who republicans go i m not sure, then friday disappears, too. second, remember, this whole thing is very weird. she was apparently hiding at her parents beach house in delaware, which democratic staffers knew that. the whole thing has been a manipulated, deliberate process designed, frankly, to drive it past the mid-term elections and to keep kavanaugh off of the current court which starts today. so i m very doubtful that we re seeing anything like fair play or that anybody should relax and believe that anything has been agreed to at the present time. i don t know if they ll let her talk or not because the f.b.i. if you look at the report by the woman prosecutor from phoenix who came and interviewed her, she is pretty devastating in saying you know, she couldn t corroborate this, this or this. i just tweeted out the entire letter she sent the republicans
responsibility is to tell the truth. kavanaugh, who we quoted earlier, will of course go on to give his opening statement. he denies her and the other accusers. adding to our panel coverage, i have howard fineman and jennifer rubin. jennifer, your view of the import of what dr. ford will say tomorrow and how that will also exist in an environment where new accusers have come forward. i thought the statement was very skillfully drawn, in part because at one point towards the end she says i hope that you men up there will allow me to engage with you directly, which is quite the slam at sitting behind and hiding behind a woman prosecutor that is brought in. that was a very clever statement. more than that, she is going to come across, i believe, as completely heartfelt, as completely, i think, lacking in any kind of guile, any kind of political motive, and that s going to be very hard, i think,
compromise. it seems interesting the fact that republicans have not liked the work of eric holder so much that they would then keep him in office five months longer than they would have naturally if he had gone ahead to confirm lor raet at a lynch. but there are more than 100 nominations either in committee or waiting for final votes. does this deal mean that other deals will move forward or is it just back to business stalemate as usual? i hope it means something. we also were able to get that medical doctor medicare issue done last week. i think in terms of this nomination, i love the point you made about eric holder chided my colleagues for this complained about him forever. now they have a woman prosecutor, renowned oversees the office with the most terrorism prosecutions and the just jed the u.s. attorney indicted six men for trying to go overseas to help isis. these are ongoing cases going on
chloroform, and the chloroform searches are the strongest pieces of evidence presented by the state. jose baez was trying to raise reasonable doubt. he put on a very strong closing argument on sunday. pretty soon we ll see who the jurors believed. martha: indeed we will. phil thank you so much. you will be with us obviously throughout this next 30 minutes or so when we expect that we will be getting a verdict in this case, and, you know, you think about prosecutor jeff ashton, basically his argument was that nobody tries to cover up an accidental death by making it look like a homicide, by putting a body in two plastic bags and a laundry bag and covering it in duct tapes and putting it in the woods. that was one of the strongest things put forth by prosecutor jeff ashton in the final moments of this case. also the woman prosecutor that phil was talking about she came out at the very end of the whole thing and said, whose life was better after this was done? that was also a very weighty