it. these lawsuits might allow us to do that. courts like to talk about standing. what standing do you have to sue this individual or this company? what standing do 200 members of congress have? what is their stake in the president if he s guilty of this? this was really interesting. so this is the big hurdle, just to get sort of get your foot in the door of the courtroom. does the judge say you have the right to bring a lawsuit. members of congress normally can t just sue the president because they re supposed to be using congress for whatever their political ends are, right. you can t try to convince your fellow legislators to do something, fail and use the courts as a plan b. so it is a high bar for congressmen suing the president to actually be allowed to continue. in this case though what the judge said was basically the ee moll clause of the constitution requires president trump if he is taking a payment from a foreign government he has to come to congress and ask if it is
him in fact the day before and not at him. he also called the attacks on brett kavanaugh a con job by the democrats and wondered aloud if george washington had ever faced any me too allegations of sexual misconduct. thursday, just yesterday, was in fact and for all-time one for the history books because of that split screen. dr. christine blasey ford told her story in testimony that was raw and measured. the tears and the anger actually came instead from the federal judge. brett kavanaugh called the whole thing an orchestrated and calculated political hit, fueled by anger for his president and revenge for the clintons. and today kavanaugh s nomination made it out of committee where it then came to a halt as we all, as we said, must now wait for the fbi to do its job. that s our look at the week it was. and that is our broadcast on a friday night. thank you so very much for being
he was being unusually measured in his choice of words. i thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me. very fine woman. i thought that brett s testimony, likewise, was really something that i haven t seen before. it was incredible. this is what the president put out later today. quote, i ve ordered the fbi to conduct a supplemental investigation to update judge kavanaugh s file. as the senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week. then a few hours ago he said this. just started, tonight, our 7th fbi investigation of judge brett kavanaugh. he will some day be recognized as a truly great justice of the united states supreme court. turns out that senator flake came around with the help of his close friend in the senate, chris coons, democrat of delaware who got emotional when
will confirm him, and through this process that we ve gone through it will ideally in their mind sort of lift at least some of this cloud over kavanaugh. if they can say, look, we have genuinely done this investigation, we ve done what the democrats were asking for, the fbi investigated and at this point, you know, we re backing kavanaugh. kelsey, there is also, as a democratic operative reminded me tonight, there s a trap in here potentially. oh, sure. i mean it is very difficult because on the one hand if it comes back that the fbi is not able to find anything new here, it could give a lot of political cover for these republicans who haven t made up their minds yet to say, i waited, i requested this investigation along with senator flake and i now have a space to say, this has been confirmed, we have done our jobs, i ve done everything i can to ensure that this is the nominee that i thought it was and now i can vote yes. the other problem here though is if you are a democrat,
house in maryland where this party may have occurred, does it still exist, has it been refurbished, is there a stairway, is there a bathroom across from a bedroom, are there photographs at yale or georgetown prep that can put kavanaugh next to people he says he doesn t even know, next to some of the accusers who lived in the dorm. those people are going to get a phone call from the fbi back then. those are going to be pulled. the potomac safe way supermarket where people may have worked and been spotted, they re going to pull records, pay records from there and find dates and schedules if they exist. what about the things? the things include the polygraph exam that dr. ford already took. it should be pulled and reviewed for quality and see if it was done right and is credible. are there other items that can be displayed, shown, photographs that show what was in the room, blankets, linens, posters on the wall where this may have occurred, all to refresh memories? and, boy, lining up the