ordered the fbi to investigate professor hill s accusations and clearance thomas and filed a report which was immediately handed over to the senate judiciary committee. the president ordered the fbi to do that investigation because the chairman of that committee joe biden called the then white house counsel c. borden gray and demanded an fbi investigation and the republican white house counsel immediately agreed, of course, that there should be an fbi investigation. the trump white house counsel don mcgahn is now the man shepherding the kavanaugh nomination through the senate. he is at brett kavanaugh s side every minute of it day, but don mcdp mcgahn is now c. boyden gray. donald trump doesn t know what an fbi investigation is so we
pointed out, they ve concocted some idea that it s unprecedented to seek fbi, a follow-on set of work by the fbi, supplemental investigation to examine this when their own words reveal how false those statements are. and the department of justice is complicit in echoing them, that this is somehow outside the purview of the background investigation. christine and i between us have read hundreds of fbi files. we know this is not how the process works. the american people are being lied to by senator grassly about this process. and i was shocked to hear him say this was some sort of separation of powers issue. the fact is there s never been a time in which a ranking member and chairman have not agreed to request information in circumstances like this where further investigation is obviously necessary. and lord knows that brett kavanaugh has time on his hands. he spent the last three days ensconced at the white house
all you have to do to find it is get out. here. and now for tonight s last word. following an accusation of sexual assault, supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh visited the white house today for the second day in a row. it s the first time an accused
investigation first. and the tapes that you just ran show that senator grassly and senator hatch both talked about that being a long-standing precedent, that being the obvious first step and exactly what needs to happen next. regardless chuck grassly is denying dr. blasey ford that, and apparently the administration is denying it as well. and i think that will cause a lot of people to wonder why. why don t they want the fbi to go out and investigate these claims sphdr. blasey ford wants to investigate it. but the second thing that chairman grassly is doing to treat her even worse than anita hill is he is saying that only two people can testify. only dr. blasey ford and brett kavanaugh. that is worse treatment than anita hill received. there were outside witnesses that she was able to call that corroborated her account. that are not allowing dr. ford to do the same thing, which really shows what are they
obviously necessary. and lord knows that brett kavanaugh has time on his hands. he spent the last three days ensconced at the white house doing murder board basically to try to figure out what he s going to say, what level of umbrage he s going to take, how he s going to answer questions about something he claims not to know about. he could have been interviewed already. but the chairman is seemingly standing in the way of that precedent and lying to the american people about this and presumably to that committee. what s unprecedented is to have this matter not go back to the fbi for further investigation by people who are professionals and know how to do just that. and christine, we re now seeing in effect jeff flake and susan collins gang up on dr. ford saying, well, of course she should show up on monday at 10:00 a.m. as if there s absolutely no other space on the calendar for this. yeah, it s absurd that this would have to happen next monday. what would happen in the normal