chairman grassley has also called for ranking democrat diane dianne feinstein to release a letter she received about those allegations. the a committee for florida saye plan to move forward is unfair. many republicans saying if dr. ford does not testify, that they are prepared to proceed to a vote on the kavanaugh's confirmation. here's former top doj official under president george w. bush, he was on "newsroom" earlier. >> i think dr. ford has to testify, if she doesn't testify i think the senators will rightfully go ahead and devote. otherwise any stray accusation uncorroborated would be enough to shut down the senate and prevent the confirmation of any nominee for any judicial executive branch job and we cannot allow that to happen. >> harris: chief white house correspondent john roberts, that was putting it distinctly. >> he doesn't mince words, i've known him for a long time and he tells it like he believes it is. judge kavanaugh is at the white house again today, officials tight-lipped about what is transpiring at the white house. on tuesday sources told fox news they conducted

they attacked another woman, dianne feinstein. she's the real villain here because she didn't handle the procedure properly. i mean, you know, it happens over and over again. there's always some woman to attack and the woman always loses in this group. >> well, can we just stepping back from who you think is right, who you think is wrong, the dynamics of this, this christine blasey ford had come out and acted the way that brett kaerch did, we would be talking about this very differently. if she had yelled, if she had interrupted, if she had asked the senators the questions they were asking her, i think the reaction would be a lot different to this. but instead, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault comes forward, very mild, very pleasing to the senators in front of her, asking her questions, and it was just a completely different dynamic, and i think it says a lot about the current state. >> both of their opening statements, they were both emotional, i would say. >> he was crying. >> she was teary. he was definitely tear

>> i don't think that was in dianne feinstein's calculation.he is up against a farther left cad in her state in california. so she has to cater to this rabid left-wing base. for her i think it was political calculation. not only did they wait until the 11th hour. they leaked this woman's name without her permission. democrats had this information, she did not want to come forward with it. kennedy: she had reporters on her doorstep and she knew exactly what they were cornering her over. kennedy: i don't think she is lying. i think something happened to her. but we don't know if it's this guy. we have to find a way to prove or disprove it was him. i feel for her. to have a profile this high out of nowhere under these circumstances sucks. you understand why she would ask dianne feinstein for anonymity which she didn't grant her. she is so political she had to use this as a political move. the drama continues in d.c. as long as the economy is booming. should the rest of the country care? we'll have a report on a record-breaking day on the stock mar

dianne feinstein holds some responsibility here.cceptable. >> of the six background checks that previously happened, this woman said she's never brought it to the authorities before. it's difficult to think any background check before would have caught this. >> dianne feinstein conducted herself with honor here. >> i disagree with that. >> she put that ahead of her partisan interests. >> before christine kb lase ford's story became public she contacted her congresswoman. >>> my guest tonight, the professor whose team calculated that thousands of people likely died from the storm in puerto rico. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicated to helping protect it today. like alerting you to certain card activity we find suspicious. if it's not your purchase, we'll help you resolve it. it's a new day at wells fargo. but it's a lot like our first day. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo

number two, dianne feinstein did not tell anybody about this letter, didn't go to the chairman of the committee or other democrats, and was that at the behest of ford? did she want this to remain private just in the senator's hands? >> she did. she asked clearly that the letter be kept confidential, and her lawyer said to me in my story, she said that they felt feinstein really did right by dr. ford and preserved her privacy, and honored her request for confidentiality. >> there's not contemporaneous accounts, ford did not tell anybody at the time of this, and there are notes from couple's therapy in 2012 and also in a conversation with an individual therapist in 2013. is this information that ford and katz together presented to you or is this something you went and got from the two therapists? >> these are records that ford got from her therapist and gave to her lawyer, who then showed them to me. she -- 2012 is the first time christine ford says that she told this story in any detail and she did that during couple's therapy with her husband. her husband recalls this conversation, an

there are discrepancies in the polygraph she sent to dianne feinstein and what she sent to dianne feinsteincame out from michael avenatti where the woman claims she was gang raped and kavanaugh was in the room. avenatti will not say exactly what the accusation is. he won't say brett kavanaugh engaged thoo these assaults. kennedy: that language was purposely vague. >> tonight co-has a story out. a man who was her boyfriend filed a restraining order against him in 2001. because after she broke up she threatened him, his wife and child when he was married. this comes down to the facts. because these allegations are so old and being made not in july when he was nominated. but now, it's based on character and who can vouch for them. kennedy: all these things can happen at once. you can be the victim of sexual assault then do horrible things your adulthood. both those things can happen. she should have come forward sooner. i wish all these people had come forward sooner. when kavanaugh's name was floated on the federalist society list. >> i'm not sure if you had a conversation with a survivor, i

dianne feinstein/d- california"kavanaugh is the deciding vote."esident trump's belief that trump is "above the law." sen. dianne feinstein/d-california "this nominee believes that the president cannot be investigated cannot be tried is actually supreme. and i find that something an oligarch would have not an american president."kavanaugh was pressed repeatedly during his confirmation hearing about whether he would vote to overturn the abortion rights ruling.sen. dianne feinstein/d- california"to me there are significant issues having to do with roe v wade, and privacy for a woman's body." feinstein, who has talked about her friends who died seeking illegal abortions, says she does not want the supreme court to turn back the clock.sen. dianne feinstein/d- california"control of your own body based on religion, your family, your thoughts not the thoughts of people back in washington voting on a bill." the senator called the supreme court confirmation an ongoing saga, that will play out over the next few weeks.sen. dianne feinstein/d-california"the ke

she penned that letter to make it to senator dianne feinstein de desk.hat's part of the judge's file available for senators to review. the judge has denied the claim saying i categorically deny this allegation. i did not do this back in high school or at any time. republicans have dismissed the allegation. the chairman said he plans to go ahead with the vote on thursday. we'll see if this reporting from the washington post complicates that. joining me is jeffrey rosen. jeffrey, let me start with you. i'm going to read a couple more excerpts from this piece. ford said one summer in the early 1980s, kavanaugh and a friend corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house outside of washington, d.c. kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her over her clothes, grinding his besiody against he and clumsily attempting to pull after her bathing suit. when she tried to scream, he put his hand over her mouth. you've been watching all this unfold. what changes now? >> it's impossible not to think back to the clarence thomas situation. anita

it says as the story snowballed after dianne feinstein report having received this left, ford said she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and with the visits from reporters felled her privacy being chipped away and her calculation changed. now you're outside the home ford. what is the scene like there? >> reporter: yeah. so we're in palo alto outside of what we believe is christine ford's home. we didn't see anyone go in and out of the house all afternoon, but about an hour ago had a man came into the house and then went out a few minutes later with a dog. we don't know the man was, but he said that he was friends with the fords and that he was helping to take care of their dog. he said that ford is doing fine but that she's not interested in talking to anybody. he said she's not planning to come back to her house either. he also said that christine in order was a great person but wouldn't really say anything more about her decision to speak out and her deliberations or anything kind of reaction to kavanaugh and denials of forced altercation. i want to get a statement we got

in his argument that dianne feinstein was trying to protect her identity but then released a statement last week that she had an anonymous woman who wants to conform with these accusations. >> jessica: that came after reports that this was getting leaked out. >> katie: the point is for her to come out with a public statement that she knew was going to get all the media attention by saying i'm referring this letter to the fbi, of course ray didn't he was going to come out and if she wasn't part of this political process, the pressure would be on because dianne feinstein's of the statement. finally i want to say, democrats are saying this has to be delayed for an fbi investigation, the fbi receive this letter from dianne feinstein. they look at it and said there's not enough evidence to go off of here, we're going to put into his record with the white house and so for them to be saying we need a thorough fbi investigation, they've already looked at it and come to a conclusion. it can't necessarily be thoroughly investigated because they have been so long ago and there's only three witnes

i believe dianne feinstein. i have seen her cross party lines when it comes to issues of national security, you know, a woman who has been bipartisan in serving her country at times. and sought bipartisan solutions. she's also a woman. you know, the important thing here is that dr. blasey ford made the decision of herself coming forward, herself sharing the story with the washington post. so we now -- what dianne feinstein did or did not do to me is less important than the fact that we have now got an allegation, a credible allegation from a woman who has put her name out there, told her story, come out after 35 years, talked about her trauma, and is telling her story. and this is going to be a huge black cloud on top of judge kavanagh's career the rest of his life. it is going to be in his obituary the fact that this allegation came through. so for the supreme court, for the institution, for the highest law in the land, i think it is important that we do the most that we can as possible to be done to get to the

. >> melissa: the top democrat on the senate judiciary, dianne feinstein, under increasing scrutiny.epublicans and some democrats with big questions about when she knew of the allegations and when and why she chose to share them. plus, the president saying his order to immediately declassify a trove of documents on the russia investigation could be the crowning achievement of his presidency? but now word that the doj is in no rush to comply. we will debate why. and here is republican congressman peter king on those efforts. > allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is moving day with reliable service appointments in a two-hour window so you're up and running in no time. show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. >> melissa: president trump righ

you see senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat.ff flake will go to his seat and see if he makes a statement and delivers a speech before the roll call, if there is going to be a roll call. let's see if there is a delay in all of this. chuck grassley heading back presumably as well and see figure he gavels the suession back into order. dramatic developments are unfolding. as we watch this unfold, what you said the discussions for a week delay, let the fbi do some background checking, that's what the democrats have been asking for for days and days and the republicans rejected that. you heard mitch mcconnell reject it and chuck grassley reject and the senior leadership, john cornyn all rejecting it. the only reason they may be open to it is if they don't have the 50 votes. >> it's all about math. >> susan col ups and lisa murkowski are two key republicans that are undecided. >> say they call murkowski or collins or whatever it is and say look, you have to get it out of committee. that's the first step. if they say to murkowski and co

both families have been drug through the mud when they didn't have to be because dianne feinstein could have done this in a much more structured process and instead waited until the 11th hour and is playing political games with people's lives and i find that to be disgraceful and disgusting and she certainly needs to shoulder a lot of the blame for what's going on right now. >> you have both ms. ramirez and dr. ford saying there should be an fbi investigation. if they thought they weren't telling the truth they wouldn't be inviting an fbi investigation. why is it wrong to have an fbi investigation on something as important as a supreme court nominee? >> we have a process in place. they have a senate process and we think it should be done through that. no one is trying to hide from this. in fact, brett kavanaugh has been leaning in. he's been begging to come and tell his story and be able to do that, whether it's publicly or privately, he's asked for that opportunity and he's been perfectly open for others to have the opportunity to share their side as well. but let's be clear. from the

last week he was the first to report that democratic senator dianne feinstein had a letter describing an incident involving kavananaugh and a woman in high school, and that feinstein was refusing to share it with her democratic colleagues. his new piece is headlined "attorney sent letter to chuck grassley and dianne feinstein claiming federal court employees willing to speak about brett kavanaugh." ryan, welcome back to democracy now! let's start with the tick-tock, if you will, how all this was revealed. you are the one who broke the story of this secret letter. >> if you peace together my reporting with ronan farrow's reporting, you find on july 6, she first sent a letter to her local congresswoman. amy: you're saying "her" because she was anonymous. we nowtold her friends know, she warned him, she said, i've reached out to the washington post tip line and to my congresswoman and i plan to reach out to my senator and the world is going to come down on me. i'm willing to take the plunge. this is a decision i have made. this was july. dianne feinstein says she can't recall if she spok

fox news has learned that senator dianne feinstein heard about the claim back in july.nnie had during 65 meetings with senators including dianne feinstein, more than 32 hours of confirmation hearings and 1,278 written follow-up questions from democrat to kavanaugh, the matter was never raised until today when senator feinstein sent it to investigators. the fbi says it will include the information in kavanaugh's background file, but we are told any further action on the letter would have to come from the white house. so far the white house has done nothing except call this a democratic delay tactics. john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate and judiciary committee is incredulous saying "let me get this straight, this is a statement about a secret letter regarding a secret matter and an unindicted fied person, right?" they say that this has all of the indications of an 11th hour character assassination. the democrats on the judiciary commit me committee have triedo subpoena documents in time, to w did -- george w. bush, including the enhanced interrogation and

dianne feinstein getting this letter to the congressman's office in july.ianne feinstein has since said i wish i could have, maybe i should have. she is a statesman. she knows what was wrong to not loop that meant. she's in a very tough election. you have demand justice, a new group: they realized, the democrats, they spent three decades basically not caring about judicial nominations and the republicans and conservatives have been very good about it. the republicans have been quite responsible. okay, she should be heard. she should not be insulted. that was the first thing kellyanne conway said. the president has been quite muted about it. you can be heard. you will be heard. there's a question about this idea, judge napolitano said earlier on the 2:00 show, should the president asked the fbi to take two weeks, see what you can find out, and at the end of that, then vote on him and allow them to get seated by november 1st rather than octobe. that's not what the democrats want to. i don't think they are ever, ever going to be satisfied even if there isn't a

dianne feinstein and the democratic congresswoman had the information from early july on. that seems to have been a way without dragging these two people and the families through the mud, this could have been adjudicated. if not settled, at least disposed of. >> martha: it seems to me that is one of the central flaws in this story is the amount of time that dianne feinstein held on to this. and as chuck grassley was pointing out, grassley, the chairman of the committee, if you brought it to me, we could have kept it confidential and we didn't have to attach anyone's name to it and we could have done the investigation. that seemed to be one of the strongest arguments on the lam side and one of the things that the democrats had the most difficulty pushing back on. that is what makes it appear that the motivation was political in terms of the timing on when they dropped the story. >> chris: i agree. one of the things that the democrats are going to fire back is let's, you want more evidence? let's get mark judge. he was according to chrstine blasey ford he was in the room at

that's the one dianne feinstein recommended.re saying they don't want artificial deadlines here. the fbi should be able to do this, i would imagine, say they spend eight hours with everyry person, send one agent to each person. could be done tomorrow. >> that's right. >> that's what i said. you should deploy all of the fbi agents. take these interviews tomorrow morning. i think all these folks want to get it over with. talk to her friend leland who i think will be the strongest witness for brett kavanaugh. and i think the diaries are critically important because they were taken in 1982. it's a miracle he had them, in real-time. it corroborates what he said. >> sean: if they have something else planned. under the threat of felony, somebody admits, oh, i got it wrong, and i committed a felony the last time. their hope is one of the four committed aloop felony. >> this whole party, remember, it never happened. they're not even saying what she said is wrong. they don't have a recollection of any of it. it's made up evidence. >> sean

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dianne feinstein doing this in this way? >> well, i'm not a political commentator so i don't have a lot to say. >> laura: oh, shucks. >> the way dianne feinstein has handled this aside you from the fact that i believe she takes the concerns of women seriously. if they thought there was a serious credible allegation here she would have come forth sooner and said something. during the fbi background check or the hearing. >> laura: tell us about judge kavanaugh the boss. >> i was a law clerk to judge kavanaugh in 2007 and 2008. i worked closely with him day in and day out. i helped him prepare and decide cases. is he unfailingly kind and representful. respectful. these are contrary to what i have known for a decade. >> laura: there was a tweet from obama's top guy brian fallon or hillary's campaign, committee, and he competed this out today in response to this emily singer tweet. emily singer tweet you had make the whole bring in the daughter's basketball team and talk about how great a coach he was look even more transparent.

in this portion, committee chair chuck grassley and making them or dianne feinstein made opening statements. ford's opening statement follows, and in some of the questioning. republicans hired rachel mitchell to ask questions for them. senate democrats asked their own questions. judge kavanaugh guesses or bottle in about an hour and a half. -- gives his rebuttal in about an hour and a half.

dianne feinstein said she gave the information to the fbi. feinstein's spokesperson writing, the woman made it clear she did not want it to be made public. republicans are blasting it as a last minute allegation that democrats did not see fit to raise for over a month. people who knew kavanaugh have signed a letter saying he treated women with respect. republicans say the committee vote will still happen next week. peter alexander, nbc news. >>> when we come back, more from the storm zone as florence continues to pound the carolinas. pregnant and worriedt radioactivity. the discovery near a bay area couple )s home that has them scared to trust the government. >>> pregnant and worried about radioactivity. scared to trust the government. >> and thumbing his nose at the president. governor brown's plan to put california in space. governor br >>> finally here from wilmington, where we saw firsthand the human toll the storm is taking. a humbling reminder of the power of nature. we're thinking of those families. we're thinking of the first responde

. >> sean: dianne feinstein said it. >> it's why it's important. we do it in public jury trials to hear from the lips of the accuser and if he wants, the accused. i'm baffled by the demand of the accuser saying, oh, i want him to testify first. that's backwards. in a court of law, it's always the accuser that first testifies to allow the defendant to be able to respond to her allegations. how can you respond to something -- >> sean: could the demands keep shifting and changing? >> no. senator grassley and the judiciary committee should try to retain control of these proceedings for their constitutional duty is to advise and consent. >> sean: if you care about women -- and i do. it's a serious allegation. wait for all sides to be heard, but you've got to look at the 40 intervening years. i go back to allison. that's august. not saying a word. >> it's not just time with ellison. there are photographs. there are injuries. there are witnesses. there are videos. we have facts. look, i prosecuted these crimes for 30 years. it's what i did for 30 years. y

later on in the day he attacked dianne feinstein for how she ran the process.udge kavanaugh. >> no. in fact, for a white house that's reaction is always to come without a flame thrower when there's news that's not good for them, you had kellyanne conway going on tv shows yesterday saying this woman should not be insulted, she should not be ignored, this woman will be heard. that was from kellyanne conway. then the president of the united states at the white house had this reaction when the cameras came in the room yesterday. >> i wish the democrats could have done this a lot sooner because they had this information for many months, and they shouldn't have waited until literally the last days. they should have done it a lot sooner. but with all of that being said, i want to go through the process. one thing i'll say is that, as i under it, judge kavanaugh spent quite a bit of time with senator dianne feinstein and it wasn't even brought up at that meeting and she had this information. so would you have thought certainly that she would have brought it up at the m

leland: dianne feinstein at the center of the question of exactly how dr. ford's name came out publicly within days, if not hours before the vote was scheduled. she's your senator, congressman. are you okay with how this was handled? >> this entire thing has been a very, very difficult process from the very, very beginning. kavanaugh was controversial long before feinstein's letter ever came to light. as i understand it, dr. ford did not want to go public. it took some time for her to actually release that feinstein -- the letter -- leland: the reason it went public is because somebody leaked her name. the question would be -- >> well, i don't know. i just don't know the answer to that. leland: let me ask you this. do you agree with lindsey graham who said part of the investigation should be looking at how dr. ford's name was leaked, how a woman who alleged asexual assault and wanted to remain private was thrust into the public spotlight, should that be investigated as well? >> that doesn't seem to be relevant going forward. leland: really? >> just hang on

i think dianne feinstein said this at the beginning, this is not a criminal trial. this is a job interview. is there proof beyond a reasonable doubt that brett kavanaugh assaulted miss ford? i don't think so. this is a job interview. if someone said to you we're looking to hire a baby-sitter but he was accused by three different people of sexual assault, would you hire this baby-sitter to serve as the next 30 years as the baby-sitter for your kids? that i think is the question here, not should he be put in prison. >> but what's going to happen -- what will really matter is what's going to come in just a matter of minutes, how well he defends himself. he can suggest, come papartmente what you just saw. you mind find her credible and to be the nice lady that people were saying. you want to set that aside. he's not going to attack her. he's probably not even going to minimize what he says happened to her. he's going to try to separate as soon as -- as he said earlier, he said it's not in my character to do this, it's against my religious believes to do this. he can't u

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unfold today with the sanctimonious comments from everyone from chuck schumer, dick durbin, dianne feinsteinat ran through your mind? >> oh, it makes me go back to 1999, when diane feinstein, along with every other democrat refused to read my deposition to the independent counsel, they would have nothing to do with it. that just shows you the difference in the double standard that existed back then and still does today. i think it's -- i think this is astonishing that they can do this to mr. kavanaugh. >> laura: well, if your allegations should have been taken more seriously, why shouldn't this woman's allegations be taken seriously, as well? i mean, the process notwithstanding, should her word not be respected? just because yours wasn't respected years ago, why not respect her word and at least give her a chance to be heard? >> oh, i think she should be heard. but i still have so many reservations about her comments. i can't imagine a young girl going through what mrs. ford said she went through and not tell anyone. you know, what i went through was horrific and of course the lady that foun

this being your former beat here, lisa, what do you make of the ranking member here, senator dianne feinstein putting this out on twitter and saying she is reaching out to these two very influential individuals? >> i think it is proprly appropriate for senator feinstein to make that request and i think that request should be honored. you have an extraordinary situation in the colloquy between the senators on the judiciary committee on friday it was clear that this was a time bound supplemental investigation but zinld to lodesigned to look into the credible witnesses, the credible allegations against brett kavanaugh. en that would include all three women in my opinion. you have the sworn statement of jul jul julie swetnick and dr. ford's testimony. that is not enough. all of that should be included along with any witnesses that they suggest and any witness that's really come up as part of just looking into it. it shouldn't be limited by don mcgann. i think it's highly irregular in many ways for this to be limited in any way in terms cof which witnesses can be spoken to. they've been trying to

dianne feinstein received this letter 45 days before she rev l revealed it. private meeting with judge kavanaugh. she held this in her pocket for political reasons. that's not how you treat an allegation that you want to treat seriously that your calling for an fbi investigation. voters are seeing through this. chairman grassley has done such a remarkable job saying we will meet with dr. ford privately, we want to hear her side of the story. we will make accommodations to make sure she has an opportunity to testify. democrats now are doubling down on well, we need an investigation. the only person that can tell her side of the story is dr. ford. democrats put this off to the 11th to delay. these are tactics that they used all along. 451 interruptions with 201 arrests during the hearings. it's shameful, degrading to our nomination process and they should be pushing to have an investigation. they should have done it two months ago and calling out dianne feinstein for sitting on this letter. >> neil: not all of your republican colleagues are -- jeff flake, susan

caused by dianne feinstein and chuck schumer not requesting her confidential. it has to be tested against the evidence and against proof. we would have known that confidentially inside the judiciary committee -- >> dickerson: are they wasting the time? >> i don't know what the fbi is going to find. the committee staff has already interviewed all the witnesses that miss ford cited, interviewed miss ford and judge kavanaugh for six hours. >> dickerson: mr. judge sent them a letter that wasn't an interview. >> they have either interviewed them for received letters under penalty of perjury. >> dickerson: these are actual interviews. >> if any of these people under penalty of perjury change their claims. >> but that's why we have investigations. have a neutral fact pattern, clearly the members which of the tee want kavanaugh to be confirmed. so why should people want him to be confirmed why not have neutral observessers wrestle the facts to the ground so it's not a waste of time. >> john, we already know what everyone who is alleged to be at the party has said. they

dianne feinstein / -d- california: "if you are confident of your position, why aren't you also asking fbi?"brett kavanaugh /supreme court nominee: "my family has been destroyed."republican senator lindsey graham blaming democratssen. lindsey graham / -r- south carolina: "this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics."as senate republicans work to see if they have the votes to confirm their nominee to the supreme court -- kavanaugh emphatic he still wants the job.brett kavanaugh /supreme court nominee: "you'll never get me to quit. never."

she -- for two months dianne feinstein sat on this. she scrubbed her social media, goes and hires an attorney, a democrat attorney associated with al franken, bill clinton and others. then she goes and takes a polygraph test. it's leaked by the democrats. this has been planned from the get go. she's had every opportunity to come forward. it doesn't have to be public. dine feinstein didn't have to put her identity out there. she had a responsibility to let her other committee members know, and she didn't do it. this is not -- there's going to be no due process in the senate. she has made a criminal allegation against somebody, and that should be tried in a court of law, not in a court of public opinion. not in the court of public opinion. >> hang on. >> listen. there's some things in life that should not be partisan. there's some things that should not be about left and right. they should be about right and wrong. when it comes to sexual abuse, that's one of those things. when it comes to having people that have the fitness of character

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senator charles grassley has been trying to work with senator dianne feinstein and peter doocy will talk more about this on doing some more interviews. here is the one thing i can tell you. the white house wants to leave this up to congress to figure out. what would the white house prefer? i think they are under the understanding that anything less than a public hearing is going to leave too much unknown by the american public to ever satisfy at least certain people. so they're looking at some sort of public hearing, though they are worried that if had you an opennenned handed public hearing, shep, that could quickly spin out of control and become a circus. if they could get some kind of guarantee from the judiciary committee, that this will be a very tight hearing, i think that they would welcome that because they do want judge kavanaugh to have a chance to tell his story. but, at the same time, they believe that ms. ford should have a chance to tell her story as well. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live on the north lawn. while john was speaking, i was given word through producers who

did you meet with senator dianne feinstein on august 20th? did meet with senator feinstein. >> did you know that her staff already recommended a lawyer to dr. ford? >> i did not know that. >> did you know that her and her staff had this allegations for over 20 days? >> i did not know that at the time. >> if you wanted an fbi investigation you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat hope and hope you win in 2020. not me. you have nothing to apologize for. when you see sotomayor and kagan that lindsey said hello. i voted for them. i would never do to this what you have done to this guy. in is the most unethical scam since i've been in politics. if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you did to this guy. are you a gang rapist? >> no. >> i cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. boy, ya'll want power. god i hope you never got it. i hope the american people can see through this sham. that you knew about it and you held it. you had no intentio

dianne feinstein says she wants more people at that hearing. just getting that note now from the senator's office. look at this look like, with the source another delay or what you hear in? >> we heard yesterday from texas senator that he would be satisfactory just to hear kavanaugh's side of the story, but the senate rules to allow hearing like this for cooperating witnesses on either side so that somebody could potentially backup each side that counts with something they thought they heard at the time. there does seem to be a great appetite on both sides of the aisle just to get as much information as possible out there adhering. the difference between the two sides would be the republicans want to get it all out there right now, they want to have that hearing on monday and then they want to vote next week on kavanaugh where is the democrats want to delay the hearing, delay a vote until a full fbi background check has been redone and not something that could take weeks or months. >> harris: thank you very much for taking that story, we apprec

senator lindsey graham. >> did you meet with senator dianne feinstein on august 20? >> i did meet with senator feinstein. >> did you know that her staff had already recommended a lawyer to dr. ford? >> i did not know that. >> did you know that her and her staff had this allegation for over 20 days? >> i did not know that at the time. >> if you wanted an f.b.i. investigation, you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. you've said that. not me. you've got nothing to apologize for. when you see sotomayor and kagan tell them that lindsey said hello because i voted for them. i would never do to them what you have done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. you want this seat? i hope you never get it. i hope you are on the supreme court. that is exactly where you should be. and i hope that the american people will see through this charad

why did dianne feinstein hold this letter from july?ell, because she started to get inquiries from reporters. this was something that was going to come to the light of day. i think that senator dianne feinstein felt the need to get this out there. where does this go? i think casey is right. it depends on the two key senators. that's where the focus is going to be. however we are in a different moment. the me too movement. that could change the calculation of a number of different republican senators. we'll have to see how it plays out. >> kristen welker joining me from the house. back with me joyce vance along with beth fooey. i want to start there counter. a lot drew this to what happened with clarence thomas in 1991. what did we learn from the way you will of that transpired. >> it's very different. number one that was of course a republican president. president george bush 43 had nominated clarence thomas. but the senate was controlled by democrats. d it was a different environment. things were much less partisan than they are now. t

you look at the fact, dianne feinstein, literally have this in july.idn't bring it up until no now. then the people that professor ford mentioned, all of them deny it. then you have the new yorker article where ms. ramirez admits that she was inebriated very early, slurring her words, gaps in her memory,ly et cetera. then you have the new face of the democratic party that says, i will review gang rape in the next 48 hours there and what are the american people to think, and so many democrats rushing to judgment, no presumption of innocence. >> i think what the american people should think is that you have a democratic party so desperate to stop the supreme court from becomingesem conservative, that they are prepared to lie, to smear, to be hysterical, to break senate rules, to do whatever they have to do. what you are watching is a party totally desperate, and you have to put this week in context. i was struck earlier today that arthur miller's great play, "the crucible," which is about the salemhe witchcraft trials, actually replace to what is happeni

dianne feinstein asks republicans not to push for a hearing by wednesday. here's what she said, this is amazing -- feels that she can come before the committee? feels that she can come before the committee? since when do we believe the business of this nation should be held up by someone's feelings for whom we have tremendous sympathy. this is a smear by feinstein claiming that everyone that disagrees with her doesn't care about alleged rape and sexual assault victims. according to democrats, asking questions in the first place is wrong. asking ford to come to a hearing is wrong, according to former obama adviser valerie jarrett who tweeted -- so if republicans ask to speak to ford, they're bullying ford. if they don't speak to ford, they're silencing her. democrats wanted the fbi to investigate originally but the fbi isn't tasked with investigating nonfederal crimes. the senate has no authority to ask the fbi to investigate. ford doesn't either. only the white house does, and the same democrats currently pillaring president trump for interfering for fbi pr