amy: that was maria gallagher, along with ana maria archila. they are the two women to confronted senator flake on friday. shortly afterwards in a stunning reversal, senator flake announced to his colleagues on the committee that he was calling to delay the vote on the senate floor, though he did vote for confirmation of kavanaugh in the senanate judiciary committe. the vote was 11 to 10 down party lines. >> i have been speaking with a numbmber of people on the other side. we have had ongoing conversations for a while with doard to making sure that we due diligence here. and i ththink it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to, but not more than, one week in order to let the fbi continue -- to do an investigation, limited in time and scope, to the current allegations that are there. and limited in time to no more than one week. and i will vote to advance the with thate floor understanding. amy: well, for more, we're joined in our new york studio by ♪ [music break] ana maria archila. she is co-executive director for partly democracy. s

i met this young woman, maria gallagher, who was there for the first time. she wanted to be part of this moment. she wanted to -- she said at some point i thought i would show up and hold a sign in the back of a rally, but she said someone said we should go to senator flake's office, and i said, well, we have time, there is half an hour before. the hearing is about to start. let's do it. and we went together and kind of she was asking how do i talk to an elected official? i've never done this. and we talked a little bit about that experience. as we were waiting for senator flake's office, not knowing if he was, in fact, there, we saw the statement that he released, said he was ready to support the nomination of kavanaugh to the supreme court. and a minute or two after it, he walked out from his office and we were able to -- the press that had gathered around him followed him and we followed right behind and we were -- what the world saw and what we experienced was a total release of emotion that so many of us have been holding for weeks and weeks as we've wa

the people who felt so strongly were activists annamarie a archila and maria gallagher who told flake they were survivors of sexual assault. >> it doesn't matter what happened to me. >> they were clearly passionate and determined that i hear them. >> i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. >> reporter: what the senate judiciary committee heard thursday upended kavanaugh's nomination. >> this is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. it was hard for me to breathe, and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me. >> reporter: dr. christine blasey ford testified that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> reporter: democrat kris cools and jeff flake listened from opposite end of the dais, separated by party. but in truth, they were much closer. they had struck up a friendship over the years that bridged mere politics. >> as you are sitting there listening to dr. ford, what are you hearing, what are you thi

anna me a reand maria gallagher. thinking globally and acted locally. that's what veganism is, too. if we are protesting climate change, misogyny, protesting on behalf of food justice, against racism and seenophobia, there's a place for veganism. it's in our kitchen and wherever we're going, i'd like to make the progressive radical case for why that is so. one thing i notice in the study that talked but the voters for trump in 2016 is they were more likely to believe the 1950s was a better time than now. most of us do not agree with that analysis. when you think about the 1950s, we know that jim crow reigned, there was hostility to integrate it suburbs, that helped to contribute to a problem over educational resources now. we not that women could not sign mortgages and many states, could not serve on juries in many states. that lesbians and gays were persecuted from federal and state jobs. for fear they could be blackmailed by communists. so, there's a lot bad about the '50s. and as one social historian said, you know, leave it to beaver is not a documentary. but one thing that's tr

toe maria gallagher speaking senator flake. she had never publicly said that story. she did not even know she was speaking publicly, but there was a camera. this is precisely why this is a public health issue. we are not as concerned about the personal mental health of the president or diagnosing the president. we are not interested in armchair psychiatry. in fact, we are expressly trying to avoid all of this by calling for a valid evaluation because any other situation of this magnitude, of this influence, there would be an intervention and an urgent evaluation. so the dangerousness and trauma and psychological effects, as well as policies and national and international effects that come out of this psychological dangerousness of this presidency are all there to see. and we have the data. so what we do as mental health professionals is to call attention to the urgency and the dangers, and we very well know the dangers will not go away, but only increase. act att we cannot do is a national level. amy: you wrote to congress and the fbi. have they responded? >> not yet

that he would vote for the people who felt so strongly were activists, ana maria archila and maria gallagher survivors of sexual assault. >> look at me and tell me it doesn't matter what happened to me. >> flake: they were clearly passionate and determined that i hear them. >> i believe he was going to rape me, i tried to yell for help. >> pelley: what the senate judiciary committee heard thursday upended kavanaugh's nomination. >> this is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. it was hard for me to breathe, and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me. >> pelley: dr. christine blasey ford testified that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> pelley: democrat chris coons and republican jeff flake listened from opposite ends of the dais-- separated by party. but in truth, they were much closer. they had struck up a friendship over the years that bridged mere politics. as you are sitting there listening to dr. ford, what are you h

holding signs, and two women who went into an elevator with jeff flake, ana maria achila and maria gallagher, and yelled at him, pointed their fingers in the face of a powerful man, insisted that he look them in the eye and that expression of anger was immediately powerful. it was resonant. it connected to millions around the country who felt their anger expressed by those two women and there is, we don't know that it had an impact on jeff flake's decision to then ask for an investigation, but it may well have. >> well, let's play just a little snippet because everybody has seen it so many times and it has riveted the nation and the world, but he did actually imply that it did actually make a difference, and we can certainly see his discomfort or at least his avoidance by his facial expression. just a quick little snippet from one of the women. >> look at me when i'm talking to you. you're telling me my assault doesn't matter, that what happened to me doesn't matter, and you're going to let people who do these things into power. >> so that was angry and anguished. the other woman was just as