republican senators, all white men basically. it is a little too on the nose when we compare memories of the anita hill hearing, and i think that they were looking to avoid that from just the pure optics alone. i don t think that they got what they expected out of rachel mitchell. i think they were expecting something more combative, maybe prosecutorial. what they got was a very patient plotting interrogation that was very fact based and allowed dr. ford to look really calm, measured, consistent in her testimony. the day before the hearing, the president was asked what is your message to young men. here s what he said. what about the message you may be sending to young men? you re a father. what does this moment we re in, the cultural moment. it is a very big cultural
your courage. watching your experience, it s no wonder that many sexual assault survivors hide their past and spend their lives suffering in pained silence. you had absolutely nothing to gain by bringing these facts to the senate judiciary committee. the fact that you are testifying here today, terrified though you might be, the fact that you have called for an fbi investigation of this incident, the fact that you are prepared to name both judge kavanaugh and eyewitness mark judge, stands in sharp contrast to the obstruction we have seen on the other side. the fbi should have investigated your charges as they did in the anita hill hearing, but they did not. mark judge should be subpoenaed from his bethany beach hideaway and required to testify under oath, but he has not. judge kavanaugh, if he truly believes there s no evidence, no witnesses that can prove your case, should be joining us in
no wonder that many sexual assault survivors hide their past and spend their lives suffering in pain and silence. you had absolutely nothing to gain by bringing these facts to the senate judiciary committee. the fact that you are testifying here today terrified though you may be, the fact that you have called for an fbi investigation of this incident, the fact that you are prepared to name both judge kavanaugh and eyewitness mark judge stands in sharp contrast to the obstruction we ve seen on the other side. the fbi should have investigated your charges as they did in the anita hill hearing, but they did not. mark judge should be subpoenaed from his bethany beach hideaway and required to testify under oath, but he has not. judge kavanaugh, if he truly believes there s no evidence, no witnesses that can prove your case, should be joining us in demanding a thorough fbi
call this a democratic ploy. a smear campaign. and all that. but when it comes when it s them and christine ford, the world is going to be watching how they conduct this. i don t know, you tell me, are we better at this than we used to be in terms of listening to a woman s allegations? i don t think we ve come very far. the proof is going to be in the pudding on thursday when this actually happens. the me too movement has been so important. but i keep saying to myself, is this kind of the point where we go backwards? i mean that would basically say, you know, we re going to have the same thing that happened in anita hill? we have all these allegations about what this woman has to say and that she s being threatened and she needs security and she can t even go to the hearing and she needs a whole bunch of consultants and lawyers. the other side, they ve got that too. the conspiracy, politicizing this into some kind of criminal case. i mean, i watch this, having watched the anita hil
lawyers who are partners in a d.c. law firm who specialist in civil rights and harassment cases. her attorneys say she s been dealing with death threats and driven from her home. joining me live, anne bremner. and attorney and msnbc legal analyst dan ny cevallos. ann, let me start with you, the unclear if republicans are going to follow through on a plan to hire outside counsel, preferably a woman, to question judge kavanaugh and christine ford. it s rare. it hasn t happened for decades. it has happened before. christine ford s attorneys have objected to that. what would you say if you were representing her? well, i d probably too, because i don t want it to look like a criminal trial. i think when you look at this, you want it to be something that would be taa typical hearing. you don t want it to be deja vu all over again like anita hill