Pretty much. New bombshell reporting on the Sexual Misconduct allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Jane mayer has the scoop and she joins me live. And with rescues under way. What we know about the damage caused by hurricane florence. Its still a very hairy situation out here. But yours truall in starts now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Tonight on another staggering day of news were tracking three huge stories, Tropical Storm florence, now downgraded from a hurricane, which is still battering the carolinas as it slowly grinds its way inland, already resulting in at least five deaths. And newly surfaced Sexual Assault allegations against judge Brett Kavanaugh who is on the brink of being confirmed to the Supreme Court. But we begin tonight with the single Biggest Development in the entire course, a special counsel Robert Muellers investigation, Donald Trumps Worst Nightmare just came true. Paul manafort has flipped. The president had floated a pardon
Frid friday. One thing for sure, the senate will vote on judge kavanaugh here on this floor this week. And flying solo, the first lady taking her solo trip to the africa and trying to present a better face to a continent famously slurred by her husband. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washingt washington. Fbi agents are moving to next phase of the Background Investigation into federal judge Brett Kavanaugh. After political pressure got the president to expand the probe. Now, questioning is being completed on the four people on the original witness list and three people that the dr. Christine blasey ford says that were at party where she was sexu sexually sas saulted. And Debra Ramirez is the second woman to accuse him of Sexual Misconduct. And kavanaugh has repeatedly denied any misconduct. And the instructions to the fbi from the president have not changed the message to supporters in tennessee last night about his Supreme Court nominee. He is a good man. Great student,
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 616 of the Trump Administration saw perhaps the most dramatic day in a y generation or more on capitol hill in washington. On dr. Christine blasey ford spoke publicly for the first time about her allegations of Sexual Assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee judge brett r kavanagh. Judge kavanagh. They were the only witnesses at the Senate Judiciary hearing which lasted nearly nine hours. Competing stories with common themes, anger, memory, gender, class, affluence and the influence of alcohol. There is a missing witness, there are missing pieces of the story. Ar it was also a clear and rolling demonstration of just how deeply partisan we have become. Led by the people we have elected and sent to washington, and this is how we proceed. A vote on kavanagh in the committee expected at 9 30 a. M. We will begin here tonight with some of what we heard today. Dr. Ford was the first to testify. I am terrif
Height. Gotcha. Ill let it go. I know theres something funnier there, but i better let it go. Thank you, nicolle. If its thursday plugging wikileaks. Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington. Julian assange has been at the center of some of the largest intelligence breaches in american history. He was a central player in the russian conspiracy to hack the 2016 election and now hes in custody. Assange was arrested in london today on behalf of u. S. Authorities. He was literally dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy, where hes been living since 2012. The Justice Department today unsealed an indictment charging assange with a conspiracy to hack classified information tied to that massive leak, the first one, that made wikileaks famous in 2010 by Chelsea Manning. Assange and his lawyers say the u. S. Is trying to infringe on his journalistic freedoms, though the indictment accuses him of helping manning hack into government systems, which isnt journalism. The hacking is what they say
Rulings from the judge oh, and by the way, i want the recordings of the intimidating phone call from the president s lawyer when he called you in the middle of the night and told you not to cooperate and the phone call of you talking to the russians and im ordering the Justice Department tote publicly release an unredacted Mueller Report. The thing about wanting to hear the recording makes perfect sense to me because when you read the transcript of the reporting in the Mueller Report as im about to do on tv, there are what appear to be edits in it. Theres these little ellipses throughout. They seem to be taking words out for whatever reason and so it makes perfect sense that the judges want to know okay, i need everything thats in that, especially since that call is taken to be in the Mueller Report a piece of the obstruction of justice case. Thats right. And you know, the ellipses when you have a block quote like that and its got ellipses and its about what one person in a conversatio