defending him. that said, there were other people who heard about this at the time. there was an individual who s on the record in this piece saying by name, i saw a woman crying and recounting details of this incident at the time. and that woman, in miss ramirez s recollection, is her. there s an individual who said 100% he was told this fact pattern right after. this was someone not in contact with miss inde your piece has come under critici criticism. i want to go through some of it. what s your best understanding of why it took her six days after being contacted by the new yorker before she would actually name brett kavanaugh as the person who allegedly exposed himself to her? apparently this was only after conversations with her attorneys and, you know, she waited six days to actually name kavanaugh. tonight fox news, kavanaugh cited a new york times report that said miss ramirez recently contacted former classmates and told some of them she wasn t sure it was kavanaugh.
attorney general rod rosenstein is gone, some folks including our own jeffrey toobin says it could spell the end of the mueller investigation. there s a very big night ahead. we begin with the supreme court nominee ahead of crucial hearings going on national television, in this case, fox news, to defend himself against allegations of wrongdoing. i m not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process, and we re looking for a fair process where i can be heard and defend the my integrity, my lifelong record, my lifelong record of promoting dignity and equality for women starting with the women who knew me when i was 14 years old. i m not going anywhere. that s judge kavanaugh with his wife by his side. he said he s being wrongly accused. the truth is, i ve never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise. i am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr. ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place.
midterm election cycle, so that might be part of the reason, anderson, why we have not seen the president who, you know, when he comes to the u.n., he likes to use rhetoric like little rocket man, why he s been very careful talking about rod rosenstein today and for the last several days, anderson. all right. jim acosta, appreciate it. with me now cnn political analyst and the new york times correspondent maggie haberman. and dana bash. dana, what does the white house gain by having this or dragging it out on thursday? if the president wants to fire rosenstein, he probably could have done it by phone today. is it coincidence it s going it be on thursday, the same day as the kavanaugh hearing? first of all, you re right. it s not as if the president is afraid to fire people from afar. remember how james comey was fired. he sent one of his aides over to the fbi. and comey was all the way across the country. he got fired on tv basically. he got fired on tv. exactly. that is cert
things like were people told at the time? sexual assault is difficult to report on partly because either there s often no one in a room or in a case like this, the individuals alleged to be in the room were largely participants in the alleged misconduct. they were people who were in her recounting of the events egging brett kavanaugh on. those individuals have signed a statement saying they re defending him. that said, there were other people who heard about this at the time. there was an individual who s on the record in this piece saying by name, i saw a woman crying and recounting details of this incident at the time. and that woman, in miss ramirez s recollection, is her. there s an individual who said 100% he was told this fact pattern right after. this was someone not in contact with miss ramirez. independently he came to us and recounted that. your piece has obviously come under criticism, so i want to go through some of it. what s your best understanding of why it took her si
angry that they re not moving if they don t move forward with this nomination. carrie, one thing that kavanaugh didn t say in the interview is he d welcome an fbi investigation into this or continuation of the background check. wouldn t you think he would want that if this is all a smear campaign as he says, just to fully and completely clear his name? what he said he wants is a hearing and this investigative process he s been going through for the past week. there s nothing magical about putting the words, fbi, in front of it. . we have a senate investigation process that s exactly what happened after the anita hill allegations were made public as well. the senate has interviewed all the things senator gillibrand said she wants to do, the senate judiciary committee has been doing. interviewing judge kavanaugh. interviewing the witnesses. they ve been trying to get participation by dr. ford, they ve been trying to get participation by the senate democrats. so things like interv