that judge cavanagh has that burden and let me say that again. the junior senator from delaware says bears the burden to disprove these allegations. guilty until proven innocent? in our country? similarly the junior senator from hawaii has implied judge cavanagh does not deserve a presumption of innocence. that they do not deserve a presumption of innocence. because she does not agree with his judicial philosophy. yesterday leader said in a criminal court room that there was no presumption of innocence when you have a nominee before you that democrats have not always taken a position. and back from 1991 son of the judiciary committee had this to say. but here is what he said presumption is with you. with me and in my opinion it should be you so joe biden during the clarence thomas proceedings. but my colleagues would do well with this common sense principle. every american understands the presumption of innocence for those that work so hard to clean up thiss, mess and put together a fair process and i'm encouraged with decades of experience to re

he treated judge cavanagh showed america out why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. democrats search and destroying strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham an effort to just lay lovestruck kim and resist. the ranking member of the committee tweeted what i find most inexcusable is this rush to judgment, the unwillingness to take these kinds of allegations at base valley -- value and look at them for what they are. a real question of character for someone who is asking for a lifetime appointment on the supreme court. >>> here in the bay area, students spend the day supporting survivors of sexual assault. we show solidarity on the campus. >> reporter: at uc berkeley assaulted me cult created. >> you can pin whatever your thoughts are. >> reporter: each is a piece of message to support survivors of sexual assault. >> i thought i would add that we believe survivors because we as a community are only as strong as the survivors that we support. >> reporter: it is a program manager who felt compelled to

the new yorker published a new allegation, that brett cavanagh exposed himself to her but he was not able to confirm brett cavanagh was in the room and the new york times revealed the allegation is so thin several dozen people in the last we could not corroborate the story. enter stormy daniels's lawyer michael avenatti, some democrats just brett kavanaugh does not deserve presumption of innocence. >> under no circumstances should brett cavanagh be confirmed with a lifetime appointment to the us supreme court before mark judge testifies under oath and before my client, doctor ford, and any other accuser, has her day before that committee under oath at an absolute minimum. >> brett cavanagh is seeking a lifetime appointment to the supreme court and bears the burden of disproving these allegations rather than doctor ford and miss ramirez who should be dismissed with slanderous accusations. >> shameful smear campaign has hit a new low. this is what the so-called resistance has become. >> reporter: mcconnell charging senate democrats, all of this last minute and allegations. >> reporter:

one of those people, bret cavanagh. i wonder your thoughts this morning on this hearing that will be happening on monday what we hearil again from bret cavanagh and his accuser. >> of course i don't know the accuser, but i do know bret cavanagh. it has been reaffirmed in my firmrm belief by the outpouring of support from those who have known him for all these years, not just people who have worked with him come up but people who grew up with him including a lot of women who say this is not the bret cavanagh who we knew we went to school with and so forth. i hope there will be a balance and a judgment that we have a long and distinguished career. i believe in him and his integrity. the lines are open. speaking of the judgment here from what we will see on monday. who is the burden of proof on on monday? is it on the accuser to prove this happened? is it onl bret cavanagh to prove it didn't happen. >> i don't go will start out this way. i think it's any ultimate judgment. they need to go through a process and they are goi

women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be directly questioning blah. the ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can investigate if our republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it would be a travesty for the honor of the supreme court and the honor of our country where at any rate brett kavanaugh says he's not withdrawing his nomination and that the latest allegations are straight out of the twilight zone but with five weeks to go before congressional elections republicans may have to decide which they want more their preferred man on the supreme court or keeping control of congress. castro joins us live now from washington d.c. heidi so we understand you've received portions of statements expected from both kavanah and one of his accusers for the hearing tomorrow tell us about that. that's right in these prepared testimonies that are now published we know that dr of the ford plans on telling sen

i studied them and i will stick by this president. >> brett cavanagh has come up with nominee precedent. back to thurgood marshall, no predictions or forecasts or hints, no thumbs-up or thumbs down. you don't ask nor should you ask a sitting judge or nominee to make any commitment. it is not appropriate and the senator knows that. >> you spent 12 years on the federal bench and he wakes up every day not every thinking how can i rewrite the law today but how can i apply it as it is written. do you buy that? >> some cases there's play in the law and other cases where there isn't. the constitution says you can't have unreasonable searches and seniors -- seizures, doesn't define reasonable. there are things called privileges or immunities of citizenship, doesn't tell you what they are or what cruel and unusual punishment is. there are ambiguous phrases in the law that when a judge tells me i am going to do what is written why not to trust them because the words only get you so far. >> he has taught at harvard law. he has talked about telling students there's not as much ambiguity as folks wa

the brett cavanagh confirmation panel. live after the break. the brett cavanagh confirmation panel. live after the break. your fantasy draft, the computer won't autodraft a kicker in the 7th round. or... you could just trust duracell. could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that's nice. what happens when you catch a fish? gecko: whoa. geico. more than just car insurance. see how much you could save at geico.com. i'm ok! .. >> many americans b shannon: many americans believe the brett cavanagh confirmation drama is bringing out the worst in the world of politics, anger growing by the day at an all-time high. let's talk about that with the power panel, the author of the upcoming book militant normal and the director of political communication for planned parenthood, welcome to all of you. let's talk about this, a tweet from diane feinstein, ranking member of the committee, judge brett kavanaugh did not reflect impartial temperament or fairness and even

brett cavanagh wants a fair process.elieve doctor ford what a fair process and this is part of it. choosing someone with her experience is an important way to make sure those trying to defend brett kavanaugh don't do more harm than good. we heard some awful defenses of brett kavanaugh that play into rape myths. we heard if it happened a long time ago it shouldn't matter, or we heard boys will be boys. we heard she must remember all the details and if she doesn't she can't be telling the truth. those kind of things just alienate real victims of sexual assault and don't do brett kavanaugh any good. the reason i believe brett kavanaugh is because i believe brett kavanaugh is a man of his word. that is the person for ten years, close working relationship i have come to see and know and trust. heather: we appreciate your insight, your personal accounts with brett kavanaugh. people will make up their own minds today. hopefully it will be resolved after this hearing. thank you for joining us. the time is 20 minutes until the to

one good design is brett cavanagh's faber, bob corker of tennessee says he is a yes.previously possibly undecided. heather: a lot of the focus was on a timeline, how this was made public, who made it public and diane feinstein is denying the leak came from her office. what do you make of that? >> reporter: the city of leaks more so than ever. what they referred to is in late july, ford sent that letter to feinstein and not until september that feinstein made it public by way of the washington post and yesterday john cornyn, a republican, repressed feinstein on that matter. take a listen. >> i don't believe my staff would leak. >> somebody like that. if it wasn't you. >> i telling you it was not -- i did not. she testified she had spoken to her friends about it and it is most likely that is how the story leak. it did not leak from us, i assure you of that. >> reporter: we will find out if there is more to that story but it is all about the vote today. rob: gave the letter to feinstein and her attorneys. >> reporter: that is correct. rob: that is the mystery. lots to ta

since high school question ford sexual assault claim backing cavanagh as a person of honor integrity and a person of strong moral character kind and good natured a good man who is incapable of mistreating anyone. the final say will come from congress he was born for the u.s. supreme court he was born forward. and it's going to happen democrats hope to delay it beyond the november congressional elections republicans are fighting to keep it on track fearing a democratic control of congress would derail the nomination kimberly held at al-jazeera the white house for melanie sloan woods hole some a strategies a public affairs firm specializing in crisis management she says don't trump's approach to the issue could i mean a lot of his votes was in the wake of this to me two year ago we've been having how the committee treats christine blasi for it is particularly important in this what is being viewed as another you fear of the woman election which is to say that the female electorate is incredibly important and they already don't like president trump and there is a big concern at how the

it is time for senators to hear from doctor ford and judge cavanagh under oath tomorrow we will do just that. and then it will be time to vot vote. >> i come to the floor today to join my colleagues to lift up the voices of women across the country right now are being ignored, swept aside and attacked. to call on our republican colleagues to join us to do everything we can that women are heard and listened to and respected as we debate and deliberate judge cavanagh's nomination to the supreme court.t. mister president, recently i talked to my constituents about the supreme court nomination i met a woman named kate who bravely told me and others about her experience being sexually assaulted. she shared her story july 2016 gone to a concert that evening and was sexually assaulted that night. but it was how she explained what happened after that i went to share today. she said "as a sexual assault survivor i know firsthand these experiences have a lasting impact and the pain cannot be overstated. in the aftermath of sexualee violence it is common to feel humiliated and blame ourselves and

and rachel mitchell, the prosecutor the gop picked to interview ford and brett cavanagh. our guest has gone up against her as a defense attorney for 20 years and they happen to be friends too. we will cover everything you need to know about tomorrow's hearing tonight. welcome to fox news at night, we have team coverage, kristin fisher will separate fact from fiction on the claims from brett kavanaugh's accuser is. here that henry with latebreaking details. >> reporter: donald trump has been furious republicans have not been aggressive enough defending brett kavanaugh amid this onslaught. in a phone call mitch mcconnell said the president was complaining republicans have been standing by and letting democrats ruin this man's life. sources say the president leave republicans that have pushed ray vote after the first round of hearings and before the allegations surfaced. the president was firm in saying he backs brett kavanaugh and once a senate vote but made clear if brett kavanaugh goes down he will not sit back, he will fight. if brett kavanaugh loses i will have a new na

good evening. >> took very little time for tom perez to demand allegations against brett cavanagh benvestigated going on quoting the american people deserve answers, not a vote that is rampant through by republicans. there is too much at stake what apparently the american people don't deserve the same answers when it comes to abuse allegations against minnesota democratic caucus and keith ellison who is accused of violently dragging his ex-girlfriend karen monahan offer but in 2016 and yelling, quote, blank, get the f out of my house, when the dnc wants but cavanagh case on the front burner it appears to be okay with the ellison case sitting on the back burner. on august 14th just hours before ellison won the democratic nomination for minnesota attorney general the dnc said it would review the abuse allegations but so far nothing. in fact the matter has been referred to minnesota state democratic official, 2020 democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders has called for a full investigation into brett cavanagh while refusing to comment on ellison. karen monahan is calling her own

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assaulted her at a party back in one thousand nine hundred two cavanagh denies this and she's being offered the chance to go before his confirmation hearing our white house correspondent kimberly how could this. after days of surprising restraint u.s. president donald trump turned on christine blasio forward the woman whose testimony could darrelle his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh we have to fight for him not worry about the other side and by the way women are for that more than anybody would understand on twitter trump question ford story i have no doubt that if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement. for it is a california professor at the center of an explosive allegation against kavanaugh from thirty six years ago she says that while in high school kavanagh sexually assaulted her at a party attempting to remove her bathing suit while holding his hand over her mouth and on behalf of them on friday more than six dozen women some of whom have known cavanagh since high school question ford sexual ass

investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against cavanagh were few ts.nd the corridors outside the atmosphere was feeble and then a moment that me alter history senator jeff flake who had just declared his backing for cavanagh confronted by a sexual abuse survivor. i didn't tell anyone in your telling all women for that matter that piecing this thing quite. telling me that my phone doesn't matter don't worry me don't think. that you're the only. thing. that. hours later the republican senator was back in committee and had found his voice offering to back the controversial nominee under one condition. i think it would be. proper to delay the floor vote. for up to but not more than one week in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. with not dramatic compromise another flare up in the room and perhaps the country had been a vast hit but it still needed the backing of one man i guess the vote was a positive vote for the seems to be a delay learn more about it goes the day goes on i just heard about it because we

but why is john dean, a figure of watergate the what does he have to do with brett cavanagh? >> i love that john dean is one of the opposition witnesses because he is perfect, the anti-brett kavanaugh, he is a disgraced lawyer, the man who betrayed his country and then betrayed his friends, he's not fit to touch brett cavanagh's shoes even if he sat on the highest mountaintop in the world and the contrast between john dean and the thoughtful, decent, fair-minded brett kavanaugh is going to be exactly the kind of contrast that will reflect well on brett kavanaugh and brett kavanaugh's witnesses will reflect well on him. we will hear from lisa black, self-proclaimed liberal feminist lawyer who says democrats would support brett cavanagh because he is fair-minded and mainstream in the great jurist. >> seems like simple that the president is likely to have the votes to confirm future potential justice brett kavanaugh and so what democrats are doing is throwing up witnesses you mentioned, claiming there's a cover-up, that he's not turning over in of documents. this week from chuck

i was served with brett cavanagh his first year on the bench.r my interview for him i was told to learn the law and talk about the law and in my experience with him, he has been nothing but completely aboveboard, transparent, highest character and integrity. heather: to the original question in terms of what happens next week with this list of things that have to take place before she agrees to testify. you mentioned that brett kavanaugh has agreed to come before the committee without any type of, what do you call it, questions, no requests, he will do it no matter what. >> that is my understanding, he issued a statement reiterating his willingness to come before the kennedy, he wants to clear his name and is willing for that to move forward as quickly as possible. the senate process has the role of advice and consent to nomination proceedings but brett kavanaugh has an unblemished record, a brilliant jurist, the american people saw that when he testified for 30 hours of hearings. once he had the opportunity to clear his name and already come ou

hit further trouble republican senator jeff flake says that he will only back the appointment of cavanagh if the senate agrees to give the f.b.i. a further week to investigate the allegations against trump's nominee have a listen but i will not be comfortable moving on the floor until the f.b.i. has done more investigation than they have already. it may not take them a week i understand that some of these witnesses may not want to discuss anything further but i think we are we owe them due diligence. news of the potential delay reached president trump during a meeting with the chilean president a journalist asked trump what he made of flake's conditions for voting for cavanagh well i mean look this is a little bit we all make good decisions and doing a good job is very professional i'm just hearing a little bit about it because i've been with the president of chile and we're talking about some very important subjects but i'm sure it will be very good i guess the vote was a positive vote but there seems to be a delay. let's get more on this now. joins us with the latest from washington may

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lines eleven republicans against ten democrats that one day after dramatic test and testimony by cavanagh and one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault christine blasi forward now despite passing the judiciary committee's cavanagh's nomination could hit further trouble republican senator jeff flake says that he will only back the appointment of cavanagh if the senate agrees to give the f.b.i. a for the way to investigate the allegations against trump's nominee have a listen but i will only be comfortable moving on the floor until the f.b.i. has done more investigation than they have already. it may not take them a week i understand that some of these witnesses may not want to discuss anything further but i think where we owe them due diligence news of the potential delay reached president trump during a beating with a chill a and president a journalist asked trump what he made of flakes conditions for voting for cavanagh well i'm going to let the senate handle that they will make their decisions and they've been doing a good job and very professional i'm just hearing a little

christine blasey ford palo alto says that cavanagh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. tonight the chairman of the judiciary committee agreed to give ford and her lawyers another day to decide if she will appear. he tweeted, she should decide so we can move on. i want to hear her, i hope you understand. it is not my normal approach to be indecisive. ford's attorneys have sent pacific terms to the committee which include testifying after cavanagh, questioning senators only, not outside counsel and a subpoena to compel the reported witness mark judge to testify. senator grassley has not accepted any of those conditions. >>> president trump hailed his nominee at a campaign rally calling him a fantastic man. >> he was born for the u.s. supreme court. he was born ford. it is going to happen. it is going to happen. we have to fight for him and not worry about the other side. earlier today the president didn't hold back on twitter. he questioned christine blasey ford accusations and why she stayed silent until now. we report the comments have sparked some strong

university it comes as the senate judiciary committee prepares to hold a hearing on thursday for cavanaghand christine blasi for that's the woman who says he sexually assaulted a teenager carbonneau has denied both allegations of john hendren joins me live now from washington d.c. john so what more can you tell us about these new allegations well there and this is a bombshell announcement for the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court as you mention another woman has said that he had sexually assaulted her in this case is contained in this new yorker article a woman named. deborah ramirez says that cavanagh exposed himself to her at a drunken party that he did so believe gently and she said she didn't talk about this for many years because she had been drinking at the time she was embarrassed by the incident and she wasn't entirely certain about her memory but after reviewing the incident she has told the new yorker that she is confident that it was cavanagh that exposed himself and that other people had talked about him doing so at this party cavanagh absolutely denies t

senators up in 2020 will feel intense heat for the next two years and brett cavanagh will not serve for life. a threat that he will be impeached. allen revealed the democratic playbook earlier this week saying they want to defeat brett kavanaugh and when the senate back to block donald trump from nominating anyone to the court past the 2020 election. the president tweeted he believes a search and destroy strategy, he is behind brett kavanaugh and wants the senate to move forward. shannon: alabama senator doug jones will be a no vote. he wasn't thought to be in the mix. he is a democrat from a very conservative place taking the seat that was jeff sessions's, the roy more election down there, and it up with doug jones. thank you very much. the president said he was going in with an open mind, he said yesterday he could change his mind about brett kavanaugh if he thought he was guilty. the hearing was barely over when he tweeted his support for his pick. white house spokesman for the brett cavanagh confirmation here to weigh in on how things look today. you were in the hearing room today.

women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be direct . questioning laws a ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can investigate if our republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it would be a travesty for the honor of the supreme court and the honor of our country where at any rate brett kavanaugh says he's not withdrawing his nomination and that the latest allegations are straight out of the twilight zone but with five weeks to go before congressional elections republicans may have to decide which they want more their preferred man on the supreme court or keeping control of congress heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington for richard goodstein is a democratic political consultant and former advisor to president bill clinton he says time is running out for kavanaugh on the republicans if he that withdraws or is voted down. it seems unlikely that the republicans would have enough time

so we see they are one of cavanagh's strongest supporters and strongest opponents the views from both sides of the aisle there but maya ultimately what this comes down to is how likely are we to get an investigation by the f.b.i. of this incident what happens next this is really uncharted territory for the senate this is something that at least in my memory has never happened before a delay of this sort the senate very well could simply push forward with a vote that is completely within their purview and in fact we know that they are teeing up to make the vote happen at some point in the very near future there's going to be a vote tomorrow on the procedural aspects of the next full senate floor vote. and mitch mcconnell the senate leader. really has no obligation to make this happen as we've heard from president trump he's going to let the senate quote decide what's going to happen and like i said earlier this is a real double edged sword delaying the vote for another week could allow several both democratic and republican senators who have announced that they're on the fence about ka

on the other hand from judge cavanagh attack.e other hand from judge cava nagh we have attack. on the other hand from judge cavanagh we have someone who was angry. what some refer to as a righteous anger at —— cavanagh mac. often shouting at times saying that he was not responsible. simply saying that he was not in any way involved. but what we got were two different people saving to make very different people saving to make very different things about many —— two very different things about many yea rs very different things about many years ago. i wash pushed onto the bed and he began grinding into me. i yelled, hoping that someone downstairs might hear me. and i tried to get away from him, but his weight was heavy. brett groped me and try to take off my clothes. he had a hard time because he was very inebriated and because i was wearing a i—piece bathing suit underneath my clothing. i believed he was going to rape me. i categorically and unequivocally deny the allegation against me by dr ford. i never had any sexual or physical

and christine the forward for it says he sexually assaulted her as a teenager cavanagh has denied bothallegations though john hendren has more from washington d.c. . it is a bombshell to the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court there are new allegations of sexual misconduct by the judge in an article in the new yorker magazine a woman says that in college and yale from the one nine hundred eighty three to one thousand nine hundred four there she attended university with kavanagh at a drunken party she says he exposed himself belligerently to her and she says she did not talk about this previously because she was embarrassed by the incident in felt guilty because she had been drinking kavanaugh outright denies that is ever happened issuing a statement saying this alleged events from thirty five years ago did not happen the people who knew me then know that this did not happen and have said so this is a smear plain and simple and the white house issued a statement saying it stands behind kavanagh saying this thirty five year old uncorroborated claim is the latest in a

they'll both be called to testify before the senate judiciary committee which is due to vote on cavanagh's appointment this week kimberly how could reports. u.s. president donald trump's nominee to the highest court in the country the supreme court is in doubt and spite of that the president is standing with brett kavanaugh he is one of the great intellects and one of the finest people that anybody has known cavanagh is at the center of an explosive allegation that threatens to derail his nomination it came this weekend by this woman christine blasi ford who says cavanagh attempted to sexually assault her in the one nine hundred eighty s. a charge he vehemently denies this is a completely false allegation i have never done anything like what the accuser describes to her or to anyone ford's lawyer says her client has taken a lie detector test and is now prepared to testify before congress this is not a politically motivated action in fact she was quite reluctant to come forward and she was in fact outed after she had made the decision not to come forward for does now a professor in californ

second, brett cavanagh cannot be in the room. finally they want brett kavanaugh to go first is one of those is a nonstarter. a senior staffer told fox it makes sense for the accused to follow and respond to the charges. brett cavanagh would obviously follow doctor ford. there is distance between the two sides. one thing notably absent from the list of demands is the request for the fbi to investigate. >> i don't know how an fbi investigation would help unless they locate witnesses that corroborate or contradict. there are no forensics to analyze. the fbi can't interview her and brett cavanagh and repeat what they say. you can't determine credibility that way. i hope she will testify. i think she will be treated fairly. >> reporter: democrats on the committee say republicans on the committee are not treating her fairly. >> they are giving her an option. the option is show up monday or don't show up at all. i consider that to be bullying. i consider that to be disregarding. i consider that set up for failure. they would like a he s

when cavanagh and his accuser high school students.a lawyer for christine blasi forward says her client a clinical psychologist reluctantly decided to come forward because of the seriousness of the alleged incident and the light she believed it shed on cavanagh's character. clearly considers this an attempted rape believes that if it were not for the severe intoxication and cavanagh she would have been right and her attorney told n.b.c. that forward a democrat was willing to testify publicly and was not politically motivated what would you say to that i would say no one in their right mind regardless of their motive would want to inject themselves into this process and face the kind of that and violation that she will be subjected to by those who want this nominee to go through cavanagh has released a statement calling the allegation completely false and denying ever having manifested such behavior he too says he's willing to testify the white house initially seemed to welcome the idea that both accuser and accused should speak publicl

this week senator mccaskill announced she plans to vote against brett cavanagh's confirmation.ent fox news poll found a quarter of likely voters may change their mind before election day and among that group 32% said they would be less likely to support mccaskill if she opposed brett kavanaugh. tonight both her opponent and the president went after her on that issue. >> the president said he would put pro-constitution judges on the bench and he has. judges who love the constitution, judges who love our country, judges like brett kavanaugh. >> mccaskill voted no on our supreme court justice neil gorsuch. how good is he? she's not going back on a no vote on somebody who is truly spectacular. >> reporter: rex emphasis the president told his supporters a vote for any democrat in the midterm election is a vote against him and his agenda. i should note we did reach out to senator mccaskill's campaign for a statement on the president's rally. we did not receive a response. >> thanks a lot. this past tuesday a retired game warden named pete florez did something remarkable for a republi

investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against cavanagh were furious. the.nd the corridors outside the atmosphere was feeble and then a moment that may alter history senator jeff flake who had just declared his backing for cavanagh confronted by a sexual abuse survivor. i didn't tell anyone and you're telling all women that you don't matter that he should just stay quiet and yet you want to talk to you don't tell me that my vote doesn't matter the worst of it to me i don't think i've heard you don't want to move. something. like thirty. hours later the republican senator was back in committee and had found his voice for him to back the controversial nominee under one condition. i think it would be . proper to delay the forum. for up to but not more than one week in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. with not dramatic compromise on another flareup in the room and perhaps the country had been a very good but it still needed the backing of one man i guess the vote was a positive vote but there seems to be a dela

brett cavanagh's elevation would result in loss of voting and abortion rights, even outright death and comedy democrats make clear they didn't want the hearing to proceed at all. >> i would like to be recognized. >> you are out of order, i will proceed. i moved to adjourn. >> should be transparent. >> reporter: santo was asked if the description was scripted over weekend conference call. >> reviewing a tweet from nbc that said democrats once coordinated protest strategy over the holiday weekend, agreed to disrupt and protest the hearing. >> one of the discussions yesterday was the question of whether this committee is going to hear a nominee for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land without access to basic information about his public record. >> reporter: the paper trail from brett kavanaugh and not his judicial philosophy was the primary objection today claiming they have a fraction of the relevant documents from his time in the bush white house, even calling on the nominee himself to slam on the brakes. >> i ask you to help us uphold the trust. asking this committee

kavanaugh he is one of the great intellects and one of the finest people that anybody has known cavanagh is at the center of an explosive allegation that threatens to derail his nomination it came this weekend by this woman christine blasi forward who says cavanagh attempted to sexually assault her in the one nine hundred eighty s. a charge he vehemently denies this is a completely false allegation i have never done anything like what the accuser describes to her or to anyone ford's lawyer says her client has taken a lie detector test and is now prepared to testify before congress this is not a politically motivated action in fact she was quite reluctant to come forward and she was in fact outed after she had made the decision not to come poured forth is now a professor in california she says when she was fifteen a drunk seventeen year old cavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom at a party groped her attempted to remove her clothing and held her hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming kavanagh's nomination to the supreme court faces a crucial vote on thursday in a senate committee

investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against cavanagh were furious. the. in the corridors outside the atmosphere was feeble and then a moment that may alter history senator jeff flake who had just declared his backing for calvin are confronted by a sexual abuse survivor. i didn't tell anybody and you're telling all women that matter that he should just stay quiet and yet you want to talk to tell me that my father. don't want me. and that you're a little less. hours later the republican senator was back in committee and had found his voice offering to back the controversial nominee under one condition. i think it would be. proper to delay the floor vote. for october not more than one week in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. with that dramatic compromise another flare up in the room and perhaps the country had been a very good but it still needed the backing of one man i guess the vote was a positive vote for this seems to be a delay learn more about it goes today goes or i just heard about it because we wo

the allegations from all of brett cavanagh's accuses.an: if they turn out to be baseless it will set a bad precedent for victims planning to speak out down the road. >> there are women who have not been heard, have not had justice, have not been believed and this is our struggle as women, many of whom if not a majority have experienced sexual harassment, sexual assault and make different choices how to handle those things. we have been working for generations to be taken seriously. senator feinstein and democrats, supposedly the champions for women, have denigrated all of us. of all the accusations, professor ford's is the most plausible but when her own witnesses said it did not happen or contradicted her it became a problem in this is the thing all three accusations have in common, no witnesses, no specifics, no corroboration or even contradiction, and inability to corroborate. rob: this sets the stage for confirmation vote set for tomorrow. >> the president scheduled to come face-to-face with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein ami

so we see they are one of cavanagh's strongest supporters and strongest opponents the views from both sides of the aisle there but ultimately what this comes down to is how likely are we to get an investigation by the f.b.i. of this incident what happens next this is really uncharted territory for the senate this is something that at least in my memory has never happened before a delay of this sort the senate very well could simply push forward with a vote that is completely within their purview and in fact we know that they are teeing up to make the vote happen at some point in the very near future there's going to be a vote tomorrow on the procedural aspects of the next full senate floor vote. and mitch mcconnell the senate leader. really has no obligation to make this happen as we've heard from president trump he's going to let the senate quote decide what's going to happen and like i said earlier this is a real double edged sword delaying the vote for another week could allow several both democratic and republican senators who have announced that they're on the fence about kavanau

red state democrats like claire mccaskill are in trouble if they vote against brett cavanagh.e than double persuadable voters in missouri are likely to come out and oppose her if she is to oppose brett cavanagh, someone numbers in indiana. we say democrats are the party of obstructive resist, all the proof you need, they had 30 hours of public testimony to ask about this, 1200 follow-up questions, 65 meetings, they never brought this up until days before the vote, political grandstanding and voters will reject the political manipulation. >> it is now an issue the accuser won't be testifying publicly and i think that really does create a circumstance for the democrats now and diane feinstein handled this poorly and as a result something that was potentially credible is being politicized. heather: let's see how this plays out in the course of the next few days and if we end appearing from both of them it will be interesting. appreciate your time this morning. todd: rick scott the latest victim of liberal rage. [chanting] todd: the confrontation that forced the florida governor t

women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be directly questioning blazin ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can investigate its all republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it would be a travesty for the honor of the supreme court and the honor. of our country you swear at any rate brett kavanaugh says he's not withdrawing his nomination and that the latest allegations are straight out of the twilight zone but with five weeks to go before congressional elections republicans may have to decide which they want more their preferred man on the supreme court or keeping control of congress. castro al-jazeera washington bush goodstein is a democratic political consultant and a former advisor to president bill clinton and he says time is running out for kavanaugh and the republicans if he that withdraws or is voted down at seems unlikely that the republicans would have enough time in in this year before

republicans and people who went to see brett cavanagh become justice cavanagh will believe him and many women and many democrats will believe her. the ultimate judge will come and the judgment will come in november during the midterms. if women are angry enough about the way this issue is resolved about the way she is treated, if they feel she is not given due process, they will turn out in large numbers and that could cause a wave the president says doesn't exist. >> diane feinstein had the letter for six weeks. according to her doctor for did not want to be named publicly. why didn't democrats demand a closed door hearing before this was leaked out and became public? keith ellison is accused of domestic abuse and although he denies at the wall street journal says the allegations of sexual abuse can be a politicized weapon. >> that is a danger here and it is also very dangerous to make -- say someone makes an allegation that cannot be substantiated because it kind of colors the entire process, it colors and determines the way justice cavanagh will be perceived as he sits on the court i

we must stop cavanagh. >> thank you for coming out today. a junior sociology major from north carolina and i believe survivors recently doctor ford and ms. ramirez have come for the sexual assault at the hands of cavanagh. although struggling with the sexual assault prevention we cannot continue to sweep this under the rug i am a survivor of sexual assault. as a survivor my life has been quite difficult. i was assaulted sophomore year as a male survivor it has been extremely difficult to navigate college. however despite that difficulty i could report to my title ix coordinator the next day that my institution told me they would be proactive with the investigation but unfortunately that was not the case. 230 days since reporting my case but yet i have had no hearing. this lack of accountability has given me mental distress while heavily affecting my academic status. this is why survivors do not come forward. if you choose to move forward with the cavanagh nomination that we do not matter to you. and if you vote against cavanagh that is a vot

of teenage sexual abuse never ramirez says cavanagh exposed himself to her while they were first yearstudents at yale and christine blazin ford says cavanagh try to force himself on her and that she feared he could kill her when they were both in high school the senate judiciary committee is also investigating two other reports that cavanagh abused women last week trump questioned whether blazin ford is telling the truth the result of a polygraph test she took in august suggest that she is but now as for prepares to repeat her story before the senate judiciary committee on thursday trump says he will give her testimony a fair hearing in that. could change his support for kavanagh oh it's possible i'll hear that and i'll say hey i'm changing my mind that is possible. in light of growing anger among us women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men won't be directly questioning laws a ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can inve

this year students at yale and kristine blazin ford says cavanagh try to force himself on her and that she feared he could kill her when they were both in high school the senate judiciary committee is also investigating two other reports that cavanagh abused women last week trump questioned whether blazin ford is telling the truth the result of a polygraph test she took in august suggest that she is but now as laws before prepares to repeat her story before the senate judiciary committee on thursday trump says he will give her testimony a fair hearing and that it could change his support for kavanagh oh it's possible i'll hear that and i'll say hey i'm changing my mind that is possible. in light of growing anger among u.s. women over the cavanagh case the twelve republican senators all men will be directly questioning laws a ford they brought in a woman prosecutor from arizona to do that democrats on the panel and in the chamber at large say the hearing shouldn't even be happening until the f.b.i. can investigate its all republican colleagues rush to proceed without an investigation it

where cavanagh allegedly exposed himself in front of deborah ramirez but the f.b.i. probe won't include the allegations of a third woman julie sweat nick who says she was gang raped at a party cavanagh attended the allegation that she makes is outrageous not one democrat mentioned it but martin judge. as being part of a gang rape and the dragon women will be asked did he ever see this happen or did see cavanagh last week cavanagh denied the allegations at a senate judiciary committee hearing but i have never done this but given the serious out. gay chanson cavanagh's combative defense that he's the victim of a political smear campaign democrats are questioning kavanagh's temperament for the role of supreme court justice it was clearly a college aren't aggressive angry and he revealed himself as a partisan i would think that if i were a democrat going before him i'd ask him to recuse himself president donald trump says he has no backup plan when it comes to the confirmation of judge kavanaugh the f.b.i. is currently investigating its report is expected sometime after