I am here to tell anybody in the country who listens that this is so hypocritical of my friends on the other side. When it was their president , kavanaugh was right. We are talking about roe v. Wade, it was okay to promise the nation that it would never be overturned. It is okay to pick a democratic staff member of this committee, but it is not okay to pick somebody who has been a lifelong republican. People see through this. You had a chance, and you lost. If you were to pick judges from uruguay to thinking, and you had better win and election. I voted for two of your choices. I got a lot of stuff. I would suggest that you think long and hard if you have a political ambition of voting for this guy, because i thought they were qualified by any reasonable measure given the history of the senate. We have turned the history of the senate upside down. I have found that they were different than i would have picked, but by any reasonable measure, they were qualified. You have been lent on th
Forward with house judiciary chairman, on what the Senate Counterpart should do now. Another democrat saying this is making a mockery of the process now. The former assistant fbi director on whether the fbi should get involved in this process now. And the peril of using women to score political points now. And some stock market was all my investors do not seem remotely concerned by all of this. But first to ellison barber in new jersey, making it not for from where the United States is right now. Chairman grassley says that he is giving doctor ford more time to decide if she wants to testify before the Senate Judiciary committee. He says is the fifth time that they have given her an extension in order to decide if she does want to testify. As she has previously said she does. Grassley treated in part quote doctor ford, if you change your mind, say so. So we can move on. I want to hear testimony. Come to us are we to you. The chairman did not say how long extension is going to be about
When we vote. Neil the battle lines are drawn and a lot of these folks right now inside the Senate Hart Building in washington d. C. Are among those not satisfied with what looked like now the preordained results. That Brett Kavanaugh and perhaps the closest vote in Supreme Court candidate history will get there. The question is whether it is a 5248 vote, a 5149 vote. Were watching very closely. Three key republicans, Susan Collins, jeff flake and Lisa Murkowski and one lone democrat, joe manchin, a democrat of West Virginia at Heidi Heitkamp from north dakota despite trailing double digits in her state indicated she would be a no vote. But the inevitability of this moment has a lot of folks wondering what happened and what happens now. Can decorum be returned to the senate, to the capitol, to the Supreme Court. Welcome. Im neil cavuto. Fox on top of now an order of events that is about to go down. Procedural vote expected tomorrow and a tick tok to an eventual vote sometime saturday t
Of opening this up and it goes on forever. Neil we are told delayed but not denied. Can you imagine being Brett Kavanaugh about now . Welcome, everybody, ill neil cavuto and this is your world. What a fast moving world at that. Indications today that the vote for Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Supreme Court justice of the United States that cleared a Key Committee vote today is going to be delayed up to a week for an fbi investigation into these allegations. Were told now just not in the case that he was getting from one accuser but up to three accusers. We are getting a little more detail from the Senate Judiciary committee saying right now that it has gone ahead and requested the administration instruct the fbi to conduct a supplemental fbi Background Investigation with respect to the nomination of justice Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court. That this investigation would be limited to current credible allegations against the nominee and must be completed
Or the process dragged on. Im neil cavuto. Republicans are not budging on their request that judge kavanaughs accuser, Christine Blasey ford testify by monday. So what does Ronna Mcdaniel think of that . Shes here. Well also be talking to doug jones of alabama and a middle ground he thinks is there. First, to peter doocy with the latest on the kavanaugh controversy and where this is going, peter . Neil, judge kavanaughs accuser, dr. Ford, has until 10 00 a. M. Friday to let Congress Know once and for all the shes going to come and testify. Chuck grassley wrote her another letter saying she can have an open hearing a closed hearing or get questioned by Congressional Staff and doesnt have to happen here. Staffers will go where its convenient for dr. Ford. Something that will not happen, an fbi criminal investigation into her allegations. Grassley writes the job of assessing and investigating a nominees qualifications in order to decide whether to consent to the nomination is hours and ho