you know, tarana, so what's changed? >> to hear him say we have to give him leeway and we have to understand that he's angry, what do we have to understand for dr. blasey ford? when the world listened to her describe in detail, having her clothes and be fully present and not angry and not overly emotion and we have to put up with him who is interviewing for the highest -- she can come to that hearing to be poised and fully present and not angry and not, you know, overly emotional in the ways that kavanaugh was and then we have to put up with him, who is in an interview for the highest court in the land not being able to control his emotions. would he allow anybody to come in his courtroom and act the way that he acted? so we have to give him some leeway? that is the epitome of white male privilege. he doesn't deserve leeway because he's angry and has to stand in front of these accusations. i reject that notion. >> and ana maria, i want to know what you think on this. you confronted flake on this and that's why we have an

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tarana burke and alyssa milano. they look atome women and say it's been a disastero for the vement and they would argue no, we're already changing the conversation. it's still sfting and then on the issue of okay, do you believe the women? is there any due process for the men and that's where they're saying that is what we're saying. we're fig yeariuring out what is like when it's a he said she said and at a minimumeot will havee say if i can think about it that way. take a listen. >> we'll do this in just a few minutes from now. thanks, about nine minutes from now, "meet the press" right here on nbc 4. you'll see that right after news 4 today. >>> and we want to bring int the mix clay anderson who's been joining us all morning taking about the sunshine we are waiting fo >> we want to deliver that sunshine but always remember the sun is always shining just above e clouds. i had to come back and say that. see you're with me. normally when you have seven miles orreater you have plenty of sunshine to go ound. hagerstow

amy: soraya chemaly, can you respond to tarana burke, who in 2006 coined the term #metoo that alyssailano, the actress, thtn that the on that day harvey weinstein article was first written about him attacking so many women and went to sleep and the response to her saying "if something has happened to you, please respond with #metoo" and she was just inundated? >> i think it is very clear that while people are talking about the presumption of innocence, they are not talking about the presumption of innocence for survivors and people who have been assaulted. dr. christinethat o ory ford was confused lying unless you presume that she is guilty of lying or not knowing what she's talking about. and the whole sham of the investigation and the course of this confirmation, i think, a tests to the real fear with #metoo, which is not as the president said that women will lie and destroyed the lives of men, but that women are telling the truth. if women are telling the truth, then it is not just an indictment of a few bad apples, but an indictment of the entire system and the treatment of survi

i think it's crucial that tarana burke movement, tarana burke has been a crucial leader throughout the hashtag #me too movement even as what the original fight was with distinct from what me too came to encompass, and i think it's crucial that she hasa leader around the christine blasey ford allegations. because we are insisting, many of us come on saying actually this conversation is both about. it's both and, and how they're connected. it is about how personal behavior can be criminal behavior, that is professionally disqualifying. it is about how professional power, legal power like sitting on the supreme court, has the ability, as part of the mechanism that then has the ability to govern the circumstances of women's private lives to determine whether or not they have access to birth control and abortion that is fundamental to how they will conduct the sex lives that we are told that nothing to do with the supreme court. >> host: that's right. >> guest: and in having this very difficult, painful, horrifying conversation, part of what is happening is that women are insisting on makin

me too traces its origins back a decade when tarana burke created it to help sexual assault survivorsas simple as me too but have it be as impactful as it is to add to this choir of voices also saying it, that's how you build community, and community is important in healing. >> reporter: it has been a year, and it's great to have alyssa milano here with us. good morning. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. >> one year ago today you sent that tweet out and i was just looking at it this morning. it's a simple tweet. you just reminded us of what me too really is and was in that movement. >> my philosophy was if i could put it out there and people didn't have to tell their stories or name their predators, but just stand in solidarity so we could get a real good glimpse of the numbers, but i never expected that when i woke up seven hours later that 53,000 people would have replied. >> here we are a year later. who would have ever imagined all the things that have happened in the past year. where do you think we are? where is the movement? >> well, i think we have come a long way obviously.

. >> tarana burke, thank you. "the lead" starts now. >>> president trump says judge kavanaugh is the one who has been through trauma. "the lead" starts right now. president trump today defending his supreme court pick by saying that what kavanaugh has never said, that he did have difficulty as a young man when it came to drinking. as the republican-hired prosecutor says professor blasey ford's case is weak. the investigation is not limited. that's the message from the white house to the fbi following phone calls from some republican senators. so who might they talk to? >>> plus, new today. democrats have a list of everyone they want to hear from in the kavanaugh probe. what is the red line that could sink his nomination? one of the veterans of the senate judiciary committee will join us live. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead today. president trump's rose garden press conference was intended to be a victory lap on the issue of trade, but instead it was pulled into the vort

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so, having said that, and you mentioned powerful white men, this is what tarana burke told me about this precise situation, about kavanaugh's issue. she is the original founder of the original me too movement. let's take a listen. >> she can come to that hearing and be poised and fully present and not angry and not, you know, overly emotional in the ways kavanaugh was and we have to put up with him who is in an interview for the highest court in the land not being able to control his emotion. would he allow anybody to come in his courtroom and act the way he acted? so we have to give him some leeway? that is the epitome of white male privilege. >> so i guess you agree with that. where does one go, then, with this anger thing? >> well, i think we have to think about why women's anger is discouraged, why we're offered such a narrow window of rhetorical options. and part of the argument i make in the book one of the reasons that a power structure writes off the angry dissent of those who are offered less power within it is because they understand the expression of anger to be a communicativ

then we're going to talk to the founder of the me too movement, tarana burke and alyssa milano as well >> a lot of change. a lot happened. >> that's very true. >> big show ahead. hopefully you have your coffee full because it's been qte the week. >> i've been on extra caffeine for three weeks now. i don't know where iam. >> you can catch chuck at 10:3 th more on the confirmation of braff th brett kavanaugh. that's on news 4 today right here on nbc 4. chuck, thanks. >>> there's a new push to build another bridge across the potomac. a link between virginia and maryland. >> transportation reporter adam tuss with the latest from chopper 4. >> reporr: i'm adam tuss in chopper 4 to talk about something we've been talking about for a long time. a new potomac riversi crosng. they want to get from this side in loudo county over here to montgomery county. this is why. look at where route 28 is. loudon count identified a couple corridors where a bridge ght make sense.un county has id couple corridors where a bridge might make sense. they say they can do it without impacting too many homes. there

i think, you know, personally and many of us have a lot of gratitude to tarana burke who started thell the brave women who stepped forward and picked that back up this year. i think it's been extraordinary and for younger generations it will never be the same. >> you say you want to create a more compassionate internet. do you think that hashtags like me too, #believewomen, #whyididntreport all play a role? >> absolutely. social media can be a playground and a breeding ground really for the kind of vitriol and hateful speech we've seen in bullying online but i think with the hashtags, what we see is something extraordinary that happens online too. so with #metoo and the recent hashtags -- i'm sorry. i need water. i'm nervous. >> you're doing amazing and talking about something that's so personal. >> we're going to capitol hill. let's pausespecial report with david muir. >> announcer: this is an abc news special report. the kavanaugh confirmation vote. now reporting, david muir. >>> good morning. we're coming on the air at this hour with breaking news. crucial vote on supreme court no