deborah made the uniforms they went off in. now she had to decide what to do with the rest of her life. she was not eager to run back home to her mother, not after living apart and being responsible for herself. the experience made her independent. i don't think she was eager to marry the first guy who came down so she could set up house and do more chores. a prize-winning scholar, now at harvard, who focuses on lost history and forgotten women remarked that well behaved women seldom make history. think about that for a moment. well behaved women seldom make history. i've taken the liberty of making t-shirts with that slogan on it in case you would like to take her words home with you after my talk. what do you think well behaved women were doing back then? babies, making babies. would you like the microphone? >> wealthy people maintained huge homes, large families. martha washington was an example. and the wives of many of the people who were a part of the continental congress. ms. cowan: what about ordinary women? what were w

his grandson devotes a chapter to deborah sampson and he quotes his grandfather saying as a soldier deborahshowed great activity, courage, and valor. on scouting parties, she would go forward nearer the enemy than any of her comrades. she had the reputation of being the fastest runner in the army. that brings us to the fourth way deborah was able to elude detection. deb scored private sleeping quarters in the war. it was at the end of the war or secret was finally exposed. in june the army center to philadelphia where officers were threatening to mutiny. deborah succumbed to epidemic and was left for dead in a hospital. a doctor named barnabas binney discovered she was still alive, nursed her back to health, and determined that he was a she. general patterson was so gob smacked he reportedly blurted out, can it be so? until she confirmed it was so. by then the general was devoted to his protege and the war was practically over. no one tarred and feathered her. she got an honorary discharge and the army left her alone to do a she pleased. she was free to go home. but where was home after bei

for joining us for our program on deborah sampson. between deborah sampson and st. paul's is direct. she was wounded not too far from here in the revolutionary war. not as backwards as people think. thatdeborah was wounded, was after the surrender of yorktown. there was still fighting going on. her story is very interesting. i would like to introduce our speaker today, allison. spente-winning writer who 27 years with the new york times . she became interested in deborah sampson a few years ago. i would like to introduce her. [applause] >> thank you very much. you, dr. david osborne, of allowing me the honor addressing you here. it is an important reminder of the american revolution. thanks to the national parks service for preserving this church and to all of you for joining me today as we take time to remember one of our nations unsung, most forgotten hair when -- herone. intention of singing. i will stick to talking. front-pageder some news from about three years ago. there we go. as you can see, here is the new york times reporting the pentagon has opened combat

. >> one person she had said to me over the phone was deborah. and the alarm bells went off because deborah garza was on my short list of potential birth mothers for rob. >> i'm pretty sure that robert's case is solved. i'm just afraid about, you know, making that phone call because i'm going to be really upset if his birth mother is not open to contact. >> reporter: but when pam calls deborah she gets hung up on. >> that next morning i started getting text messages from rob's birth mom. "i would like to know more about what you're looking for." i'm not an advocate of dropping information through a text message, but i had no choice. so i wrote back, "i'm helping someone who is adopted. he was born in 1972." and then it was amazing. the complete tone of the text messages changed. >> well, i had a son in 1972. i had to give up for adoption. i think about him every day. >> reporter: pregnant at 16, deborah garza says her mother made her hide her pregnancy in shame. she delivered the baby via c-section. >> they completely knocked me out. so i wouldn'

deborah ramirez, we see you and we believe you. hill, we havea seen you fight for 27 year so that this wouldn't happen to anyone else. and we have always believed you. since #metoo went viral, we have witnessed the power of survivors everywhere, naming and speaking allow their experiences uninterrupted. the credit to survivors sharing and anger, bravery has begun to change the way survivors are heard and believed. it has led to extraordinary moments of individual accountability that seemed impossible only a year ago. moments of individual accountability are not the lasting change we need and deserve. this moment reminds us that the me too movement is inciting a true seachange in our culture. moving our churches and schools and even arsenic to believe us. survivors are more than their stories. survivors are strategists, leaders of organizations, organizers and they are moving us to rethink how we shape every single system and reconsider what we could do differently at every step of our journey to end sexual violence. so repeat after

i believe deborah ramirez and i believe survivors. [cheers and applause] chair senator murkowski, you represent our rural villages were survivors are suffering in silence. if you vote to confirm kavanaugh into the highest court in this nation of it you are telling the survivors you represent that they don't matter to you. you have a choice to make. you can choose to ignore the voices of survivors in our right for a lifetime or you can stand with us in vote no to kavanaugh. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i am francesca. i am 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. violence has recently become a dialect spoken about frequently. however an important topic that often his employees. it's important to recognize that violence is not taken seriously in k-12 schools and students are seriously neglected. since dr. christine ford for the came forward about the assault she faced him in this administration the public streets on stu judge kavanaugh has shown high school survivors that our our experiences and our voices do n

que sabemos de deborah ramirez?en la pretigiosa universidad de yale.hoy en dia tiene 53 aqos, esta registrada como ella tiene 53 aÑos, estÁ registrada como demÓcrata, trabaja junto a una entidad que brindaÉstica. desde el 2007 estÁ casada con un ingeniero. carolina: fijate, en esta informaciÓn, en una fotografÍa que acompaÑa esta acusaciÓn en la revista the newyorker ha llamado la atenciÓn que deborah ramÍrez aparece con esta camisa que dice: puerto rico, en la fotografÍa que circula en las redes sociales. borja: vamos a cambiar de tema porque el abogado michael aventi estÁ exigiendo que testifican en el senado un amigo de juventud del juez kavanaugh. amigo que rehÚsa a declarar en las audiencias, tambiÉn dice que representa a una tercera mujer con informaciÓn delicada. esto es lo que tuiteÓ: represento a una mujer con informté y que el juez y otros sean citados a declarar. la nominaciÓn debe ser retirada. carolina: el gobierno dio a conocer medidas antiinmigrantes que tendrÍan una profunda repercusiÓn en la vida de

her name is deborah ramirez. ms. ramirez seinfeld out her allegations against brett kavanaugh in an article in the new yorker that was published this weekend. she said essentially when she was in college and brett kavanaugh was a classmate of hers as an undergraduate, he put his genitals in her face, forcing her to touch them as she tried to push him away. quoting from the new yorker, quote, i was embarrassed and ashame and humiliated. she says she remembers brett kavanaugh standing to her right and laughing, pulling up his pants. brett was laughing, she said. i can still see his face and his hips pulling forward like when you pull up your pants. she recalled another male student shouting about the incident, quote, somebody yelled down the hall, brett kavanaugh just put his penis in debbie's face. she said it was his full name. i don't think it was just brett. and i remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there. another classmate of debbie ramirez's told the new york they're while he himself was not pr

patricia: deborah ramÍrez no ha aparecido pÚblicamente para reafirmar su denuncia contra el juez. comitÉ no actÚan con seriedad para permitir que su clienta cuente la historia. allegados de ramÍrez defienden su credibilidad. dulce: deborah ramÍrez de 53 aÑos y de ascendencia portorriqueÑa, en la segunda mujer que acusa a el pues nominado por donald trump. el supuesto incidente ocurriÓ mientras ella estuvo ebria. mucho cuestionario su versiÓn por eso, pero sus amigas y colegas aseguran que dice la verdad. >> es una persona, cuando esa dice algo, es la verdad. esa tiene mucha dignidad. es muy buena persona, muy buena amiga. dulce:dolores trabajÓ con ella durante seis aÑos en una organizaciÓn que ayuda vÍctimas de violencia domÉstica. >> esa quiere saber cÓmo cocinar comida de puerto rico. dulce: han surgido distintas opiniones, pero esta mujer que la conoce dice que el juez se ponÍa agresivo y beligerante cuando estaba borracho. cree que Él y su grupo social eran capaces de esas acciones. >> no tiene moral paradecidir sobre nuestras vidas y sobre nuestra salud. para nosotros es muy

deborah: not sure if it gives leverage.has been very hard to predict why the administration has taken the timing it does in announcing the tariffs. some of it is domestic politics. some of it is when the president decides he is ready to or not. there is a general belief in the u.s. business community and with the chinese that this deal will ultimately be done by the president himself. one is that opportunity going to come? they all had a chance to talk to president xi. the offer on the table today is better than any offer of the past two administrations. if we are able to take what is on the table with china today and we know we will get more from what the administration says it wants, it will be a very good deal for u.s. companies. david: very interesting perspective we don't often get. great to have you here. still ahead, president trump hits the campaign trail, rallying for senate candidates in montana and the court a -- and north dakota. we will talk about that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ david: this is "bloomberg mark

and now deborah ramirez.ankly, i'm concerned that what we've heard from majority leader mcconnell, that he intends to plow through the confirmation of judge kavanaugh is the majority opinion of the majority party here. >> the argument from trump and kavanaugh supporters, we just heard from a trump supporter on our panel, is that brett kavanaugh has already been through five or six fbi background checks. they haven't found anything untoward. why conduct another one? >> great question. why would the fbi have known to go back and question judge kavanaugh about an alleged sexual assault in high school or college, if no accuser had come forward? so he may very well have cleared previous fbi background checks in which there was some questioning about high school behavior. every federal nominee for a federal judgeship is questioned about drug abuse, alcohol use. but they wouldn't have known to ask any questions about sexual abuse or assault. and one of the things, jake, i think is important for members of the senate

we should say we don't know that they've set down yet with deborah ramirez.derstanding is they have reached out. importantly deborah ramirez has said publicly when she spoke out to the "new yorker" that she expects them to investigate. >> and deborah ramirez is a yale college classmate of judge brett kavanaugh. let me ask you, shane, about the mandate. i'm going to read from the statement. it says the supplemental fbi background investigation would be limited to current credible allegations against the nominee and must be completed no later than one week from today. current credible allegations, who decides what those are? >> that's a good question. i think the fbi would have to find them credible to even spend time looking at them. we should emphasize here, too, this is not an investigation meant to determine who is right, who is wrong, whether charges should be brought. this is simply to add material to the background investigation that the file that the senate white house and judiciary committee has in front of them when the senate is ultimately weighing i

for now,at the fbi will look in the allegations made by christine blasey ford and deborah ramirez. an attorney for ramirez released a statement saying we can confirm theca fbi has reached o to interview her and she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation. meanwhile, aig trump administration official tells nbc while investigators may not be interviewing julie swetnick, the third accuser, that doesn't preclude them from asking other witnesses about the allegations shetn has made. two people familiar with the matter tell "the new york times" four people will be questioned over the next few days. investigators will end up asking mark judge about julie swetnick's als allegations. >>> president trump weighing in on the. allegations of the -- d whether there's any chance he couldan withdraw the allegation. i think it's fine. i think actually this could be a blessing in disguise because having the fbi go out, do a thorough investigation, whether it's three days or seven days, i think it's going to be less than a week, but having them do a thorough investigation i think will be a b

. >> should deborah ramirez, the new kavanaugh accuser, be allowed to testify? >> if she would like to, she can certainly contact the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. they have a process in place. obviously they've mailed tremendous unpress dentsed accommodations for miss ford to testify on thursday. judge kavanaugh has been willing to testify publicly to what he has said privately under oath from day one. less than 24 hours after he was made aware of the identity of miss ford, he said he would raise histestify add to his 30-plus hours of testimony. i thought that his comment last night about the second so-called accuser is incredibly instructor. he's calling this a smear campaign. indeed, starting to feel like a vast left wing conspiracy. "the new york times" said they interviewed dozens of people over the last couple weeks, trying to verify the second accusation. they couldn't go ford with the reporting. not because they're supportive of president trump's nominee but because they have some standards. this fact, "the new york times" also reports that

i'm going to actually begin by saying i'm going to speak about 35 minutes and with deborah's help-- deborah is a pharmacy a better communications, but really what i love about her is that she's my favorite soprano. she's agreed to help me reach some of them. this is a book of letters and it's a book of letters because i do not have the last word. i have words and i look at so many people who i have worked with, kennedy who is a linguist, all of you who are here love words. a letter is opening to two sets of words. in a certain sense and letters tripoli blessed because it gives me a chance to give you the best of my ability and hope that it elicits the last. in the first letter that i won't read to you-- i'm only going to read the last piece of the last letter. i quote. he said iron sharpens arc-- iron and that's really almost the dilemma that we are in in the digital world. we are all progressing in extraordinary ways. it's never going to be a binary, this discussion and the letter enables me to in fact by the very structure of the book thing we are entering the dilemma of this age together

h-o-t-w-i-r-e (e-e-e-e) >>> a moment ago you heard from the attorney for deborah ramirez.ohn clune says he was on a senate judiciary committee conference call tonight in hopes of speaking with republicans on the panel. however, he said only the democratic members were on the call. we received an e-mail chain sent to us by the gop folks on the judiciary committee who essentially say they have been asking for any information that ms. ramirez has on whether she'd be willing to talk to senate investigators from mr. clune. he's unwilling to give that information until they talk and find out more details about what specifically the gop side wants. joining us is cnn political analyst kirsten powers, also amanda carpenter author of the new book "gaslighting america: why we love it when trump lies to us." kirsten, i'm wondering what you make of this kind of back and forth from the attorneys, from ms. ramirez and also the gop folks on the judiciary committee, the investigators. >> well, what it sounds like is that they don't trust the republicans to investigate this. and i think tha

she believes deborah ramirez should be heard.ake a listen. >> if she has serious allegations that she is willing to come forward on and request the opportunity to be heard, as dr. ford did, i think that there is a process for all of that, a process before the committee. i don't want to see further delay. >> reporter: now, wolf, it is worth noting lisa murkowski is not calling for delays right now. she is not calling for it to be postponed or pushed off like democrats are, but she is differ from republicans who say that that second allegation is a smear and she is very clearly a keen example of somebody who will be watching the thursday hearing very closely. >> you're absolutely right. phil, the senate judiciary committee has now hired a female outside counsel to question dr. ford and judge kavanaugh. this is something that ford's legal team did not want, so what has been the reaction? >> reporter: yeah, it was a significant point of disagreement. we have seen it in letters back and forth. we heard readouts from sources familiar w

jim and deborah fallows and steven brill join me to discuss this. >>> and reading, writing, and arithmetic from around the world. global lessons from the one man who has spent his career studying the best education systems from around the globe. what the u.s. can learn from others. >>> tick-tock, tick-tock. seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. just what is the nature of time? and are our days truly numbered? i will talk with the brilliant physicist carlo rovelli. >> time really goes at a different speeding defending how you move and where you are. >>> but first, here is my take. in september, google will celebrate its 20th birthday. when it was founded in 1998, it was one of many search engines. but it quickly became the chief gateway to the internet and is now one of a handful of tech companies that dominate not just the american economy but also increasingly american life. it recently received a birthday present from the european union, a record $5 billion fine for violating antitrust laws. that came just a week after the u.k. slapped facebook with a fine for allowing cambri

there's national politics which is so dispiriting. >> deborah, describe the journey. what exactly did you guys do? >> it wasn't 35,000 feet, it was actually 2,500 feet across the country. we were in our small plane for four to five years, not nonstop, but going from -- >> this is a tiny single prop plane. >> a little propeller plane. >> this is not exec jet. it's a little propeller plane where we would hop from town to town and stay in these towns for one or two or three weeks at a time. and coming in at very low altitude, a soft entry to the town to get a sense of what it was like. and then staying at the motel 6, going around to see a lot of the -- all kinds of people in the town. we spent time in classrooms in schools, with the mayor, with people who ran the ymca, at brew pubs, in the hospitals, in the clinics with the doctors, to get a sense of, as much as we could, the variety of things, and a sense of the energy or lack thereof that was going on in the communities. >> and when you look ted at it, what was the tell-tale sign of vitality? was there something you c

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blasey ford and deborah ramirez should come forward, but also other witnesses who can offer facts andvidence. that's what is important here. >> so what options do you have to get that done your way? it looks like the committee chairman and the republicans, they're not going along with a full-scale fbi investigation, for example? >> my hope is that our republican colleagues, and mostly the republican leadership, will realize that these claims about smearing the nominee really are designed to smear the survivors and the survivor community. think about the nightmare that these two women face, the public shaming, character assassination and even threats to their public safety in coming forward. they have everything to lose, nothing to gain. their credibility is really very powerful, and that's why i hope our republican colleagues will heed the message that they receive from the key republicans whose votes are necessary as well as the american public. >> what does it tell you, senator, that this new allegation by a yale classmate has led judge kavanaugh and his supporters to double down? >

i think her allegation deserves to be investigated just like deborah ramirez and just like dr.d. i think this whole process, one thing that the gop senators and trump, they don't want to do is continue to say to women that your stories don't matter. and think that was such a defining moment for senator flake, when he raised his head in that elevator, when the women asked him to look at them in the eyes. i think that what's they're saying, look at us as women. listen to our stories. believe our stories. give us an opportunity to be heard. so i can think of no legal reason. obviously there's some time constraints. but there's no legal reason that julie swetnik should not be included in this investigation. >> how problematic is it if she is not included, given that the president has already expressed via tweet and other ways his disdain for the attorney, michael avenatti, who is representing swetnik? if she is not included in this scope, how could it not look political? >> i imagine at some point avenatti will get a call. but it's really for the fbi at this point to decide if an a

thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me, don. >> so you know deborah ramirez.your reaction to what you just heard the president say about her? >> you know, unfortunately it's what we hear quite often when victims come forward with their stories. you know, i would expect that the president of the united states actually has more nuance and balance toward addressing someone who is coming forward with a story that is -- you know, it is disturbing, but there should be a fair process. and i think that making statements like that fundamentally taints the process. >> were you able to hear the conversation we had before the break? >> just a little bit. >> yeah. is it frustrating for you listening to the back and forth and the political -- especially the political back and forth about the republicans are doing this, the democrats are doing that because as far as i know, there are no democrat or republican victims or survivors. it's just survivors or victims. >> well, beyond that, regardless of your political affiliation, if it were your daughter or your mother or your sp

myself, elsa barkley brown, and deborah king, organized an ad campaign.s really in response to what you are ready described as the outrageous, what we thought was the outrageous treatment of dr. hill before the senate judiciary committee. we wanted d to say we believed her. we also wanted to put her statement in a larger context of sexism and racism that black women experienced. and we did this before the internet, so we got letters, we had a 1-800 phone line. we really reached far and wide. i think many people were watching the spectacle of those hearings and were outraged by it. we wanted to give voice to that rage. we wanted to insert our voices as blalack feminist into a publc discourse. so we wanted to put the ad -- we put it in "the new york times" and several african american newspapers as well. and then an organization called we do group out of that and lasted for several years, engaged in various work around gender justice. with a lot of similarities this case. there are some obvious differences. christine blasey ford is alleging actual sexual as

ford and deborah ramirez have nothing to game.ly coming forward by volunteering to be interviewed by the fbi they're putting themselves at legal risk and they have already suffered some impacts for them for and their families. it is judge kavanaugh who is seeking a lifetime appointment to the supreme court. and who i think now bears the burden of disproving these allegations rather than dr. ford and ms. ramirez who should be dismissed with slanderous accusations. >> michael avenatti has claimed he has more victims. has he reached out to the committee or have you reached out to michael avenatti? >> i have not reached out to michael avenatti. if he's got further evidence he should come forward promptly. >> and the other question, if kavanaugh is confirmed would you move ahead to try and impeach him or investigate him if democrats retake control of the senate? >> well, the senate as you know doesn't impeach it's the house that impeaches and then the senate that renders the decision one way or the other. i think it's a question for an

but now we're talking about not just christine blasey ford but "new york times" reports that deborahlassmate at yale, her allegations are also part of the scope. we're talking about geographically different locations as well, james, and how much difference does that make. talking montgomery county, maryland and new haven connecticut. >> sure. so fred, there's 36,000 fbi employees, 12,000 fbi agents. i guarantee you and i can assure your viewers this will be an all hands on deck enterprise and operation. i am imagining it will be worked out of headquarters as a special inquiry, but then the offices of origin would be baltimore field office that you reference for the montgomery county piece of this, and the other cases investigated out of those offices. any resources needed, fbi director christopher wray will make them available. you say can you do it in a week, if it is parsed out, spread out, yes, absolutely. >> and people move. talking about a 30 year span. the president also saying the investigation will be limited in scope. the president is the one that gave the green light to thi

su nombre es deborah ramÍrez. es de origen puertorriqueÑo y vive en colorado.z de 53 aÑos de ascendencia puertorriqueÑa es la segunda mujer que acusa a brett kavanaugh nominado para la corte suprema de apple ha maltratado universidad de yale. donde so el pin en la cara.a >> debi es una persona creÍble. >> revelÓ que el presunto excedente ocurre mientras ella estuvo ebria. esto ha hecho que muchos cuestionen su versiÓn. sin embargo, sus amigas y colegas de colorado asegura que estÁ diciendo la verdad. >> es una persona, cuando ella habla saber la verdad, porque ella tiene mucha dignidad y las vÍctimas de violencia domÉstica y tambiÉn el comunidad y es muy buena persona, muy buena amiga. >> dolores trabajÓ con ella durante seis aÑos en una organizaciÓn que ayuda a vÍctima de valencia domÉstica y dice que en este tiempo compartieron interÉs por la cultura puertorriqueÑa. >> ella quiere saber cÓmo cocinar comida de puerto rico mucho mÁs. >> han surgido versiones contradictorias en cuanto la supuesta agresiÓn, pero jeans, quien compartiÓ un dormitorio con brett kava

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deborah: china is definitely going to retaliate.have shown consistently they will respond within 24 hours. they will target not just our exports but they are starting to look at approvals for american companies. it is ironic that in the last few months, china has taken quite a few steps to further open its markets. maybe not as broadly as we would like to see but they have. what they have indicated is that they are going to start granting approvals for japanese, european, latin american companies and not american companies. david: it looks like it is going to get worse before it gets better. what is the endgame from the united states point of view and from china's? deborah: the outlines of the deal are quite clear. you can see that there would be a package of market access for american companies on a much faster timeline than the chinese currently have. significant purchases of u.s. goods to issue the trade deficit that the president is concerned about and there have to be steps on intellectual property. just as the administration i

it would be interesting to see, jeff, if deborah ramirez, in fact, does come forward and say i would like to be here rkt whether she would be allowed to speak. >> it certainly seems unlikely to me that she would be allowed. the whole republican agenda here has been to compress this hearing. they didn't want to hold it in the first place. they wanted to get it out of the way. they wanted to do it wednesday, not thursday. it will be interesting to see if she volunteers to testify. my thought is that the republican also not want to put her on the stand, at the witness table because they want to get this over with. time is not their ally, as they recognize. as more time passes, more facts come out, like yesterday's new yorker story. and that hasn't helped. kavanaugh's cause. >> ronan farrow and jane mayor, the authors of this, they know that there were democratic staffers who knew about this story last week and were also republicans. you could see why democrats did want to delay. they wanted to wait until things come out and you could see why republicans want to speed it up. it provides

the sense we got from deborah yesterday is thatis we got from deborah yesterday is that is exactly whatwanted. deborah was saying when she learned her cancer had moved on her friends were deeply upset and rachael's response was to send her a joke about getting two on the funeral. a very sad day. her husband steve a nd funeral. a very sad day. her husband steve and young son freddie. thank you. we are talking about novichok and the poisoning of sergei skripal and yulia skripal and the fact we have just been hearing that two russians have been named as suspects in the attempted murders of sergei skripal and your gaze grip —— yulia skripal. the police have been giving a news briefing and have cherry men. they believe the two men are travelling under aliases. their names are alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov. just take you back it was in march this year that sergei skripal and yulia skripal were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by russia. the cps director of legal services put out a statement saying a police officer ds dick baillie involved in searching thei

you saw him go into detail about deborah ramirez's story. what changed, do you think? >> i don't know. maybe he feels he's in trouble and he needs to come out and help them. because -- >> help kavanaugh. >> yeah, help kavanaugh. because i think if you talk to republicans earlier in the we week -- early in the week? it's early in the week. last week. >> it's like bleeding together. feels like friday, but it's not. earlier in this process, they were very confident. even when this allegation came out. they felt very sure that things were moving forward. not getting the same kind of confidence coming from them. they do seem a little rattled. >> do you think that's what's going on? >> listen, i have more questions today than i did last week. >> for kavanaugh or ramirez? >> kavanaugh. i feel like we've learned more about the cultures that he's grown up through to this position. we know that there was a very chauvinistic culture at his prep school, at his college. and look at the judge that he clerked for, who resigned reasonable among sexual accusations. and so what i want t

agents have already reached out to deborah ramirez to follow up on her claim. third woman, julie swetnick has not yet been contacted according to her attorney. president trump said the process could be a, quote, blessing in disguise, so could it work in advantage to his favor or is this just the typical political spin that one might hear? >> certainly the white house and key republicans in the senate were trying to steer it to their advantage. and they're doing it in two ways, according to sources close to the investigation. the first is they are limiting the witnesses who can be interviewed by the fbi because the white house can set the parameters of the investigation. according to the sources, they said, look, the white house gave a list to the agency, that list appears to include deborah ramirez who made the second allegation against brett kavanaugh but does not include julie swetnick who made the widest ranging allegations against kavanaugh, which, just to remind viewers, involve claims and i stress claims, that kavanaugh was present at parties where vulner

[applause] deborah: good evening and welcome. when stewart mclaren called me to share the fact that the summit was going to take place and to invite us to participate, i was overjoyed. because so many people don't even know and understand that we are the living memorial to john f. kennedy. my guess is in this room you all know that. but we love being involved in experiences like this and this summit. that said, i know many of you came from farther than virginia or maryland or down the street. and the saying is, you only have one chance to make a first impression. and i just really want to say this is a hot place to spend time. [laughter] deborah: we've been working on the chiller all day and i'm really, really sorry. but when faced with the option of either moving it or canceling it, we decided that we would all be here and experience it together. [laughter] >> and last night it was warmer, right? [applause] deborah: so thank you, thank you so much for being here and thank you to the white house historical society for all their w

. >> reporter: and he went after one woman personally, deborah ramirez, who told "the new yorker" kavanaugh exposed himself in front of her face at a dorm party in college. >> well, i look at the second accuser, the second accuser has nothing. the second accuser doesn't even know -- she thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not. she admits that she was drunk. she admits time lapses. there are time lapses. >> reporter: ramirez has acknowledged she was drunk at that 1983 party and she has gaps in her memory, but now she says she's certain it was kavanaugh who did it. she and christine blasey ford, who says kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, together seem to paint a picture of a young man who had frequent bouts of drunkenness and could, when drunk, sexually abuse women. in his fox news interview, an emotional kavanaugh said that couldn't be further from the truth. >> when i was in high school, and i went to an all-boys catholic high school, a jesuit high school, where i was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every sunday at little flower, working on my servi

how ctain -- deborah ramirez. certain is she that she said it was brett kah who exposed himself to her while she was a freshman at yale. >> she is certainly certain. judy, one thing i want to highlight is in cases of trauma and cases which there has been heavy drinking very often we see actly what we saw in ramirez's case. which is she took her time and was extraordinarily careful and really thoug carefully about this. this was already being vex on the hill and something -- investigated on the hill andme ing that prompted our reporting and she knew this would be a significant issue an would command a lot of attention. rather than jump how the ahead of it and say something inca t scious sned every piece of evidence and considered this carefully and decided yes, she was certain and decided it was important to speak about this. woodruff: you talked to all of the people who she remembered were present when this happened. and none of them was able to remember it, is that right? you were able to speak with someone who h

deborah, there was a moment when judge kavanaugh talked about your sister-in-law.me emotional when he did. i want to play that for you. listen to this. >> and little liza, all of ten years old, said to ashley, we should pray for the woman. we mean no ill will. >> what do you say to that? >> i had a hard time understanding his emotions. so, i think it sounds nice that he has no ill will, but it seemed kind of out of place and i didn't feel like he was really relating to her as a person most of the time. there wasn't much narrative about how they knew each other or how this might have gotten interpreted by him versus her. so, i felt like he was extremely defensive even to the point of being belligerent earlier and then he would come out with this emotion. it just didn't seem very cohesive in the narrative. >> deborah -- i mean, sandra, how about you? >> yeah, i thought it was a really confusing set of ideas that were being put forward, and it is hard to explain to a 10-year-old what's happening, and i'm sure that it's really difficult to be confronted with experience

a college classmate of brett kavanaugh named debr ed deborah during a party where there was thinking, kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face. quote, i was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated. she remembered kavanaugh standing to her right, pulling up his pants. brett was laughing. i can still see his face and your hips copping forward like when you pull up your pants. somebody yelled down the hall, brett kavanaugh just put his penis in debbie's face, she said. it was his full name. i don't think it was just brett. and i remember hearing that and being mortified that this was out there. another classmate of deborah ramirez's telling the new yorker that while he, the classmate was not present for the party, he says he is quote 100% sure that he was told at the time that brett kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to deborah ramirez at that party. the same classmate also independently confirmed a bunch of the same details that deborah ramirez told the new yorker about the incident, including the specific room on the specific floor in the specific building where the party took

ford, the allegation made by deborah ramirez will also be investigated. as we talk about the witnesses potentially who will be participating and cooperative, mark judge is also one of them. dr. ford named him as one of the others in the room, but he's also named as a potential witness in the allegations made by julie swetnick, so is it possible or plausible to think the fbi would question mark judge about one accusation but not question him about the other, the swetnick allegation as well? >> i don't think so, victor. that's what's important to note. although this is not a criminal investigation, once the fbi starts to ask questions, they're going to follow the leads in terms of what the answers to the questions provide. so mark judge we know is a very central character in both the allegations of dr. ford and julie swetnick. dr. ford puts him in the room as she says brett kavanaugh attempted to rape her and unintentionally perhaps even kill her as she testified to this week. mark judge has been raised as someone that needed to be talk to, although he issu

deborah ramÍrez aceptÓ que la entreviste el fbi.ista a un medio de informaciÓn. el fbi comenzÓ a entrevistar a ex compaÑeros de clase de brett kavanaugh. esto sucediÓ hace mucho tiempo pero no lo he podido olvidar desde entonces, afirma. acusa a brett kavanaugh de drogar y emborrachar a jÓvenes para despuÉs violarlas en grupo. dice que ella misma fue violada en grupo en 1982 y que el juez fue testigo. (habla en inglÉs) >> este comportamiento no es apropiado para nadie ninguna edad. una persona como brett kavanaugh no debe estar en la corte suprema, aÑade. (habla en inglÉs) >> sus acusaciones son una broma, es una farsa, dijo el juez furioso durante la audiencia. dijo que fue testigo cuando el juez intentÓ violarla. ahora serÁ entrevistado como testigo clave. >> cuando son investigados por el burÓ federal, debes decir la verdad. si no hay consecuencias penales. (habla en inglÉs) >> gritÉ para ver si alguien me escuchaban. segÚn ella no hicieron nada para socorrerla. yo jamÁs le has atado sexualmente a nadie, negÓ el juez. ambos dicen

carolina: noticias univisiÓn habla con la amiga de deborah, la hispana que acusa de comportamento sexualpiado. dice que ramÍrez jamÁs-- >> escucha esto, milagro en alta mar. rescatan a un adolescente loco de permanecer 49 dÍas de naufragio a bordo de una modesta embarcaciÓn de madera. ♪ >> hola,oeste, con mucho gustolos saluda borja pujades y carolina salazar. -- borja buses -- carolina borja: vamos a ver las primeras imÁgenes del comediante bill cosby luego de ser sentenciado de entre 3 y 10 aÑos de prisiÓn por la agresión sexual. momentos previos a esta decisiÓn un juez dictaminó a cosby de 81 aÑos como depredador sexual violento. motivo por el cual aparecerÁ la lista de personas que no se pueden acercar. a escuelas como por ejemplo. >> como por estas comedias y se becÓ las esposas como en esos dÍas varias de las mujeres que son en total 60,as que han estado d que los aÑos habÍan sid do e ab diferente tipo por parte de bill cosby. querÍan verlo así, con esposas. afuera de la corte en muchas mujeres que estÁn molestas por este veredicto. por esta sentencia que este 3 a 10 aÑos. que quie

deborah ramÍrez aceptÓ que la entreviste el fbi.a un medio de informaciÓn. el fbi comenzÓ a entrevistar a ex compaÑeros de clase de brett kavanaugh. esto sucediÓ hace mucho tiempo pero no lo he podido olvidar desde entonces, afirma. acusa a brett kavanaugh de drogar y emborrachar a jÓvenes para despuÉs violarlas en grupo. dice que ella misma fue violada en grupo en 1982 y que el juez fue testigo. (habla en inglÉs) a persona como brett o no es kavanaugh no d (habla en inglÉs) >> sus acusaciones son una broma, es una farsa, dijo el juez furioso durante la audiencia. dijo que fue testigo cuando el juez intentÓ violarla. ahora serÁ entrevistado como testigo clave. >> cuando son investigados por el burÓ federal, debes decir la verdad. si no hay consecuencias penales. (habla en inglÉs) >> gritÉ para ver si alguien me escuchaban. segÚn ella no hicieron nada para socorrerla. yo jamÁs le has atado sexualmente a nadie, negÓ el juez. ambos dicen estar 100% seguros de lo que ocurriÓ. asÍ que sÓlo hay una cosa clara, uno de los dos miente. queda

visit deborah ramirez story a fabricated allegation to take down judge kavanaugh?when senator harris asked judge kavanaugh if he had listened to doctor ford's testimony he said quote i did not. he should have. he should have listened to the testimony. he should have heard what deborah ramirez said about his sexual misconduct toward her and likewise julie sputnik about the chili mac's that she alleged he was involved in performing. judge kavanaugh on my republican kavanaugh say they don't dispute that doctor ford may have been sexually assaulted at some point, but by some other person. she was not brett kavanaugh. maybe she was mixed up maybe she was confused those kind of words use to describe heard used to demonstrate the disrespect and disregard that has shamed and silenced so many sexual assault survivors from coming forward until there truth and seek justice. and seek healing. it is the reason that sexual assault is one of the most unreported crimes in our country. one out of three women as a survivor. but so few come forward because of the public shaming and i

case in point, deborah messing lashed out at fellow left susan sarandon. why? because susan said donald trump has inspired more women and minorities to run for office. deborah gets on twitter and says all this mean stuff like stfu which i believe stands for still tweeting forever uninformed. now, in case you forgot who deborah is she's the star of an old tv comedy that they brought back just like obama -- but thanks to trump and her new life on twitter she is gone from thi- >> she doesn't have the stomach to go where i go. greg: to this. >> what is that? [cheering and applause] greg: talk about a fall from grace. [laughter] just to prove playing a smart, funny woman was all an act she now loses her [bleep] readily on twitter over trump the start of a 20 -year-old sitcom is now still coming to terms with an election that is two years old. it must seem like yesterday to her. as she seems to us. [laughter] that is the issue with celebs. no one in america is wearing a bracelet that says what would hollywood do? that hurts. they can't believe no one takes them serio

"she wrote in support of deborah ramirez, who said that kavanaugh exposed himself at a party. judge kavanaugh would have been 18 at the time, and he has sworn under oath that he never committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature. when we spoke about ramirez today, he said i believe her to be honest and straightforward. i cannot imagine her making this up. roche also said, based on my time with brett, i believe he was capable of the actions that debbie described. and worth noting, when we met with james roche today, he made a point of saying he has no political agenda. live at uc berkeley, wayne freedman, "abc7 news." >> wayne, why did he agree to talk but not go on camera? >> reporter: he says he did so because this is not his story. it's as simple as that. he wanted to be specific, he said it happened a long time ago. mostly he says he wants to back up debbie ramirez. >> all right. wayne freedman, reporting live in berkeley. thanks so much. >>> calls to the national assault hotline spiked after christine blasy ford accused brett kavanaugh of sexua

deborah ramirez is also a student at yale.hen we come back, president trump spentnt the weeeek at the united nations. he called for sanctions -- more sancnctions against venezuela. we will talk with vijay prashad. stayay with us. ♪ [music break] amamy: this is dememocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we end the hour with venezuela. president nicolas maduro arrived the address the united general assembly wednesday just one day after trump accused him of corruption and announceded new sanctions against members of his inner circle, including maduro's wife cilia flores. this is trump speaking to the un general assesembly tuesday. pres. trump: not long ago, venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth. today, socialism has bankrupted driven-rich nation and its people into abject poverty. in that spirit, we asked the nations gathered here to join together and calling for the restoration of democracy in venezuela. today we're announcing additional sanctions aga

this time from 53-year-old deborah ramirez. telling "the new yorker" during a drunken dorm roam party in 1983 or '84 when she and kavanaugh were freshmen kavanaugh exposed himself to her. ramirez who acknowledges she had been drinking to the point of being foggy and slurring her words say i remember genitals being in front of my face, i knew that's not what i wanted. ramirez says she pushed the man away saying i was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated. she says she remembers kavanaugh next to her pulling up her pants, brett was laughing, i can still see his face. ramirez said somebody yelled down the hall brett kavanaugh put his nays in debbie's face. i remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there. "the new yorker" reports that two of the male classmates who ramirez alleged were involved and the wife of the third all dispute ramirez's account as does kavanaugh who said in a new statement overnight this alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. the people who knew me then know that this did not happen an