court nominee clarence thomas. televised hearings that featured blockbuster testimony from professor anita hill who detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by judge thomas who was her supervisor at two government agencies. after approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and tlling the world about it are the two most difficult experiences of my life. but when i was asked by a representative of this committee to report my experience, i felt that i had to tell the truth. the hearing sparked a national debate about sexual harassment and a time when such harassment went largely ignored and unpunished. it also brought attention to a troubling dynamic, the senate judiciary committee led by then senator joe biden was composed solely of old white guys. sharply and sometimes rudely questioning a black law professor about what happened to her. no women serve on that committee in 1991. well, that was about to
midnight at the moment it is your home astrocytic buyer, but there are itching questions that are continuing to swirl at the second hour of laura coates live. it is midnight, what is going to happen? we have already had the news tonight that the idf aerial defense system intercepted one rocket that was launched from the gaza strip in the last hour that was just before the truce was set to expire. rocket sirens were heard in the area over the past few hours. i want to go right now to cnn s jeremy diamond, in israel, and cnn chief national security correspondent alex marquardt who is in washington. jeremy, it is now the and of the deadline. we haven t heard anything about an extension of a truce from either side. what do you know? yes, that is right, laura. for all intents and purposes we believe this truce has now expired. it was slated to expire at this very time midnight eastern time, 7 am local time. it is now 701 a.m. where i am, and there have already been in the past h
one. this is white christian nationalism that has completely occupied the republican party in america. that is out of step with the majority of america. and that led them to do what they have done, that obviously lead the people on the supreme court who many of them are white christian nationalists on the supreme court today put there by donald trump. but the compounding factor in this was not only that roe versus wade-dobbs decision but was the actions of republicans and every state to take it even further, to make it even worse. it s not just like oh, okay we re going to do restrictions and things around the end and we ll do late term we ll stop late term abortions. they re stopping in many states, majority of states where republicans hold power. the ability to have abortion through the entire pregnancy. including rape, incest and health of the mother. i think what happened is all of the stories are getting told. it s not only a big mammoth issue, it s story after story after story
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actions. and the thing most interesting, joan sees this as a mitigating factor, i see it as a compounding factor, that the more level-headed people in the clinton circle knew how outlandish it was. and in terms of donald trump and what could come next for him if he loses this election. this is bloomberg inside the trump bunker. they talk about all the data compiled. they said since trump paid to build this audience with his own campaign funds, s loan will own it after november 8 and can deploy it to whatever purpose he chooses. he can sell access to other campaigns or use it as the basis for a 2020 presidential run. it could become the audience for a trump tv network. as banno one puts it, trump is an entrepreneur. if he calls himself the ultimate winner and he loses the election