the opportunity to testify treating her with respect saying she should be heard and continuing to praise the integrity of brett kavanaugh, the supreme court nominee but over the course of the week president trump has gotten closer and closer to going on offense against christine blazey ford. that started thursday evening in las vegas during that interview with fox news where president trump first started questioning why ford didn't go to the authorities 36 years ago when this alleged assault took place. on twitter friday morning he continued to go after ford, continued to question her motives and the timing of why she's coming forward and also slamming senate democrats for sitting on the allegations since july when they first received it. we don't know if president trump is going to continue to approach professor ford with the caution he showed earlier in the week or if he'll remain on the attack as we get closer to what looks like a public hearing. >> we also want to bring in avery freeman, a law professor