reporter: michelle was, no doubt about it, dissatisfied. here she was, young, successful, attractive. and it wasn t exactly boredom that was eating at michelle. she was starting a new career as a psychologist, often counseling troubled couples. i think she was newly licensed. that was her first job. reporter: she would laugh that events would propel her that newspaper reporters would be poking around in her past. michelle, to everyone i spoke to, was trying to be somebody. she was trying to become a professional. reporter: michelle at an early age, always seemed confident in getting what she wanted. she was 16 when she started
official was, no doubt about it, dissatisfied. here she was, young, successful, attractive and yet wasn t exactly boredom that was eating at michelle. after all, she was just starting a new career as a psychologist, often counselling troubled couples. i think that was her first real job. of course, michelle would have laughed at the idea that pretty soon now events would propel her to such notoriety that newspaper reporters would be poking around in her past. michelle from everyone i ve spoken to wanted to be somebody and really worked hard to get to where she ultimately got her degree and became a professional. but then michelle even at an early age always seemed confident about getting what she wanted. she was just 16 when she started
democrat, is speaking out to vanity fair about donald trump s long history of making racist comments. she ll join us in a couple minutes. we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends to discuss the state of play four days from election day. jonathan swan, national political reporter for axios and of hbo fame. kimberly atkins, washington bureau chief for the boston herald, white house reporter for the ap, jonathan lemere and rev al sharpt orngs president of the national action network. i know you know president trump so you re never as shocked as i am when he says out loud and in public some things that, you know, that i read that report from the new york times. you now have gop operatives saying two newspaper reporters that when we lose the house, not if, it will be because, in part because of donald trump s closing message. i think that clearly it will be in part. when you look at the fact that some independent voters, suburban voters, that may have
immigration has gone down for mexico and could go down for honduras and quantum all and other countries, if we improve those economies, we only give a little bit of money, let s improve those economies. forget about the wall, give those countries more money, more american aid. will that work? the reason people are coming here is our policy is enticing them to do it. they see on their television screens in guatemala and hearing on the radio and in honduras that if they come to the united states now they might get a work permit, they will stay indefinitely. that is why they are coming, what they are telling newspaper reporters and anyone else who asks, this is opportunism. it will not stop if we give more money. i think we should support these countries if they ask us for help but that will not fall the
so it s all tied together. yeah. and john, that point mimi just made about brett kavanaugh s minimizing of his drinking is crucial to his defense because he can t admit he has any memory lapses because that opens up a theoretical window to does he have a memory lapse about dr. ford? and so we have his friends from yale going to a point of having to get together, write an op-ed piece they say we each asserted that brett lied to the senate by stating under oath he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. they all drank with him in college, they all saw him get to that point and beyond. and given the number of people that have now come forward, the number of people publicly taking to forums like ones you just described and others, television, magazine reporters, newspaper reporters, other people to try to get their stories out is that it does point to one of the calculations