this done before the midterm in case there s a major melt down including in the senate. jeff flake is stepping down. he has very little to lose. and he s been saying a great deal about the trump administration. on the other hand he s a conservative. voted with the trump administration for about 93% of the time. it s very difficult to know exactly which way he ll go. the supreme court is a powerful agency and has judges there for life. if there s such a large majority in conservativism. it had effect any administration after trump. brett kavanaugh is 53. just put that on the record there. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. north korea is blaming the u.s. for the lack of progress on the nuclear talks. ever since the june meeting between president trump and kim
very hard i think for any democrat to switch over. although i caution we don t know yet how things had unfold on monday. we don t. of course as you point out that confirmation vote for kavanaugh had been set for thursday. it has been delayed. and now instead this public hearing monday. where we will hear testimony from both brett kavanaugh and his accuser. professor ford. how will that be enough and enough time to make a fair judgment on who is telling the truth? that s an excellent question. i should tell you that senator feinstein who is the senior democrat on the committee has raised exactly those concerns. and said there won t be enough time. that there should be an investigation by the fbi. there should be more questioning. beyond just the two witnesses. senate judiciary chairman has scheduled only two witnesses.
south carolina flooding may get even more dangerous as rivers are rising to record levels. the death toll is now up to 32, including one person in virginia who was killed when florence caused several tornadoes. donald trump is ordering the declassification of documents and text messages in the russia investigation. they include parts of a warrant application to surveil former campaign aide carter page. republicans have been asking for the documents for months, but a top democrat calls the release an abuse of power. a woman who says president trump s supreme court pick assaulted her more than 30 years ago will get a public hearing. christine blaise ford will appear before a senate committee on monday. judge wrbrett kavanaugh who dens the allegations will also testify. joining me now from london to talk more about this is freddy gray, deputy editor of the spectator.
supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her three decades ago will get a chance to tell her story to the american public. they will testify before a senate committee on monday. ford says back in high school, kavanaugh held her down and tried to take off her clothes. kavanaugh denies the allegation. the conservative judge spent the day at the white house on monday working on a strategy to save his nomination. cnn jeff zeleny reports. reporter: president trump standing firmly behind brett kavanaugh. he s an out standing intellect and judge. respected by anybody. never a little blemish on his record. i want him to go in the at the highest level. and i think to do that you have to go through this. if it takes a delay. it will take a delay. it shouldn t certainly be very
assaulted her 30 years ago will get a public hearing. ford will appear before a senate committee on monday. judge kavanaugh who denies the allegations will also testify. the drama surrounding the nomination is drawing comparison it a controversy that gripped the country more than 25 years ago. anita hill testified under oath that she suffered sexual harassment by then nominee and now supreme court justice clarence thomas. reporter: two federal judges conservative nominees for the supreme court. two women, witnesses from the mens past accusing them of sexual misconduct. what else is similar. plenty. this conversations were very vivid. in 1991, law professor anita hill said her boss clarence thomas sexually harassed her in