Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
the senate at the time of the anita hill hearings, hatch was. they didn t spend a minute of thinking about what happens in the next version of an anita hill hearing in the senate judiciary committee and they suddenly have to try to figure it out on the fly. that s exactly right. as one republican senator told me today that they thought kavanagh and they still believe he is in their view, squeaky clean, there wouldn t be an issue like this. now there is talk of 1992, like 2018, could this be just like after the anita hill hearing with justice thomas in 91. could this be another year of the woman if republicans move aggressively in the eyes of voters. and they didn t think this was going to be an issue. but like everything in politics, you have to be able to adjust. they ve given her the opportunity to speak. she has this demand for an fbi investigation. they think they can still hold the vote. what mcconnell votes and what grassley wants aren t everything right now. what malters also
2018, could this be just like after the anita hill hearing with justice thomas in 91. could this be another year of the woman if republicans move aggressively in the eyes of voters. and they didn t think this was going to be an issue. but like everything in politics, you have to be able to adjust. they ve given her the opportunity to speak. she has this demand for an fbi investigation. they think they can still hold the vote. what mcconnell votes and what grassley wants aren t everything right now. what malters also is what does senator collins want, senator murkowski, they re the swing vote. when they woke up yesterday they believed they could hold the vote. things are faster than they can keep up. thank you for your reporting tonight. appreciate it. when we come back, more on donald trump s reaction today and the way he has handled himself in the controversy that has erupted over his supreme court nominee. it is unlike anything else we
collins have alleged the administration is withholding key information in that case that congress needs. nbc s jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon. what is the response from the defense department here? well, in short order, the defense department response indicates secretary gates will not agree to respond to that subpoena and provide the information that they are seeking. lawyers with the pentagon and military are saying, look, we can t provide that evidence because it could jeopardize the prosecution of nadal hasan and their attempts to convict him of the killing of those 13 soldiers at ft. hood last november. they did drop a clue that the military is likely to seek capital murder charges against major hasan. here is what senators lieberman and collins want. they want to drill down into what the joint terrorism task force knew nearly a year before nadal hasan is accused of shooting those soldiers at ft.