i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegations seriously, but if the mere allegation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago, is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system in our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father. your husband. your brother. or your son. my family and i intent no ill will toward dr. ford or

excited about, and that is the mission that i undertook for president obama back in 2009 when he nominated me to be the nasa administrator, and that's something about which i'm very excited. >> in fact, one of your goals as administrator was to land humans on mars by the mid-2030s. >> that's correct. >> are we still on that timetab timetable? >> i think we're on target to do that you know, the trump administration has taken on the challenge of trying to put humans back on the surface of the moon, which i think is important. you know, it's not essential to putting humans on mars, but i think it would be a very big step for us, as long as we do it in the right way, which is to capitalize on the development of commercial space sector that is becoming more and more robust each day utilize our commercial sector as well as our international partners to help us get humans back on the surface of the moon while nasa leads the way with our international partners and entrepreneurs in getting humans to mars. >> what do you think about the martian with matt damon? >> it was awe? >> was it helpful? >> it w

upon my nomination to become chairman of the equal employment opportunity commission anita hill, to the best of my recollection assisted me in the nomination and confirmation process. after my confirmation, she and diane holt then my secretary joined me at eeoc. i do not recall that there was any question or doubt that she would become a special assistant to me at e frn oc, all -- eeoc, although as a career employee, retained the option of remaining at the department of education. at e frn oc our -- eeoc, our contact was less frequent as a result of the increased size of my staff and increased responsibilities of day-to-day responsibilities. i seem to recall her having difficulty of adjusting to this role. in any case, our relationship remained cordial and professional. at no time did i become aware directly or indirectly that she felt i had said or done anything to change the cordial nature of our relationship. i detected nothing from her or from my staff or from gil hardy our mutual friend, with whom i maintained regular contact. i am certain that any statement or conduct on my part been brought to my attention, i would

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the president's nomination ashley and i knew the process would be challenging. we never expected that it would this.lve into explaining this to our daughter has been about the worst experience ofvo our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law, that means taking allegations seriously but the mere allegation, mere assertion of allegation, refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career we would have abandoned due process that defines our legal system and our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father, your husband, your brother or your son. my family and i i intend no ill-will toward dr. ford or her family. but i swear today under oath before the se

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast suppo support. when i accepted the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegations seriously. but if a mere allegation, mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago, is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father, your husba husband, your brother or your son. my family and i intend no ill will toward dr. fo

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegations seriously, but if the mere allegation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago, is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system in our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father. your husband. your brother. or your son. my family and i intent no ill will toward dr. ford or

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accented the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegations seriously. if the mere allegation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father, your husband your brother or your son. my family and i intend no ill will to dr. ford or her family

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and to the constitution i revere the constitution i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house i thank him for his steadfast support when i accepted the president's nomination ashley and i knew this process would be challenging we never expected that it would devolve into this explaining this to our daughters as ben about the worst experience of our lives actually has been a rock i think it got every day rationally. and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law that means taking allegation seriously but if the mere allegation the mere assertion of an allegation it refuted allegation from thirty six years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career we will of abandon the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country i asked you to judge me by the standard that you would want to applied to your father your husband your brother. or your son my family and i intend no ill will toward dr ford or he

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegations serious seriously. but if a mere allegation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father, your husband, your brother, or your son. my family and i intend no ill will toward dr. fo

the president expressed his intent to nominate me to become chairman of eeoc in february 1982, and during that very same period, to the best of my recollection, she assisted me in my nomination and confirmation process. i did in fact leave actual work at the department of education, i believe in april, and started at eeoc in may 1982, and she transferred with me. senator hatch: so, in other words, professor hill followed you to the eeoc no more than 2 or 3 months, possibly only 1 month after she claims this alleged conduct occurred. judge thomas: precisely. sen. hatch: on isn't it true, judge thomas, that professor hill could have remained in her job at the education department when you went to the eeoc? judge thomas: to the best of my recollection, she was a schedule a attorney. i know she was not cleared through the white house, so she was not a schedule c. she -- schedule c. she was not a political appointee. as a result, she had all the rights of schedule a attorneys, and could have remained at the department of education in a career capacity. senator hatch and even if she : might not

america in the constitution i revere the constitution i am deeply grateful to president trump to nominate me to be so gracious that night the at theement nomination white house. i think him for his steadfast support. >> we knew the process would be challenging. we never expected it would evolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock and i thank god every day for ashley. and my family. to be devoted to do process and the rule of law to take allegations seriously but if the mere allegation on 36 years ago enough to destroy a person's life and career that those basic principles to define the legal system in our rindcountry. i ask you to judge me from the standard you would apply to your father, your husband, your brother or your son. my family intends no ill will to doctor ford or her family. that before the senate and the nation before my family and go god, i am innocent of this charge. >> thank you judge kavanaugh. before we start questions, i will not repeat what i said this morning that we will do it the same way as we

i'm deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his stedfast support. when i accepted the president's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would challenging. we never expected it would dissolve into to this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god for ashley and my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law that means taking allegations seriously. but a mere allegation or the assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that define our legal system and our country. i ask you to judge me by the standard that you want applied to your father, your husband, your brother or your son. my family and i intend to illinois for dr. ford or her family. but i swear today under oath

the president expressed his intent to nominate me to become chairman of eeoc in february 1982, and during that very same period, to the best of my recollection, she assisted me in my nomination and confirmation process. i did in fact leave actual work at the department of education, i believe in april, and started at eeoc in may 1982, and she transferred with me. senator hatch: so, in other words, professor hill followed you to the eeoc no more than 2 or 3 months, possibly only 1 month after she claims this alleged conduct occurred. judge thomas: precisely. sen. hatch: on isn't it true, judge thomas, that professor hill could have remained in her job at the education department when you went to the eeoc? judge thomas: to the best of my recollection, she was a schedule a attorney. i know she was not cleared through the white house, so she was not a schedule c. she -- schedule c. she was not a political appointee. as a result, she had all the rights of schedule a attorneys, and could have remained at the department of education in a career capacity. senator hatch and even if she : might not

thank you very much twenty six weeks ago today the president announced his intention to nominate me for director of central intelligence in the end of all the entire soviet empire has collapsed. when robert gates became legal powerful director of central intelligence enough m. but much ninety one stage was sent for google's remarkable request to become a reality one of my primary responsibilities was going to be out to. moved this gigantic american intelligence apparatus from a singular focus on the soviet union in the cold war to a range of new challenges so i had a pretty good idea of the kind of resources we had. the way they had been applied against the soviet target and that we had this huge archive of material and just the notion that uniquely in the world we had been taking photographs of the same places in the arctic for decades. guys that the reaction of the broader community to us doing this was a shock and awe. we might not get out of it what we're putting into it. at that we might be doing things that cause damage to the interests of the nation there was skepticism. we have

of the supreme court nomination. to me doesn't matter! and then you're going to let people who do these things into power! had just announced he backed judge kavanaugh. these women weren't impressed. do you think that he's telling the truth? do you think that he's telling the truth to the country? yesterday's visceral testimony. brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most. i have never done this, to her or to anyone. what is the strongest memory you have? uproarious laughter between the two. and they're having fun at my expense. | don't know, have you? could you answer the question, judge? yeah and i'm curious if you have. i have no drinking problem, judge. yeah, nor do i. on—board, a vote was called for 1:30 today to approve his nomination. but something odd was unfolding. had senator flake gone flaky? the minutes ticked by. he wasn't in his seat. he'd been meeting democrats. into the deliberations. that we do due diligence. that the fbi can investigate. call the roll. wait just one second

>> senator leahy is practicing for when trump nominates me to the supreme court. >> if trump wanted to drive laid crazy that is one thing he could do but i can answer the question for brett cavanagh because he may not remember it as well as i did being there after 9/11 but i can say categorically that brett kavanaugh was not working on or was in any meetings and did not work on any memos related to what became known as the terrorist surveillance program. i think he tried to mention that. he wasn't made into any program so senator leahy doesn't understand how classified programs work. if you are not read into something, that was the most sensitive program in the government at the time you are not told about it, you cannot work on it. you might have thoughts about something but -- i worked on that program. he was not part of the team that worked on it. he was not allowed to know about it. >> your name came up as well crafting legal policy or justification for enhanced interrogation. that was something he was not read into and didn't have power to control. we also heard from senator graha

i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the present's nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock, andl our lives. ashley has been a rock, and i thank god every day for ashley. and for my family. we live ina ashley. and for my family. we live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. that means taking allegation seriously. but if the mere allegation, the mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person's life and career, we will have abandoned the basic principles of fairness and due process that defined our legal system, and our country. i ask you tojudge me by the standard that you would want applied to your father. your husband, your brother, or your son. my family and i intend no ill will towards dr ford or her family. but i

>> i think the senator is practicing for when trump nominates me to the supreme court. >> shannon: [laughing]. we will standby. >> i can answer the question for judge kavanaugh, he may not remember it as well as i did. being there after 9-11. judge kavanaugh was not working and was not in any meetings and didn't work on any memos related to what became known as the terrorists surveillance program. he was not in any of the programs. the senator doesn't understand how classified programs work. that was the most sensitive program in the government. you can't work on it. you might have thoughts about something and speculate. i worked on that program. he was not part of the team that worked on it. he was not allowed to know about it. he should have just answered no. >> shannon: and your name came up for enhanced interrogation. he said he didn't craft any legal policy for that as well. we heard from senator graham asking the judge how he decides cases. >> you have ever made a legal decision that personally was upseting to you? >> i am sure i have. >> shannon: he talked about justice kennedy having

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i was able to thank three of my peers who had nominated me, and i met -- they picked two chiefs of the year every year, so i was a career fire chief, and my counterpart was a volunteer fire chief from a county in -- near baltimore, maryland. his name was herbert loesch. there was an awards banquet that night, where we were honored and asked to say a few words. so that was very moving. and then, the next morning, we were up early and in our seats at the convention center by 7:30, and the awards ceremony started at 8:00 a.m. and it was no speaking role that morning, it was just receiving the award. it was -- there was a beautiful sort of trophy like award that i was given, as well as a ring. and so that's an headquarters. kind of like the giants or the warriors trophy, it'll be in my office if anyone wants to come and take a look. thank you. i think it was a -- i had a great time, and it was a great trip. >> commissioner nakajo: also chief that you're going to go to the fire national protection association was always part of this commission, and i know you know that. commissioner hardema

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. >> if you want to nominate me, alexis. >> hey. >> go ahead. >> i can take you as my guest. >> as long as i'm your guest, done. consider it done. >> sorry, guys. >> i was going to dab your forehead from the sweat but i couldn't find the kleenex, sorry. >> you're funny. >> yeah. >> all right. if you know someone like that in your life, good luck. here's a look at what's going on sfo this morning, cloudy, temperature of about 58 degrees. we're going to have delays as soon as they're announced i'll let you know. hazy sunshine this afternoon and a minor cooling trend especially away from the east bay and the south bay. warmest highs we have a little warming trend for thursday, friday and saturday and we'll be back to average starting sunday if not bow average next week. all right. here's a look at the cloud cover. it's going to continue marching east until 9:00. by noon, there's still plenty of cloud cover along the east bay shore and at the coast. now the east bay shore will clear out in the next couple hours after that but the coast never does clear out today. let's take a look at our te

this is just possible confrontation has alteredco the se of the supreme court nomination. telling mewhat happened to me does not matter! >> republican senator jeff flake, the key swing vote on the committee, had just announced he would back judge kavanaugh. these women were not impressed. in do you think he is tell the truth? committee, had justdo you thinke truth to the country? >> what they said clearly left an impression after yesterday's visceral testimony. >> brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most. >> i have never done this to her or to anyone. >> what is the strongest memory yo he? >> uproarious laughter between funtwo, and they're having at my expense. >> youha are saying ther never been a case where you drank so much you did not remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> if you're asking about blackout, i don't know, have you? could you answer the question, judge? >> y yh, and i'm curious have. >> i have no drinking problem. >> nor di. >> brett kavanaugh's appearance with senator flake on bod, the

being fair to her or the country by pushing through this nomination so quickly and without due diligence in investigating this matter. guest: let me address the merrick garland situation. merrick garland is a friend of mine and i think the world of him. i wish obama had nominated him right out of the bat. but that was the jill biden rule. joe biden announced at the end administration, if there is any vacancies that come up for the supreme court this year in an election year, we are not going to approve anyone. that is when the democrats were in charge of the senate. so that was a long-standing rule. not long-standing, but it had already been put out by the democrats. so beautiful because were just saying, ok, let's let the electorate decide. whoever they elect president, they can get the judge. and was not six months. february and the election was in november. she is being invited to testify. your other issue is about how many witnesses should be brought. into the, i believe that the senate -- the said it, i believe in the judiciary will you believee one other -- i the judiciary says he could have one other perm. host: we will go

when i see you tomorrow, if you don't look like someone i want to nominate, i will stop nominating you. >> let me go to mike murphy, a political hand who knows what he's talking about. mike, i just heard the door open, the trap door. he's looking for an escape route tonight. the president. i don't know what you heard. >> yeah, that was my take, too. i think in my ways, it was an amazingly incoherent press conference -- >> yes. >> but i think the subtext was pretty clear. he was full of grievance against the idea of these women coming forward, but he was expressing that while strapping on extremely big escape parachute and opening the plane door. it so looked to me like he was winding up to have an option to take a walk from this thing. and i think tomorrow's going to be one of the great -- i don't know if it's going to be a fact-finding mission, but one of the great shows of american politics. and i think the president set himself up to bail out on the nomination tonight. we'll see what he does. >> let's talk nasty, tough, numerical politics, arithmetic. he needs 50 out of 51 republicans. he gets

it was hugely successful nomination program me and all that sort of stuff but in middle america. christian fundamentalists they said oh you have to put a stripe across the children's bottoms so we put a japanese a piece of white paper to cover it up with a name that. is it a photo montage or a real picture of the graphic designers love to play with perceptions and bands paint them hence some need there was. one of their most spectacular productions was the man on fire the pink floyd's wish you would hear about two late businessman shaking hands some one of them being bugged in the deal and i remember saying to storm this is a great idea but how we got to do it. so i flew to l.a. i went to the studios in burbank we found the stunt. for real the difference between hypnosis in the one nine hundred seventy s. and now is you have photoshop. all that in photoshop but hypnosis always shot everything for real. fans of c.d.'s in the early eighties interested in record companies started to wane hypnosis dissolved in one thousand nine hundred three but their greatest album covers remain in

often do we confirm supreme court nominations? -- not me, personally, but our system. so i think that right now women are having a moment. with use clashing getting fair, legal treatment in the legal system has taken decades. and so are having a moment. and maybe that is clashing with this particular person. but i think sheesh -- but i think he should be able to handle it and we should be able to speak out and that it is messy and not perfect. and i appreciate your legal input that it is more than that. guest: this is illegal. it's political. it is in the senate. host: tennessee next. caller: this is sad if it happened to her. but i read all the stories about things happen to girls and women as they go on to take drugs and alcohol and therapy forever. but in this case, she went on to graduate from high school. went to school. more school. more school. she's a doctor. a psychologist or whatever. it didn't seemed to bother her all that much. host: any thoughts? guest: no one knows. that's a problem. we don't know anything of what she did and what her life is. host: canad

me change my vote. that's the commitment that i think senate republicans have to this nomination. e, at least it is a bit befuddling because there are other nominees who are very good conservative jurists who would probably have a lot easier time at this juncture, getting through the senate. i've tried to figure out what it is about brett kavanaugh that people are so committed to? and i'm still trying to figure it out. >> they just want to dig in on this. and steve kornacki, to that point, i'm interested to your take on the politics of this. you're digging in and you looked back at 1991 when not only was clarence thomas accused of these things by anita hill. but then he was confirmed after the fact. what's the political danger for republicans here in proceeding with this, simply we're not talking about a criminal prosecution, that's not the bar. this is a lifetime appointment to the supreme court? >> in terms of the politics, you have to figure out who are the swing votes who are the senators, where the balance of power sort of lies. and what are the politics the political consider

republican senators, the judiciary committee will vote friday morning on brett kavanaugh's nomination to the pbs,me court worried tweeting that the republicans plan a floor vote on the kavanaugh nomination at 12:00 noon on saturday. that will be a procedural vote. unclear if republicans have 50. committee vote happens tomorrow at 9:30, as we mentioned. and one tweet from the l.a. possible path forward. she talks about the vote tomorrow morning at 9:30, the senate procedural vote saturday afternoon, second siege will vote at monday at 1:00 a.m., she says the soonest it could be held, and a final vote tuesday at 7:00 a.m., the soonest it could be held, because of senate that is sete clock in motion once the motion to proceed is started in the nomination comes to the floor. our coverage of the u.s. senate tomorrow and c-span2, tamara morning, the judiciary committee will be meeting at 9:30 eastern for that vote -- tomorrow judiciary committee will be meeting at 9:30 eastern for that vote. line go to our independent and hear from vivian in athens, tennessee, good evening. good evening. i have two obser

. >> the nominations cameout. me, you and drake. >> you're going. >> our spy saw drake leaving the hotel yesterday. and former first lady michelle obama is going out on tour. she is doing t cities including d.c. promoting her brand new memoir, "becoming." >> it is honest and utterly me. so i am a little frightened because it is so candid and honest and open. honest and open. i and changed diapers at night. during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, ta what's ahead is as imp as what's in the rearview mirror. >>> new developments in the catholic church investigation. a west virginia bisp accused of sexual harassment, it comes on the same day d the gafgs cardinals sat down with the pope to discuss the cr

how will this impact the nomination? joining mer for the judicial crisis network. so let's start here with this. do you agree with with majority leader, mitch mcconnell who reportedly told collins and murkowski that this time will not make it easier to vote for junl kavanaugh? >> i didn't see mcconnell's comments but i think for them they feel this will give them an added level of confidence. but whereby don't suspect they're going to find anything particularly different than the judiciary has done. trrs they've interviewed all the people relevant and gotten statements. it's the same penalty that applies to statements to the fbi. if that gives them an add level of confidence, that's fine. we saw two people yesterday with very compelling testimony, very heart felt stories but at the end of the day, judge kavanaugh's side i think as the evidence where everyone she put in the room says they don't remember the party happing. they didn't think it sounded like the brett kavanaugh ---ing >> you said all the evidence on his side. what evid

me change my vote. that's the commitment that i think senate republicans have to this nomination. me, at least it is a bit befuddling because there are other nominees who are very good conservative jurists who would probably have a lot easier time at this juncture, getting through the senate. i've tried to figure out what it is about brett kavanaugh that people are so committed to? and i'm still trying to figure it out. >> they just want to dig in on this. and steve kornacki, to that point, i'm interested to your take on the politics of this. you're digging in and you looked back at 1991 when not only was clarence thomas accused of these things by anita hill. but then he was confirmed after the fact. what's the political danger for republicans here in proceeding with this, simply we're not talking about a criminal prosecution, that's not the bar. this is a lifetime appointment to the supreme court? >> in terms of the politics, you have to figure out who are the swing votes who are the senators, where the balance of power sort of lies. and what are the politics the political consid

me too era. >> chris kuhns announced he opposes brett kavanaugh's nomination. let me ask you this. do you support this public hearing now scheduled for monday when we will hear from professor ford and judge brett kavanaugh? >> i think it is important that this hearing on monday be informed first by experts who can help make sure that the panel understands the dynamics that cause many victims of sexual assault to refuse to come forward for years, why they fear retribution or mistreatment. and second i think it's important that we hear from witnesses in addition to just dr. ford and judge brett kavanau kavanaugh. not the least of which is mark judge. so i think we should have a broader hearing than just two witnesses next monday. and it is my hope that the senate judiciary committee will demonstrate that we are today capable of treating a victim of sexual assault with respect. >> is it your understanding that this hearing will only have professor ford and judge brett kavanaugh? >> i'm not aware of other witnesses who have been called or agreed to, but i expect that process is underwa

nominations each. good luck to all of them. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you very much for being with me. let's go to washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >>> could president trump's supreme court nomination be crumbling to pieces? "the lead" starts right now. moments ago, president trump weighing in on the sex assault allegations against brett kavanaugh, defending his supreme court nominee as one of the finest people he's ever known. could trump's own struggles with the me too movement impact his next move? >>> today judge kavanaugh went to the white house after his nomination was thrown into chaos as key republicans with critical votes say his accuser should be heard. >>> plus, towns turned into islands. the death toll rising as the waters rapidly rise as florence may have saved her worst for last. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with president trump's supreme court brett kavanaugh whose confirmation was once seen as a sure bet, now it's in question. all ten democratic members of the senate judiciary committee are pushing for a delay on the committee vote. but far more