the people who recruited hawley were skeptics or even critics of trump, including former senator danforth, who wrote a blistering op-ed about trump year ago. hawley has fully embraced the trump agenda since getting his endorsement last year. has been very reluctant to disagree with the president on policy. one reason he was a top gop recruit in general if holley, when he ran for attorney general in 2016, it was his first time running for statewide office and he was the top vote getter in the state. hawley got even more votes in the state than trump. he was seen as a rising star in the republican party. he is a socialist -- social conservative and clerked for chief justice roberts before he returned to missouri. he has got some social conservative credentials. -- youngn as a long contrastsh face and a to claire mccaskill. host: claire mccaskill recently came out against the kavanaugh nomination this week. talk about that in a larger context of where mccaskill is in regaining the seat. guest: i think it is significant she did that. there had been a lot of pressure on her from both sides of

that says the concorde i'd go to mr danforth for like home port i'm stuck. at home in bavaria klaus peter uses his time between court appearances to keep in touch with his network of supporters. and a lawyer you are in fella is providing legal advice. feller cannot comprehend that rescuers are being treated like criminals. this stuff because you know you are i thought well this is very unusual a person who is ready to nepa let's see him is going to take a hike. for area dubious reasons. smith's. body shining. lives in an affluent town in one of germany's wealthiest regions the refugee dramas of the mediterranean seem far away although klaus gets a lot of sympathy here for his work he sometimes has difficult conversations. the subject here now is this is what i experienced at oregon. listen i am a mother and it was a favor to drive a bit of this is what it meant and then he said. if you're really happy and invade us about iraq over hundreds of feet. you can't resist on like that. but. before his next court appearance. is working on a minibus that was donated

no one other than my wife and senator danforth, to whom i read this statement at 6:30 a.m., has seen or heard the statement. no handlers, no advisers. the first i learned of the allegations by prof. anita hill was on september 25, 1991, when the fbi came to my home to investigate her allegations. when informed by the fbi agent of the nature of the allegations and the person making them, i was shocked, surprised, hurt, and enormously saddened. i have not been the same since that day. for almost a decade, my responsibilities included enforcing the rights of victims of sexual harassment. as a boss, as a friend, and as a human being i was proud that i had never had such an allegation leveled against me, even as i sought to promote women and into nontraditional jobs. in addition, several of my friends who are women have confided in me about the horror of harassment, on the job or elsewhere. i thought i really understood the anguish, the fears, the doubts, the seriousness of the matter. but since september 25, i have suffered immensely as these very serious charges were leveled against me.

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel aboutsion therapy centre where, you know, all this stuff — we will tell you all this stuff and somehow it will change your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that thing about there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started fil

i promised senator danforth in the gym. and we said, no, we don't understand. this is for a lifetime appointment to the supreme court, for heaven's sakes, but he hurled it through and we were very, very sad about that. >> bring it forward to this time. what lessons, then, does that provide for your democratic allies on that committee? how should they perform going forward? >> well, i think they aren't going to be silent. we've got all these wonderful women on the committee that i think will be very aggressive on our side. but i do think they have a point in that they would really like to have more time. i mean, this whole thing has been handled like a railroad or a kangaroo court or something in that they don't get all the writings that he has had and the ones that they do get they get the night before the whole thing starts. what is this railroading? again, it's not the way you're supposed to do supreme court nominations, and hopefully our side has been articulating that, but unfortunately the other side has not been listening at all and just been moving it ri

now, i talked to senator jack danforth today, he was justice thomas' chief sponsor in the senate forse hearings in '91, and his advice to thomas, then, was to be yourself. and we saw that, the full emotions from justice thomas on display: anger that his reputation was destroyed, thanks to the senate, for a forum of what he called, "lies." that was him being himself. brett kavanaugh is very different. but his friends are telling him the same thing, "just be yourself." >> glor: all right. rikki, now to you. as a former prosecutor, what are the challenges facing rachel mitchell, the prosecutor the republicans have brought in? >> well, she is a prosecutor. memember, the person they really needed here was a criminal oefense lawyer, someone who cross-examines accusers and props up the accused. so, here, this prosecutor is acting contrary to what she usually does. also remember, prosecutors' biggest challenges are the facts that they do not cross-examine people as a normal course of events. most cases go in on the burden of proof on the government, and then defendants rarely testify. >> glo

. >> that was senator john d danforth who helped shepherd the clarence thomas confirmation. you were against a delay then, do you think a delay now is out of order? is it unacceptable in your view? >> you know, i'm just not into the nitty gritty of what happens when. i mean what i said back then and it definitely was true, the whole thing was torture for a human being. clarence obviously controversial but he was a friend of mine and he was everything that he lived for was under attack. it was really awful. and he was just humiliated by the whole darned experience. so this is like reliving that. and i'm sure the same is true, i don't know judge kavanagh, but for him, here's a man who has had just a sterling reputation and clearly his reputation means a great deal to him. he's got a family and now questions about his reputation. he's been lauded for serving food kitchens for the poor and coaching kids and so on and so forth. so people generally recognize that whatever you thought of his jurisprudence, here's what an excellent human being. now all of that is in the trash. i thi

what i thought when you just played that clip of senator hatch and even earlier today when senator danforth was on with jim acosta, my thought was wow, male white privilege does not dull with age. >> i was watching as well. play the clip. >> i think -- what i thought back in the days of clarence thomas and what i really think now is that there has got to be some reasonable end to the torment. and the longer it goes on the more hurtful it is to a human being. >> didn't hoesn't her story des be told? if she wants to talk about what happened. >> of course. i think everybody has made that clear. but i'm saying from the standpoint of somebody who has been nominated for the supreme court, obviously you wouldn't be in the position of being nominated unless you had a wonderful reputation. >> again, he was one of the senators on the senate judiciary back in '91. you know, you cited white male privilege. alice, same question. do you think they get it today? >> i think they are coming around to it because with the "me too" movement, there is no choice. what we're seeing and hearing every day is the tr

in that case, clarence thomas had a strong supporter with senator jack danforth.his staff at that time. there were differences there and differences in how it was handled. it was ready to go to the floor. it had been sent without recommendation because it was a tie vote. in this case, i think it's up to the judiciary committee to say the fbi can summon and they should summon the witnesses they know that were there. the one that said he doesn't want to testify and he doesn't remember, well, he should be summoned. and to testify, any other witnesses that she can name. the fbi, i suppose he'd have to go through names that were -- i don't know if they know anybody remembers the home where this was held. >> right. that would be one of the things. that would be one of the things presumably the fbi could do here. the president has said she's not in favor and chuck grassley said he's not in favor of. that's where they're at. >> it is not a criminal case. >> it is not. >> and background checks are not criminal cases. background checks are just that. >> thand it seems to me

we saw two nights ago john danforth was on television saying he'll have to bring his energy up. president trump wanted him to be more passionate. his theory is deny, deny, deny. he came loaded for bear today. that was not unusual. that was consistent with what happened with clarence thomas. but i will say in some ways he took it to the next level. and i think senator gill braibr talking at the top of your show was correct. the disparkment, the arrogance, the lack of judicial temperament, the full minating. we understand this is an emotional issue. no one wants to be accused of something they did not do. i'm sure he and his family have, in fact, suffered. this is a sitting judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. he is a sitting judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. for him to go after senators like that, trying to do their job, was shocking. and what was so interesting was the effort to kind of turn this around into being about the democrats in process when, in fact, since the summer this whole process has really been about the republicans and their refusal to let us ge

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel aboutll this stuff and somehow it will change your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter of the film is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming it i think before trump was elected. the election happened mid—shoo

because the people who recruited holly were skeptics or even critics of trump including former senator danforth who wrote a blistering op-ed about trump a year ago saying republicans should not be seen in public but holly has fully embraced the trump agenda since getting his endorsement last year. it has been very reluctant to disagree with president policies. one reason he was a top gop recruit in general is holly when he ran for attorney general in 2016 it was his first time running for statewide office, he actually with the top vote getter in the state trump won the state by double digits but holly got even more votes in the state then trump so he was seen as a rising star in the republican parties and social conservative has been clerked for chief justice roberts before he returned to missouri so he has social conservative credentials but it is also -- he seen as young face, freshfaced angela begins have seen him as a good contrast to claire mccaskill. >> claire mccaskill recently came out against the cavanaugh nomination and talk about that and talk about that in the larger context where m

the miseducation of cameron post, which is desiree akhavan's adaptation of emily danforth's novel aboutchange your same—sex attraction! ‘cause there's no such thing as homosexuality, there isjust sin. i thought the triumph of the film was although the subject matter is very dark, and it doesn't shy away from that, it's also — there is a lot ofjoy in the film. this lovely irony that chloe grace moretz‘s character is sent to this place where actually, she meets the very group of friends that everyone is trying to keep her away from so, i thought — but i understand that thing about there are times when it does make you angry. but there is more humour in it than i anticipated, and that's what makes it work as a film. and it's set in the early ‘90s, but boy does it seem relevant to the politics of today which, again, i thought was very important. goodness, yes! like spike lee's blachklansman, it's a period setting but it feels very, very urgent and contemporary. yes, and they started filming it i think before trump was elected. the election happened mid—shoot. it would have been an interesti

. >> reporter: john danforth says an independent investigation is key to a fair outcome. >> the fbi has a responsibility to conduct background investigations. >> reporteter: more than 1,000 ford's fellow alumni have signed a letter saying they support her. samantha gerry has known ford since middle school. >> we have no doubt this was her experience and i think she's detailed it admirably in the letter she originally sent. >> reporter: republicans say they are moving ahead with their own investigation. they say aides interviewed judge kavanaugh under oath in private on monday and they appear to be appearing to hold a vote in committee on his confirmation next week. >> all right, a lot of drama ahead, nancy cordes, thanks very much, nancy. >>> president trump heads to las vegas for a political rally tonight after meeting yesterday with hurricane florence victims and seeing the damage in the carolinas. the president promised lots of money for the recovery. and told families of the 37 people killed in the storm we are with you all the way. he handed out meals outside a church in new bern,