mr. stiers name mentioned. i had -- had my staff received a substantive allegations or had he approach me or my staff we would have attempted to take a statement and interview him. but the alleged victim, who also did not speak to these writers, apparently does not recall the incident. that's a point that "the new york times" failed to include in its initial coverage. now, it happens for accountability there's that is the cornerstone of democracy. i welcome scrutiny of my work and i frequently refer to reporters and journalists as the police of our democratic system. but today i am reminded of a very old adage, who will watch the watchmen? this week sends report includes embarrassing irresponsible missteps. mistakes that weren't serious self reflection. one year ago after the interviews with dozens of people the new york times cannot even cooperate the allegations laid out byou this ramirez and declid to report on it. with nothing but a year of time and another interview with ramirez herself the paper thought t

mr. stiers name name mentioned.y staff receive substantive allegations or had he approached me or my staff, we would have attempted to take a statement and interview him. but the alleged victim which didn't speak to these writers apparently does not recall the incident. that is a point that "the new york times" failed to include in its initial coverage. the accountability is a cornerstone of democracy. i welcome scrutiny of my work. i frequently refer to journalists, reporters, as the police of our democratic system. today i am reminded of a very old -, who will watch the watc watchmen? this week's report include some embarrassing, irresponsible missteps. mistakes that weren't seriou was self reflection. a year ago after the interviews with dozens of people "the new york times" couldn't corroborate the allegations by miss ramirez, and report on it with nothing but a year of time and another interview with ramirez herself, who thought those unverified claims were suddenly worth printing. no more corroboration, no mor

my office never received anything from mr. stier or his unnamed friends.eight people related to the ramirez allegations, not once was mr. stier's name mentioned. >> mollie: there were all sorts of allegations. this one we are told was told to to senate democrats. they didn't even credible as though julie allegations. if it were something that did need investigations and the senate democrats didn't think that, that is really saying. he has never said that he's talked to the actual majority. >> susan: he wrote a letter saying that he would like the fbi. if you are venting a supreme court nominee, you ought to follow up on an allegation. the u.s. senator says this is worth doing. >> mollie: no, he knows how the allegations are set up. he was part of the discussion about that. you don't want to make any allegation. you don't want to slow down the working of an allegation process just for a delay tactic. >> bret: let me just talk politics for a second. before the election, the kavanaugh was actually a big way for republican support. independents were actually s

we have corroborated with two officials who have communicated with mr. stier. nbc news has confirmed that members of the judiciary committee were aware of max stier's allegations at the time of the confirmation process. the new book makes one more important point about that story. the book gives the name of the woman involved in that story and then specifies that she, quote, has also refused to discuss the incident though several of her friends said she does not recall it. "the times" later on sunday added that line to the end of the paragraph about max stier's accusation. that line in "the times" now reads, the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. leading off our discussion tonight, are robin pogrebin and kate kelly who writes about wall street for "the new york times." they are the authors of the new book, "the education of brett kavanaugh: an investigation," which will be out tomorrow. first of all, let's start with what happened at "the new york times." what happened with that omission that the "times" la

i'm sure it is just a coincidence that mr. stierongino was on earlier and had some things to say about this latest allegation. >> "the new york times" is a disgrace. this is not a newspaper anymore, okay? let's put that to bed. this is not the paper of record. this is the paper of hot garbage. if you're going to an excerpt from the book, an excerpt may take the part where the alleged victim has no memory of the incident. what is happening to this guy is a distrace in this country. this is embarassment. he has to go to his church, look at fellow members of his church and family while reports are being written about him in the paper. this is a disgrace. katie: it's a disgrace. the facts for a long time have proven otherwise. they're still running with the same story. steve: they're running with the story. the victim does not remember a thing. the guy i referred to who made the accusation won't talk about it. katie: no victim then, if there is no -- steve: apparently their account of his memory is based on what other people say he said

of another student. >> the fbi was notified about the account but the fbi did not investigate and mr. stierory public limit more than a day after the article was published the times updated the article to include a key element of the book's account that quote the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. the authors also claim that they found new corroboration for accusations that kavanaugh exposed himself to yale classmate debra ramirez in the early 1980s. nbc news has not been able to verify that reporting. kavanaugh declined to comment. kavanaugh delivered a broad denial of misconduct during his confirmation hearing last year. >> and we have more on the 2020 democrats and how they're responding. elizabeth warren and kamala harris and beto o'rourke and julian castro claiming for kavanaugh to be impeached. and pute beejz reportedly told cnn, if kavanaugh does not resign, he should be impeached and the president defending his supreme court pick tweeting out now the radical left and the lame stream media are after brett kavanaugh again, talkin

and a witness notified senators and the fbi about his account but the fbi did not investigate and mr. stier has declined to talk about it publicly. the times said the female student involved in the claim declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations from ford and ramirez and had declined to comment on the new allegations. trump has been vigorously defending kavanaugh on social media. meanwhile, six of the democratic presidential candidates have called for kavanaugh's impeachment and trump responded just in the last hour. >> look at what they're doing today to justice kavanaugh. they're calling for his resignation. they're calling for his impeachment. the woman said i don't remember that. and they still want him to be impeached. >> house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler says they plan to question fbi director christopher ray about the bureau's kavanaugh investigation at a hearing that will be next month. here for our leadoff discussion on a monday night as we start a new week of this, tim o'brien executive editor o

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did not investigate and mr. stier has declined to discuss it publicly.e corroborated the story with two officials who communicated with mr. stier. the female student who declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. that's from "the new york times" piece that ran over the weekend as part of a book excerpt that's coming out about the confirmation process for justice calf you snaw. -- cavanaugh. this morning we're getting your reaction to this news and debate happening where the candidates who are running for president, many of them senators and members -- former members of congress like beto o'rourke saying yesterday, yesterday we learned of another installation of brett kavanaugh, one we didn't find out before he was confirmed because the senate forced the f.b.i. to rush the investigation to save his nomination. we know he lied under northwest. he should be impeached. ry booker, this new evidence showed why he should not be a supreme court justice. calling for up peachment proceeding to begin. bernie sanders, the revelations

the "new york times" reported, quote, a classmate max stier saw mr.augh with his stuff, right? so a chorus of 2020 candidates scrambled to be the first to insist that now they have the goods and he must be impeached. but then the "times" dropped another bombshell updating its reporting with an editor's note explaining the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the incident. that's a very important element to include in this story if you want to make any attempt at telling the whole story here. so, in a moment. authors mollie hemingway and carrie severino who wrote the first book on the kavanaugh hearings but first our chief breaking news correspondent with the back story here trace gallagher. >> martha, let's begin with the man making the allegation. you mentioned his name is matt stier a former yale classmate of brett kavanaugh. the "new york times" article describes stier as someone who, quote: runs a nonprofit organization in washington. the "times" left out that stier worked for president bill clinton's defen

"the new york times" reporting kavanaugh's former yale classmate max stier said he found mr.nts down at a drunken party where friends pushed his genitals on to a woman. when others asked if they could verify the story, all i can say is ask brett. brett aka supreme court justice kavanaugh declined to comment. but the book the article was written from said the female student stier described, quote, refused to discuss the incident and several of her friends said she does not recall it. that detail not included originally in "the new york times" article but added in an updated version, leaving the president to tweet they're looking to destroy and influene his opinions, but played the game badly. they should be sued. the allegation is similar to ones made during justice kavanaugh's hearing by another yale classmate, deborah ramirez. in testimony given by dr. christine blasey ford during the confirmation hearing that he held her down and groped her at party when they were in high school. >> i believed he was going to rape me. thinking whole two-week effort has been a calculated and

"the new york times" now reporting that max stier, kavanaugh's former yale classmate, told senators and the fbi last year that he "saw mr. kavanaugh with his pants down at a drunken dorm party," where friends pushed his genitals onto a female student. his claim never investigated by the fbi. the shocking story strikingly similar to an allegation made by another yale classmate, deborah ramirez, at the height of kavanaugh's confirmation battle. ramirez alleged kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a different party when they were both drunk, and when she shoved him away, she says she was touched without her consent. kavanaugh flatly denying that and all allegations of sexual misconduct. >> none of the witnesses in the room support that. the -- if that had happened, e been the talk of campus. >> reporter: kavanaugh is not commenting on this latest charge, but his defenders call it a political smear and point out that "the times" article, adapted from a new book out this week, originally omitted a key fact which editors later added. the book says that the female student stier described, quote, "refused to discuss the incident

publishing the previously unreported account of mike stier, one of kavanaugh's former yale classmate. >> -- told the senator and the f.b.i. he saw mrnaugh with his pants down at a drunken dorm party where friends pushed his genitals on to a female student. >> trevor: goddam! every college story we hear aboutbeck makes him seem worse and worse. it's always something about him exposing himself. he's lucky that mike pence horse wasn't around during his college career because you see what they do to carrots, y'all! ( laughter ) and you know, when you hear stories like this, it's hard to believe someone like that could ever go on to the supreme court. it must be even harder for people who actually went to school with kavanaugh. can you remember their conversations? whatever happened to balls-out brett? actually, it's justice balls-out brett now. ( laughter ) now, here's the thing, this story is messy and what makes it messy is that the woman who this allegedly happened to says she doesn't remember any of this happening, but the guy who says he saw it says she was so drunk at the time he's not surprised that she can't remember it. we may

according to "the new york times," max stier, his former yale classmate told senators and the fbi, that he saw mrnaugh with his pants down at a drunken dorm party where friends pushed his genitals onto a female student. president trump rushing to kavanaugh's defense this weekend tweeting that kavanaugh is an innocent man and suggesting kavanaugh start suing people for libel. the new allegation comes from a book out this week. kavanaugh's defenders says the "times" report adapted from a book coming out this week leaves out an important detail. the book says that the female student stier described, quote, refused to discuss the incident and several of her friends said she does not recall it. >> this article just shows the obsession with the far left with trying to smear justice kavanaugh by going 30 years back with anonymous sources. >> reporter: while kavanaugh declined to comment the report is similar to another accusation made last year by another former yale classmate, deborah ramirez. ramirez alleged kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a different party when they were both drunk and when she s