>> lesser member who leland kaiser was. friend of christine blasey ford and i think basically almost a lifelong friend and when christine was a ford was asked who could verify her account of this event that happened that night, you recall, of course her story was very hard to prove or disprove because couldn't remember exactly what happened, exactly what the date was in many other of the kind of details you could use to pin something like that down, she cited leland kaiser as someone who could verify for her. well, leland kaiser set up a time that while she believed christine on her word, she didn't have any recollection of the event and didn't witness it, didn't even know she'd ever met brett kavanaugh. well, subsequently, we now know, she told the fbi when she was interviewed but she didn't have any recollection of ever witnessing such an event and she has since told the fbi, we now know, that she doesn't believe ford's story, which blows up the one, really, that was supposed to be the one i could verify that original all

book by "new york times" reporters robin and kate kelly does contain a bombshell and it concerns leland kaiserifelong friend of christine blasey ford who said that with her where brett kavanaugh assaulted her. remember this? >> i also remember my friend leland attending. i do not remember all of the details of you who that gathering came together. >> but leland kaiser does not remember attending the party and the book by the "new york times" reporter says kaiser also does not believe blasey ford's story of being sexually assaulted by kavanaugh. that bombshell apparently was buried in the book and did not make the "new york times" article at all. martha? >> martha: thank you very much, trace. it appears that the "new york times" wanted their story to match their headline even if. so facts got in the way of that and then mollie hemmingway started digging and found what else is in the book. she is fox news contributor and senior editor at "the federalist" and carrie severino chief policy director at judicial crisis network. they're the authors of "justice on trial" the hugely successful book on t

kennedy: ford said, my friend well -- leland kaiser of with me, and now leland kaiser said, i don't believe this story. she says, i think she is full of hot malarky. >> it is in the news, they have successfully done what they want. kennedy: authors have. >> we are talking about it again, it was put to bed, we are now again talking about brett kavanaugh. i think what they are trying to do as overall narrative, tryg to frame another villain, i think they already have president trump, now they will go become, pull out a guest on from the past, brett kavanaugh, they are also focusing on mitch mcconnell. they have their 3 villains they are setting up, they will have their narrative. kennedy: you know what is curious to me. i am wondering someone likal -- al franken feels about this. he has to say, look how easy it is to destroy someone's career. this is all you need, then a newa allegations and the mob, but brett kavanaugh did not withdraw his name, he withstood the process, now he goes through it again, needlessly. hopefully we adjust our compartment moving forward, and find people who are best

leland kaiser was a woman who is alleged to be at the christine blasey ford gathering.make a long story short, she has said consistently she doesn't remember that evening and can't say based on any clear memory whether it did or did not happen or anything like it happened. but upon reflection she's become dubious of the accuracy of the blasey ford per trail. she told that to the fbi in a second meeting. >> that she sought out. >> that's right. after reflecting at the matter looking at old photos of younger brett kavanaugh and thinking back to those times. she had a number of reasons why she wasn't confident in the story including just the circumstances like ford had talked about living in the columbia country club on that day. i think we as a public last fall had the impression that the party started at the club with the six people had migrated to a house in the events unfolded. kaiser said, i was a member of the columbia club and i did go there and christine was on the diving team i would occasionally go by and actually critique her diving, leland was a real athlete an

speaking publicly for the first time to the times reporters, ford's close friend leland kaiser, who fordaid was at the party, said she didn't believe ford's account and that it just didn't make any sense. she also said she told the f.b.i. that ford's allies pressured her to say otherwise. now, all four people that ford identified as being at that high school party in the summer of 1982 have now said no such party occurred. rnd today both the republican chair of the senate judiciary committee and the democratic chair of the house judiciary committee said they would not support impeaching kavanaugh. norah? ne o'donnell: jan crawford with that news. isank you. and there is a breaking news in america's worst measles outbreak re 27 years. for the ti the c.d.c. i and since the outbreak started, more than 1,ca1 stat. most of these patients were not reccinated. if there are no new infections, the outbreak could be declared ier at the end of this month. and that is very good news. tonight there's a new cbs news poll that finds nearly two-thirds of americans say climate change is a crisis or serio

are but also leland kaiser who was central to dr.aim, 20% of party says, i have no idea what she is talking about. how problematic is that for impeachment march. >> having head the new book. most interesting thing they have about kaiser is ford a star witness. saying she did not believe. and pressured to change your story to be more supportive of her friend, that is witness tampering. that is big news, we had that story first, they have good quotes on the record, but nobody wants to talk about it. people don't want to be reminded there was no support. kennedy: what is the end game? have you two full books written about the kavanaugh circus. he will not be impeached, certainly not for behavior when he was 18? what is the point. to set table on and put pressure on president to nominate a different kind of jurist for the next supreme court vacanty? >> i think important to know not just fighting kavanaugh, he is not going to going anywhere. but about making sure people are scared to serve in the capacity like a judge where they know that

speaking publicly for the first time or the to thetime's reporters, fore's close friend leland kaiser who said she didn't believe ford's account and it just didn't make any sense. she said she told the fbi that ford's allies pressured her to say otherwise. now all four people that ford identified as being at that high school party in the summer of 191982 have now said no such party occurred. and today both the senate chair of the republican committee and the democratic chair of the house democratic committee said they would not support impeaching kavanaugh. norah? >> jan crawford with that news, thank you. >>> and there is breaking news in america's worst measles outbreak in 27 years. for the first time in 11 month, the cdc is reporting no new cases, and since the outbreak started, more than 1200 cases have been confirmed in 31 states. most of these patients were not vaccinated. if there are no new infections, the outbreak could be declared over at the end of this month. and that is very good news. >>> tonight there is a new cbs news poll that finds nearly two-thirds of americans say

. >> right, leland kaiser is ford's friend, the book has explosive new details including how people whoew her tried to coerce her into changing her testimony. we are being told based on no reason at all that brett kavanaugh is not going to win man of the year, that's what i'm talking about, the media narratives, they decide to tar somebody who does have extremely good reputation for people who knew him from adolescence, college, throughout career and decided to make him into some evil person even though they don't have the evidence to back it up and even though the people who were supposed witnesses for allegations all say they -- >> there's your real difference between saying 10% or 15% of what "the new york times" said they got wrong and all of sudden zero percent of what brett kavanaugh are are invalid, you can't jump from one to the other. >> i'm not quite sure what you're saying but i literally wrote a book -- >> every single bad word about brett kavanaugh is made up by the media? >> i'm saying there's a larger issue in play how the media takes side and try to destroy political opp

one was leland kaiser who said she did not have any memory of that.re other indications of motivation in terms of she did have political leanings to the left, she scrubbed her social media account. she got close to a million dollars in gofundme, but there is nothing as much as a smoking gun is this. her own attorney admitting they did what they did because they wanted to affect and they cared about jurisprudence. >> i find it strange that somehow deborah katz, her attorney felt empowered to describe the motivation of her clients and to do so in what is perhaps in her circle ideologically, a mark of honor to the general public. it sounds horrible. >> well, it should be noted that ryan lovelace who is the author of the new book, search and destroy is the person who found this and everybody can see it and it is in his new book which is also a great book on his process. the but the reason she felt comfortable doing it is because everyone else in the media were part of this process as well. they were recovering. they're also probably motivated by the same

the media have largely ignored the book, leland kaiser says she has no confidence in ford's accounts, it didn't make sense. that doesn't fit the narrative. >> thank you. could the authors of the new york times story face legal trouble? house democrats take the first formal step today toward launching impeachment proceedings against brett kavanaugh. joining me now, mike davis, nice to have you back, you're close to these investigations, you interviewed witnesses, what can you tell us about max stier? this traces back to him and what happened at yale? >> max stier reached out to senator coons, democrat from delaware on the senate judiciary committee. we are not sure when he reached out to senator coons or what he said or how senator coons came about this information so that is a big question that needs an answer. senator coons after the committee vote and within days of the fool vote by the senate, senator coons sent a letter to the fbi director with max stier's name on it but it did not include any allegations by max stier. shannon: nothing was presented you as part of the investigatio

report the facts, let "the reader" make a judgment call, she is putting out why she thinks that leland kaiserelieved. and that is the very tactic that someone on a -- friends pressuring her. elizabeth: watch "new york times" push back on cnn's -- watch this. >> seems that your initial add appdation set a narrative, new damning evidence against brett kavanaugh, but this note undermined that new claim. >> yes, we think it hasn't stage -- up staged new claim. elizabeth: the new claim, the alleged women, supposed victim does not remember it, did not cooperatcorroborate it, did noto the times. >> they can't call i it up stag. it is a omission a correction. elizabeth: patrice you have been wonderful thank you. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network. have a good evening. lou: good evening, president trump today bringing his america first agenda on the united nations. to the general as general assem. leader of the free world at least, delivered a speech on religeous freedom before meeting with 6 different world leaders, taking up global extremism to the potential of a new fair and r

digging we have no more evidence to support it and, in fact, the one bit of news they had was leland kaisere woman that was christine ford's best friend said i don't believe her story. charles: yeah. you know, kim, if president trump is reelected, there's a good chance he'll have a chance to appoint yet another supreme court justice. what do you think then the efforts will be then to sort of smear the process, to smear the highest court in the land? >> well, i don't -- i couldn't even hardly imagine given what we witnessed in kavanaugh which was probably one of the ugliest things, and were he to have the chance to appoint another justice, it's going to be even uglier because that would guarantee a more conservative bent on the court for a long time to come. i think what we're going to see more are attempts to intimidate individual justices to vote certain ways on issues. i think this attack on kavanaugh was very much directed at potential upcoming decisions on questions of abortion, for instance. we saw that this strategy worked when the left went after the legitimacy of the court and john

one that was impressive was leland kaiser, and this, of course, was christine blasey ford's close friendfrom high school and one of the other people who was named to have been at the party, the only woman who was said to have been at the party. and what we've learned is she's someone who is a lifelong liberal. she did not want breath with9 kavanaugh on the court -- brett kavanaugh on the court. >> host: she knew him in high school? >> guest: she stated she did not think she'd ever -- >> host: you report that she didn't actually know him, didn't remember knowing anymore high school. >> guest: correct. yeah. and it said she remembered that summer very well, it was a formative summer for her because she's a professional golfer, and this was when she got started playing golf. when she heard about the allegations initially, she was displayed, i can't believe this is my close friend, i feel horrible that i hadn't realized, that i didn't notice a change, i would have picked on and was wracking her brain where she could corroborate it and couldn't come up with any. she made that first statement

how concerned leland kaiser was after looking back at christine blasey ford's allegations saying, this. the fact that democrats are using this to call for impeachment, to call for more investigations, really this strikes me as a political attempt here by liberals in general. they want to intimidate the court. they want to intimidate justice kavanaugh. i don't think it should work. brian: your book became a best-seller there was such thoroughness, it was reporting not opinion. this guy max stier? who is he? he is lawyer from washington but remembers the story but the accuser doesn't remember the story. what can you tell us about this guy? >> right. they don't mention that max stier, who they present as just a neutral thought leader in washington, he actually worked for bill clinton back when he was defending him against the lewinsky scandal. that is when brett kavanaugh on the other side. these guys go way back. they have a long running feud, right? of course there is motive here. on top of which, the story doesn't even have him corroborating that he passed around this gossip, not to me

there is much bigger story in the book not reported by times, that leland kaiser, best friend of christinerticular story in the news analysis section so they didn't run it through the news section. they removed the line that said the alleged victim didn't remember the incident in question, then replaced later. that is not just bad journalism. that is botching, that is purposeful. brian: see them try to explain themselves out of this. the two writers of the book talked about what they wrote for the opinion section of the newspaper and then how it was he edited out. see if you buy this. >> there was no dire to withhold important information from our readers. we have it all in the book. during the editing pros sets was key oversight, the woman herself doesn't remember it and not wanted to talk about it, got cut. it was oversight. >> we're a team at "the new york times." we have processes in place. >> i think actually the way it happened was the editors being concerned about naming her in that sentence, had her name. also had she doesn't remember it. we also took out the fact that she didn't r