ford. according to ford s attorney, she s repeatedly tried to reach out and contact the fbi. in a letter her lawyer says, we have received no response, and it is inconceivable that the fbi could conduct a thorough investigation of dr. ford s allegations without interviewing her, judge kavanaugh, or the witnesses we have identified in our letters to you. and tonight after days of restraint, and despite calling dr. ford s testimony credible just a few days ago, the president chose to go directly at kavanaugh s accuser at a rally tonight in mississippi. it shouldn t happen to him. it shouldn t happen to him. what he s going through, 36 years ago this happened. i had one beer, right? i had one beer. well, you think it was nope, it was one beer. oh, good. how did you get home? i don t remember. how did you get there? i don t remember. where is the place?
indecency tonight, presuming that jeff flake, susan collins and lisa murkowski are all decent people, then they re going to be as horrified and offended as the rest of us. what donald trump showed tonight is he is as comptemptible as he is vulgar, he is as cruel as he is dishonest. no one deserves that treatment from the head of state, the commander in chief, the president of the united states of america. steward of an office once inhabited by men such as george washington and abraham lincoln. so these senators will going to have to make a decision. and that decision is simple. does lying matter? does integrity count? can a sitting federal judge make dishonest statements about small and trivial things and get onto the supreme court?
principles in that assessment of ethics. those questions alone are disqualifying for whether or not he becomes a sitting justice. and that has nothing to do with idealogy. two things for viewers to remember, a lot of talk about this being about a supreme court seat for life. he s already a federal judge. he has been appointed for life. another interesting thing to remember is the president s sister is a senior federal judge. and i ve wondered throughout this if that dynamic will affect it at all. julia ainsley, you get the last word. what are you looking for next? it s going to be this timeline, brian. we re reporting this could wrap up as early as tonight, perhaps tomorrow. that s all within the senate s timeline because they want to get that vote by the end of the week. mitch mcconnell said that. it s unclear if he could get an initial vote and get a final vote over the weekend or next
whether or not he becomes a sitting justice. and that has nothing to do with idealogy. two things for viewers to remember, a lot of talk about this being about a supreme court seat for life. he s already a federal judge. he has been appointed for life. another interesting thing to remember is the president s sister is a senior federal judge. and i ve wondered throughout this if that dynamic will affect it at all. julia ainsley, you get the last word. what are you looking for next? it s going to be this timeline, brian. we re reporting this could wrap up as early as tonight, possibly tomorrow. that s all within the senate s timeline because they want to get that vote by the end of the week. mitch mcconnell said that. it s unclear if he could get a cloture vote by the end of the week and then move on to the final vote over the weekend or the middle of next week. but this is being sped through at rocket pace. there are former fbi people who have come on air and said, a week seemed lik
all-boys prep school. four georgetown prep students saw kavanaugh and his classmates inebriated and involved in binge-drinking. what s wrong is the testimony of a supreme court judge nominee and here is how kavanaugh described his drinking. i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers, but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. to the best of our knowledge, the fbi has not spoken to those classmates who talked to the new york times further. nbc news has learned that the fbi has no current plans to interview judge kavanaugh or to interview dr. christine blasey ford.