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host: sean sullivan covers politics for the "washington post." alexis levinson is a reporter with buzzfeed. thank you both for being part of "newsmakers." sean: thanks. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> join us for a discussion about the relationship between reporters and controversial sources. university's free speech project will host. live coverage at seven eastern on c-span. professor christine blasey ford has agreed to chas defy -- to testify thursday. judge kavanaugh will also testify at the hearing. we will have live coverage starting at c-span3. you can watch online or listen on the c-span radio app. >> this week on the communicators, executive director of the open market institute discusses his concerns over companies like google, facebook, amazon and uber possibly becoming monopolies and threatening democracy. interviewed by ashley gold. search -- this sounds radical in today's

they're help us with questions this week, sean sullivan of "the washington post," and alexis levinsohn from buzzfeed news. mr. kelly, let's begin with, what is the house majority pac? what is your goal this midterm election? and how much money are you spending? charlie: we started in 2011. our main focus is supporting house democrats running for office. we have been in existence for three cycles now. our goal this cycle is to win back as many seats as possible. there are a number of battleground districts, and we feel good into the final stretch. there are opportunities across the board. last cycle we raise and had spent $56 million. i would say we are the flagship operation on the independent expenditure front strictly looking at house races. not only do we invest in house races to help support democratic candidates, we bring folks together across the progressive community to help spend strategically and avoid duplication to pick up as many seats as possible. host: who are you aligned with? charlie: a number of labor groups, environmental groups, the we want's health community that ar

sean sullivan from the washington post. they are full steam ahead on a vote on kavanaugh. remains.rtainty blake will have to go first. he is on the committee. is 9:30.ittee hearing we will have

. >> we're going to go straight to the phones now washington post congressional reporter sean sullivan joining us by phone, part of the reporting team who is delivering the news tonight about this mystery lawyer whom the republicans on the senate judiciary committee are engaging kavanagh's accuser. and at this point the leading candidate is rachel mitchell. she is a prosecutor in arizona. she's worked for the mayor cope a counsel tip attorney's office for 26 years and she is the sex crimes bureau chief for the mayor cope a county attorney's office. so she is somebody who has a lot of experience in areas of sexual assault and sexual misconduct. >> and, sean, is she currently employed by the county? >> yes. >> so she's going to have to leave a government payroll -- she cannot easily transfer from that government payroll to the senate payroll and she cannot be on both. have you had any information about how they're handling these payroll issues? >> you know, not yet. a lot of people are realizing i think when they look at these developments, this is a fairly, you know, unprecedented occas

. >> sean sullivan, emily ngo, stick with us. we have more questions coming up. >>> there's still some sticking points for her legal team that could derail the deal. that's up next. alright, i brought in new max protein ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein. in two great flavors. >>> a major breakthrough. the woman who accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault tentatively agreed to provide testimony on thursday. lawyers for christine ford argue parts of the gop deal are, quote, fundamentally inconsistent with the committee's promise of a fair and impartial investigation into her allegation. they are expected to continue negotiations later today. joining me now, ashley merchant, criminal attorney. great to have you this sunday. >> good morning. >> ford's lawyers, they're requiring a number of conditions, including not having kavanaugh in court in the same room at the same time and a guarant

here to help us is sean sullivan of the washington post and a reporter from life beat news.

i want to bring in "washington post" reporter sean sullivan. he just broke to jeff flake. i understand nflake told you he thinks the vote should be delayed? >> he said he made it clear that he is not comfortable moving ahead with a planned vote on thursday unless the committee has had a chance to hear directly from this woman. he said it really needs to be taken seriously and that she must be heard. here you will see republican senators saying that you can't move forward until we hear more. pretty striking comments from senator flake right there. >> flake isn't up for reelection in november. how much of a role do you think that plays in why he is the lone republican coming forward in saying this? >> if you look on the whole he has been more willing to speak out about president trump's administration and nominees and his agenda. as you point out he doesn't have to go before voters again this year. he does have a degree of power here on the judiciary committee. if he were to side with democrats and vote no then he could have the potential to tilt the vote. he is just one sen

sean sullivan from the washington post. they are full steam ahead on a vote on kavanaugh. remains.rtainty blake will have to go first. he is on the committee. is 9:30.ittee hearing ull coverage f on c-span two. for joining us. up next here on c-span, the entire judiciary committee hearing from today. >>> this morning, we continue our hearing on the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to serve as associate justice on our supreme court. we will hear from two witnesses, dr. christine blasey ford and judge kavanaugh. thanks, of course, to dr. ford and judge kavanaugh for accepting our committee's invitation to testify and also thank them for their volunteering to testify before we even invite it. both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh have been through a terrible couple weeks. they and their families have received vile threats. what they have endured ought to be considered by all of us as unacceptable and a poor reflection on the state of civility in our democracy. so i want to apologize to you both for the way you've been treated and i intend hopefully for today's hearing to be sa

. >> sean: john sullivan just sat down literally two hours ago with president trump for an exclusivehey spoke about him declassify the fisa documents, mueller's probe and so much more. i don't even know where to begin, i will let you report and we will all decide but this is an exclusive interview that he gave you 45 minutes for the hill? >> it was extraordinary. we hear all the story of the white house being in disarray, chaos, yelling and screaming. i was in the oval office for 45 minutes, the president could be, and the organization couldn't be more functional and he was very measured and how he answered questions. he had a good grasp of the detail of the russian investigation and many other things. it was so different than many of the organizations you see today. he said today that the effort to expose a corrupt fbi investigation may turn out to be one of the crowning achievements of his presidency. that what went on was a ruse. he changed his wording, he called it a witch hunt. today he used gregg jarrett's words, it's a hoax, a fraud. he made some really strong statements about

they're help us with questions this week, sean sullivan of "the washington post," and alexis levinsohnm buzzfeed news. mr. kelly, let's begin with, what is the house majority pac? what is your goal this midterm election? and how much money are you spending? charlie: we started in 2011. our main focus is supporting house democrats running for office. we have been in existence for three cycles now. our goal this cycle is to win back as many seats as possible. there are a number of