quickly. they re making a mockery of this process and they should be asha ashamed. this is exactly the kind of thing that voters in my state at least say that is wrong with washington and that needs to change, it looks to be just an ambush, sitting on this when they had the chance to bring it up in the hearings, had the chance it s not as if judge kavanagh didn t sit for questioning, he sat for hour upon hour upon hour over days and witnesses were called in. people i think frustrated and now to have the democrats moving the goal posts again. again, my question is, yes the democrats knew about the letter in july, she said she was respecting professor ford s request for confidentiality. but here s where we are now, and can republican candidates sell the idea that this is making a
allegations against judge kavanaugh is no. if and while it is still unclear whether there will even be a hearing on monday, judge kavanaugh is making preparations to be there. sources tell fox news that judge kavanaugh went through a so-called murder board here at the white house yesterday. a prep session where he was peppered with questions about the alleged incident. sources say he did well in the session, that he was solid, there was no wavering. if leaving the white house for the storm ravaged carolinas, president trump for the first time indicated for the moment at least he believes brett kavanaugh over the judge s accuser christine blasey ford. if she shows up and makes a credible showing, that will be very interesting. will have to make a decision. but i can only say this, he is such an outstanding man, very hard for me to imagine that anything happened. president trump could ask for the fbi to develop more information about the
special counsel robert mueller. the president asked if he is worried what manafort might tell mueller. i m not. if he is honest, and he is, i think he s going to tell as long as he tells the truth it s 100%. but i don t want to talk about it now. and amid charges of abuse of power and jeopardizing secret sources, president trump defended his decision to declassify documents in the russia investigation and text messages of fbi and justice department officials. the president telling the hill i hope to be able to put this up as one of my crowning achievements that i was able to expose something that is truly a cancer in our country. president trump is still being sensitive to christine blasey ford s accusations. he is taking aim at democrats in a very sharp way for how they are handling it tweeting this morning the supreme court is one of the main reasons i got elected president. i hope republican voters and others are watching and studying
investigation, it s not fair for the committee to move forward without that, but the blanket statement, there s no way she shows up on monday. jonathan turley, a well-regarded law professor across the board. he says this. ford s demand is to put it simply out of line. there s no precedent for a quid pro quo demand for testimony by a witness. individuals can certainly refuse to testify, get conditioning testimony is well beyond the provenance of any witness. fort has every right to expect to be heard on the very serious allegations. she does not have the right to set conditions before testifying under oath. as karen said, she hasn t definitively said she s not going to show up, so she s making that for the opening into a bargain. he really could have an investigation. the clarence thomas anita hill division was three days. you could do this. i think republicans are looking at this as an opportunity to have another supreme court
have it done. shannon: this is what anita hill had to say about what she thinks needs to happen here. my advice is to push the pause button on this hearing, get the information together, bring in the experts, and put together a hearing that is fair, that is impartial, that is not biased by politics and bring this information to the american public. shannon: the calls are for the fbi to get involved with this. they are saying that s not what we do, we prepare the file, we give it to the white house. both the democrats and the republicans have their own staff of investigators. both could be involved in this process. grassley has said we will send our people to dr. ford wherever she wants to tell the story so she doesn t have to come here. he says the democrats aren t cooperating with that. they have their own investigators. they could do it themselves together or separately. the democrats on the committee