that allowed me to get out of the event. dr. ford, we re grateful that you came through and that you shared your account with us and the american people. i think you provided important information. i would like to thank you for meeting your civic duty. i wish we could have provided for you a more thorough hearing today. i think asking for the fbi to investigate this matter thoroughly was not asking too much. i think asking to have the other individual involved in your assault, mark judge, appear before us today was not asking too much. i m grateful that you came forward. i m thankful for your courage, which set an important example. thank you, dr. ford. miss mitchell for senator sasse. dr. ford, we were talking about you meeting in july with congresswoman eshoo. did you talk about your allegations with any republican member of congress or congressional staff? i did not. where i live, the congressman is a democrat.
was behind me. did you note any cameras in the room? well, he had a computer set up so i guess i assumed he was somehow taping and recording me. okay. so you assumed you were being video and audio recorded. correct. but you don t know for sure? i don t know for sure. we re going to recess now for a half hour for lunch. thank you, dr. ford. we re going to keep going yeah. ten minutes after lunch. seems to be some confusion. let s hope a happy surprise for dr. ford as this hearing continues. we ve been joined here in our new york studios by andrea mitchell. she joins amy and joyce vance,
didn t know how to do it while there was still a short list of candidates. thank you, doctor. according to justice department data, about two-thirds of sexual assault survivors don t report their assaults. based in your experience, i would be interested in hearing from you about this. because you bore this alone. you bore this alone for a very long time. and it would be helpful for us to better understand the ways it s impacted your whole life well, it s impacted me at different stages of the development of my life. so the immediate impact was probably the worst. so the first four years i think i described earlier a fairly disastrous first two years of undergraduate studies at university of north carolina. where i was finally able to pull myself together and then once
secretary said so. we know that because the president has said his focus will be on this. the president has canceled his meeting that was planned today with rosz enstein. so the president can specifically not take any attention away, not detract from this hearing. earlier this week, we talked about the split screen moment, with the president potentially talking with rosenstein who oversees the special counsel investigation, maybe going to fire him or accept his resignation. that s now been back burnered at least for adays, several days. talking with allies in the white house, there is a sense of i might characterize it as a grimness, that this process is not benefiting the republicans the way that rachel mitchell is being held to these five-minute time limits, the questioning, the tone of the questioning, et cetera. we re getting a little bit of on the record reaction from the president s son donald trump jr.
two former feds who are here with us today bearing witness to this hearing. joyce, i thought i would begin with you. talk about what you ve witnessed so far today. dr. ford was an incredibly credible witness. she had a very honest presentation. one of the issues that people look for when a witness testifies is do they come across as believable? whether it s because of the words they use or the body language. everything here indicates trust worthiness and i suspect the women all across the country feel as though this could be their best friend testifying about something that happened to her. nothing here looked forced. nothing looked made up. every indication was that this was trust worthy testimony. amy was saying she might be the most unpackaged witness in the history of televised hearings. yes, if you remember back to when we were watching brett