You have to wonder if they are regretting that decision now. That does it for us tonight. Its going to be a big day tomorrow. Well see you again then. Its time for now last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel am and Michael Avenatti appeared on your program this week where he previewed what happens today. Michael avenatti will be my first guest tonight taking us through what happened today and some of the accusations made against him by President Trump, Lindsey Graham and others. But, rachel, at this time tomorrow night we will be wondering if there is a republican who believes that we need to hear more or there needs to be an fbi investigation now that theyve heard this testimony. And that republican could be jeff flake. If it is jeff flake, then this whole thing stops because jeff flake is on the Judiciary Committee. They need every republican vote on that committee in order to move that confirmation out of the committee. So if they dont have jeff flake on the committee
Ive got these calendars, these beautiful, creepy calendars. Give me a can of water. My god, it is classic saturday night live. Welcome to morning joe on this monday, october 1st. We made it to october. Donny deutsch is with us and we also have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and cohost and executive producer of show times the circus John Heilemann, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments elise jordan. Nbc news chief White House Correspondent hallie jackson, former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor Barbara Mcquaid and former assistant director of the fbis Counterintelligence Division frank figlusi. Mika has this morning off. John heilemann, lets start with you. Theres so much that happened this weekend. We could talk about, of course, the fbi investigation, the debate over how wide that fbi investigation is going to be. Democrats complaining the president saying you do whatever you want to do, of course, kanye wearing a make America Great a
Canada as iran talk about it to nuclear hints with warnings about us sanctions. One of americas top diplomats is here now. Welcome to fox news at night, i am shannon bream. The scope of the fbi probe into Brett Kavanaugh becoming a flash point over the weekend. The president says he has no problem with widening the investigation so here that henry with the latest. A series of unverified, uncorroborated allegations pouring in against Brett Cavanagh as critics of jeff flake predicted when he cut the deal for a 1week delay even though they insisted the agreement would focus the fbi probe on what they called credible and current allegations but denied democrats calling for Julie Swetnick to be called. Michael avenatti walking back initial statements, nbc reporter kate snow who did the interview is admitting the News Organization could not and did not corroborate the allegations before airing the interview. I cannot specifically say was one of the ones who assaulted me but before this happe
Assault is in question tonight. Mitch mcconnell saying moments ago he and other republicans still have not heard from Brett Kavanaughs accuser, Christine Blasey ford or her attorney on whether she will appear before the Senate Judiciary committee on monday. Republicans quick to point out that monday is fords chance to be heard. Were looking forward to hearing what she said to say on monday. Shes going to have an opportunity to be heard monday. We hope she will take advantage of that opportunity and we can move forward with the process. Fb we hope she takes advantage of this opportunity. This opportunity. Susan collins, a key swing vote calling it puzzling that ford has yet to confirm if she will be there on monday, but democrats want more time. Theyre pressing for the fbi to reopen kavanaughs background check before any hearing takes place. We should not be rushing to judgment with a sham hearing on monday. Theres no reason to rush this thing to judgment right now. We all signed on to
Which contacted Deborah Ramirez themselves after they were told by other yale classmates of judge kavanaugh, about an alleged incident at a yale College Party. Investigative reporter ronan farrow with the new yorker contacted and interviewed the alleged victim. He and his fellow reporter, spoke to corroborating witnesses and investigated her account, and then they published this piece this weekend. Then there was the third one, the thishd ord one, not vetted news organizations before it was public. Attorney Michael Avenatti, who has become sort of a Trump White House nemesis because of his representation of stormy daniels, in a scandal that has resulted in the president s personal attorney pleading guilty to multiple felonies, and implicating the president in those crimes, for the third one it wasnt a new organization, it was Michael Avenatti announcing himself, publicly, that he had a new client, and in addition to his client, he has other corroborating witnesses lined up who could su