it s gone in every judicial nomination that s come to this committee probably going back to the senatoreselen in the 1960s. where there are matters of this importance there s process of referring this back to the fbi to fully investigate, reviewing any witnesses that might be relevant and put it in a file and present it back to the senate. that s what a full and thorough and fair investigation would involve. it wouldn t involve the sort of kangaroo court senator grassly is trying to construct. they outsourced the choosing of it to the federal society. they apparently have outsourced the communications to a grassly staffer who is working with a firm, that s been working with the judicial crisis network to run ads with mysterious special interests backing kavanaugh. now they want to outsource the questioning of this hearing to
that is very significant let s slow this down sentiment from the senator. and i think it s a legitimate one because, you know, we don t have to go through months of investigation. we don t have to go through weeks of investigation. but we are going to go through a lifetime of brett kavanaugh on the supreme court if he s confirmed and we should do the work that s needed to make sure that the right decisions are being made with the necessary information. ruth marcus, lisa graves, thank you both for joining us tonight. and when we come back, will donald trump fire rod rosenstein on thursday? on thursday?
and if anyone has been paying attention over the last six to seven months, they know that i do not traffic in nonsense or rumor. i utilize facts and evidence. and this woman will prove to be credible, and she is believable, and we are hopeful that the committee will launch an fbi investigation forthwith. we have also asked she be permed to take a polygraph examination, which she s agreed to do provided that brett kavanaugh does the same. and we have yet to hear back from the committee on a host of issues that i raised over 10 hours ago. john heilemann, how do you suppose that interview landed in the white house and chuck grassly s office tonight? you know, first with a big, loud thud and then sort of with a kind of like shock to the solar plexus of all those folks. look, i mean i think that you as
answer the single post important question that was addressed directly to his wife, as we ll show you in just a moment. the interview came after a very bad weekend for brett kavanaugh and the republicans trying to make kavanaugh a supreme court justice. chuck grassly repeated embarrassed himself with his senate republican colleagues by issuing tough sounding deadlines to the lawyers of christine blasey ford. and every time dr. ford and her lawyers ignored chuck grassly s deadline chuck grassly then set a new deadline for dr. ford to decide if she would testify to the committee on wednesday, a date and time set by chuck grassly. in the end dr. ford agreed to testify but forced chuck grassly to delay the hearing until thursday, which is one of dr. ford s original demands. while that deadline kept moving, chuck grassly s judiciary committee staff showed once again just how biased and
i m ready to do what no one on my block has done before. forget that. what no one in the world has done before. all i need access, tools, connections. high-speed connections. is the world ready for me? through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than six-million low-income people to low-cost, high-speed internet at home. i m trying to do some homework here. so they re ready for anything. brett kavanaugh and his wife ashley spoke to fox news tonight in an interview, but brett kavanaugh did not let his wife answer the single post important question that was addressed directly to his wife, as we ll show you in just a moment. the interview came after a very bad weekend for brett kavanaugh and the republicans trying to make kavanaugh a supreme court justice. chuck grassly repeated embarrassed himself with his senate republican colleagues by issuing tough sounding deadlines