about what he knows. the republicans and kavanaugh are forced to wait and president trump uses unusually measured words when talking about the woman who started it all, dr. christine blasey ford. all of it as the 11th hour words when talking about the woman who started it all, dr. christine blasey ford. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a busy friday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was day 617 of the trump administration, and it appears that in the last 24 hours three women may have changed the course of history. they are dr. christine blasey ford, anna maria arcella and maria gallagher. dr. ford, of course, gave that emotional testimony yesterday, and those last two women s names, they are the women who stopped a u.s. senator in an elevator today. they stopped jeff flake and held that door open because he had just announced he was going to vote yes on judge kavanaugh.
we know the business there but we don t know who is paying and how much they re paying. we don t see the full extent of it. these lawsuits might allow us to do that. courts like to talk about standing. what standing do you have to sue this individual or this company? what standing do 200 members of congress have? what is their stake in the president if he s guilty of this? this was really interesting. so this is the big hurdle, just to get sort of get your foot in the door of the courtroom. does the judge say you have the right to bring a lawsuit. members of congress normally can t just sue the president because they re supposed to be using congress for whatever their political ends are, right. you can t try to convince your fellow legislators to do something, fail and use the courts as a plan b. so it is a high bar for congressmen suing the president to actually be allowed to continue. in this case though what the judge said was basically the emoluments claus of the constitution
cancel anytime and your books are yours to keep forever. audible. the most inspiring minds. the most compelling stories. text listen27 to 500500 to start your free trial today. as we mentioned earlier tonight, a lawsuit alleging trump is violating the constitution by doing just that was given the green light to go ahead. there s the headline. congressional democrats lawsuit alleging trump s private business violating the constitution can proceed. it says that trump has been making money from foreign countries through his business empire throughout his presidency thus far. with us for more, david farn that you will, west reporter who is covering the president s businesses and conflicts of interest. david, this has been your
the judge said, members of congress, you can t act because your vote has been nullified because you haven t been given the chance to make the decision the constitution requires. in this rare case i will allow you to proceed with the lawsuits. in the seconds we have left, remind our viewers of some of the work that earned you pulitzer prize. some of these investigations have been spread out. yes. we have been looking at aspects of president trump s charity, which resulted in this lawsuit filed by the new york attorney general against him, and one thing we ve been looking at in the last couple of years is trying to understand how his businesses are doing and what these lawsuits are trying to get at, who is using the president s businesses to influence the president s administration and how is power making him money and how are other people using his businesses to influence his power. of the washington post , always a pleasure. thank you so much for coming on our broadcast. we appr
president trump is firmly standing behind his supreme court selection even as he authorizes an fbi investigation into brett kavanaugh s past. we ve just learned in the last few minutes that investigation is up and running. it was, as we said, arizona republican senator jeff flake who may have changed the course of history today after huddling with democrats, he was allowed to announce the delay for the investigation. no one saw it coming. politico is reporting it this way, senate republican leaders were rattled by the arizona senator s move, and they say flake s maneuver dropped a political land mine in the lap of majority leader mitch mcconnell i ll say and the white house, which now must keep kavanaugh s nomination on an already narrow path to approval. let s talk about all of the aspects of it with mara gay, a member of the new york times editorial board and we re happy as a newly minted msnbc contributor. and jonathan allen who already works for the home team, he is