this is the very strange story of lovelace.et's roll back the years to high school and the woman that would become the focus of so much speculation. cory >> cory and i went to high school together. we didn't run in the same crowd. >> back help the he was more focussed on football than dating. it wasn't until he went to the university of illinois that he truly noticed the girl from back home for the first time. it was during a college break, a former class mates bump under to each other and quickly becoman item. cory wasted no time spreading her good news. >> i'll never forget the day i was playing tennis with a friend of mine and coer canny met us and that's when she told us curt was it. >> she went to high school with the new couple. >> surprise snd. >> not really. they seemed a great fit together and she was very, very much smitten. >> it wasn't long bebefore she was telling her mother she found the one. >> she said i net man i'm go itting to marry. whoa. >> back up. and she kept her prams. in 1991 just after college, cory an

. >> well, it should be noted that ryan lovelace who is the author of the new book, search and destroyperson 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 issues, leftist politics and abortion. so when you have a media that is friendly like that, you feel comfortable saying things like this even though nobody on the other side would be comfortable such an admission. >> we are in a peculiar period in our history. where you have a board of supervisors in san francisco referring to labeling the national rifle association a terrorist organization. your thoughts about where we are headed here? this is the co-opting of the betsy ross flag which is his story, it part of our heritage and i frankly i personally would not care what a hate group did so long as we honored our own heritage. >> why not care more about those hong kong demonstrators who a

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ryan lovelace joins us tonight. ryan, thank you for coming on.ou spent a year thinking about this, reporting on it. were you, nevertheless, surprised by the shoddiness of the story the "times" printed? >> i was surprised by the shoddiness of it. but i was also in some ways warning this was part of a larger pattern. a pattern of not disclosing what actually is going on here. it's not simply enough that the "new york times" had to run a correction, a correction that explained precisely what actually went on here. a correction that said that the woman who is alleged to have been the victim has been telling folks that she wasn't a victim. that she hasn't been able to confirm this story for these "new york times" reporters for more than a year. it's also about their failure to disclose their own personal relationship with the story. this is personal for these two women that have covered this story. robin, one of the reporters, is a classmate of brett kavanaugh's. i think that's hugely important because that's something that wasn't disclosed in this ex

christine jardine — she's the shadow home secretary for the party — and to reema patel from the ada lovelacend society. she's also a labour councillor in north london. lee dodderidge was a former security adviser at the national counter terrorism security office — a division of the police force — and peter bleksley, a former scotland yard detective and star of channel 4's hunted. and if you haven't seen that programme, it replicates cctv and powers of the state to track people who go on the run. christine jardine, the high court has decided that south wales police was make use of this technology was lawful, have you not already lost this battle? we are atan you not already lost this battle? we are at an early stage in the development of artificial intelligence for various different juices in society. before we allow the widespread use of any form of surveillance, it must be regulated. we have to know that it is being used to a certain standard and that we ove rco m e used to a certain standard and that we overcome all of the in—built bias is that we have heard on the film, you know, that cer

steve: joining us right now, reporter for american lawyer magazine, author, ryan lovelace.u found the video on a website for the last five months where it i can talks, debra katz, her lawyer talks about motivation. you're connecting dots. what does it all mean? >> well i'm looking at this in reporting "search and destroy" out, i looked at debra katz, going to her talks, watching what he does, talking to people that are adversaries, hearing her say client was motivated by roe v. wade, tainting anything justice kavanaugh might do about it, it raises two things. as christine blasey ford's lawyer that christine blasey ford was ambivalent about all this. she said it was about her civic duty. raises a lot of questions what was the actual motivation. if she was in fact motivated trying to taint justice kavanaugh, for what purpose was that? secondly as you mentioned this video has been available publicly for some time, no one in the press has paid attention to it. i really think it starts to show some of the negligence that went on in terms of the coverage of this story, really inv