and do not understand senate judiciary committee history. and only one of them knows chuck grassly's personal history with this subject. and that is the 87-year-old republican orin hatch who sits beside chuck grassly in the senate judiciary committee now. they are the two republicans on committee who have been here tomorrow. they are the two republicans who personally bullied professor anita hill when she came before that same committee to testify against clarence thomas to the supreme court because she said he had committed repeated acts of sexual harassment against her in the workplace and elsewhere. they are the only two republicans still sitting on that committee 27 years later. 27 years after disgracing themselves when anita hill testified to the committee. they're still there. anita hill's accusations against clarence thomas were investigated by the fbi. and at the time everyone thought that was a reasonable thing to do, it was the only thing to do. and the fbi's investigation only took a couple of days. no one said we don't have time f

it was a democratic majority senate judiciary committee. publicans don't want to repeat the optics of. christine blasey ford pushing hard to be questioned by the senators. all of the current senate republicans on the senate judiciary committee are white men. there are four democratic women on the senate judiciary committee. of course, is republican. if you could talk about what anita hill was up against. they want a woman lawyer today to be the questioner of dr. ford , representing the republicans. >> right. before, i as i said think it is more concerned with the optics, which in the case of anita hill, was so powerful to have this panel of white men looking down upon her, asking her intrusive, embarrassing, .resumptuous questions questioning if she was in her right mind later. whole number of things. are you a woman scorn was probably the ultimate low point. but i also -- amy: by heflin. folks i think joe biden has expressed regret about the way he handled the hearing. there were other witnesses rescinding ready to corroborate anita hill's

why won't the senate judiciary committee welcome that? here her attorney's name is john clune. you can hear him asking out loud publicly why the senate judiciary committee, which is hearing the nomination of this man for the supreme court, why they wouldn't want to hear testimony from his client, why they wouldn't want to receive information from his client about that nominee that they are considering. and it does seem a little mysterious. why senate republicans are not waiting for her allegations to be heard, and in fact, even the white house said today basically, yeah, maybe she should testify. how about that same day that dr. ford is going to be there on thursday? >> does the president want ms. ramirez to appear before the senate judiciary committee as well? >> certainly we would be open to that, and that process could take place on thursday. >> certainly. the white house could be open to that. it's our nominee. it could take place on thursday. but that is apparently not what's going to happen. tonight senate republicans are not just saying they don't see what the testimony o

you say to senator dom again, we are not suspending this hearing w wl stop amy: that was senate judiciary committeeir chuck grasslsley respondnding to senar dick durbin. not one of the 11 republican senators on the senate judiciary committee, who are all white men -- there's never been a republican woman in the history of the senate judiciary committee. not one of these 11 in question dr. blasey ford directly. instead ceded their time , to a sex crimes bureau chief mitchell. mimitchell was also scheduled do question brett kavanaugh on behalf of republican senators but they quickly stopped her line of questioning after she asked judge kavanaugh about details of parties and gatherings he attended in the summer of 1982. >> do you still have your calendars? >> i do. >> i would like you to look at .he july 1 injury with judge, to skis tom, bernie, and schooley. >> that is a big name. looks to what does this refer and to whom? says tobin'st house worked out. that is one of the football workouts that we would have. it was for guys on the football team. mr. and the summer. it would be there, usually six to

nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has now agreed to testify next week before the senate judiciary committee, but at this hour, attorneys for christine blasey ford want more time to finalize the details. they requested to talk this afternoon with senate judiciary staff to do just that. the white house has responded to the latest development in a statement reading this seems like another delay tactic. we continue to see more efforts to change and renegotiate fair terms and blowing past deadlines. this comes after senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley granted ford an extension to decide if and how she will testify before senators. president trump doubts ford's allegation against kavanaugh in a series of tweets reading in part, if the attack on dr. ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed. why didn't someone call the fbi 36 years ago? . last night the president ramped up his support for kavanaugh as well and called on voters to fight for his supreme court nominee. >> he was born for the u.s. supreme court. he was born for it. and it's going to happen. it's going

they had a meeting afterwards and they decided the senate judiciary committee will continue the plan to vote on friday on the nomination. the key individual to watch on the committee is senator jeff flake. he is still undecided. he still has not made up his mind. he told my colleague after the meeting today he had more doubts than certainty about what would happen next. if they don't have the votes on the committee, mitch mcconnell said behind closed doors they will move forward to the floor. a procedural vote is planned for saturday at noon. what does this mean? at this point in time, republicans do not have the votes to confirm brett kavanaugh. republicans could have the votes to confirm brett kavanaugh. a couple of democrats could vote with them as well. those votes have not committed yet. republicans are taking a gamble and pushing forward with the president's support and vice president's support and takes brett kavanaugh's testimony and what it meant to them as a sign it is time to push forward. will it all work out? we have to wait and see. we get our first sign at 9:30 when the

has just been released her attorney is now saying she is willing to testify before the senate judiciary committee. will that happen? >> well, the senate judiciary committee members that i have spoken to say let that happen. but, it should not unduly delay the vote on judge kavanaugh who has given 24 or 32 hours of testimony by him or by others. and also, there were 1300 written questions. this never came up. those private phone calls. the private meetings. judge kavanaugh has met with 65 u.s. senators. we all know there were some who couldn't find the time to do their jobs to advise and consent the president of the united states on his supreme court pick. i started this segment out by saying she should testify under oath. the senate jewish area committee looks like they are headed that way. judge kavanaugh, who has categorically denied these allegations, will also have an opportunity to address them under oath. and let that be part of what everybody considers before they cast a vote. and let's not fool ourselves. remember, folks, that long before this happened, there were democrats who said they

ford's attorneys as well as the staff of the senate judiciary committee. we may see witnesses added to this list. we don't have any as of yet. one of those considerations might also be will there be a counsel for the senate judiciary committee? it has been said it might be a woman. therefore, the sensitivity and the understandings of such questioning might be better addressed. >> the senate wants to smear dr. ford. they just don't want to get their hand dirty doing it. right? this is not a search for the truth. if there was, you'd have all these witnesses. we have to get back to what ed whalen tried to pull this week. ed whalen is a troll man who tried to launch this mistaken identity thing on twitter. it landed with a thud. but he wasn't working alone. he was working with the same pr firm that did the swift vote stuff. obviously senator warren hatch knew something about it because he was kind of pimping these conspiracy theories last week. what they want to do is find some way to say that well, christine ford isn't lying because they know that makes them l

russ fine gold, who served on the senate judiciary committee, and lisa is back, codirector of document and she is the former chief counsel for nominations for the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee on the democratic side. she was the deputy assistant attorney general in the department of justice. and, lisa, i want to start with you. there's been a furious amount of material flying around now in the last hour about what's going on here and what is -- what there is precedent for, what there isn't. senator orrin hatch who has been a member of the committee for longer than any of us can remember and was there humiliating himself during the anita hill hearing, has issued a tweet tonight about an fbi investigation that dr. ford is demanding, saying, the fbi does not do investigations like this. the responsibility falls to us. and, lisa, that is just an outright lie by a member of the committee. this is exactly what the fbi is supposed to investigate about nominees who come before any committee of the senate. >> that's exactly right. i w

an e-mail from professor christine blasey ford's lawyer saying she has, quote, told the senate judiciary committee that she would be prepared to testify next week, so long as senators offer terms that are fair and which ensure her safety, according to an e-mail her lawyer sent to committee staff members. the deadline for professor christine blasey ford whether to decide to testify or not is tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. whether or not she does testify, senate republicans seem intent on holding a hearing and moving on with a vote to confirm judge kavanaugh for a lifetime appointment on the supreme court. tensions reaching a fevered pitch. protests are swarming to protest judge kavanaugh's nomination. where does everything stand now. want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt, we have a statement from blags blasey ford's lawyer and that she's in discussions about testifying next week. >> reporter: this appears to be the headline we have been waiting for. we should underscore nbc news is working to confirm, i keep checking my e-mail, this story the "new york times" has. the reporter of

since the 1991 hearings, the fact there's not a single female republican senator on the senate judiciary committee. in 1991 there wasn't a single female senator on either side but now four female democrats. one thing has changed. in a fundamental way. that's the me too movement. we're coming up on the one year anniversary of the me too movement. that has galvanized so many women, energized women. it's propelled what's happened in democratic primaries this year. this is a very different world and i think one reason that senate republicans want to have somebody else do the questioning, that's pretty unusual. senators usually do not want to turn the camera at a big hearing to somebody besides themselves. the fact they propose to do that they are concerned that they won't come across of having und understood this. >> mimi said she became a lawyer because of what she noticed in 1991. this motivated dianne feinstein. you've been watching her for many years. as you watched her over this last week what have you seen, the way she's been a proxy here for a lot of republicans, their frustrations with this pr

she is a member of the senate judiciary committee. or klobuchar, it's nice to have you with us tonight. thanks very much for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> so i have a couple of things i want to ask you about. i want to talk to you about the now seemingly foundering -- potentially foundering nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. before i talk to you about that, though, i also want to talk to you about the sort of national fire drill we had this morning when it appeared for an hour or so that the president was about to fire deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it was sort of a wild ride in the news this morning. but i wanted to get your impressions about what happened there and your reaction to that. >> this was truly everyone's worst fear. we have this ongoing important investigation based on our national security concerns with a man, rod rosenstein, who has been a u.s. attorney under both republican and democratic presidents, number two in the justice department, only recently announced indictments coming out of

orin hatch is still on the senate judiciary committee. and the question tonight is what has orin hatch learned in the 27 years since he embarrassed himself and the senate in that hearing? what have the republicans and the judiciary committee learned? the answer might be they learned absolutely nothing. before completely surrendering to democratic demands today they postpone thursday's vote on brett kavanaugh's confirmation the republicans led by mitch mcconnell and chuck grassly, the chairman of the judiciary committee, were trying to power through. they were insistent the vote would take place on thursday. and they were trying to arrange some kind of private conversation with professor christine ford. they were still trying to do that even after professor ford told her story in detail to "the washington post." but today history caught up. lindsey graham said if the commit eis to hear from ms. ford it should be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled. and tonight not a word about the schedule from senator graham. >> is th

he'll be demanding the opportunity to present testimony at the senate judiciary committee. gh and the white house dismissed the allegations saying it's part of a smear campaign. senate judiciary committee ranking member dianne feinstein is calling for postponement of his nomination as well as an fbi investigation. i'm lauren green, now back to "life, liberty & levin." mark: welcome back america. as we walk through the desecration of the judicial nomination process, thanks to the democrats, who have burned down over 200 years of tradition. you know, originally, there were very few hearings for supreme court nominees. early in our history, right up through the 1800s into the 1900s. they began an ernest after really the 1960s, you can look and see that many supreme court justices were confirmed on voice votes. that is not even roll call votes. i'm not sure i support that sort of thing, but now they've turned into these circuses. the republicans have not turned these into circuses. ruth bader ginsburg, she got confirmed with over 90 votes. the republicans didn't try to filibuste

we will be live for any meetings of the senate judiciary committee. president trump will be in missouri for a rally in support of state attorney general josh holly. at 7:30 p.m. on c-span 2. forre your primary source campaign 2018. we will be live with former vice president joe biden as he talks about finding a cure for cancer. the biden cancer initiative summit will start at 4:30 eastern. this evening we will bring you live coverage as ted cruz faces his democratic challenger, beto o'rourke, for the first of three scheduled debates. live coverage on c-span, your primary source for coverage. saturday, retiring members of congress, bob corker of tennessee and niki tsongas of massachusetts, talk about their experience in congress. >> so important as a nation to continue to be a beacon to the world and conduct ourselves in a manner that represents the best. when we stoop to uncivil discourse, we stoop to pettiness , we have to remember the entire world looks to us. >> i am deeply concerned by our president on many levels, on policy. i think on -- i think

. >> he was in the senate judiciary committee hearing room. update us on the very latest. >> that's right. what was interesting late in the proceedings was senator jeff flake of arizona who said he would support this nomination earlier, especially giving the republicans the vote to advance abruptly got up late in the hearing and waived to his friend, the democrat who appealed to delay and coons raised significant concerns, collins and flake walked into the room outside of the hearing room. they appeared to have discussion. coons came back. he has more discussions on the democratic side of the aisle with senator dianne feinstein. they were treated as well. it's unclear what any of this means. we expected flake to deliver remarks before this 1:30 vote announcing his support for brett kavanaugh, but we have known he has been under enormous pressure. protesters confronting him earlier today. he said himself he was deeply torn about whether or not to support kavanaugh. so whether there is a change of heart, we don't know, but it caught a lot of peop

in '91, also still sit on the current senate judiciary committee. y a little of what they said so far. let's take a look. >> the chairman of the judiciary committee, and when the ranking member of the judiciary committee learned of these allegations, the fbi was immediately ordered to conduct an investigation. >> chairman biden and ranking member thurman, when they heard about this the first time, they immediately ordered the fbi investigation which was a very right thing to do, appropriate thing to do. they did what every other chairman and ranking member have done in the past. >> that was from 1991 as you could clearly see when both senators were there on the hill during the 1991 hearings. so christine, one of the requests from the senate judiciary committee is that they would bring in a representative, a lawyer potentially, a woman that would then ask questions of dr. ford. would that help to make the situation better? >> no. what would help to make the situation better would be if the senate republicans would treat dr. blasey ford with the respec

not since anita hill has this issue been so front and center in the senate judiciary committee. it has been 27 years since anita hill, but where we are, unfortunately, is that the current situation, the senate judiciary has not developed yet a protocol to handle appropriately sexual violence or sexual harassment claims. and therefore, we are having a rush to a hearing and we believe that it is not taking the benefit of a whole 27 years of progress and development of experts and knowledge to handle and to make sure that such charges are taken seriously and that there is going to be a fair procedure. today -- i am president of the feminist majority foundation -- as we gather together, with great help from many groups in the violence community a panel of experts that can tell us exactly the procedures and protocols that could be followed. i want to thank several organizations that really helped make this possible. we did this quickly because the conversation is moving quickly. the national law center, the leadership conference of civil and human rights are not here right now, but th

before there's been a vote in the senate judiciary committee on the nomination of kavanaugh, to send y're talking about impeaching him. they're already talking about impeaching him. this guy, senator sheldon whitehouse, a trust baby, he's a senator from rhode island. i want you to listen what he has to say on cnn. this is exhibit 13. we've already done 12 exhibits. go. >> first of all, there's a factual dispute here, which is that she said that young kavanaugh molested and assaulted her and he said that he didn't. there was a witness in the room never subjected to a proper investigative effort of any kind. he has not been interviewed -- mark: stop, nor has she, and she's the accuser. go ahead. there was supposedly other boys. there is an investigative process that can and should take place, and you know what? this is such bad practice that even if they were to ram this guy through, as soon as get democrats get gavels, we're going to want to get to the bottom of. this you can't ignore a crime victim's claim something happened --. mark: hold on, how do we know she's a crime victim? the

senate must vote. wille judiciary committee do that friday. whatever the outcome the full senate must vote. republicans have a majority, but a few have yet to announce their positions. >> the turkish president is in as his firstriday formal state visit to germany continues. you are seeing live images of the press conference underway. having just met chancellor areel, the two leaders holding this press conference with the media. after touching down last night on berlin tong group as aerics terrorist organization. >> your current practices have nothing to do with democracy. our even comparable with those in the past. we spoke with our international affairs editor. 2017, erdogan accuse the germans of having nazi practices because they up to rallies as a lead the referendum in turkey and changes to the constitution which gave erdogan new powers. now, fast forward and he is in germany trying to repair a battered relationship. it is a highly controversial visit. remarks, ande there are critics in germany about erdogan's increasingly autocratic style. a purge of activists and journalists. to date

that is a felony for lying to the senate judiciary committee. is the senatejudiciary understand it, what happens is the senate judiciary committee, which has authority under law to conduct those kinds of investigations, follows up on the fbi reports to finish out the investigation that it wa nts finish out the investigation that it wants with regard to any information it receives, it needs further investigation. is that your understanding of the process? that is. in this case, there has been lots of talk, and if i have time i'll get into it, but it looks like we will run out. in this case, there is concern by many that there was not so much an infant —— interest in investigations as there was in delay. i will not get that unless i have time. i want to talk about what happened in the senate committee's investigation. because as i understand it, this may be more of a question to the chairman, as soon as iwe question to the chairman, as soon as i we received information which was about 45 days after others on the committee received, we conducted an

christine blasey ford on whether or not she will testify before the senate judiciary committee, dr. supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh of sexual assault back in the early, early 1980's when they were in high school committee chairman has extended deadline for the decision today, let's bring in panel michael who is conservative activist, financial expert and small business owner and joel ruben, secretary of state under president obama, now the president of the washington strategy group and michael, i will start with you, so what do you think will happen, will dr. ford testify next week and will it be wednesday as offered by senator grassley? >> hi, thanks so much for having me. i don't know if she's going to testify. i honestly don't, but i think that this whole situation, there are only going to be losers, no winners in this. i feel so sorry for dr. ford because i believe that she is being used as a political pond -- pawn as democratic opposition and the only reason they are doing to tarnic brett kavanaugh's name. arthel: that mean that you believe that the allegations are c

>> if she would like to, she can certainly contact the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. they have a process in place. obviously they've mailed tremendous unpress dentsed accommodations for miss ford to testify on thursday. judge kavanaugh has been willing to testify publicly to what he has said privately under oath from day one. less than 24 hours after he was made aware of the identity of miss ford, he said he would raise histestify add to his 30-plus hours of testimony. i thought that his comment last night about the second so-called accuser is incredibly instructor. he's calling this a smear campaign. indeed, starting to feel like a vast left wing conspiracy. "the new york times" said they interviewed dozens of people over the last couple weeks, trying to verify the second accusation. they couldn't go ford with the reporting. not because they're supportive of president trump's nominee but because they have some standards. this fact, "the new york times" also reports that ramirez was asking people if they remembered and telling them she couldn't be sure either. i know

here's a look at some of the top stories that we're following on this friday morning the senate judiciary committeescheduled to vote on the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh at 10:30 this morning our time. and the committee is meeting right now and the senators are talking about the contentious confirmation process with the democrats and republicans accusing each other of playing politics. >> this has never been about the truth. this has been about delay and destruction. if we reward this, it is the end of good people wanting to be judges. >> several democratic senators, including california's pamela harris walked out of the meeting in protest. talking to reporters outside, she called for an fbi investigation into the allegations against kavanaugh. >> understand the misleading suggestion yesterday that this hearing was sufficient. if this hearing were sufficient, we would not as a matter of course have the fbi die background investigation every time we have a nominee of the court. but yet when it came to the allegations, they wanted to cut off that process. and you have to ask why? you have to as

initially the senate judiciary committee had set a deadline of 5:00 p.m. last night for ford's legal team to respond. then it was 10:00 p.m. last night. now 2:30 p.m. today, senate judiciary committee republicans are saying that is the last chance that ford's legal team will have to accept their terms for a new hearing. initially, they had wanted to go forward with the hearing on monday. ford's legal team had said that was just not possible for their client and had requested a hearing date on thursday. now a compromise of sorts has emerged with the proposed hearing on wednesday. if ford's legal team doesn't accept the terms that the committee has laid out, then grassley is saying they'll try to proceed to a vote on kavanaugh's confirmation on monday. ford's legal team protesting the way that kavanaugh's accuser has been treated by the committee, saying in a letter, the imposition of aggressive and artificial deadlines regarding the date and conditions of any hearing has created tremendous and unwarranted anxiety and distress of dr. ford. your cavalier treat

we are stim monitoring the senate judiciary committee hearing happening right now in washington, d.c.tors began meeting about 15 minutes ago. they denied a motion to get a subpoena for mark judge, who dr. ford said was there the night she was attacked. as far as we know it will be held in a few hours from now. i think they said 1:30 eastern time was their goal. we will continue watching this. right now over to drew tuma. okay. we are going to continue listening in. >> it was only fair that his accuser had the burden of proof. in my opinion, this wasn't met. you folks that are photographers know you are supposed to sit down. maybe you just ought to leave the room if you don't know what the rules are. >> it appears senior blumenthal may have left the hearing room. >> i found dr. ford's testimony credible and believe she is sincere in her version of the facts. but i also found judge kavanaugh's testimony credible and sincere. ultimately the exists evidence -- >> several -- if you're watching several senators have left the room. >> including senator kamala harris. >> there is simply no re

the senate judiciary committee is weighing its next moves. the committee could potentially hear from ford later on next week as she's indicates through her attorney if the gop members agree to her terms. that is up in the air. the senate is not in session right now. many of the republican lawmakers who have to decide on this, they've all gone back to their individual states so a lot of discussions have to go on before a final decision is made on how all of this could play out. >>> i want to check in with our congressional correspondent, he's getting new information. as professor ford is offering to testify, there's a move by democrats on the judiciary committee, what are you learning? >> all ten democrats sending a letter to the fbi over concerns about threats that have been directed towards professor ford. that letter saying in part we are concerned by reports of alleged death threats against her, the hacking of her e-mail and the harassment and intimidation she has faced since being forced into the spotlight late last week. asking the fbi to

arise it was added to his file, given to the white house, the white house gave it to the senate judiciary committee and we have a public hearing, chairman grassley and the other senators want to hear from ms. ford and brett kavanaugh is chomping at the bit to clear his name. he wants to be there. >> chuck schumer said senate republicans and the white house should drop their opposition to an fbi investigation, allow the facts to come out and proceed with a fair process. is the white house opposing the fbi? people look at the situation with clarence thomas and anita hill and the white house supported putting together a thorough investigation. >> there is a big differences, one of the biggest ones that has gotten lost in the conversation is when anita hill made her allegation it was privately. it was submitted to chairman biden who gave it to the white house, unlike senator feinstein who sat on it for 6 weeks knowing she could have brought it up anytime or given it to her colleagues and then at that point the white house decided to do interviews and the hearing after that, it was public information. t

but because there are no time limits on how long the confirmation process can take, the senate judiciary committeehe clarence thomas hearings and heard from anita hill, after which clarence thomas was then confirmed by the senate, 52-48. before anita hill testified, clarence thomas was probably on his way to getting at least 80 votes in favor of his confirmation in the senate. the senate judiciary committee has the same option now as it did for clarence thomas. the committee can slow down the process and reopen the confirmation hearing if judge kavanaugh's accuser changes her mind and is willing to reveal herself publicly and testify about what she said in a confidential letter to a member of congress about what brett kavanaugh did to her when they were both in high school. "the new york times" and "the new yorker" revealed more of the details about that letter today, writing in "the new yorker," ronan farrow and jane mayer report, in the letter, the woman alleged that during an encounter at a party, kavanaugh held her down and that he attempted to force himself on her. she claimed in the letter t

there are 11 men on the republicann side o the senate judiciary committee so that hasn't changed since theaynita hill and they think the optics are bad. as far as tonight, the two des, lawyers for ford and republicans on the senate judiciary committee have been negotiating through the press for a suple of d now. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley,s nowiving the lawyers until 10:00 p.m. tonight to officially say thathe is going to appear at a hearing on wednesday. you know, her lawyers say she can't make it until thursday.ni republicansally wanted to hold the hearing on monday. they're willing to push that back but say they' not going to accept some of her other demands. republicans say they're demands democrats say they were questions or requests. for example, s wanted to testify after kavanaugh. republicans said, no can do. she wants to make sure she's questioned onlyth by senators, not outside counsel that starts to feel like a trial, democrats say. republicans say they reserve the right have questions asked by someone else. this is the back-and-forth we'r

because she will sit before a senate judiciary committee where the majority is all men. and all white men, compared to the democrats who are on the committee who are, you know, the rainbow that is america right now. so you're going to have people, republicans in the majority asking her questions, treating her in a way that is just going to put them in peril. you'll have a woman who is going to be baring her sole ul of a secret she's had for 30-something years n they're going to treat her terribly. the white house is going to treat her terribly. it's only a matter of time before the president takes to twitter and treats her terribly. i think what senator collins has done, and i have covered senator collins for a long time now. she is about process. because to her mind, process equals fairness. we saw this during the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." she was frustrating to a lot of people because she wanted to understand the process. what was the obama administration doing to get the pentagon in order, in order for this to happen that made her feel comfortable that the who

you can watch it right here ginning at 10:30. >> as the senate judiciary committee investigates claim b ma dr. ford, they're trying to clean up another issue. nbc news first broke this story. a press adviser helping the gop senate judiciary committee resigned amid allegations of his own sexual misconduct. garrett ventry hadeen servi as communications aid to the committee. he was brought on to help with the dr. ford investigation. ventry denied any past allegation of misconduct. >>> a group of catholic mothers are demandegular form within the catholic church and they say that starts with getting rid of cardinal donald wuerl. >> clean god's use. >> yesterday they chanted clean god's house. the group consisted of mothers whose children attend catholic schools in d.c. their protests center around the ongoing church sex abuse scdal, particularly with cardl.al wu they say he covered up abuse by priests during his time as bishop in pittsburgh. wuerl denies the allegation. >> we want clean leadership. you are supposed to be the moral authority. act ilike. wuerl is expected to travel to rome t

katsuyama, kt ubo -- ktvu fox 2 news. >> the american bar association is calling on the senate judiciary committee to postpone the boat and have the fbi conduct an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against him. in a letter sent to the senate judiciary committee last night the president of the aba says, deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have lasting impact on this and its reputation for but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the american people to have in the supreme court. in his testimony yesterday kavanaugh repeatedly referenced the well-qualified rating he had been given by the aba. >>> sonoma state clinical scientist david mcewan says all eyes are now on the moderate republican senators have not yet said how they will vote. >> now senators have to take a really hard quote that will find them either way on the wrong side of history. they find themselves squarely in this place where they put themselves. this whole process has been wretched for all sides. >> senator jeff flake is the only undecided republic on

laid it out there, cheryl, as it relates to timing on all of this. 20 hours from now the senate judiciary committeeants an answer from christine blasey ford whether or not she testifies monday on capitol hill. ford's attorneys seem to say that is unlikely. the committee's stated plan, speaking of senate judiciary committee to move forward with a hearing with only two witnesses is not a fair or good faith investigation. they shea the rush to a hearing is unnecessary and contrary to the committee discovering the truth. democrats like ford's team, are calling for the fbi to investigate the latest allegations from ford against brett kavanaugh as well. >> the option is show up monday or don't show up at all. i consider that to be bullying. i consider that to be disregarding. i consider that to be something set up for failure. they would like a he said she said scenario. because you know what happens in those scenarios? the men are typically believed. reporter: republican led senate judiciary committee is countering ford's legal team, they put out a series of tweets just a little while ago, cheryl, sayin

will be providing extraordinarily important testimony before the senate judiciary committee tom >>> extraordinarilyportant testimony before the senate committee tomorrow. dr. christine brlasey ford and brett kavanagh who will testify in that order. it feels a little odd in this particular setting to specify their humanity. but we need to. and i admit it feels strange to have to do that. but we in this political culture, and in this city, and in this building, even in this chamber, we seem to sometimes forget that before this woman and this man are anything else, they are human beings. we sometimes seem intent on stripping people of their humanity. so that we might more easily denigrator defame them or put them through the grinder that our politics requires. we seem sometimes even to enjoy it. for the past two weeks, we have certainly seen that happen to both of these human beings. for whatever reason. because we think that we are right and they are wrong? because we think that our ideological struggle is more important than their humanity? because we are so practiced in dehumanizing people. and we

lawyers come out and say the judiciary committee as being unfair with the testimony. >> a lot of people think we might have a committee vote on monday unless those senatorstch mcconnell is sticking to his guns saying we have to get him on the supreme court by 1 october. that is not written anywhere in stone. say they do have a committee vote on monday. it would take from monday until friday with all the parliamentary hurdles and procedural traps to do this by the book, it would take five full workdays so you are right up against that. even if they want to have the hearing on wednesday or thursday, they have to go through all the procedural hurdles, that pushes it back past 1 october so that is a problem. mitch mcconnell is speaking at the values voters summit saying we will follow through. people are mindful on capitol hill. would they be willing to do that? it might look bad and go back to what one republican senator, the indication is they want to hear from her but this cannot go on forever and the judiciary committee and attorney for ford are so far apart that we are never going to hear from her, they can't agree to terms especially in a speedy period

she is agreeing to testify before the senate judiciary committee next week. tiations we are told still underway on exactly where and when dr. ford will appear before the committee. and if she will actually appear at all. will the accusations sway kavanaugh's nomination? joining us is steve nelson, white house reporter for the washington examiner. do you think we'll even see her? i mean her lawyer's letter to the committee today attacked the committee while they were saying they wanted more negotiations. >> it sounds like she is willing to testify. of course the letter accepting the offer to do so came -- still disputing the details of the exact testimony. the details matter quite a bit. they have been talked about the past week since dr. ford came forward and really dropped this bombshell. the details include whether the alleged witness mark judge should be subpoenaed to testify, who is going to question her. the order the questioning is going to go in. there's certainly significant room for debate and for this to be derailed. there's the added complication as

senate on thursday of this week. the white house and the republican-led judiciary committee are still insisting that no other witnesses will be allowed to testify, even witnesses who ford says could corroborate elements of her story. importantly, white house senate and republicans are also insisting that the fbi must not be allowed to reopen its background investigation into brett kavanaugh to examine this allegation from christine blasey ford. so no external investigation, no witnesses, but ford herself and kavanaugh himself will testify at that hearing on thursday morning. and if you were looking for the universe to give you a patient little explainer about why it might be a good idea to have the fbi do background checks on nominees, why it's a good idea to have the nation's premiere federal law enforcement agency look into allegations against people who are up for high government positions. if you're looking for proof that it is not just an inexplicable plan but a terrible plan to proceed with this nomination without letting the fbi check it out, those bald-faced details are being finalized for that committee meeti

it is important if the senate judiciary committee is to weigh the testimony of dr. ford and judge brett kavanaugh to have what other evidence can be reasonably uncovered by the law enforcement officials at the fbi. >> the last 36 hours has been remarkable. >> yes. >> but at the beginning of it, it was we need to hear professor ford. the senate needs to her from her. so the senate judiciary committee said, okay, we'll schedule that hearing for monday. but then what we heard from democrats was, well, not so fast. we want to hear a hearing but only on our terms after the fbi investigates. and i'm hearing from you only if there are other witnesses as well. >> right. well, i disagree with your characterization. it is not what we said first all we want is for dr. ford to be heard and nothing else and then once republicans agreed to a hearing we wait, oh, wait. we also want the fbi. from the beginning, democrats on the committee kept saying we should do a full investigation. this should be part of the background investigation as are any other allegations related to someone