Kavanaugh will transpire. Other witnesses include trauma experts, and they also want the person who witnessed blasey fords polygraph to testify. The attorney determines how many witnesses to call, in what order to call them and who will question them. These are nonnegotiable. The Committee Standing firm there but seeming to leave a little wiggle room that maybe perhaps there could be other witnesses called. But for now we know that Christine Blasey ford and Brett Kavanaugh are the only two at this point. So blasey fords attorneys earlier today, they issued a statement about the hearing in general and bracey fords agreement to testify. They said this. They said, despite actual threats to her safety and her life, dr. Ford believes it is important for senators to hear directly from her about the Sexual Assault committed against her. So blasey ford will testify, but her attorneys have raised numerous concerns here. They say the committee is refusing to subpoena mark judge to testify. Of co
This. Which mr. Avenatti has publicized that. So we know something about the character of the allegations and time frame. The real mystery is who is his client and who are his clients . He says he has a client who can be described as both a witness and a victim and a number of other clients he would describe as corroborating witnesses. So when he says hes going to come forward not just with specific allegations but with evidence about them, we assume thats going to come from the people who hes representing as witnesses. Now, what the senate is going to do with that, what the exact nature of those claims is going to be, we dont know bhch but it does mean between now and now and thursday morning were expecting a lot more news on this subject, which is exactly what the senate does not want. And he told you the woman hes representing as a victim has herself passed an fbi background check for presumably a federal government job. Right, security clearance. He said shed been cleared for multi
And rosenstein would remain in office for now, but if rosenstein is out, who would then take on rosensteins current job of supervising the Mueller Probe . We have nbcs Pete Williams, our justice correspondent, nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, Washington Post White House Bureau chief, phil rucker. And adam schiff on the house intelligence committee. Thanks to all of you. First of all, Pete Williams, if you can pick it up where i have left off of all of your great reporting today. We know there are different signals coming on what is going to happen to Rod Rosenstein. Exactly, andreandrea, two contradictory stories about whats happening here. There was one and possibly two meetings in may of last year, Rod Rosenstein suggested that people wear a wire when pemeeti with the president to talk about who the new fbi director should be, and perhaps invoking the 25th amendment to declare the president unfit for office. After that story came out, the Justice Department pushed b
Assault her back in the 1980s while they were in high school before any potential testimony on capitol hill. President trump says that is not going to happen. Well, it would seem that the fbi really doesnt do that. Theyve investigated they would if you ask them to. They have investigated about six times before and it seems they dont do that. I would let the senators take their course. They have given tremendous amounts of time. They already postponed mayjor hearing. The fbi does have the power to investigate these situations. In fact, they i venvestigated aa hill back in 1991. In order to do so, President Trump, all he has to do is ask the fbi to investigate the allegations. That brings us to todays big question. Why wont President Trump ask the fbi to investigate the allegations. Joining me now, nbc news capitol hill kacie hunt, phil rutger. Matt miller is an nbc justice and security analyst. Your titles are all too long. Im going to go on the record and say it officially. I want to s
Her lawyers. Christine blasey ford has agreed that on thursday shell walk into the Senate Judiciary committee and tell her version of what happened back in 1982. She said kavanaugh, who was then 17, pinned her against the wall, groped her through her clothes before she got away. Brett kavanaugh will be there to answer those charges. Boris sanchez is outside trump tower in new york. Jessica, ill start with you. We know the time and place of this hearing, but beyond that, there is still plenty that needs to be worked out. Reporter plenty that fords attorneys are pushing for but the committee are not budging on. They really want witnesses here. Right now the committee is only scheduled to hear from blasey ford and kavanaugh. Fords attorneys wanted other witnesses to testify, supposedly other people who were at this party. Chuck grassley and Lindsey Graham have been saying the committee has been talking behind the scenes and they talked to all four people who were at the party, and theyre