The senate in the election and keeping this Supreme Court seat vacant until 2021. Every democratic member of the Committee Said they opposed judge kavanaugh before a single thing started and not only that, this allegation, the Ranking Member of this committee had nit writing on july 309, and if that had been reported to the committee chairman, this committee has a process to investigate it and a process to investigate that is confidential and the fbi could have participated investigating starting back on july 30th that we could have had a hearing that is closed, and that is not dragging either of these individuals through the mud. That is the way this process should have worked. The testimony yesterday from dr. Ford is that the only people who had copieses of the letter were herself, her lawyers and represent e shoo eshoo and the members of the committee. And so that makes it possible that the letter was leaked by either the two democratic members of congress or their staff or to someo
Committee. Its not cheer low far senators or the fbi will go in terms of investigating these claims fully, the claims she has made that kavanaugh, she says, sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers back in the 1980s. We dont know if any other witnesses will testify on monday nor whether the fbi will look at these allegations now, as democrats are demanding. Sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. Do republicans see an upside to keeping this as just a he said she said, just having the accuser and accused speaking in this session on monday . Well, i think it was really Crystal Clear to Republican Leaders last night, jim, that they needed to do something. This was their something. They needed to do something to satisfy the concerns not only of nearly every democrat up here on capitol hill but most importantly members of their own party who had been very vocal in recent days, especially since these allegations came out, that there needed to be a more deliberative process here, calling fo
Mr. Chairman. Because of the twohour rule, were adjourned. What . The twohour rule. No vote. When did we come in . Did we come in at noon . No. Yeah, we did. The twohour rule. We had to get this all done by 2 00. Well, is it done . Is flakes argument going to happen or did you cut off a vote . We didnt have a motion. This is all a gentleman and womens agreement. Gentleman and womens agreement. But im committed to let him say what hes committed to. They turned off the microphones over there. Can you hear senator feinstein complaining that all of a sudden Chuck Grassley announce as twohour rule so he abruptly ends it after the Senate Judiciary committee passed the nomination on party lines, jeff flake saying he hopes now at least before theres a final vote on the senate floor, theres up to a oneweek investigation by the fbi of these allegations against judge kavanaugh. He says it would be limited in time, limited in scope involving the current allegations. Dana, its a little complicated
Any Disaster Relief effort. You know, the putts are not going to move the way you wanted them to putt originally. The president was down there. He was in a couple of states, North Carolina and south carolina. Weve got around the table msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments, elise jordan, historian, author of the soul of america, rogers professor of the presidency at Vanderbilt University and soon talk oscarwinning actor jon meacham. Ill explain that in a moment. Hes in a new film, also is an nbc news and msnbc contributor. Oh, god. And nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of kasie dc on msnbc, kasie hunt. Mika has the morning off. Joe, back to you. So, you say meachams going to win an Academy Award . Will he have a photographer with him when they hand hows that going to work . Heres the back story on this, and jon i know is glad were starting off the show with this, this morning. I really am. Frontrunner about the gary
Around the world. Im live from atlanta, ga, and this is cnn newsroom. Our top story is from waesh wash. Disturbing new revelations could throw a wrench in the confirmation of Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee. Republican Lisa Murkowski is the latest senator to suggest delaying thursdays vote on Brett Kavanaghs nomination. This after a woman publicly accused kavanagh of Sexual Assault dating back to the 1980s. Her name, Christine Blasey ford and she shared her story with the waesh wash post newspaper alleging that kavanagh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and columnsly attempting to pull off her onepiece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. Kavanagh denies the allegations. Cnns Boris Sanchez has more from the white house. Reporter the white house not really saying anything new when it comes to these detailed allegations from Christine Blas erks y ford in the Washington Post in which she alleges judge Brett Kavan