julie swetnick represented by michael avenatti, the porn attorney who said he had this sworn statement from swetnick about kavanaugh and michael judge spiking the punch. they walked that back. kennedy: i want to talk about christine blasey ford and judge kavanaugh. will they be the last to be interviewed? ed: they may not be interviewed at all. another thing broken tonight is christine blasey ford's legal team said we haven't heard from you. we have been calling and writing and we are not getting anything back. we are being told in this case what the fbi is focusing this limited time on resources to talking to other people who might be witnesses. in this case they have hours of testimony under oath the before the senate judiciary committee from dr. ford and hours of sworn testimony from judge kavanaugh. if they are not spoken to it means they didn't get anything new. if they get something new, then they would have to go back to dr. ford and say okay, we have a problem because this witness is saying this, and judge kavanaugh you told the senate judiciary committee this never happened, n

joining me on the phone is that lawyer, michael avenatti. thanks for coming on the show, we appreciate it. >> good morning. >> let me start with your response to president trump's attorney who says this is a total defeat for you. you're already saying year going to appeal, right? on what grounds? >> we already appealed late yesterday, because we think that the judge just got it wrong and we're highly confident in our chances on appeal. but look, this idea that this is a total victory for donald trump and a total defeat for my client is a bunch of nonsense. the bigger case, the main case, the nda case, we've won practically everything in that case. at this point donald trump is going to end up owing my client close think $1 million in attorneys' fees and costs, far and above anything that's going to be awarded in this case. so that statement is a bunch of nonsense. >> to that point, michael, is your client prepared to pay the legal fees? "the new york times" points out your work on the case for six months won't be small potatoes. >> no, it wi

joining us now, michael avenatti. he's the attorney for stormy daniels. chael, thanks for joining us. >> hi, wolf. >> all right. so you hit back very quickly against the president today, calling him, and i'm quoting you now, a disgusting misogynist and an embarrassment to the united states. is this just about helping your client, or is this beginning to get personal for you? >> well, wolf, i think it's been personal for a while, for both my client and myself. but more importantly, wolf, i mean, this is a disgrace. donald trump is the president of the united states. never in my lifetime did i think that i would witness behavior like this from the president of the united states. i'm a father to two daughters, and i know many of your viewers are also fathers and mothers. how do you tell your kids to look up to the president of the united states when he behaviors in this manner? it's an absolute joke, and it's a disgrace. and it's about time that we stop shaking our head and we stop -- or start punching back. i mean, this guy can no longer be permitted to get

>>> and we'll hear from attorney michael avenatti who wants his client, julie swetnick, to be included in the probe. weeks ago, there was hope from republicans that brett kavanaugh would be sitting on the supreme court as its newest justice when the new term begins tomorrow. but today they face a very different reality as the fbi opens a background investigation amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him. the fbi started right away on friday. but as of now, attorneys for dr. christine blasey ford say they haven't been contacted by investigators. another accuser, deborah ramirez, has agreed to cooperate with the investigation. and nbc news reported the white house has limited the scope of that investigation, including a specific witness list that we're told does not include julie swetnick who has alleged that kavanaugh was at a party where she was sexually assaulted in 1982. or former classmates of kavanaugh's who contradict some of his testimony on thursday. president trump tweeted on saturday, quote, nbc news incorrectly reported, as usual, that i was limiting the fbi

i don't believe her. >> michael avenatti will fix the whole thing.nd the fox news at night team, take it from here. shannon: i am out. my heart is broken on many levels but i will tell you this. i did a nonscientific twitter paul but asked our followers whether they thought michael avenatti or chuck grassley would win in this fight and it is a landslide but i won't tell you. i will let you guess. we will see. thank you. we begin with a fox news alert, the bomb scares continue as

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but first, liberal antitrust attorney, michael avenatti.out with another signed statement from another kavanaugh accuser. this person is anonymous. this after that his client julie swetnick, now seeming to back away from her initial claim. that is next. >> within the next 48 hours, we will release additional details relating to the allegations relating to brett kavanaugh. we will also disclose her name publicly. she is 100 percent credible. and when the american people hear from her, they will determine as i have, that she is to be believed. your company is constantly evolving. and the decisions you make have far reaching implications. the right relationship with a corporate bank who understands your industry and your world can help you make well informed choices and stay ahead of opportunities. pnc brings you the resources of one of the nation's largest banks, and a local approach with a focus on customized insights. so you and your company are ready for today. a new way to save on travel. now when you book a flight you unlock discounts on

rough couple of weeks for michael avenatti, ben. >> michael avenatti who was my entertaining front runnerforward for him to make a play in the democratic primaries. at this point, michael avenatti is as much of a good lawyer as much as lisbeth warren is native american. >> campaigning in south carolin south carolina. you did call for it in this show. when he first person on the scene can make you really look he could run for president, ben. >> i think and i still could, because this is highly highly entertaining stuff. he's 1/1,024th of a decent lawyer. he's been humiliated a couple of times in three weeks. >> martha: do you think the harvard case will overturn affirmative action? >> you know, i would like to see it do so. again, harvard is a private institution, not a public institution. at the very least, harvard is widely critical talking about diversity while banding essentially asian students. >> martha: great to see you, ben. thanks a lot. coming up, the end of an era as the store that shaped the country for generations will bust. >> sears roebuck, when i was growing up, was a big d

(engine starts, hums) >>> we're getting some new information, a tweet just posted by michael avenattihe lawyer for stormy daniels. he tweets this. let me read it to you and our panel. quote, we have set michael cohen's sworn deposition for the date after his sentencing, december 13th, 2018. we have also requested all recordings he has of communications between him and donald trump. we look forward to disclosing the truth about what trump's fraud and deceit. sabrina siddiqi, how significant potentially is this development if michael avenatti representing stormy daniels in this lawsuit get access to any recordings that, for example that michael cohen may have made between himself and donald trump? >> well, we certainly don't know if michael cohen has agreed to this or will, but it's significant because we do know that michael cohen has said he has recordings of his conversations with the president. one of those we did hear a couple of months ago in which it appeared that the president, then candidate trump did in fact have prior knowledge of a payment that was made to karen mcdougal, on

michael avenatti is in the hot seat again tonight. senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley calling on the justice department to investigate whether he and his client julie swetnick conspired to provide the senate committee with false information. "trish regan primetime" coming right up. authorities searching for more package bombs that may have been mailed to critics of president trump. the fbi right now interrogating the 56-year-old suspect in florida. earlier tonight he was arrested and charged with five federal crimes in what could be the end of the nearly three decade-long criminal history. all of this as the fbi tells us these bombs are not hoax devices. >> we are still analyzing the devices in our laboratory. these are not hoax devices. trish: the former assistant director of the fbi, my question is, if none of these detonated and weren't capable of actually detonating, were they in fact not hoax devices? explain that to me if you would. >> we are grateful they didn't detonate and there were no injuries. and second great piece

of course, represented by michael avenatti, lawyer of the year.one of these allegations have dates, locations, witnesses, evidence, corroboration, of any kind, of any of these claims. so do democrats really expect to be fbi to magically find decades-old evidence proving that kavanaugh was an evil predator, systemic game rank is, somebody that drugged teenage girls. they really believe that the american people would suspend all decency and common sense and a belief that a man with an impeccable 40 year track record was really secretly a monster in his youth and did this almost on a weekly basis? in reality, this has always been about politics and power. a delay tactic. a transparent attempt to literally ruin a man's life, destroy his family. because they lost an election and they want the power. this has become a national disgrace. in some cases, these political tactics worked. democratic senator from north dakota, heidi heitkamp, by the way, now down 11 in the latest poll, came to be an independent voice for the people of north dakota. tonight, we

i will leave stormy daniels and michael avenatti where they belong.hem out of your mind and ignore its and don't drag it up every time you have an angry thought about it. >> i got ten seconds here. we have had people and when you think of clinton, that was the one in discretion but to this succession and over and over again and we have said and we would be out of time, it would be more than two hours. >> there is no comparison. donald trump is an entirely new character office and there is no debating. we have more details to tell you to what happened to jamal khashoggi. why is the president still siding with the saudi? woman: where are we taking him? i have no clue. we're just tv doctors. if this was a real emergency, i'd be freaking out. we are the tv doctors of america. together with cigna reminding you to go, know, and take control of your health. schedule your annual check-up today. >>> this is just in tonight. i am don lemon, president trump is ignoring world outrage. the president is trying to claim that the saudis are being judged guilty until

michael avenatti and ms.itle 18 of the united states code, basically conspiracy, making a false statement, obstruction of a senate committee. basically the basis of the allegation is that julie swetnick and michael avenatti said that julie swetnick had personal knowledge that judge kavanaugh spiked punch with drugs and alcohol, and that judge cavanaugh fondled and raped women. then when she gave personal interviews to the news media, she recanted most of that testimony. the judiciary committee interviewed ten witnesses trying to corroborate julie swetnick's allegations. none of them could, quite the contrary. i don't know whether ms. julie swetnick was just a pawn or not, the fbi will find out. i don't know michael avenatti, based on my relationship with him through the committee, he clearly has a casual relationship with the truth. and it appears to me that he will do the right thing, but only when constantly supervised and cornered like a rat. >> tucker: and so what you are saying if i'm interpreting this c

. >>> it's an intriguing question, did michael avenatti doom the case against brett kavanaugh. the reporter behind that story is joining us next. rter behind y is joining us next my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. >>> as we take you back once again live, showing you what's going on right now on the capitol east steps, i believe those are, you're sigh protesters dwindling in numbers, because they are being arrested one by one. there's not been a lot of raucous behavior on that front. you are seeing people live quietly, but it would seem they have only perhaps a matter of two hours and change until this vote is being taken. we are getting a word now the list of final speaker currently expected to take the senate floorless senators durbin followed by grassley, schumer and mish mcconnell will be the final speaker. the vote is expected to be taken somewhere around 3:30 to 3-45 p.m. i want to start with se

well, michael avenatti, who represents swetnick fired back in a series of tweets.ne of them in which he went so far as saying that senator collins is channeling president trump before calling her disingenuous and shameful. julie manchester from the hill. the "washington post" saying analysis whether kavanaucarv avd doom the case against judge kavanaugh? >> his claim to fame was the stormy daniels case and his criticism of michael cohen actually helped democrats in their claims against donald trump and unearthed a lot of the, that story. however, michael avenatti ever since has become more of like a major media figure that a lot of democrats would rather just stay away from. right now we saw that after all of that coverage of the stormy daniels case as well as the michael cohen saga, avenatti is constantly on cable news and seems to a lot of observers pining for media attention. i think republicans really were able to easily, i guess, look at his publicizing the julie swetnick allegations as a political ploy on this part, because he's a attorney. so much of his comm

michael avenatti, probably because a lot of people are like who is michael avenatti. >> i'm not surehere is anybody in america that says that any more. >> i think there are several -- you would be surprised if you talked to some folks that don't watch cable news as much as we're on, david. but there are a lot of people -- and it's no shade to the network. but there are a lot of people who don't know who he is. i think the other important thing for us to consider is people need to have a record. people need to demonstrate they can bring folks together and actually move the needle on policy that americans care most about. >> avenatti did not have a particularly good last couple weeks when you get to the kavanaugh confirmation. >> kristen, quick final thought. >> yeah. i think michael avenatti is very popular among a segment of democratic voters who are very, very, very plugged into what goes on on this network and other cable news networks. but you know what, i'm not writing anybody off. anything is possible. >> that we can agree on. thanks very much to all of you. this is just one of

greg: michael avenatti excited more republicans than fox news. >> i agree with that. [laughter] greg: i thought that was funnier in my head. tyrus -- mac. greg: no pity applause. tyrus, it's amazing how this travesty looks when you look -- two weeks ago when you're inside of it it seems so horrible and ugly now when you step out it seems like did that really happen? tyrus: i did my best not to get in it. when it comes to judges in south by ten do not want to be around it. i don't have great expenses with judges in general i try to avoid them like the plague. but to go back, michael avenatti i know were laughing about it but he concerns me because he was using fear and crazy allegations to ruin some of life and move himself ahead and when there has to be some type of legal for someone to come out and do what he did and then he can regroup and do it again. greg: that's the thing. the american bar association is talking about how concerned they are over kavanaugh and they not said anything about michael avenatti. he should be disbarred. tyrus: he is using people to advan

swetnick's story also changed from her sworn statement by her attorney michael avenatti."during the years 1981-82, i became aware of brett kavanaugh and others despite house parties i attended with drugs and alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions in their ability to say no. last night, she backtracked on that sworn statement. >> i saw him giving red solo cups to quite a few girls and there was green punch at those parties. and i would not take one of those glasses from brett kavanaugh. i saw him around the punch, i won't say bowls are the punch containers. i don't know what he did. but i saw him buy them, yes. >> are stories about the alleged gang rape also different. here's a written statement. "in approximately 1982, i became the victim of one of these being rape's where marked judge or brett kavanaugh were present. they conspired with at least two other people. but this is what she said in the nbc story last night. >> i could not specifically say that he was one of the ones who assaulted me, but before this happened to me at that party, i saw brett kava

michael avenatti telling me a little while ago that mr.rump is now, quote, a moron and a disgrace. this hour i will speak with congressman john geramindi. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president has been busy tweeting about the saudis and stormy daniels. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the trump administration is scrambling how to figure out how to contain the fall-out of the apparent killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. mike pompeo was in saudi arabia, had what a spokesperson for the state department called a direct and candid conversation with the saudis about khashoggi. president trump said earlier this afternoon the saudi crown prince has, quote, totally denied what happened to khashoggi as he injected bright, shiny objects into the news cycle that can be summed up in one word, horse face. secretary of state mike pompeo appeared to be all smiles as he met with saudi arabia's crown prince, mohamad bin salman just as grime details were surfacing in the

>> well, i assume he would say if you asked him, he's super mad at her, super mad at michael avenatti. that's no excuse. i don't approve of the language. >> can i ask you, scott? i'm going to give you a long time to respond. don't think i'm cutting you off. >> sure. >> shouldn't he be super mad at himself for having the affair allegedly and then lying about it, about the payment, and then later on his lawyer admitting it was true. shouldn't he be mad at himself for that? >> nobody looks great here. she doesn't look great, avenatti doesn't look great, for a host of reasons. he doesn't look great for the decisions he's made in 2006 and the language. i think his relationship with women like stormy daniels is already sort of baked into his image and baked into whatever is going on in the election so i don't expect this to make a massive impact on the midterms. but i would just say that the president has had a few weeks here of notching some wins, to drag this back out and to turn the news cycle into her again. i mean she was sort of off the front page and now she's back, and so i just --

michael avenatti says he has another anonymous claim. his first client julie swetnick walked back parts of her allegations saying she didn't witness kavanaugh don't of anything. the vote could come on saturday. an unpaid intern working for sheila jackson of texas has been arrested for giving out personal information of senators on the internet. like mike lee, orrin hatch, and lindsey graham. kennedy: what a jerk. edward, you are not the jerk. you are the good one. the fact gatherer. it's a very divisive time. thank goodness for you us. we are the ones we have been waiting for. a group of gop lawmakers demanding an immediate ethics investigation into the letter accusing judge kavanaugh of sexual harassment. ford said she delivered it to california congresswoman anna eshoo. >> can you tell us your staff did not leak? it. >> i don't believe my staff would leak it. i have not asked that question directly. but i don't believe they would. >> do you know that? how in the world did that get in the hands of the press. >> the answer is no. the sta

. >> michael avenatti here, he did -- he is probably the best thing to happen to brett kavanaugh. all these democrats that have been flirting with him, they have got to really be embarrassed by him now. >> when susan collins in that speech got to the sexual assault portion of that speech, look how quickly she moved to the michael avenatti role in all of this. if this had been something where you had the testimony from christine blasey ford, you had the questions that arose from that and that was the issue that was being litigated in the court of public opinion when it came to sexual assault, i wonder if this would have played out any differently than the michael avenatti circus comes to town and changes the nature of the debate and changes the terms of the debate. >> it diluted dr. ford. something about michael avenatti might have cheapened it. >> it was also deborah ramirez' allegation, which by her own account wasn't initially certain it was brett, decided it was brett after thinking about it. "the new york times" to their credit wouldn't publish it. 20 years ago no major news p

michael avenatti is in the hot seat again tonight. senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley calling on the justice department to investigate whether he and his client julie swetnick conspired to provide the senate committee with false information. "trish regan primetime" coming right up. authorities searching for more package bombs that may have been mailed to critics of president trump. the fbi right now interrogating the 56-year-old suspect in florida. earlier tonight he was arrested and charged with five federal crimes in what could be the end of the nearly three decade-long criminal history. all of this as the fbi tells us these bombs are not hoax devices. >> we are still analyzing the devices in our laboratory. these are not hoax devices. trish: the former assistant director of the fbi, my question is, if none of these detonated and weren't capable of actually detonating, were they in fact not hoax devices? explain that to me if you would. >> we are grateful they didn't detonate and there were no injuries. and second great piece

as to your question about michael avenatti, i don't know, but i think his involvement suggested that there was some sort of personal or political agenda involved that may have delude it had credibility of that crime. >> there was a rediscovered video of braff from 1998. let's all listen very carefully. >> the president if he's wise will oversee the prosecutor at arm's length or else he'll have to face the music like president nixon did. moreover, this raises a role for congress. the president oversees the special prosecutor, the congress has a role to oversee the president. the president interferes or fires the prosecutor, impeachment proceedings would not be far behind. >> i want to talk about that because the very same year he wrote an extensive report on impeachment and politics and said whether the constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable. >> others suggest he has a strong view of executive power. but that clip is interesting. he was proposing a new format for selecting a noul. that law was allowed to expire and we have the special counsel regulations wh

nbc reporter dylan buyer said on twitter he was having lunch with michael avenatti who said he woulde a fight with don junior. he said he'd give half the proceeds to rebuilding puerto rico and the other half to the anti-sexual violence group rain. so far no word from don junior. i would pay to see that. >> i have never purchased a ufc fight in my life, but i would absolutely pay whatever necessary for them. >> that would be the first one. >> full blown suits, too. >>> all right, kanye west is going to visit the white house tomorrow. i have to repeat that. kanye west is going to visit the white house tomorrow. look at those two together. "the new york times" reporting that kanye will meet with president trump and his son-in-law jared kushner. they are going to have lunch and reportedly going to talk about job opportunities for former convicts. the hip-hop icon received some mixed reviews for his support of president trump most recently after that appearance on saturday night live where he wore that make america great again hat. well, his wife, you may remember, kim kardashian, made ne

the high ground. >> the michael avenatti circus tums, comes to town. >> the druggie gang rape stuff seemsbe much less taken as credible. a avenatti did a huge favor to the trump white house. >> tucker: they are concerned that he may be hurting their beloved political party. he is a former advisor to pattyo thank you a lot for coming on. so does it turn out that stormy daniels former lawyer is not in the end of the savior of the republic as msnbc dubbed him? >> i think it gives michael avenatti too much credit to say that he was the deciding factor in this. we know that justice cavanagh was confirmed because of the process that the republicans ran, and they were single-minded and it determined in nomination, despite the very serious allegations that were raised against him.m. >> tucker: 's -- i think you were right. i am not sure that he was decisive in this. they were not the only single-minded and a determined party, though. the democrats were as well. would you describe the allegation of his client, that she intended it ten consecutive gangon rapes, did not report any of this or tell an

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he vehemently denies it and michael avenatti says that if they're all convinced that my client is lying's innocent, his reputation is damaged for no reason, he should sue us today. i hope he does so so we can prove the truth. he thinks if you open this up to discovery, a justice on the supreme court doesn't want to go through discovery and that painful process. >> michael avenatti wants to be sued because he wants an excuse to remain relevant in the public eye as he apparently campaigns to the united states. look, the burden of proof it does flip the system on its head. not unlike what they tried to do to judge kavanaugh and the hearing. when you file a libel lawsuit, you have the burden of proof. when you have an accusation so heinous to accuse this man, being involved in gang rape, sexual assault, sometimes the decision has to be that doing nothing is unacceptable. i don't expect judge kavanaugh will file a lawsuit. he will spend the next few years hopefully writing some incredible decisions on the united states supreme court as opposed to being a litigant in a civil lawsuit. but that

. >> reporter: michael avenatti, the attorney for 30, is yet to hear from the feds. the investigation is expected to wrap up by the end of this week. chris: joining me now, white house press secretary sarah sanders, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> great to have you. chris: let's pick up on this report overnight. has the white house limited in any way who the fbi may talk to and has the fbi been given a list of potential people to talk to that does not include julie s swetnick and college friends who may contradict brett kavanaugh on the issue? >> the white house is not micromanaging the process. the senate is dictating the terms, they laid out the request. you heard the president say do what you need to do. the fbi, this is what we do. we are out of the way letting them do that. chris: to the white house counsel give the fbi a list? >> not that i am aware of. the white house counsel has allowed the senate to dictate with these terms look like has what the scope of the investigation is. the white house isn't intervening or micromanaging the process. it is a senate

surprisingly, neither of those women suffered any serious injuries. >>> the attorney, michael avenatti, who has become famous for taking on president trump, may soon be the subject of a federal criminal investigation. avenatti and his client, julie swetnick, accused then supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, but senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley is now asking the fbi to look into whether avenatti and swetnick conspired to mislead the committee. avenatti denies any wrongdoing saying he welcomes a complete investigation of swetnick's allegations. >>> authorities at yosemite national park have recovered the bodies of a man and woman who fell to their deaths from taft point, a popular scenic outlook. the circumstances remain unclear, but it's the sixth death at the park this year. just last month a young hiker fell off another cliff in the park while trying to take a selfie. taft point is a popular location for marriage proposals. this couple's photo went viral earlier this week. >>> a new warning for consumers in the mar

people like michael avenatti completely miscalculated the president's success are and only reacting tois effect. avenatti sees chaos, attention and ascension and feels if he does a really bad impression of the man he's obsessed with, maybe he'll land by dumb luck in the same position. he won't. because democrats hate him. avenatti rose to fame as the bigger whoer in the stormy daniels duo but the uncringing julie swetnick as character assassin in the kavanaugh chronicles. when this woman plopped a hot pile of allegations in the midst of justice kavanaugh's troubles, if was obvious if the allegations were true, his life was over. what if they're false? that's what senate judiciary chair chuck grassley is banking on by referring avenatti and swetnick to the fbi and d.o.j. for lying that the pungent pair cooked up this disgusting ruse hoping to tank brett, but it had the opposite effect, didn't it? avenatti responded to the grassley referral with this statement, this is clearly political, unfortunately for us, senator grassley isn't too smart or should i say bright. this was a major mista

stormy daniels' attorney michael avenatti joins us. michael, thank you. good evening to you.is what you have been saying all along, that president trump knew. >> well, that's right. we've been saying that for over six months, don, and we've been making it a point to make it known to the american people it was our belief that will donald trump and michael cohen and the people they surround themselves with were constantly lying to the public and not shooting straight with them. this report confirms that. i don't think there was a big doubt at least not in my mind and many other people's minds. the problem is is that the president of the united states is a liar. and he surrounds himself with liars, michael cohen is a liar, now we see that brett kavanaugh is a liar. and, you know, that does not bode well for the future of the nation. but i was pleased to read the report. i believe the report. and i think that will as additional facts and evidence come forward, we're going to prove without a doubt that there are even more lies that have been told relating to the $130,000 payment t

michael avenatti for his part is responding by calling president trump a disgusting misogynist and anmbarrassment 92 the united states. >> abby phillip with the latest at the white house. thank you. >>> joining me now, chris cillizza, and eliana johnson, white house reporter for politico. and wow. some thoughtful language. i don't even know how to characterize this anymore. but chris cillizza, i mean, it's at the bottom of the barrel at this point with what we're seeing on twitter, but here we are. >> outrageous but not shocking. which is how i think you can describe a lot of things donald trump tweets. remember that during the 2016 campaign, he was quoted by "rolling stone" as saying look at thas face, is america going to vote for that face? talking about carly fiorina. he tried to say after the controversy that blah blah blah, i was talking about her personality, not her looks, but clearly, he was. he called miss america ms. piggy. go watch the ad hillary clinton ran, type in mirrors into your internet browser. watch the ad. it features all of his comments made about women. this is

i've asked michael avenatti to waive where client privilege so the fbi can ask her how did the story, did he help you? did he make the story more elaborate, would got to get to the bottom of this. >> sean: let me ask you the same question. and i will tell you this, i learned a lot when i was in atlanta. i didn't rush to judgment of richard jewell, nor did i do it and took lacrosse, nor did i do it in ferguson or baltimore or cambridge police or trade on martin as others did. there's way too much rushing to judgment in this country, especially by my so-called colleagues in the media. >> i agree with the professor, julie sweat nick what appeared to be in legal jeopardy and here's why. perjury is a material false statement that is willful and deliberate and purposeful. her sworn statement is dramatically different than what she told nbc news. she would be well advised to fire up michael avenatti, the publicity-seeking carnival barker and hire a real lawyer and she is going to need a good criminal defense attorney i predict because her story is completely disintegrating and anybody else

so, as you might imagine, michael avenatti did not just go okay, that's good.here's what he said. watch this: >> we welcome the investigation requested by senator grassley who obviously has no idea what he has just done. what he has effectively done is he has now opened up a pandora's box my client and i are very much looking forward to a full and complete guy made up a story about something that happened in rhode island on a boat and then recanted on twitter. you also want to make sure that we aren't having people throwing out baseless and false allegations. >> martha: crazy moment. we experienced a lot of crazy moments. you look back at that and all the stuff coming out. levelsly there is also a suggestion that msnbc didn't do its due diligence because this other woman who was supposed to back up julie swetnick's story also had, you know, went back and forth with the producers at msnbc, and, you know, saying this is what happened. no, i never saw him do anything like that. actually. and there is moral responsibility. when you talk about the senate. it is tant

as well as a third allegation that came out late in the process from a client of the lawyer michael avenatti, the woman, julie swetnik, who alleged that brett kavanaugh attended parties in the early '80s where women were drugged, girls were gang raped, something that republicans tried to confuse as a way to showcase what they said was a democratic smear campaign. some democrats said perhaps a better approach would have been to focus on what they believe were more credible allegations. >> do you think the allegation that came forward from michael avenatti was alleging he may have been involved or was aware of gang rape? was that something that was credible in your view? >> well, at some point, there were a lot of folks coming forward, making all sorts of accusations. then it turns it into a circus atmosphere. certainly that's not where we should be. these are very serious allegations. certainly people believe those allegations should be investigated. they should be done in a fair and impartial way. but i understand that there's a lot of noise, but our job is to cut through that noise and get

joining me now is stormy daniels' attorney, michael avenatti. l along, you were pointing out the inconsistencies. for instance, all along, you were pointing that michael cohen was representing himself as a trump organization attorney. you talked about this attorney who was involved in the arbitration, who also was a trump organization attorney. they were just saying stuff that wasn't true. >> the entire time. not only in the clips that you referenced, anderson, but there's a number of clips, five, six, seven clips from your own show, multiple shows, many, many months. they consistently came on cnn and other networks. they lied to the american people. david schwartz did it on behalf of michael cohen. sarah sanders did it from the lectern at the white house. other people speaking on behalf of the president did it. they lied to the american people time and time again. the president lied on air force one. and they kept selling or attempting to sell this lie that donald trump knew nothing about the $130,000 payment and basically knew nothing about the

michael avenatti taking cory book to booker to atask over this.olve the problems of his presidency. it seems like we're off to the races. i asked him that question last week because that's what i was hearing from democrats on the hill is michael avenatti's involvement made it worse. >> he did not like that question either. but so when christine blasey ford first came out and then the ramirez claims came out, democrats were trying extremely hard to not make this look political. republicans were charging that this was all politics. the timing, they questioned all of it. then when avenatti stormed in, it made it look very political and that is the exact opposite thing that democrats wanted from the optics perspective. >> and republicans obviously, i mean, greg, what's your view of how avenatti involvement change s -- changed? >> it was like all democrats were lined up against kavanaugh before any of this came out and the hearings were contentious. democrats senators were suggesting he was lying. there was a line of question from kamala harris. the fo

swetnick is represented by michael avenatti, who also represents stormy daniels and is an outspoken criticf the president. she says he reached out to him after a friend, who went to law school with avenatti, recommended him. >> my best friend went to george washington law school with him. and michael knows washington. i wanted an attorney who knew washington and who was recommended. >> as you know, some people -- probably a lot of americans expressed doubt about your story, simply because of how it came out and who represents you. >> i cannot speak for other people and why they would form certain opinions. i just know that i wanted to have good representation, and i think i found it. >> i asked swetnick if any of her friends from the '80s remember going to these parties with her. are there friends who remember these parties too? >> i think everybody in the county remembers those parties. >> we haven't heard from those friends. so i'm asking are there people -- >> yes. there are people that know about those parties. >> this morning, swetnick provided four names of friends she says went to t

also here, michael avenatti. he represents the third woman to step forward with misconduct allegations against the judge. has the fbi reached out to julie swetnick yet? will they? now, she's come forward with more details tonight. is she credible? only four days left for the fbi to complete the kavanaugh probe. will this little look prove hurtful or helpful to the judge? my answer may surprise you, but that comes at the end of the show. let's start with facts first. let's get after it. >>> all right. i just mentioned the name julie swetnick. you've probably heard it before. that's the judge kavanaugh third accuser. now, she's talking to the press again about her recollections of kavanaugh when under the influence of alcohol years ago. but she is backing away, i would suggest, from some of her claims. let's bring in michael avenatti, her attorney. counselor, thank you for jumping in the chair. >> how are you? >> it's good to have you. so let's just get right to the meat of the matter. because i know you're here to