Country. Ive been more successful than almost any administration. And from from that world body, he has he receives spontaneous laughter at that claim. Even trump, in an unusual moment had to acknowledge it. But its a snapshot of where the United States is right now. The United States has significantly changed its position in my judgment for the worst. We are not seen as the leader of traditional institutions. Trump was bragging about how hes pulling the United States out of them, out of the International Criminal court, out of the Human Rights Commission. He was siting those as advantages of his policy. The rest of the world for the most part feels very differently and thats what we saw yesterday. Interesting, too, sam, the president was jarred by that moment. Hes used to get ago cheer like at that boy. But there he kind of paused and stopped in his tracks and later said well, it was meant to be a joke. But if you look at the content of the speech, it was not unlike the one he made last year which is putting forth the Steven MillerAmerica First policy. As someone who has had people laugh at him a lot, with it hurts. Its jarring. So i feel bad for trump in that sense. No, i dont. But i think, you know, its funny because you look back at his twitter feet and he literally is talking about how people are laughing at us and now its actually happened. His whole thing is America First. The consequences may be laughter, but it is putting us in a different place in the world. It was about setting up essentially an international patronage system in which people had to show us respect in exchange for us helping them. So, yeah, he got laughed at, but this is what the outcome is of the world view that he holds. Yesterdays performance, you can see view it as one portion of a long, plain tv series, which he has set up in his mind. But if you frame it up in this sense that a year ago he stood up and rocket man from the u. N. Podium and everything like that, inge many of the delegates who arrive here around the globe were shocked, were taken aback at the lack of detore yum and what they viewed as the lack of policy in terms of public speaking. Until yesterday you have the contrast one year later they snicker and laugh at donald trump on the podium. But do you think theyre laughing at trump or are they just sitting there because hes amusing to them now, not so much fearful as he was last year, but theyve come here, once again, looking for a country that they feel is lost and that country is america . Well, for me, he just reordered the world. He called saudi arabia good people. Its almost describing the world in a completely different reality than it is, actually. So he just legitimized some actual dictatorships. He legitimized a lot of people in the east are saying we need to look at new alliances. Now that america is going through this turmoil, we need to look at new alliances. Such shifting back of International Relationship sess dangerous for america. It is reducing americas power and this speemp was a very, very serious one to shift that. But do you think many of the delegates were surprised by that . I think they were surprised, but many are scared. You have King Abdallah of jordan taking it sooer very seriously. You have people taking him seriously and you have people laughing. But it was a scary speech in International Relations. Hes underestimating the meaning of diplomacy and hes underestimating how much work has been done to bring the world together. And hes single handedly destroying that. Stitch by stitch. Yeah. Were bog to show more of the president s speech later on. To our other top story, the Senate Judiciary committee will vote on Brett Kavanaughs nomination to the Supreme Court just hours after he and Christine Blaseyford will testify before the committee. Chairman Chuck Grassley said if the committee is ready, it may hold a vote on kavanaugh on friday at 9 30 a. M. Senate republicans are under pressure to move kavanaugh quickly through the final stages of his nomination to the Supreme Court. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has warned his colleagues that he has planned to hold a vote no matter what happens possibly as soon as next week. Mcconcanel says he is confident going into a vote. Were going to be moving forward. Im confident were going to win, confident this is able to be confirmed in the very near future. Meanwhile, President Trump is speaking out on his Supreme Court nominees second accuser, slamming deborah ramirezs credibility. Also Congressional Democrats of playing a con game with the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. The second accuser has nothing. The second accuser doesnt even know she thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not. She admits that she was drunk. She admits there are time lapses. I think its horrible what the democrats have done. Its a con game theyre playing. Theyre really con artists. Theyre trying to convince you know, they dont believe it themselves, okay . They know hes a high quality person. They dont believe it. Its just resist and obstruct. Theyre playing a con game and they play it very well. Pit cann it cannot be allowed to happen. The democrats know its a con game. They know hes high quality. And they the wink at each other. Theyre winking. They know its a con game. What he said about the accuser is simply disgusting. Willie, i guess we can back up and put that in a box. There are so many selfinflicted wounds on the part of the republicans, the vote on friday calling the i think its a female prosecutor, sex crimes prosecutor who will possibly be doing the questioning tomorrow. An assistant . Some of them are small fails, but my god, come on, get it right. The president stayed on message for several days. The white house, his senior aides, rick tyler got to the president and said you cannot go after the women. Say what you want that Brett Kavanaugh is a good person. But dont go after the women. The Judiciary Committee now has Rachel Mitchell coming in to do some of the questioning of dr. Ford and judge kavanaugh tomorrow. How is the dynamic because of that different today than it was this time yesterday . How is what dynamic difference . The dynamic with Rachel Mitchell, the sex crimes prosecutor being in the room tomorrow . Its hard to know. Look, i think this process has just been really i know republicans have got to move on this vote because theyre running out of time. But the whole process has lost credibility. Were in, really, a post truth political world where it doesnt seem to matter to one side or the other who is telling the truth. Everybody seems to have weighed in. We havent heard from any witnesses. Lets have the vote on friday morning and after this has happened and well see what comes out of the hearing. But its just remarkable to me that everybody has this inclusion on one side or the other based on whether it helps my team, the republicans, or my team, the democrats, without hearing from dr. Ford. Why are we coming to these conclusions first and not later . Because this process is not designed to get to the truth. And a lot of people on both sides have made up their mind before they heard from judge kavanaugh. A new wrinkle overnight details some of what dr. Blaseyford is expected to share when she the testifies. Usa today confirms it has object stained declarations of sworn witnesses. Quoting from the report in her declaration, fords friend said ford told her with about the alleged assault during a june 2013 meal and contacted fords attorneys on september 16th of this year to tell them ford had confided in her five years ago. In that declaration, she writes, during that meal, christine was visibly upset so i asked her what was going on. Christine said she was having a hard time because she was thinking about an assault she experienced when she was much younger. She told me she had been trapped in a room with two drunken guys and that she had escaped, run away and hid. Remember, thats june 2013. More from the usa today report on the sworn declarations of four witnesses for dr. Ford. Keith koegler said he confessed to her when discussing the light sentencing of brock turner. He said christine expressed anger at mr. Turners lenient sentence saying she wasly bothered by it because she was assaulted in high school by a man who is now a federal judge in washington, d. C. Koegler said ford revealed to him that the person who attacked her in high school was President Trumps favorite nominee. Fords email response, Brett Kavanaugh. Another declaration from rebecca white, a neighbor of dr. Ford, also recalling ford sharing her story with her after white wrote a blog post about Sexual Assault. So, mika, this is a new usa today revelation that came in overnight. Theres been a lot of talk that there hasnt been strong corroboration of dr. Fords story. Now you have four different people kwor rating. No. And this is the kind of information thats going to be put on the table. I think its going to be a very difficult day for dr. Ford because shes basically going to have to put her life out there to talk about something terrible that she truly believes happened to her and absolutely may have happened to her. But am i using my words correctly . Because in i think i i feel like in the media especially, we have two camps, some who say it has to be believed and thats where you begin and others who just want to report the story to say to see whats going to happen. What do we do with these allegations . In the age of me too, now what with this . We have become cynical and jaded about such stories and what we really need to exercise is respect and compassion for peoples integrity. Absolutely. I think a lot of people dont understand that when something happens to you as a 16yearold does matter. You continue continue to suffer with it. It trauma advertises you. If you had not been assaulted, think of a car accident that happened to you. This is psychological impact. What we need psychologically i feel like theres so much political discussion, what were missing is psychologists, experts in the field of why this matters to dr. Ford as an individual. Why this is impacting her life. I believe that if something happened to you, at any age, it does impact your life and why it matters for america to potentially have a Supreme Court judge who has his views about women, who has a predatory aggressive views about women. That does matter for the future of our country and our goals and teenagers, no matter who you are. So in order to get the truth, we need to actually create safe space tomorrow for her to tell the truth. This is a trauma advertised person. Can the republicans even help themselves . This is not that difficult. You can have. Respect. Many republicans are Standing Firm in their support of judge kavanaugh and some are publicly rejecting the the Sexual Misconduct allegations against him. What we see we see taking place right now is a pr stunt by the democrats. It is character assassination. This is something that is dirty politics at its worst. Certainly, if its true, it means he did something bad 36 years ago, but does it disqualify him from the Supreme Court . So you think these women are making it up . They had a little help, i have a feeling. Accusations are being made, things that didnt happen and i think its unfortunate. Nobody wants to hear what you think, actually, because at this point, this is an allegation and your answer should be, sir, this is a really important thing that we need to look at. This is a very serious allegation. I dont know why they have to smear her. I dont know why they have to force a vote on friday and make it completely look like they dont care what is going to happen on thursday. And sam stein who calls a female sex crimes prosecutor an assistant at this point, really . I get why you cant talk yourself on the committee because youre incapable of being respectful or treating women of any sense that they might have qualifications to be as high ranking as you. Here is Mitch Mcconnell, an assistant. Really. We have hired a female staff to come in and ask these questions in a professional and respectful way. Whats wrong with them . I think there could be a really good reason, sam stein, politically, to have a woman ask the questions. It could be a great way of saying that. And he just i dont know. What happened there . He cant look at a woman in any other way but a supportive role that is lower. There is obvious discomfort. Why not bring in a psychologist as a witness to further bolster the testimony . Why not bring in a medical expert . In addition to the friends and mark judge, that would create a forum that would be helpful for the confirmation process but informational about the issue of Sexual Assault. In the end, though, what theyre essentially doing is nothing that has happened this had week will encourage future victims of Sexual Assault from ever coming forward if the person theyre accusing is a person of privilege or power. Donald trump is the most powerful man in the world. For him to take a position of attack is jarring. And it will have ramifications for years to comer for people who have been victimized by Sexual Assault and feel that they need to come forward. But look at what happened to her and say i cant do that. The womans name, the assistant, is Rachel Mitchell. But when you hear jim say this didnt happen, definitively, he doesnt believe the story put forward by dr. Ford. This guy is a bad guy, things weve heard about him, he shouldnt be on the Supreme Court, what do you hear when you hear all that, other than two sides who made up their minds before this process even started . I hear sexism being had legitimized in public. This is the definition of sexism. And, at the same time, to dismiss a womans claim is disrespectful of her entire story. It is not easy to talk about such intimate emotional issues. Its not easy to talk to your best friends about it. Its not easy to talk to your therapist or in front of politicians cynical about your own thing. We need to start with the basic concept of respect for women. And that extends to the not holding a vote within 18 hours of her testimony. So be able to fully process whats going to. Happen on thursday, i would imagine people would want to take some time to talk about it. But for them to now schedule a vote at 9 30 a. M. On friday where they will have basically 12 hours or so to process what it says is in itself insulting to dr. Ford. David, like you, ive been sitting here listening to this conversation and like you, my hair is graying. Im wonder background your thoughts on the following premise, that the institution of the presidency and the United States senate, that everyone so revered not that long ago is how long will it take to repair the damage being done to both institutions . You put your finger on what i think so many of us feel watching everything coming out of washington. Washington is in a partisan war, the likes of which ive never seen. Weve had nasty Supreme Court confirmation battles. But never one as sharply polarized as this had. Weve had president s who attack the opposite party. I think one powerful strand of the cav knew story is that real human experience, the experience of dr. Ford, her memories of it, her trauma, her having told her husband, her therapist, her friends about these memories years ago before Brett KavanaughsSupreme Court nomination was ever even imagined, were all thinking about it and dealing with that reality of trauma and im also struck, mike, by the fact that the republicans know they have to be careful. This is a different country in some ways. So i think that says that however nasty this spectacle has been this week, the country has moved some. The claims of the women who were victims in these cases, i think, are are being taken more seriously. The republicans are more afraid of seeming to roll right over them. Yeah. Theres so much going on here. Good thing we have a threehour show. But before we go, marsha blackburn, a woman calling another woman a liar without knowing the truth. I have to tell you, that is going to thats not going to play well with the women in tennessee. It may play well with the president who pays off porn stars and playboy bunnies and brags about grabbing women by the genitals. Its not going to play well with the women of tennessee the. Still lady, well talk to a member of the Judiciary Committee. Senator john kennedy. What does he want answered during tomorrows hearing . Plus, more on the reaction to the president s speech at the u. N. General assembly. Or as morning joe imagined it hey, everybody, look at this. Its that boy who laughs at everyone. Lets laugh at him. David. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. Thats it . Everybody two seconds dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. Through the Tuition Assistance program, every day mcdonalds helps more people go to college. 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