maria s impact on puerto rico. i want to ask you about kavanaugh, but first what are you hoping to do for puerto rico today in your appearance? there s so much noise here, i couldn t hear your question, but i heard kavanaugh, and what i m i have requested five times to see him, and i m going to request one more time for this coming week, and if i can see him, i ll announce it. if i they don t let me see him, i ll announce my decision later this week. okay. i am hoping you can hear me now. let s continue our conversation about kavanaugh, and then we ll come back to the event that s taking place behind you. we ve just learned kavanaugh s accuser, christine blazey ford will testify next week before the senate judiciary committee. do you think she ll get a fair
kavanaugh s accuser to respond in 30 minutes. what are you hearing? reporter: well, moments from now we will learn whether we ll be hearing from christine blazey ford this week or whether on monday we ll have a new supreme court justice, because senate judiciary committee republicans have now drawn a red line saying that although they set a deadline at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, extended it to 10:00 p.m. last night, and then finally set a final deadline of today at 2:30 p.m., they re no longer going to be waiting around for ford s legal team. ford s legal team said they wanted legal team to question ford to avoid looking it look too much like a trial. they said they wanted ford to testify second and have the last word. they wanted kavanaugh to go first, and they said the initial proposed hearing on monday was a nonstarter. they wanted that hearing moved to thursday.
share it. i don t see how that is that s not what i said. i m not debating you, sir. i m responding this is not criminal proceeding. this is not a criminal trial. you re wrong. this is not a criminal trial. i haven t excuse me. i haven t made my point, and then you can tell me i m wrong. it s possible. i make mistakes. i was going to say that the court of public opinion is the court to which both judge kavanaugh and christine blazey ford will be speaking, and indeed this is not a trial. i m not a lawyer, but i know enough to know it s not a trial. and it s a court of public opinion, and i believe this is a test of the way this country has changed since 1991, because if you find public opinion turning against judge kavanaugh as a result of the credibility, let us say of christine blazey ford, he will not be confirmed.
are talking about sexual abuse allegations. we re talking about a supreme court nominee who would take if confirmed on the bench, for the rest of his life. could be another 30 years or so. we re talking about a woman who at the time was a 15-year-old girl who alleges to have been traumatized and t taken many decades to come to terms to even share that story. well, this is i mean, this is going to be a very difficult hearing. for any human being, this will be very difficult. and it is incumbent upon the senators of both parties to handle this with great delicacy both for christine blazey ford and the accused, the judge, judge kavanaugh, is innocent until proven otherwise. it s going to be very tough, and
it s going to be very hard to watch, and it s important that it happened. i said i felt that the deadline today was quite arbitrary, but it s a good thing that dr. blazey and her attorney and the senate are reaching some kind of compromise. but it s going to be a very, very tough hearing for everyone, but and it s also a test, i believe, of how we have or have not changed since 1991, since the anita hill testimony. right. so many comparisons are being made. cnn supreme court reporter ar yan is with us. while we don t know the details of what s being constructed, we do know her attorney is saying there are details that have yet to be worked out. nevertheless, this is extremely unusual.