will win. we own the ground. we re not yielding one grand of sand. do not pay any attention to this. do not listen to nancy pelosi when she goes on stephen colbert and says we have victory here. no, we don t. you have to take trump seriously. if you don t think they don t have something up their sleeve or they re not out there working their tails off, they are. we begin with chris hayes, who has been out on the ground in texas. and mia wylie, a friend of the show here in new york. chris, let s do both. what do you see as the national picture tonight? and i know you ve been traveling, what do you see in your reporting out of texas? the national picture i think that there s some evidence i think particularly in house races that there s been a little bit of late movement towards the democrats. the upshot polling, they ve been polling in swing district after swing district, shows a little improvement there. some seats today put four more
a very serious, very dangerous situation isn t to boil over at our southern border. i m joined tonight by mia wylie, former chair of the new york city civilian complaint board, that oversees the conduct of the nypd and rick stengel, a diplomat for president obama and managing editor of time magazi magazine. it s a difficult conversation to have, and it s not one that anyone i think responsible wants to push past what we know and what is basically causal. and yet we talked about this before at this table and elsewhere. it is possible to note the obvious reality that the president is not the direct cause of these things, and i m not reporting that he is. and yet there is a violent rhetoric and a climate of hate that is a big problem, not only in our politics, which is narrow, but in our society. that s right. and i think one of the issues
which is when the republican conference meets tonight, what is susan collins and lisa murkowski want to do? jeff flake to some degree. how do they want to go down with this question given what we ve learned. mia, join me in watching o 60 seconds of dr. ford before we come back and discuss her with you. i m here today not because i want to be. i m terrified. i m here because i believe it is my civic duty to tell you to what happened to me while brett kavanaugh and i were in high school. i don t have all of the answers and i don t remember as much as i would like to but the details that about that night that bring me here today are the ones i will never forget. they have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult. i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand
judge in the room at same time laughing at her. former democratic congress woman donna edwards. thank you, and thank you for your patience waiting for us to get to you. we re joins at the table additionally by two very good lawyers, mia wylie and ari melber. this would be six minutes away fromma from ari melber so you get to divide the time. ari, first to you, what exactly have we witnessed today. well we ve witnessed amidst the anger and the attacks across the entire process, we haven t been able to see the emergence of what many victims advocates will say is positive and i do want to say that because much has already been said. the notion that the allegation here that dr. ford has offered is disqualifying. i think it was a fairly widely shared premise by the judge defending against it, by many of
those involved with campaign planning and one republican said, several top gop lawmakers have told colleagues that they hope ford declines to show up for the hearing even as they issue statements urging her to do so. helping the gop to avoid a risky televised drama and making it easier for senate leaders to hold a vote next week. joining me now david brock, founder of media matters and mia wylie of the new school. and charlie sykes, treatist sarah rump and jason johnson. thank you very much. i m going to my friends at the disadvantage in the remote location there. and sarah, i will start with you, as a young republican woman, the optics of seeing a panel of all white men questioning this woman s account of a very painful experience for her versus a very diverse panel including kamala harris and cory booker on the other side, do you find that problematic as a young republican woman? i really don t.