christine blasey ford will appear before the senate judiciary committee and under oath accuse a united states supreme court nominee of sexually assaulting her decades ago. brett kavanaugh will also testify to deny her claims. here are the accusations made by professor ford, who is professor of a university in california. she says he physically and sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. he was 17. she was 15. she says that a drunken brett kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her, and held his hand to her mouth to keep her from screaming. brett kavanaugh adamantly denies her allegations and says the incident with ford never happened. president trump is standing by. his nominee, the president labeling the accusations against brett kavanaugh as, quote, a
and one of the things that they are grappling with is, is my son going to be held to a standard of whatever he did, you know, as a teenager. now, nobody is saying that any kind of sexual assault, that any parent should or would condone that or say that that s okay. but that is a very important dynamic that is playing into the politics of this. and the fact that republicans are hoping, hoping that this, what they call, gloria and i just got a call from a republican strategist, weaponizing of the me too movement by democrats could backfire with those women. so this strategist said to us they re boys. if they sexual assault someone, they might not be on the supreme court. too bad. good. they shouldn t be on the supreme court if they sexually assault someone. this idea that women are so out
of control and all these people and all these men are losing their jobs and kids are getting thrown out of school, it is a bunch of nonsense. yes, i know the politics, you know, maybe more complicated than that. but the idea that women in america are on a rampage and poor men, my god, they only control like 90 seats in the united states senate and, you know, 490 of the fortune 500 ceos are men. and the majority of the supreme court. the american people are a lot more fair out in america than most people are in washington. one of the shames of today is that most people are already made up their minds. most republicans will listen to dr. ford but they have already decided to vote yes. democrats will listen, but they will already vote no. that is why, back to the plan i
big, fat con job. but at the same time the president is speaking out in a very, very different way. he s saying he could change his mind about brett kavanaugh. kaitlyn, you are getting new details now on how president trump plans to monitor the historic hearing. fill us in. we know president trump will be watching and we know that he and vice president mike pence have been on the phone with their supreme court nominee. and president trump has had a message for him. to go out there today, to be more aggressive, to be forceful and push back in a way that president trump would. we know he hasn t been pleased so far, telling him he s been too careful and too measured in his responses. of course, the question is will what has worked to president trump to a degree work for brett kavanaugh today, or will it seem like he s attacking the accuser and infur race women voters across the states. president trump left open the possibility that he could
do not take stelara® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. man: are you fed up with crohn s symptoms following you? talk to your doctor today, and learn how janssen can help you explore cost support options. remission can start with stelara®. just moments away now from the historic testimonies of brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford before the senate judiciary committee that could make or break judge brett kavanaugh s nomination to the united states supreme court. people are now starting to arrive for the hearing. let s get right to manu raju on capitol hill. you just caught up with the top republican. what did he tell you? yeah. he sits on the senate judiciary committee. still expressing some optimism that brett kavanaugh could get confirmed, even before this hearing. he told me they re still very