if the committee changed course and was willing to talk to you about the circumstances and was willing to invite testimony from your client along those same lines, along those same logistical lines, would your would your client testify? you know, i d let her make that decision, but i wouldn t advise her to. it s a very unfair process. i was a former prosecutor, and, you know, a case that is 35 years old, the only way you re going get out what actually happened besides talking to the two people who are involved is talking to the corroborating witnesses for both sides. this is going to be a process where judge kavanaugh and either dr. ford or debbie ramirez are taking questions. you re never going to find out what really happened, or you re certainly not going to find out any corroboration. it makes it a lot easier to just ignore these women if they re going to yes the actual women and judge kavanaugh. mr. clune, i know you said you want and your client wants to speak to the fbi an
representing one client who i can describe as a witness and victim as well as additional corroborating witnesses to what she is going to allege publicly within the next 48 hours. so, that was attorney michael avenatti last night on this show. here, look, it s like it s last night s show, see? now, get back, get back. okay. that was him last night on the show setting out his expectations for when his client who he has not named, but he says has some allegation to make about supreme court nominee brett kavanagh. that was him setting expectations last night as to when we will learn who new client is and what she alleges
maricopa county s bureau office in phoenix. she is posted as the leading candidate to question both kavanaugh and ford at thursday s highly anticipated hearing in the senate judiciary committee. we don t know much more about rachel mitchell, but she is according to the post a registered republican and she has worked for the maricopa county attorney s office for a very long time, for 26 years. joining us now is one of the washington post reporters who just broke this story, rosalind helderman. ms. helderman, congratulations on this scoop. thanks for joining us on short notice. thanks for having me. so you and your colleagues describe her as the leading candidate, the top republican choice. has she actually been chosen? has she been hired to do this job? it is our understanding what she is the she is the choice, she is the one they want. obviously, this has been a fluid process and there have been negotiations under way with dr. ford s team for days now on this issue of who w
yet more breaking news since i said something to the contrary moment ago in the last segment. it s been a little thorn in the side of judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley that when he brings in brett kavanaugh s original accuser, dr. christine blasey ford, who says that brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her when he was a 17-year-old, it has been sort of sticking in the craw of senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley that the republican majority that dr. ford will face in that committee hearing room on thursday looks like this, all dudes, not a single woman. there is not now and there has never been a republican woman on the judiciary committee in the senate. well, now so as to avoid having to question dr. ford themselves, the 11 male republicans on the senate judiciary committee have
decided to hire a woman lawyer to handle the questioning for them. that s sort of strange in itself, but one of the extra strange things about this story is up until right this second, up until moments ago, who they ve actually picked to do that questioning for them has been a secret. they have not said who that female lawyer is. they announced today that they had hired someone but said that they wouldn t announce who she was for her safety. well, now the washington post has reported that an arizona prosecutor has emerged as the senate republicans top choice for this unusual gig. quoting from the washington post just moments ago, arizona prosecutor rachel mitchell has emerged as senate republicans choice to question brett kavanaugh and the woman who has accused the supreme court nominee of sexually assaulting her. the post is citing two people familiar with the decision. rachel mitchell is the sex crimes bureau chief for the