Right now. I have a great team here to help break all of it down. First, i want to explain exactly where things stand. For the second straight day, all eyes are on room 226 in the Dirksen Senate office building. Thats where the Judiciary Committee will gather at 9 30 and well bring it to you live. Were expecting all senators may want an opportunity to speak but were not sure if thats going to happen before or after kavanaughs confirmation. No matter what the results are, it will still goal to the full senate for a vote perhaps as early as next tuesday. Why does todays vote matter so much . Because even one, one republican defection in committee could cause big trouble in the senate as well, since the republicans can only afford one no vote, assuming all democrats vote in opposition. All of this comes on the heels of thursdays extraordinary and emotional ninehour hearing. At its core, the hearing was meant to shed some light on dr. Christine blasey fords allegation that Brent Kavanaugh
Peels away and its 5050. And who comes in to seal the deal . The happiest man in the world, mike pence, the v. P. , breaks the tie, and he delivers america a conservative Supreme Court justice that locks in a generation of jurisprudence and is the best chance for his bid to be president after trump. Mmhmm. So this comes down to numbers, but only if collins, murkowski, and flake decide to leave. Yeah. Only if. Okay. Thank you. Weve got a lot to get to, chris. So ill let you go. Were going to get to the breaking news. As you know, you saw the senate floor. Can we get a shot of the senate floor . That shot is gone. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has filed cloture on kavanaugh on that nomination, setting up a friday procedural vote and a saturday final vote. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thats the breaking news. Phil mattingly joins us now with the very latest on that. Phil, we all watched. Theyre moving forward with this nomination. Fill us in. Reporter yeah, thats exactl
That she knew what was coming, and even though she is not a political pro, she is not someone with any political experience, she is not at all from the political world, she was cleareyed what would happen in the political world, and she was right to be worried. About what the political world would do with someone like her. She saw it coming. She said out loud from the outset, she said i believed that if i came forward, my single voice would be drowned out by the powerful. As the hearing date got closer, i struggled with a terrible choice. Do i share the facts with the senate and put myself and my family in the public spotlight or do i preserve our privacy and allow the senate to make its decision without knowing the full truth of his past behaviors . I agonized daily with this decision throughout august and september 2018. The sense of duty that originally motivated me to reach out confidentially to the Washington Post and to anna eshoos office when there was still a list of extremely
Ifill and nancy girtner. This was not a search for the truth. How we move forward after a nightmare week were survivors. Indelible in the hipaa campus is the laughter. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Well, in the words of Mitch Mcconnell they plowed right through, ignoring testimony from Christine Blasey ford that even they themselves said was credible and compelling. As well as evidence that Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly lied under oath, senators from the party of trump today moved to give kavanaugh a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. Final vote is expected tomorrow, but the fight appears to be over. One republican, senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska voted no today, a decision she said she made at the last minute after spending yesterday meeting with Sexual Assault survivors. But democrat joe manchin, jeff flake and Susan Collins said they were voting yes. Collins, it was clear from the first 30 seconds, she had been a yes all along. In he
Country. Ive been more successful than almost any administration. And from from that world body, he has he receives spontaneous laughter at that claim. Even trump, in an unusual moment had to acknowledge it. But its a snapshot of where the United States is right now. The United States has significantly changed its position in my judgment for the worst. We are not seen as the leader of traditional institutions. Trump was bragging about how hes pulling the United States out of them, out of the International Criminal court, out of the Human Rights Commission. He was siting those as advantages of his policy. The rest of the world for the most part feels very differently and thats what we saw yesterday. Interesting, too, sam, the president was jarred by that moment. Hes used to get ago cheer like at that boy. But there he kind of paused and stopped in his tracks and later said well, it was meant to be a joke. But if you look at the content of the speech, it was not unlike the one he made la