i'm dr thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor on a macro has apologised for being out of touch with voters or government has been embroiled in a dispute over a controversial domestic intelligence chief there was a public outcry after he was fired and then promoted with a hefty pay increase so merkel and her coalition allies went back to the negotiating table for another round of wrangling now a new deal has been announced that includes no promotion and no increase in pay. admitting a mistake and then apologizing for it is something you rarely see in german politics but that's what german chancellor angela merkel did when she called last week's personnel decision about hans-georg mohsen unconvincing. president foghat in last tuesday's decision i was too focused on the workings of the interior ministry. and i gave too little consideration to what people think rightly so when they hear that someone is getting promoted. i deeply regret that this could happen. the night before interior minister is a who for delivered the compromise over the future o

instance the toxicological artificial intelligence system developed by the johns hopkins researchers in dr thomas heartens lab. took advantage of the european union reach registration system which requires the testing and registration of all chemicals in the european union produced in more than one ton of volume per year they took ten years of those data ten thousand chemicals they link them to eight hundred thousand laboratory studies reporting on those chemicals and they were able to create these enormous maps of where these chemicals fall in terms of their safety or specific adverse effects and by learning from this what the artificial intelligence system can do is take a new chemical plug it in put it on the map where it belongs relative to other chemicals and thereby predict whether it's going to be safe or whether it's going to be toxic for the liver or toxic for the heart rhythm or toxic for the nervous system dr john pippen from the physicians committee for responsible medicine thank you not only for your time tonight but for the work you do. well thank you we were fortunate in that while

dr thomas shock's murder has scarred his family (tracy shock, dr.hock's son)"my father was an unbelievable man. his passing has created suffering that i don't think our family could have ever imagined."his son tracy and daughter shelby tomek - read from a prepared statement following the news that these three men suspected of killing himare now behind bars (tracy shock, dr. shock's son)"i don't think anyone is ever prepared for this but obviously emotions run extremely high in these situations."sergeant ricardo garcia with the lodi police department says 79-year-old robert lee of lodi and 26- year-old christopher costello of sacramento were both taken into custody tuesday27 year old mallory stewart - was caught wednesday morning in sacramento(sergeant ricardo garcia spokesman, lodi police department)"reporter: how these suspects might have known dr. shock? rg: due to it being an active investigation we won't be releasing that information at this time." investigators say on dr shock was shot multiple times while in his doorway on rivergate drive augu

just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone, is a main road where dr rick thomas from thee are getting about 119 micrograms per metre cubed. this is pretty typical of what we would expect next to a road, next to all these vehicles coming past. the legal limit is 200 micrograms per metre cubed over the course of one hour. and that has already been breached in various places in london throughout the year. walking away from the main road, this is the area where the rush—hour ban will take effect. it‘s really important that we actually start with the streets that are the most polluted. at peak times, surrounding a very important school where air pollution is significantly high, the highest in london in terms of our measures for air pollution. so it‘s important that we look at the streets that surround this particular area, work with our neighbouring borough of hackney and find a solution that really will make a big difference. around the world, targets are being set for electric or vehicles with extremely low emissions. there is no doubt that pollution levels are often dangero

thomas. he said dr. christine blasey ford faced a much more respectful senate than anita hill did. >> i certainly saw a lot more respect ability. given to the victim. i certainly saw poignant and pressing questions presented in a way that allowede emotion displayed displayed by dr. christine blasey ford -- >> i was pushed on the bed and he began running his hands over my body and grinding it to me. >> reporter: and by the nominee who are typically very control. >> the other night ashley and my daughter said their prayers, and my 10-year-old -- said to ashley, we should pray for the woman. >> reporter: in terms of tactics democrats and republicans seem to be playing different hands. like this outburst from lindsey graham. >> if you want an fbi investigation you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guys life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. you said that. >> seemed to be focusing primarily on the tactics of the democratic party and bringing forward the testimony. >> repo

just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone, is a main road where dr rick thomas from the can measure from cars. this is just one of them, n02. we are getting about 119 micrograms per metre cubed. this is pretty typical of what we would expect next to a road, next to all these vehicles coming past. the legal limit is 200 micrograms per metre cubed over the course of one hour. and that has already been breached in various places in london throughout the year. walking away from the main road, this is the area where the rush—hour ban will take effect. it's really important that we actually start with the streets that are the most polluted. at peak times, surrounding a very important school where air pollution is significantly high, the highest in london in terms of our measures for air pollution. so it's important that we look at the streets that surround this particular area, work with our neighbouring borough of hackney and find a solution that really will make a big difference. around the world, targets are being set for electric or vehicles with extremely low emissions. t

dr. clarence thomas hearings occurred. he so, you know, he's got a lot of experience. gh this diligently following this through the judiciary committee and second, dr. ford really does need to come forward and layout, you know, her account so that people can hear it and evaluate it. neil: what do you think of the notion that is being advanced by a lot of democrats, sir, that they're eager to see your republican colleagues questioning dr. ford because it will look like a bunch of old white men. i'm in that category of all white men so i -- taking this personally, they're saying that's a good optics for democrats or women, pushing more democrats into office in the fall. what do you think about that. >> that's a concern. i understand that concern and that's why it's challenging to formulate those questions and do it in a careful, thoughtful way. no question that that's a deficit challenge, but at the same time, remember, the democrats have four women on the committee as well. so there are women on the committee as well and clearly, you know, the democrat members are going

thomas. women, and men, across the country watched in horror as dr. hill was attacked and disrespected by the men of the senate judiciary committee. yet, here we are 27 years later and senate republican leadership has made clear that they will do everything they can to ramp judge kavanaugh's nomination through. they have come up with a process that is even worse, even more disrespectful and disheartening to survivors than the one we saw in 1991. in 1991 the fbi investigated allegations of sexual assault against mr. thomas. the hearings stretched on for multiple days and some corroborating witnesses were allowed to testify. in 2018 republican leadership has indicated that none of those things will be allowed to happen, none of them. they have simply scheduled a check the box hearing, rejecting calls to ask the fbi to reopen its background investigation, refusing to allow other witnesses or evidence to be heard and limiting the questioning from senators. lawyers for dr. ford announced they have submitted sworn affidavits to the senate judiciary commit f

dr. ford seemed credible. what do you do with that. >> it's the clarns thomas hearings. >> are the results going to be different? we don't know. >> people do not realize how the woman are. we're so scared to speak out and to get beaten down and say that we're lying. that's not true at all. >> the group by my means nags organized last night gal ryes. speakers in oakland shared their story. we believe the survivors. they with kpxi line coverage of the kavanaugh vote today as it happens. >> drama in d.c., and the full senate could vote on monday. >>> go to the weather now. >> yeah, it's a big cool down. the temperatures are in the mid 70s, and that's a slight shower chance, and i will talk about when and where coming up. first, a live look with the roof camera. you can see the bay bridge, cloudy skies this morning. temperatures are run nothing the 50s. we have river moore as well and then san jose at 59 and 52. weather headlines waking up to clouds and fog across the parts of the bay. much cooler for today. we're talking 10 degrees cooler for yesterday and then cooler for this weekend. the temperatures looking at

. >> reporter: there had been comparisons to the anita hill/clarence thomas hearings. today dr. hill even penned an op-ed piece in "the new york times" urging congress not to make the same mistake they did in 1991. but cordell believes monday's hearing will be much different. >> this is not a repeat of anita hill. >> reporter: especially in this "me too" era. santa clara university law professor margaret russell agrees. >> i think a big difference is actually public awareness of the seriousness of sexual assault. the question of how seriously people take it. >> reporter: and tonight the palo alto moms are vowing to protect christine at her home, at her sons' schools, and also at her work. reporting live in palo alto, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> a new salvo today in growing u.s./china trade war. tariffs on ced it will chinese goods. last night president trump added $200 billion on tariffs of chinese goods sold in america. that means we'll pay more for a long list of items from handbags, wine, bicycle tires, car parts, seafood, even chemicals. the white house says the t

. >> driven all the way from south carolina to find out whether father thomas sullivan is your father. >> reporter: dr. anne m ie meyers is the anthropologist hols took dna samples from the priest buried in june. the day after father's day. now two months later -- >> and i'm here to telou that he is. >> i don't think i've ever hug aid doctor before but thank you. reporter: finally confirmation and relief. >> a bit drained emotionally but in a way relaxed. >> reporter: amid family rumors it's a journey that began at the kitchen table of who he thought were as a aunt and uncle as they slid an obituary across the table table. >> ty said this m may be your father but we don't know. only the principals know and'r they dead. >> reporter: that day in 1993 began the quest. he hst qned the church, gathered orphanage records, hired detectives. at the center, one question. was father thomas sullivan a priest from lowell, graduate of boston college, buried in tewksbury, his father? >> and when she told uh-huh such nemotion. >> w it's validated it hit home. >> reporter: he doesn't want compensation or money from t

dr. geraldo rivera, thomas homan and dr. oz. and mia love. we will be right back.p. i can't believe it. that everything sticks to stefon diggs's hands? no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. cool, huh? yeah. he plays football, huh? yeah. believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. anna: brett kavanaugh and the white house firing back after new assault allegations if yo surface on the nominee. anna: event from 35 years ago did not happen. >> this is about the ideological bent of the supreme court maybe for the next generation and they are going to fight this tooth and nail to prevent brett kavanaugh from income that seat. >> there is a bureaucratic coup against president trump. >> the so-called mccabe memos which would directly bear upon what was rod rosenstein doing in that meeting immediately prior to the appointment of robert mueller as the special counsel. >> america first is coming back to the world stage. he is set to speak before the general assembly tomorrow. >> one of th

just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone is a main road where dr rick thomas from the universityous places in london throughout the year. walking away from the main road, this is the area where the rush—hour ban will take effect. it's already a lot quieter. are we seeing much of a difference? we're seeing a little difference. it's about 78 micrograms per metre cubed, and there we were reading closer to 100, a little over 100. it's only about 40 metres away, so we obviously expect on the wind things to drift in and appear here. around the world, targets are being set for electric or vehicles with extremely low emissions. there's no doubt pollution levels are often dangerously high. it's now up to local authorities, governments, industry and consumers to decide how best to clean up the air that we breathe. you can probably hear a couple of diesel engines in the background. people obviously haven't quite yet got the message. we can speak to a guest from ucl and the motoring journalist. you've done lots of research about schools and air pollution. what have your studies taught you? w

thomas. laura: do you expect this to beg a pretty toughiation between the senate judiciary committee and dr. ford over what constitutefair terms in this incredibly charged environment? alex: we don't know much about what dr. ford is asking for. we know it was her preference and remains her preference for the fbi to conduct an investigation before she had the opportunity to sit down icd testify pu. i think there will be some wrangling going on about what the date might be and what the terms and situation might call for.ur laura: as over story reflects, this is taking placet agaie backdrop of the midterm elections, which even before this were shaping up to be a referendum on female empowerment and male impunity. alex: absoluimly. one thinrtant to remember is that both sides have the incentive to push this as far as it goes, because democrats know that the thing they have going for them the most in the midterms is the unpopularity of donald trump another republicans among women, particularly suburban women, who would not like this sight of this woman, christine ford, coming in and getting smear

dr. ford, which, of course, judge kavanaugh conveniently failed to acknowledge. judge kavanaugh's defiance and evasiveness is partisan attacked on members of this committee in the face of powerful, incriminating testimony surpassed even that of clarence thomas at the time of anita hill. he tried to portray dr. ford's allegation as part of a calculated and orchestrated political hit. my years as a prosecutor, i saw a lot of ties with people trying to blame the victim, not own up to their own deeds. he angrily had baseless tirades, too eager to promote the republicans. the allegations driven by revenge on behalf of the clinton's. it's hard to make this stuff up. that amounts to conspiratorial madness. i have never seen such volatility, partisanship and lack of judicial temperament from any nominee, for any court or any administration. it's no secret i have concerns about what a justice kavanaugh would mean for women, unchecked presidential power and other important issues. i also believe he is unfit to serve on our nation's highest court because of his history of misleading the senate while under oath. but, as serious as these concerns are, this is different. voting to advance and confirm judge kavanaugh while he's under this dark cloud of su

dr. ford. >> when you look back at lawrence thomas do you think the hill allegations effected him at all as a member of the u.s. supreme court and if judge brett kavanaugh will be -- were to be confirmed do you think this allegation would effect him as a justice? >> with justice thomas i think it has made him bitter. i think he continues to have a chip on his shoulder about this. a few years ago his wife called ameta hill -- anita hill, so at that time it was still on their minds. with judge brett kavanaugh who knows. he may not be a bitter person so we will see how it plays out. i think the big risk, one, his denial is flat out. he doesn't say it was a long time ago. he doesn't say we were teenagers, drinking too much. he said it didn't happen. flat out. if there is any reason to believe that is not true and if more people, more women say he did things to me, i think he would have a real problem in keeping that republican majority together. >> all right. appreciate your comments tonight. >> glad to see you. >> thank you. >>> the demand for bomb technicians has never been greater. training te

just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone, is a main road where dr rick thomas from thee vehicles coming past. the legal limit is 200 micrograms per metre cubed over the course of one hour. and that has already been breached in various places in london throughout the year. walking away from the main road, this is the area where the rush—hour ban will take effect. it's really important that we actually start with the streets that are the most polluted. at peak times, surrounding a very important school where air pollution is significantly high, the highest in london in terms of our measures for air pollution. so it's important that we look at the streets that surround this particular area, work with our neighbouring borough of hackney and find a solution that really will make a big difference. around the world, targets are being set for electric or vehicles with extremely low emissions. there is no doubt that pollution levels are often dangerously high. it's now up to local authorities, governments, industry and consumers to decide how best to clean up the air that we bre

you've driven all the way from south carolina to find out whether father thomas sullivan is your father. dr. an marie myers is the forensic anthropologist who took dna samples from the pooriest t y after father'sday. now two months later. >> i here toell you that he is. >> >> reporter: finally, confirmation and relief. >> big range emotionally, but relaxed. >> reporter: amid family rumors, it's a journey that began at the tablef who he thought were his aunt and uncle. >> they said to me this man may be your father, but we don't know. only the principalsknow, and they're all dead. >> reporter: that day began the quest. he has uestioned thechurch, gathered records, hired private detectives. at the center? one question. was father thomas sullivan a priest, graduate of boston college, buried, his father. >> when she told you, you had ch emotion. >> when it's validated, it hit home. >> reporter: graham doesn't want compensation or money from e church. only validation, recognition, a confession. >> they tried to bury our history, and i wasn't goingle t that happen. >> reporter: and he never wante

dr. christine blasey ford and brett kavanaugh invited comparisons to the anita hill/clarence thomas hearingsr. ford are professors. they both initially resisted going public or being identified before ultimately doing so at the 11th hour. both also drew categorical denials from the supreme court nominees that they spoke out against and both of those nominees also had presidents who were willing to strongly defend them. >> this decent and honorable man has been smeared. >> this is not a man that deserves this. >> he will be confirmed. and in the end, he will get his good name back. >> he is such an outstanding man, very hard for me to imagine that anything happened. >> but the differences are important, too. hill and thomas were both adults at the time of the alleged misconduct. dr. ford claims she was assaulted by kavanaugh in high school. ford's accusations allege a physical assault. hill's involved repeated harassment over a number of years. it was also a different era. hill leveled her allegations at a time when there were no women on the senate judiciary committee and only two women in t

dr. ford's allegation than they did when she testified against clarence thomas 27 years ago, including vague a neutral body -- investigate the incident in question and present its findings to the committee. but senate republicans have refused to allow an investigation, and the president dismissed calls for the fbi to examine the investigation. >> i don't think the fbi really should be involved because they don't want to be involved. if they wanted to be, i would certainly do that. but as you know they say this is not really their thing. >> it's not really their thing. in fact, it could be their thing, but according to bloomberg the white house hasn't asked the fbi to be involved. dr. ford reportedly first discussed the assault with her therapist in 2012. president trump declares his deep and profound sympathies lie elsewhere. >> i feel so badly for him that he's going through this, to be honest you. it's not a man who deserves this. this should have been brought to the fore -- it should have been brought up long ago. i just think he is at a level that we rarely see, not only in government an

dr. ford facing off against people like senator chuck grassley in iowa, 85 years old, in congress since 1975, who was involved, actually, in that anita hill-clarence thomas process back in 1991. the most interesting thing in my reporting tonight, brian, many republicans are publicly calling for dr. ford to come forward on monday. but privately, many tell me, public aides, some of them, even some lawmakers, it may be best for the republicans to avoid the hearing. and they want to avoid anything that may be damaging to them in the midterm elections. >> are you aware of this move of getting her to appear but under protest? in fact, please tell your story and realize you didn't want it to happen this way, you wanted an investigation first but we need to hear you out. >> senator grassley keeps making statements that he wants dr. ford to come forward whether it's behind the scenes testimony or public testimony, he's saying he'll give her the option, but he will not budge on the date. you can see from dr. ford's attorneys, they don't feel it's appropriate, but what's telling also is statements susan collins have made, they're not moving forward with a dr. ford

thomas. we have heard this before. dr.and the democrats are in complete control of timing from the beginning. haven't they? starting when they decided to reach out to eshew and feinstein and the "washington post" hotline. they have been in control of the timeline. so the argument that she is h bullied and in this rush ofhe a hearing is absurd. i would posit she has been mislead and from ford is probably not in charge of any of this at all. i think she was likely promised something that she wouldn't have to testify. i think dianne feinstein thought the accusation alone would knock this nomination off of its seat. and that is what they expected. she is finding, the doctor is finding and they are all finding they were wrong. now you are not they are doing, they are in vandalizing her, and they are re-victimizing her by saying she is emotionally not prepared, she can't do it. she is afraid. repeated comment about attempt rape, assault.s this woman now after dealing with this and creating a very strong life, top of her field, a

thomas nomination hearing. yesterday in this room, america saw this inflammatory issue in real time, in real life. dr. christine blasey ford was credible, cooperative, and resolute. when i asked her directly under oath the degree of certainty that she had that she was assaulted by brett kavanaugh, she responded 100%. when the prosecutor on the republican side tried to weave a political conspiracy or make her a tool of her lawyers, it fell flat. this woman, who had identified brett kavanaugh as her assailant to her husband and therapist six years ago, believed she had a responsibility as a citizen, as a citizen, to come forward and tell her story. i thought about the words she used during the course of her testimony yesterday. the words she used more often than not to describe her motives was helpful. helpful. she wanted to be helpful to this committee and to her nation. i believe her. but she was afraid in wakening those carefully guarded and painful memories, and she was afraid for her family. she confided in our colleague, dianne feinstein, with the clear understanding that dianne would protect her

thomas. talk to us a little bit about how this allegation is different. >> a couple of reasons. one is, they were much younger. one is, kavanaugh was 17, dr. ford was 15 years old. is a much younger. with clarence thomas, he was anita hill's supervisor. what was he, in his 30s at that point? head of the eec. and it was not just one event. anita hill testify to a series of events at that point. if you compare what occurred, you could argue one is better than the other. but the other issue again is the denial. judge kavanaugh has said no way, no how did this or any thing like it happen, either with dr. ford or anybody else. that puts him on really thin ice, if anything proves to counteract that. that's what i would worry about if i were in his corner right now. >> david levine, you see, hastings. thank you. that schedule is scheduled for monday -- hearing is scheduled for monday. >>> moving on to some other news, in san francisco, police are asking for the public's help to be on the lookout for a missing 11-year-old boy. police say dennis dixon left home last night after a family disagreement. his family lives in the diamond heights neighborh

dr. blay is money more serious than what professor his accused clarence thomas of. professor hill was bringing a sexual harassment claim. there was no evidence oany violence, physical touching or anything like that, whereas dr. blasey, i think that's how she says her name, she is making a claim of attempted rae, and that's several degrees more seous. also, in terms of differences, professor hill had quite a lot to corroborating evidence in terms of witnessehom she had spoken about what was happening in the office with clarence thomas. ir. blasey, her corroboration comes much late 2012 after the incident, and that is through her therapist and to her husband. and there's also the length of time between the actual event and coming forward. with anita hill, i think it was not quite ten years, but wi dr. blasey, it much longer. so there are pretty stark differences. and y,will say, too, judhat the context is very different. when anita hill made her claims, sexual harassment was not something that wabs talked ut a lot. women knew about it happening in the workplace, but it

dr. ford. it investigated hill's investigation of sexual harassment against clarence thomas and should investigate this. is it their job or the committee's job? >> there is confusion about what the fbi does here. the fbi is not conducting a criminal investigation. even if this happened yesterday, if there were a crime it would be state jurisdiction. the fbi would not have that job. the fbi is just helping the senate conduct a background investigation with information about someone. making making determinations about the credibility but not trying to solve crimes. not conducting forensic investigations in a crime. they present that information to the committee. in the kavanaugh case there is no phrenics. -- forennics. this is 35 years ago. you have to make a credibility determination by each senator about who is telling the truth. >> shannon: dave, we know that senator grassley and feinstein are good friends. they compliment each other. but there was back and forth today. this letter says the fact is these allegations could have been raised in seven weeks and a way to protect dr. ford. you chose to

dr. ford. t only disadvantages her but victim mieses her. haven't we seen it with the clarence thomas hearings. we call on the women to rise up, i expect all of the enlightened men in our country because there must be millions of men who are enlightened will rise up to say we cannot continue the victimization and the smearing of someone like dr. ford. she is under no obligation to participate in the republican effort to sweep this thing under the rug and continue this nomination on the fast track and participate in a smear campaign and basically a railroad job. this is what they did to anita hill and this is what they are trying to do with dr. ford. it is time for all of us to say end this treatment of people who come forward when they don't need to, to talk about very painful parts of their life experiences because they truly care about who sits on the preme court and a lifetime appointment. and i thank dr. ford and i commend her courage. i believe her. outset.e say at the i believe dr. ford and every reason to believe her. she has come forward courageously and bravely knowing she wo

thomas was between adults. the conduct alleged between kavanaugh and dr. ford was between minors. not to dismiss it, but it was clean minors and not in a professional setting. you do have these echos, but you do have key distinctions that will be at play. >> another distinction this is alleged sexual assault, attempted rape. >> right. >> that was workplace harassment. there is a very big difference there. i think that politicians need to be careful whether they dismiss this as, oh, drunken adolescent sexual assault. >> right. >> that does not seem to me as high a bar as some people are presenting it over the last few days. nia, as we look at this, we talk about the changes from 1991. yes, i mean, that was a full committee of white men. the republicans on the senate judiciary committee it's 11 white men. >> yeah. >> and so you are going to be presented with a picture, unless they bring in some staff member, a female staff member to do the questioning or a female senator, i don't know who that would be. >> you can bring in anyone to ask whatever questions you want. >> which would in

dr. joe biden in its entirety. what he has learned since the clarence thomas confirmation hearings in 1991 and what this country especially washington still very much needs to figure out. >> craig, a tremendous conversation and we will come right back to you in a for more on that. >>> we begin with breaking news of capitol hill. we have just learned details of a counter offer of the senate judiciary committee to conditions by attorneys for christine blasey ford. gary retd headac garrett haake is at the white house with details. not only do we have this counter offer of republicans and some democrats are responding. what do you know? >> reporter: here's what i can tell you. republicans are preparing a counter offer that cedes to come requests but not all of them. a republican senator on the call says republicans prefer the hearing on wednesday, like to have dr. ford go first and then judge kavanaugh which is dr. ford said she would prefer judge kavanaugh to go first. republicans say no, no, no. go first. republicans do want to have their own outside lawyer do the questioning. beyond that, they say, oh, excuse me, one other

that is to say the questioning of another accuser in the anita hil hill/clarence thomas debate in the sense that dr. ford was in the process able to get a better hearing in front of the american public. she was not berated in the same way that miss hill was but that is as i'm sure everyone knows and might be thinking as i speak a low bar. what we are also seeing quite clearly the type of complete degradation of the confirmation process and there will be, of course, blame to go around. but particularly here in these late hours, that will be hard to come back from. and in any other time, any other president would have likely pulled the nominee facing this situation by now. and any other president including president reagan who dealt with a defeated nominee and went to the middle and tried to repair, i can't predict what this president will do but we all know every other time in his presidency there's been a opportunity to deal with the problem by trying to repair or reach out and he has never taken that opportunity. if judge kavanaugh doesn't make it through this, this is not over. we are not done. w

not since ani hill nearly seen such a h shkes capitol hearin judge thomas began to us with dr. fo profe in califo, pre to testify under oath about her accusation that brett kavan sexually assauld her when they we tes in t '80s. she describes a high school party where she believes kavana was going to rape me, she says. i tried to yell for help. my mouth to stop me from hand scre other women have also accud kav oft. miscond do you think these women, all three of them, are liars, yes or >> i can't tell you. i have to watch tomorrow. kavanaugh has vehe denied the alleti i have never sexually assad anyone. ford tells a difft story. her lawyers releasing photosf her taking a lie detector test this summer, a polygraph they say she passed. the preside has suggested the alleon are part of a demo con job. they go into a room and i guare you they laugh like hell. a claim ford takes on in her prepared remarks. quote, i hav been accused of acti out of partisan political motivee w say that do not a fie pers and i am no one's pawn. w on the desk where she'll speak today a note from someone sa

dr. blasey ford. robert: this has brought up memories of 1991 withnita hill testifying against then nominee clusence thomas, nowce thomas. some of the players then, like senator orrin hatch of utah, republican, are still with us today. how is that whole momen that charged national spectacle from anita hill, informing today's moment? dan: spectacle is a kind word for what happened in those hearings.dr covered it. it was a debacle. the republicansn that case aggressively went after anita hill to try to demolish her story. the democrats weren't quite sure what and when clarence thomas proclaimed he was a victim of a high-tech lynching, which was the most memorable phrase of that episode, they backed off. but they sparred constantly. they were crossing at one another. the hearings went on for several days. nothing in the end was resolved other than that thomas became a supreme cou justice. flash forward to where we are today, if, in fact, we have a public hearing on this, i think that the challenge for the republicans is to avoidha their colleaguesid in 1991. as we all know, we're in a much different moment ab

dr. ford rather than directly speaking to her themselves? ron: what they are tto avoid is what happened with hiarence thomas and anita ll in 1991 when you hadn all-male senate judiciary committee asking anita hill questions. the same cld happen here. that is why i think they learned their lesson. having a female unsel will get away from that and they will be able -- it will not have the optics of a lot of men on a panel asking a woman questions about whether or not her sexual assault claims were valid. laura: meanwhile, what do you make of this? rush limbaugh has warned if republicans cannot get brett kavanaugh confirmed, they can kiss goodbye to the midterms. ron: i think republican v conservativeers will be hrally energized with the fact that the democrats a wrench into the whole works. toey will be more motivate go out and vote because they are so angry. he does have a point. it is better to have victories than defeatsno question about that. laura: thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. laura: you are watching "bbc world news america." still toig come on t's program, we will tell you how three people who were paralyzed from th

thomas in 1991. he went through every allegation by dr.d, not by the others, that's what is before the committee now. he went through every allegation and presented a clear and convincing and believable and forceful defense. politically, if republicans were gloomy two hours ago, i don't think they are now. >> bret: you said this is a horrible day for the white house. does your tone change now? >> absolutely. he did what he had to do. as martha said, the cork is out of the bottle. this is a -- almost a different person from the one we saw on monday night when martha interviewed him. i'm going to suggest that his handlers held him back then. since then, he said the heck with you. i'm going to be my own man. i and my family have been so wronged and the country and the committee are going to know about that and they're going to know it from my own mouth. boy has he done that effectively. >> yeah, in fact his statement is not at all what was sent out yesterday. >> right. >> martha: he said i wrote this statement myself. it comes from my heart.

absolute refusal to have the fbi even spend a few days as they did with clarence thomas to investigate the new accusations we saw by dr. ford and that emotional heartwrenching presentation yesterday morning. now today the system seems at this moment to be working in the way it's supposed to. this is all slowing down. let's say, ali, there was a vote this afternoon as had been set at 1:30 and the trump white house and mitch mcconnell managed to force a vote without the fbi investigation, without taking a few days to absorb that unbelievable display we saw from judge kavanaugh yesterday afternoon plus the information that we took in from dr. ford, history i can guarantee you for the next 50 years would be saying what was the rush? why was this hugely important decision, a justice who may be on the court for decades, forced to be made in literally less than a day after judge kavanaugh finished? now today we're seeing the glimmerings of the possibility the system is working in the way that james madison a couple of centuries ago wanted it to. >> liz holtzman, we've heard some people say the fbi if committed to it, can con

there will be a hearing and anita hill/clarence thomas-type hearing dr.case. republicans have to decide how aggressively do they want to pursue her. i don't think they can engage in the type of destructive cross examination the late senator ar lan specter, former district attorney if philadelphia before he was a senator from pennsylvania did to anita hill. this #metoo era we teal these allegations more gingerly. law enforcement would say this event happened 35 years ago? dr. ford said it was so horrific i repressed it and popped out during a therapy session. ask the therapist if the therapist believed that i had repressed it. the other side of this is judge kavanaugh who says this did not happen. it absolutely did not happen. if it's a she said/he said. all things are equal. this is not a court of law. in a court of law she would have to prove her case by more evidence, a preponderance of the evidence than he would have to disprove it. this is the court of public opinion. the question is, are these allegations and the manner in which she will present them

the highest stakes congressional hearing probably since the clarence thomas/anita hill hearings back in 1991. if both kavanaugh and dr. ford testify, it comes down to who do the senators believe? and in some ways, it's very hard to get to the truth. it happened so many years ago. as david pointed out, the three other people that dr. ford has identified as being at the party say they have no recollection of what happened there. i think one of the other big questions out there, will other information come forward in the coming days that could tip it in one direction or the other. this is going to be a tough call for dr. kavanaugh, for dr. ford and all those senators who are going to have to make a vote. >> it's not just who the senators believe. it's what the american people believe heading into the midterm, as well. >> remember, on this one, judge kavanaugh comes into the hearings already underwater with the american public. he's not a particularly popular nominee. when justice thomas had his hearing in 1991 he came in with support from the american public and more americans believed him than anita hill in 1991. will

dr. ford is horrible and the real issue is perjury and clarence thomas is on the court and perjured himselfis something that will administer and interpret the law of the land. the standard has to be much higher. >> and i guess that is the point. is that you have -- we have republicans saying that when people make a statement like ma mazy her onno and to who? because the prospect here is somebody -- members of the senate have said he lied about other stuff too and that he could get on this court and potentially having not told the truth in the hearings and also potentially being this kind of man, if you believe dr. ford. but then he gets to decide what is just is and what is law for the rest of us. >> for a lifetime. >> for the rest of his life. >> for a lifetime. >> what are we co-signing here. >> i think we are co-signing a sexist form of politics that ignores that more than half of the country is female and by the way, men are also subject to sexual violence and we shouldn't forget that. >> we've seen men in that hashtag, why i didn't report as well. >> that is exactly right. >> absolutel

late in the game smear job that they tried with my old boss, clarence thomas 17 years ago.7 you know by now that dianne feinstein sat on dr. christineev ford's allegation for six weeks. never bringing it to the committee until it was leaked. it has not been confirmed by any of the four other people that she claimed were at the party in question. she was 15 and kavanaugh was 17. and then yesterday, a week after the ford allegation came to light, another decades old claim surfaced, this time in the new yorker. college classmate of kavanaugh claims that while a freshman at yale he exposed himself to her even though she was drinking herself, so much so she was slurring her words and foggy, ramirez says she saw kavanaugh pulling upe his pants after someone exposed himself to her. must have been he. jane mayer couch the allegation this way in the title saying senate democrats investigate new allegation of sexual misconduct from brett kavanaugh's college years. whatever the democrats are investigating, it lacks a witness. the new yorker admits that no one witnessed this alleged incident. in fact, ms. remarries' room made knew no

dr. ford had nothing to gain by doing this. but then there is one overriding fact here is. senator mcconnell continues to ignore. let me take you back in history. 27 years ago was the clarence thomashearings. i was in the house at the time, but i read about it, followed at his most americans did. the very dead the senate judiciary committee chairman joe biden received a letter from anita hill, charging misconduct that same day, chairman biden sent the letter to the president george w. bush white house to the white house counsel the same day in the white house counsel that very day ordered the federal bureau of investigation to investigate the charges by anita hill. now there's been a lot of comment on whether or not an investigation was adequate or periphery. a lot more comment on whether the hearing is fair. but the fact is the instinctive joe biden and the instinct of the george h.w. bush white house was the same, investigated. don't assume it's true. don't assume it's false. look at this case. look at where we are today despite repeated request of the white house and republicans to the federal bureau of investigation to look into this. matter despite repeated requests of them t