would do a lie detector test on air, live on television. >> now you're talking like a producer, nia-malika. >> speaking your language spl now you're speaking my language. we'll be bouncing that off the white house today. marc lotter, given all of this, just the highs and lows and drama of the past week, how concerned are you for republicans in the mid terms? >> i'm not. i don't think this book or op-ed will impact the midterm elections. i think people will look at the economy. the front page of the washington post talked about blue collar jobs are growing faster now than any time since are ronald reagan was in office. the confirmation of soon to be justice kavanaugh. those things, i think, will motivate voters. i don't think this palace intrigue -- for the most part, many people across america outside of new york and d.c. take it as a bunch of noise and move on with their daily lives and worry about what will impact them at home. >> thanks, friends, marc, nic t nia-malika and charlie, thank you. >>> one thing that the son of bernie sanders does not have, his father's endorsement. >> why no

let's discuss with sunlen serfaty, abigail tracy, ron brownstein, and nia-malika henderson. nia, if we can, we had christine blasey ford's attorney on, and she went into detail describing why her client thought, and i'm saying exactly as she said it, why her client thought she might die during this alleged account. let's listen to her account. >> the reason she felt he might inadvertently kill her is he had his hand over her mouth, and she was having a difficult time breathing. and he is larger and he was pressing his weight against her. and so inebriated, he was ignoring the fact she was attempting to scream and having a difficult time breathing. and she believes that but for his inebriation and his inability to take her clothes off, he would have raped her. >> we learned this morning, nia-malika, that ford is willing to tell the story, to testify under oath in public before the senate. if that happens, you have the remarkable circumstances where you will hear that account from the mouth of the female accuser in public. i mean, arguably -- >> under oath. >> under oath, more

let me bring back in nia-malika henderson.epublicans since this fight has kind of gone on say that bob mueller needs to finish his investigation. and i do wonder how republicans are going to see the potential of, and maybe it's different depending on what it is, if rod rosenstein resigns or if he's fired, if they're going to see that as an attack on the ability for mueller to finish his job. >> yeah, it's unclear. you know, i think we have seen from republicans, you're right, the sort of rhetoric that mueller should be able to finish his job. we obviously heard from different committees on the senate and house sides as well, and well rr see what they say depending on what the outcome of the meeting is at the white house between the deputy attorney general and the folks there. i guess the president isn't even -- is the president even at the white house? i don't think he's at the white house. i don't know what the meeting -- >> yeah, he's in new york right now. >> right, in new york right now, so you know, i guess maybe he's mee

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joining us now, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and nia-malika henderson.hank you for being here. so much has changed in the last hour. >> yes. >> since we last saw you. >> good thing you didn't leave. >> this is a major development. dr. christine blaise-ford who on the record has accused a supreme court nominee of harassment -- >> sexual assault. >> thank you, that is an important distinction, sexual assault, saying she is willing to testify under oath in front of the u.s. senate. >> how do you not let her testify? how do you say thanks, but no thanks? i think it's very difficult for the republicans in charge. if they want to hold this vote on thursday, it seems almost impossible to be able to schedule that when you consider wednesday is yom kippur and the senate generally doesn't hold hearings on yom kippur. initially, the grassley plan was to simply have senators or staff talk to the two people on the telephone and then leave it at that. that seems like it's a nonstarter at this point. how does the schedule work? do the republicans actually allow her to

cnn white house correspondent, abby phillips, and michael shear, and nia-malika henderson. i jumped on you, but go ahead. >> that was my read according to the prompter. but i will not be technical about it. >> i stuck that landing. >> it happened so seamless. >> i stuck the landing. >> hi, guys. nia, let's start with you. if the whole point of confirmation hearings is to get information about a nominee and whether or not they are qualified, why is the judiciary committee limiting the information saying there can only be two witnesses, and now that we have new allegations, it can only be christine blasey ford and brett kavanaugh and we don't want to hear from anybody else that could have been at the alleged party. >> they do want to rush it. they want to get him seated as soon as possible. they don't want to risk lengthening the whole process because more could come out possibly, and possibly you would have a situation where the senate democrats, maybe they get the senate after the midterms, so that's what their political calculous is at this point. they also want to make it

here with me is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, nia-malika henderson, and joan. thanks for being here. nia, at the moment, and i just looked, the president has not tweeted about this. but when all of this started coming out, that's exactly the first place that folks are going to look, as you well know. as you heard from abby, there seems to be somewhat of a concerted effort from the white house in how they're trying to handle this and push this forward publicly. >> yeah, and it's very clear that, you know, they keep talking about the idea that professor ford should be heard. what they're not saying is the way in which she should be heard. should it be behind closed doors, should it be phone calls or should it be public? the only person talking about publicly testifying is professor ford. right? even i think kavanaugh put out a statement and said whatever form the senate deems appropriate, that's the forum he would be willing to testify in. so i think that's pretty telling. we'll see if what happens here, if they do it in private or in public. it seems politically

. >>> joining us now cnn senior political analyst john avalon, nia malika and laura coates. if this happens monday -- >> why do you keep saying if? >> i am surprised an curious about what democrats are doing. we heard it yesterday here with dick durbin, the number two in the senate where he said that he thought that tomorrow would be too fast for a hearing, but now all of a sudden dianne feinstein, chuck schumer, richard blumenthal saying we need to have the fbi investigate. they seem to be putting on the brakes now. >> they have to wait for the fbi you're saying, that's their strategy. >> i'm curious how far they're willing to push that. since we brought that up let's start there. >> let's start there. so let's do that. >> how far -- what is the risk for democrats here to try to gum up this hearing that is now scheduled for monday? the lawyer for this woman, for christine blasey ford, told alisyn yesterday she wants to testify. the senate republicans schedule a hearing and now democrats are saying not so fast. >> it's really unclear why they're doing it because you recall,