horrible con game. i think the people are finding it out. hopefully over the next couple days, it will be settled up and solved. >> the white house says safe to say, trace, wants the hearing tomorrow morning to proceed with all haste and they want the story to get out here and they want both sides to have an opportunity to air their side of the story. then the senate judiciary can decide what they want to do going forward. trace? >> chuck grassley says it's

president trump is engaged in tweeting insults with avenatti, calling him a total low life and avenatti saying that trump is, quote, an habitual liar. and kavanaugh saying he doesn't know who julie swetnick is and that his claims are from, quote unquote, the twilight zone. >> he doesn't know this woman. he didn't go to parties with her. i've received calls from women and men who went to parties with him. no one knows her and no one remembers seeing her at the parties. they're absolutely allegations. if they're true, there's no excuse for his lawyer not going straight to the police. there's no one stopping any investigation and any lawyer worth their salt would put their client's interests first and go straight to the police or to the fbi. >> what all of this means is the hearing scheduled for tomorrow still happening as of now will be without two of kavanaugh's three accusers and without an fbi investigation. let's start with sara sidner. just again, they are disturbing to listen to. tell us what julie swetnick is alleging. >> here is what she is alleging, some allegations, not all of t

avenatti case. >> first case, dr. ford, he held her down allegedly.er came to that. >> but it is attempted. what i'm saying, i can tell you what they're telling him. who knows what the magic bullet -- neil: if he doesn't. >> he is toast. neil: he will lose any one of these, jeff flake's name, lisa murkowski, susan collins are on the fence. >> i don't think he could do, what they're telling him you can't do before the senate tomorrow what you did before martha maccallum. you can't robotically answer these questions, like i never -- literally repeated the same phrase again and again. showed almost know emotion, until one or two points he looked like he was going to cry. i wanted him to do that, because he is so upset what is going on. what they're telling him you have to show emotion. the president is telling people that he thinks he made a huge mistake by providing details of his life as a kid. so people can go out and refute it. neil: check the past. >> we'll see what happens. if he comes out guns blazing tomorrow, if he pulls a page out of clarence t

most recent accusations, michael avenatti is in the mix. while we know nobody can throw bombs and get the attention like avenatti can, you know, much like donald trump, does it hurt, does it hurt dr. ford? does it hurt these other women to make a choice like avenatti because he is hyper political. not long ago, he was in iowa. some people say this guy wants to run for president. >> well, and he has said he could beat donald trump. i think the important thing here is, one, people get to choose their own lawyers. so obviously swetnick had the opportunity. i think it is unfortunate that it further politicizes what should be significantly less political. which is the issue of what happened here and what happened to very real people. her allegations are quite stunning. i think one thing that's very clear in them is they corroborate a type of behavior. she's not the only one to corroborate this type of behavior, including as we've heard even friends of judge kavanaugh's who's come forward and said yes, that is the way he behaved. he drank a lot.

her attorney, michael avenatti, is with us tonight. president this afternoon in a rare solo press conference stepped up his defense, calling all the claims against kavanagh false and a big fat con job. his attack extended to michael avenatti, the lawyer for swetnick, as well as stormy daniels. take a little listen. >> 36 years, there's no charge. all of a sudden the hearings are over and the rumors start coming out and then you have this other con artist, avenatti come out with another beauty today. >> michael avenatti is with us now. welcome back to primetime. you are not the story. i do not intend to make you as such. but i do think you have to be given a chance to respond to the president of the united states who called you a con man. >> well, you know, if anyone knows a con, i guess it would be donald trump based on the last two years, chris. you know, look, this guy has zero credibility in the eyes of most americans, and certainly in the eyes of the world. he's a habitual liar. he has distractions against allegations made against

her attorney, michael avenatti says it is not enough.wants an admission from cohen and the president that this was a vital of campaign finance laws. good luck. good bless. that ain't never happening. >> i want free ice cream in the mail. that's essentially what avenatti is asking for here. listen, i hate to say i told you so. i actually like to say it, but months ago i and many other legal analysts said one of the things they should do is scrap the agreement, this nondisclosure agreement. that's the thing that's keeping them in the litigation. recently by conceding that there is no agreement, the next argument is going to be there is no reason to keep trump or anyone else other than michael cohen in this case. the only reason michael cohen stays in is because of the allegations of defamation. those arguably have nothing to do with trump. if you're on the trump team, the next move is to say because we agree, you can talk about whatever you like, we're out of this case. no deposition, no discovery. >> no depositions is the issue. avenatti

michael avenatti gearing up for a presidential run?his is now, and this is what we got to think about. this is now a party of no due process, no rule of law, no constitution, a zero presumption of innocence. do you know, it's in the last 12 days i can't find a single democrat that is willing to defend the principal of presumption of innocence and due process? by the way, the party of bill clinton and keith ellison. so tonight what we are seeing from michael avenatti on the people on the left in this country, sadly, i tell you this all the time. they use this tactic every two and four years, character assassination. it's the number one tool in the democratic playbook and something the president called out early today and a powerful press conference. how often do i say every two or four years, they will call republicans racist? how horrible is that, sexist and misogynist, xenophobic, and homophobic, islamophobic? republicans want dirty air and water and they want children to die and they want to throw granny over the cliff. we've now got

joining me now is stormy daniels' lawyer, michael avenatti. how did we get here?ll, i think we got here because of the fortitude and the bravery of my client and the staying power that we have demonstrated in this case over the last six months, coupled with the approach that we took in the case, for which we caught a lot of criticism and i caught a lot of criticism from time to time. i'm all about results and we have to look at the results. you can't argue with the results. >> trump was using this nda to threaten your client in millions of dollars of punishment. now, the new filing, trump claims the nda doesn't exist. if that is a victory for you, why are you still fighting? >> because of the conditions of surrender, ari. we want a judicial finding or a stipulation or agreement that, in fact, the agreement was illegal from the get-go. and that michael cohen knew it was illegal, donald trump knew it was illegal. we also want donald trump and michael cohen to pay my chinlies fees -- >> to pay you? >> i've already been paid, but to reimburse her. let's also remember

avenatti teased this information for weeks. kavanaugh asked about it earlier this week. >> did you ever participate in or were you ever aware of any gang rape that happened at a party that you attended? >> that's totally false and outrageous. never done any such thing, known about any such thing. >> reporter: nbc news has not independently corroborated swetnick's claim. today avenatti would not make her available for an interview. top republicans expressing skepticism. >> this is what i think, you went to a party once with people being gang raped and drugged, you would tell somebody and you have an obligation if you see people being abused that you fo >> reporter: it comes just hours before blasey ford will be testifying before congress. republicans hiring veteran sex crimes prosecutor rachel mitchell to handle questioning. today ford's lawyers releasing the results of the polygraph test where she wrote down details and asked if any of it was false. >> i'm extremely confident dr. swer those questions l when she regarding her st

avenatti told msnbc, swetnick, who is reportedly a government contractor, reached out to him , and hecked out her story. >> this is a woman who has received numerous security clearances over the years issued by the u.s. government, including secret security clearances, as well as public seust security clearances, that require very detailed vetting performed by the u.s. government. >> reporter: this afternoon, president trump fired back at avenatti. >> you look at this lawyer that just came out. he's a lowlife. no he represented democrats. nobody ever talks about that. e''s a democrat lawyer. not a very good one, but he's a epmocrat lawyer. >> reporter: this afternoon, 64 people who say they knew brett kavanaugh in high school, sent this letter to the senate judiciary committee. they say that they don't remember anyone named julie swetnick. they call her allegations "nonsense" and "reprehensible." >> glor: and so, paula, at this point, has anyone other than the senate judiciary committee investigating? >> reporter: at this point, our local law enforcement sources tell us there are no o

avenatti. come out with another beauty today. >> michael avenatti is with us now. welcome back to "prime time." you are not the story. i do not intend to make you as such. i think you have to be given a chance to respond to the president of the united states. who called you a con man. >> if anybody knows a con it would be donald trump. based on the last two years. he has zero credibility in the yis of most americans and certainly in the eyes of the world. he's a habitual liar. trying to distract the way from the very serious allegations made by multiple women. against brett kavanaugh. who has no business being on the u.s. supreme court. i said a while ago that he should go to the next name on the list. that's exactly what he should do. look, as it remits to my client. she stands behind them. she's 100% credible. we want the fbi involved immediately. to vet the allegations. to take interviews with all the witnesses. including mark judge. and brett kavanaugh. perhaps we can test his claims the other night on fox news. about being such an innocent high schooler. where

michael avenatti's client, julie swetnick, has also offered to testify at tomorrow's hearing. both of those women have stated it's their preference they would like the fbi to investigate their allegations as part of a reopened background check into brett kavanaugh. the white house and senate republicans appear to be unwilling to let the fbi reopen its back ground check. republicans also appear unwilling to allow either deborah ramirez or julie swetnick to testify tomorrow, alongside christine blasey ford. now, we don't know how their allegations will be handled, if at all, by the committee that's making the decision on judge kavanaugh's nomination. i also should tell you that the two allegations that have been made against judge kavanaugh that date to his time in high school, both of those high school era accusations make reference to a high school friend of his named mark judge. there have been calls from multiple democrats on the committee and attorneys for both of those high school era accusers for mark judge to testify to the committee tomorrow. he will also not be called