times with committee counsel. judge kavanaugh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? i ll do whatever the committee wants to personally, do you think that s the best thing for us to do? you won t answer? look, senator, i ve i have said i wanted a hearing and i said i would welcome anything. i m innocent. joining the table, my colleagues, msnbc anchor stephanie ruhle and al sharpton host of politics nation. and president of the national action network. you were on the air when a lot of this was going on today. i was e-mailing you n wanted you to come back. this has had time to sink in. mitch mcconnell is on the floor now. kasie hunt said going through the formality of approving what the judiciary committee request chd is something that if they d asked for at the beginning they might have avoided a lot of carnage for professor ford and
accounts from other witnesses, they can come back to him and follow up and put that in a detailed written report that s turned over to all the senators on the committee. matt miller, thank you for being here today. kasie hunt had to run off to chase somebody. if she gets a scoop we ll bring her back to you. we ll show you that moment. the man at the center of the kavanaugh compromise. jeff flake confronted by protesters before his bombshell call for an fbi investigation. will today s announcement help bring both sides together after yesterday s raw testimony? we ll be right back. . when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. that s why i fight. because it s my vision. preservision. also, in a great-tasting chewable
death toll is mounting. pete williams is there. and first, we are less than 24 hours away from the deadline set by the chairman of the judiciary committee chuck grassley to find out if christine blais ford is going to testify before the judiciary committee. and she is pushing back from her legal team asking for a neutral position and requesting a investigation by the fbi into the conduct of judge kavanaugh when they were in high school. and joining me is correspondent kasie hunt and correspondent kristen welker, and also, the editor from the washington post. and kasie hunt, what is the state of play up there, and then to kristen, judge kavanaugh is back at the white house today and more on that in a moment. kasie? andrea, and you have showed some of this in the opening of
it is speaking to the just how high the stakes are, andrea. thanks to you, and i know that you have to go back to reporting, and kasie hunt, one final question, and there is a whole issue as to the whether the rules committee could be brought in, and they could in fact order a private investigation into this, but judge, not judge, but chairman grassley does not seem to be inclined to do anything except to say that we will send the senate staff to interview, and so far, the attorneys are saying that is not good enough. that is right, andrea. and in fact, there was a lengthy piece of that letter that grassley sent yesterday trying to explain or claim that the way that it was handled when anita hill was going through the process that they are doing the it the same way and they claim that the fbi investigation only happened when they were anonymous and once it was public, the committee handled it, and obviously viewed different differently by the democrats who view and argue correctly
in time frame and not actually that dissimilar in the context of where it came in the overallel nominating process in 1991 as is happening right now. but i will say, andrea, the one thing that we are all watching that i know that my sources on both sides of the aisle, republican and democrat and it is clear from the murder boarding at the white house, that it is on the minds there as well is that during a period like this, are there additional accusations or accounts that come up in the course of something like this, and i know that both sides on capitol hill are preparing to fight out the battle under noif those scenarios from kavanaugh withdrawal all of the way up to the republicans forcing this vote next week. so clearly everyone kind of on waiting with bated breath on this, andrea. and all of the reporting as you are going up and down the hallways, thank you so much very much, kasie hunt. and back to you, ruth marcus.