patty murray won in washington. carol moseley-braun became the senate's first black woman. >> and i think we are going to continue to see the policies that are passed here reflect america much better as we diversify our congress and senate. >> that's what they call the year of the woman, 1992. women all over the country so moved by what they had seen during the anita hill/clarence thomas hearings in the fall of 1991, that they took the next chance they had to run for office themselves to try to reshape congress. part of the reason the number of women in the u.s. senate tripled that year is because of senator patty murray of washington. she won election to the senate for the first time that year, replacing in the senate a democrat named brock adams who had been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. >> i was just a mom at home in 1991. i was a state senator, but really not interested in what was happening here at all. my interest came because i watched the clarence thomas/hill hearings, and i watched how a woma

patty murray won in washington. moseley-braun became the senate's first black woman. >> and i think we are going to continue to see the policies that are passed here reflect america much better as we diversify our congress and senate. >> that's what they call the year of the woman, 1992. women all over the country so moved by what they had seen during the anita hill/clarence thomas hearings in the fall of 1991, that they took the next chance they had to run for office themselves to try to reshape congress. part of the reason the number of women in the u.s. senate tripled that year is because of senator patty murray of washington. she won election to the senate for the first time that year, replacing in the senate a democrat named brock adams who had been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. >> i was just a mom at home in 1991. i was a state senator, but really not interested in what was happening here at all. my interest came because i watched the clarence thomas/hill hearings, and i watched how a woman shar

. >> woodruff: we get a democrat's take from senator patty murray of washington state. she is the highest-ranking woman in senate leadship. i spoke to her earlier this evening.na r patty murray, thank you very much for joining us. republicans are moving aheade with this vo judge kavanaugh. they say this f.b.i. report provides no corroboration for any of these allegations. what did you see in the report? >> well, judy, obviouslyi can't talk about what's exactly in the report, but i can tell you i am so frustrated and disappointed that it was a very narrow scope. if there's one thing we hav learned about allegation of sexual assault is that it often takes a long time foromeone to come forward and tell someoneab t it, to be able to remember all the minute details of it. r they often jumember a few things, as dr. ford herself showed us last week in a ver emotional way, and to not speak to the people that she has said to talk to really says to me that this is not a thorough investigation and it really is an atempt to jst sweep this under the rug and move on, and that is such

people like patty murray and lamar alexander, both of which i have worked extensively with, have said we can pass something. we can put reinsurance in place and other things that will lower costs and create stability in the system. but this president was hell-bent on destabilizing the system, on undermining the protections we have for pre-existing conditions, on repealing, without replace, the affordable care act. that would have been devastating for new mexico. the affordable care act brought billions of dollars into this state, grew thousands of jobs in this state, and lowered our uninsured rate. we should build on that to bring costs down. doug: mr. rich, you are next with your response. mr. rich: i care about new mexico. insurance, health insurance is a big deal. it is for my family. the affordable care act was anything but affordable and accessible. i am for affordable, accessible health care. that means that allowing individuals to purchase health plans that work for them, not washington. allow them to purchase health plans across state lines. lastly, we need. it is frustrating

they do not want senator lamar alexander to give his chairmanship up and give it over to patty murray, a leading advocate for government run single-payer health care. tennesseans want someone who is going to work hard to make certain that donald trump's agenda gets done, because they voted for that agenda. they -- richard: governor bredesen, why did you give the answer you gave? mr. bredesen: i did not possibly think you could beat the number of mentions he made of chuck schumer, but i believe you have with hillary clinton here tonight. let me say, i have talked during this campaign about the need to stop the tribalism and come together. and i guess, you know, the logical extension is you have a campaign like this, it is hard-fought, there are hard feelings and so on, but when it is over, it needs to be over. and that is why i said that. if it turns out that my opponent wins this election, which i don't think is going to happen but certainly might, i think it is important for all tennesseans, democrats and republicans, to sort of gather around and support and try to help her be the be

careful on how we do that, and also, you know, i do think that women are -- i listened to senator patty murray's statement from the floor as well, and she said women are not silenced, they are emboldened, and maybe to your point, jeffrey, because they were not happy about how some women may not have been believed. >> this idea that the process mattered, let's be clear, these women were disbelieved and kicked to the curb and brett kavanaugh was confirmed -- >> i don't believe that. >> i think there's a different view, and politically there's a different view. i don't think your view is a phaupb ahreut view, but it may prevail. i think people do look at it and republicans are counting on the idea that enough of their voters are going to look at this and say there was a process led by the left that was unfair. >> you are looking at a guy that predicted hillary clinton would win in 2016. i am not predicting the political fallout. beats the hell out of me what the political process is, and i am just trying to figure out what happened, and that's what happened, whether republicans or democrats benefit

the husband to white house counselor kellyanne conwa wawco and joining me is kristen welker and patty murray. is this designed to rally the base? >> yes, it is to rally the base, andrea, and that is what he is focused on right now, and not the reaching out to independents and ton decided voters and the calculation is to get out the core supporters and then his goal obviously is to hold on to the senate and to hold onto the house, although, base moind conversations with the officials here working on thele campaign, they say it is looking increasingly unlikely something that they are more and more acknowledging, andrea, we hind the scenes. but president trump up and tweeting about that caravan today and then the announcement about the birthright citizenship reversal, and we asked press secretary sarah sanders who told him that he could do this with a stroke of a pen with an executive order, and she did not have an answer. but she pushed back against paul ryan, the speaker of the house saying they do have scholars who say that it could happen, but not a time of when it could happen, but this is

and actually senator murray made -- patty murray, made such a great comment. republicans think that women are going to sile nced, they're not they're emboldened. she's right, women are emboldened. i feel for christine blasey ford, i know that family too. washington is a small community. people are not going to be silenced, though. >> did republicans in this process do anything to tell women we support you, we want your vote? >> on the front end there was some of that but there was a very conscious decision to go full on behind brett kavanaugh and to not take into account a lot of the fallout that this might cause. i think they were walking a really hard line. i don't even know what to say. if you ask them, they're going to say, well, you know, these couldn't be substantiated. i'm just telling you what -- >> i don't want to suggest that all women care about are things having to do with sexual assault. they care about the economy. >> they care about fairness. >> look, everyone knows they could have done a full fbi investigation, et cetera, et cetera. but i think

. >> tucker: david is an attorney and former adviser to senator patty murray. he joins us.ou for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: did it turn out that stormy daniels' former lawyer not in the end the savior of the republic as msnbc dubbed him? >> it gives him too much credit to say he was the deciding factor in this. we know justice kavanaugh was confirmed because of a process that the republicans ran and they were single-mind and determined to ensure the nomination no matter the serious and credible allegations that were raised against him. >> tucker: i think you are right. i'm not sure he was decisive in this. they weren't the only single-minded determined party. the democrats were those things too. would you describe the allegation of his client that she attended ten consecutive gang rapes, didn't report it to the police or tell friends or relatives and judge kavanaugh was present at some of these drugging the punch. but wait, she says later he wasn't. is that a credible allegation, do you think? >> what strikes me about the allegation and i believe she

they do not want senator alexander to give his chairmanship of over to patty murray, a leading advocate for government run single-payer health care. two new scenes what somebody -- tennesseans wasn't but who will work hard to make send a donald trump's agenda gets done, because they voted for donald trump. mr. bredesen: first of all i did not think you could possibly beat the number of mentions he made of chuck schumer, but i believe you have with hillary clinton here tonight. let me say, i have talked during this campaign about the need to stuff the tribalism and come together. i think a logical extension is you have a campaign like this, and often there are hard feelings and so on, but when it is over, it needs to be over. that is why i said that. if it turns out that my opponent wins, which i do not think is going to happen but certainly might, i think it is a poor and for all tennesseans, democrats and republicans, together around and support and try to help her be the best senator she possibly can be. >> thank you. that appreciate it, and concludes our questions. now you get 30 sec

my colleague, senator patty murray, decided to run after watching what happened to anita hill, and she is still here fighting for survivors and i'm proud to have her as my colleague. we look back at the clarence thomas hearings as a moment that failed america and failed all survivors of sexual assault, and yet here we are in 2018 and it appears as though we have made little progress. after dr. ford's testimony, my republican colleagues and even conservative pundits praised her credibility. it only took judge kavanaugh's outrageous performance, a performance we now know was misleading at best and untruthful at worst for these same republicans to cast her aside. the message they have sent to survivors who are brave enough to come forward is clear. we will listen to you, but we will not believe you, and we will not trust you. despite having the cards stacked against her, i was shaken to the core by dr. christine blasey ford's words last week. she answered every question with bravery, with candor, with humility. meanwhile, judge kavanaugh was evasive, belligerent, and according to many of

i talked to patty murray, and it's not a subject we are not dealing with. the audience has a vested interest including yourself and veterans. >> when the indians beat the braves in the world series he will think a little differently. being a cleveland sports fan is tough. thank you for not starting the clock. i want to follow chairman how is-- to follow those remarks. i don't take any of this personally but i want to keep the pressure on the blue letter navy because i think i mentioned in my office that i knew a gentleman as a lawyer that fought those cases one by one and veterans in vietnam died while they were being litigated. the bitterness grew and congress understood later rather than sooner but it was a victory for the government doing those on behalf of veterans. veterans are dying to know that there have been a number of conversations and formally and informally it sounds like the va is standing in the way of efforts to pass legislation. i'm not sure that i see it that way but i want to emphasize the importance of this. the blue water navy veterans

scarlet: i think that is actually patty murray of washington.l just finished speaking. caroline: i just saw what i am reading, but we have been moving around the senate floor. the key issue is that collins will be giving her confirmation vote or lack thereof for brett kavanaugh. we will bring you that live as soon as it happens. scarlet: it should be at the top of the hour. in the meantime, we want to keep you posted on the markets. with a week, we are looking at declines in u.s. stocks. the dow was the only once to gain this week, but it is now off by .07%. holding onto still the game thanks to the rise in interest rates. financials up i 1.6%. rude is rounding off it's one -- crude is rounding off another week of gains. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ i'm mark crumpton. it all comes down to tomorrow. brett kavanaugh's nomination to become a justice on the supreme court will advance to the full senate for a confirmation vote. today lawmakers voted to limit debate on the nomination. >> the yeas are 41 -- 51, the names are 49. >> lawmakers can

that in an opening statement, and i will tell you i remember having the conversation with you and patty murray brought in the caregiver's bill and you said i made a promise to get this done and i'm going to get it done and you did. the challenge we have here is the house is leaving town tomorrow and the blue water navy folks are out there, and so i trust you unequivocally to get this done but we do need to get it done. we've been talking about it for far too long. just as important we need to ensure the reforms of the previous two years are implemented appropriately by the va as congress intended and as the veterans deserved. mr. secretary, as you highlighted in your testimony this is not business as usual. this is a fundamental transformation not seen in the va since after world war ii. because the stakes are so high, collaboration and partnerships are more critical than ever. collaboration and partnerships are more critical than ever. whether it's the va and the vsos working together, whether it's congress and the vsos working together or whether it's congress and the va working together, th

patty cake with the committee chairman and ranking members. this is no way to conduct oversight. >> reporter: manafort is cooperating with robert mueller's probe. they set no end date for the cooperation in court friday. sara murray washington. >> let's talk further about this. with me, michael zeldin, legal analyst, former federal prosecutor and robert mueller former special assistant at department of justice. good to see you. >> good morning. >> the justice department arresting elena alekseevna khusyaynova for interfering with midterms, is she potentially someone the mueller team would want to have access to to see if she was instrumental in the 2016 interference or is this an extension of the 2016 interference, meaning her dabbling with midterm elections. >> i think it is continuation of what we saw in the first social media indictment by mueller. in this indictment it is alleged that she was part of the conspiracy that started somewhere in the mid 2014 period, ran through the 2016 election cycle, and carried on into the 2018. so yes, to the extent there's information that the eastern district for virginia prosecutors, ones bringing the case, get that relate back in time to 2016 period which is mueller's manda