friendship and trust. and that deal was undone by citizenship. citizenship lived to its fullest today by the people who took their demands to the halls of the senate and made their voices heard and moved the unmovable mountain that is the united states senate. they forced the president of the united states to do something he was never going to do, order a new fbi investigation of brett kavanaugh. the deal on the kavanaugh nomination was done, all done this morning when jeff flake became the final republican on the judiciary committee to publicly announce his decision to vote to confirm brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. senator flake's office announced that decision in a press release at 9:25 a.m. that announcemen d ended all hope that the brett kavanaugh nomination could be stopped or even slowed down. that announcement came as a blow to flake's closest friend on the judiciary committee who learned it from a news reporter. saying that reporters broke the news to senator chris coons about jeff flake's vote in the hallway as senator coons walked into the hearing. coons said, oh, f, then choked up. we each make choices for our own reason, i'm struggling, sorry. he was choked up. so delaware senator chris coons entered the hearing room choked up and struggling and sorry that his friends decision made the confirmation decision a done deal. but chris coons did not know and the reporters in the hearing room did not know that five minutes after jeff flake announced his decision, he left his office and he got onto a senator's-only elevator, headed to the hearing room and after a cnn reporter squeezed in a question about this vote on the elevator, two women who had just learned of jeff flake's decision to vote for brett kavanaugh kept that elevator open and they made sure that their voices were heard. >> on monday i stood in front of your office and i told the story of my sexual assault. i told it because i recognized -- >> need to go to the hearing. >> -- she's telling the truth. what you're doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit in the supreme court. this is not tolerable. you have children in your family. think about them. i have two children. i cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the supreme court who has been accused of violating a young girl. what are you doing, sir? >> nobody believes me. i didn't tell anyone, and you're telling all women that they don't matter, that they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happened to them, you're going to ignore them. that's what happened to me, and that's what you're telling all women in america, that they don't matter whereby they should just keep it to themselves, because if they had told the truth, they're going to help that man to power anyway. that's what you're telling all these women, that's what you're telling me right now. look at me when you're talking to me. you're telling me what happened to me doesn't matter and you're going to let people who do these things into power. that's what you're telling me when you vote for him. don't look away from me. look at me and tell me it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you'll let people like that go into the highest court of the land and tell everyone what they can do to their bodies. >> the first voice you heard there is ana marie, she said tonight that she believed jeff flake wanted those elevator doors to close and wanted to get away from them. and i am sure he did as every senator would want those elevator doors to close so that the scepter could escape. but she also said she could see that they were getting through to jeff flake, that jeff flake was moved. and not every senator would be moved by what you just saw. the second voice you heard is maria gallagher. he's 23 years old. she never discuss her sexual assault before yelling directly to jeff flake this morning. her mother learned about it watching maria gallagher say that on live tv. that encounter at the elevator was as hard as it looked for everyone involved, for jeff flake, for the two women on jeff flake's staff on that elevator with him. and most especially for the two women who were pleading with the united states senator to change his mind. they knew that he had already decided to vote for brett kavanaugh, but they did not give up. and in that moment they became the two most important lobbyists in washington today. maria gallagher and ana maria archilla put their bodies in front of the moving train that was the kavanaugh nomination this morning, and the miracle happened. the train stopped. jeff flake took his seat in the hearing room and we now know that he did something that senators in the middle of a partisan battle almost never do. you could work for years and years in the united states senate and never see this happen, but we saw jeff flake do it this morning. he listened. you never know when a senator is really listening because they're almost always pretending to listen. we didn't know jeff flake was really listening in that elevator, but the women looking into his eyes knew. and we didn't know jeff flake was listening in that hearing room, but we do now. and thanks to the experienced camera operators who knew jeff flake was the key vote, one camera stayed isolated on jeff flake when he was not speaking, and they never do that with the cameras, but they did today. when we watched this play out on live television, that was not the camera you saw. we were watching the normal shot of the camera on the person who was speaking. but we have the video now of jeff flake listening when senator chris coons was speaking, and so we can now watch something that we know was real. we can watch senator jeff flake listening. and now we know that jeff flake listening was the most important thing that happened in that room today. when senator chris coons made his final plea to the committee, he actually felt that it was hopeless when he was saying it. but in the senate you never know when someone's really listening. the professionals in the senate always keep an eye or both eyes on the reaction of the undecided senators or an undecided senator, if there is one, a wavering senator. so let's now watch what happened in the committee this morning, the way the professionals do. this is not the way you've ever watched this before. let's watch today's history in the senate being made in jeff flake's mind as he listens and thinks about and is moved by what his friend, chris coons, is actually saying. >> i know since the day that my democratic colleagues and i learned of these allegations we've had one consistent request, to allow the fbi to investigate them, in a nonpartisan, professional, even handed manner and deliver their findings to us so that we could reach a conclusion. to my colleagues across the aisle, you know me. you know i try to be fair to nominees that come before us, and i respect this process and humanity of those, even with those whom i passionately disagree. if i were convinced this was nothing more than a partisan hit job to take down a good man past the election i would not stand for it. an investigation would be helpful because dr. ford's recollection shared with us so powerfully yesterday of her assault were searing but incomplete. dr. ford testified credibly about painful memories she's carried with her to this day. the feeling of her hand clasped over her hand and her not being able to breathe, the sound of laughter while she was pinned on a bed, the weight of a body on top of hers groping her and the feeling of relief fleeing the house. dr. ford testified with 100% certainty that the person who assaulted her was brett kavanaugh whom she knew through plu multiple akwacquaintances. i have conveyed to my colleagues i wish we had taken a one week pause, one week only, not to spread this out past the election, not to pursue some partisan goal but to allow a professional fbi interview with everyone who may have relevant information. i think to ask for a week is not to ask for too much. when professor anita hill came forward the white house corresponded and in four days -- in four days a hearing was put together with 22 witnesses. i think that's what dr. ford deserves. i think that's what her bravery deserves, and i think that's what our nation deserves. dr. ford, when she came forward yesterday, had nothing to gain and a lot to lose. she came forward to testify about her experience of assault, and i'm going to use her words. she said i'm here today not because i want to be, i am terrified. i'm here because i believe it is my civic duty. it is my hope that my colleagues, those who have not yet decided to declare their decision will allow the request for the fbi to do its important work and this committee to allow itself the time to get to the bottom of the remaining allegations. given the vote this morning i know that is highly unlikely. >> no one in that room knew what jeff flake had just been through on that elevator, and chris coons is not the most dynamic speaker in the united states senate. it's easy for most senators to ignore him. but that's not what happened today. moments after chris coons finished speaking senator flake was offered his turn to speak. and he declined to say a word right there, that moment. that was very surprising. he declined to say a word. everyone expected to hear jeff flake announce his reasoning for his vote in favor of confirmation, but instead he passed his speaking opportunity onto the next republican senator and then got up and walked across the room in what appeared to be an oddly timed maybe trip to the rest room, just that's what they do usually when they're walking across the room. that's usually what's happening. but that walk across the room today became the most dramatic physical movement in the senate since jeff flake's former arizona colleague, john mccain, walked onto the senate floor and voted against his party's attempt to repeal the affordable care act. there was nothing dramatic about jeff flake's movement across it room until he signaled chris coons that it was time to talk. and then they went into the that conference room that adjoins the hearing room. it's a large conference room big enough for more than one private conversation. every republican on the committee was instantly worried when they saw jeff flake disappear with chris coons. for 15 minutes we watched while chuck grassly and orrin hatch and lindsey graham looked increasingly grim after sounding overwhelmingly confident just minutes ago. 15 minutes went by after -- after chuck grassly said they were going to vote, and there was no vote. jeff flake needed someone to talk to on the democratic side of the committee this morning, and luckily chris coons is very, very good at the senate's oldest and sometimes most important skill -- bipartisan friendship. chris coons and jeff flake have spent time together on senate trips that allows them to see other as human beings and builds trust. that's what they needed in that room today, trust. that's what senate promises are based on. chuck grassly scheduled to vote at 1:30 p.m. today. and nas soon as we got to 1:30 p.m. today it was clear the vote was in trouble. chuck grassly did not know what jeff flake was going to do. when a strong tough senator wants something in a committee and has the deciding vote in that committee, that senator usually with holds his or her vote until he or she gets exactly what they want. but that's not jeff flake. and so jeff flake decided to do this his way. >> i have been speaking with a number of people on the other side, had conversations ongoing for a while with regard to making sure that we do do diligence here, and i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue to do an investigation, limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there. and limit in time to no more than one week. and i will vote to advance the bill to the floor with that understanding. >> and so tonight the train has stopped and the fbi is investigating brett kavanaugh again. after jeff flake and the rest of the republicans on the committee voted to send brett kavanaugh's nomination to the senate floor, jeff flake created a mini republican stampede for an fbi investigation. senator susan collins and lisa murkowski quickly tweeted they too wanted an fbi investigation. and then mitch mcconnell knew the deal was completely undone. and not long after that the president who has the unique power to do so, ordered the fbi investigation. when chris coons left the hearing room today, he got a bit emotional talking about what his friend, jeff flake, did today. >> he and i do not share a lot of political views, but we share a deep concern -- sorry -- senator flake and i share a deep concern for the health of this institution and what it means to the rest of the world and to our country if we were unable to conduct ourselves respectfully and in a way that hears each other. >> they heard each other. a republican senator heard what a democratic senator was asking for and the republican senator decided that the democratic senator was right. and so in a place that d disappoints everyone much more than it pleases someone, the united states senate in that place, we saw something that we rarely see. we saw a victory for decency today. it might be a small victory, it might be a temporary victory, but the professionals in the united states senate take their victories when and where they can get them. they take any size victory they can, and when it happens they say thank you. jeff flake is a true conservative. so he is going to disappointment liberals again, but not today. jeff flake didn't do everything that kavanaugh opponents wanted today. he didn't vote against the nomination in the committee, but he did something, something 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[laughter] (vo) go national. go like a pro. see what i did there? let's listen to what senator lindsey graham speaking this morning, when everyone thought that the confirmation of brett kavanaugh was a done deal in the senate judiciary committee today, what he said when everybody thought it was going to be voted on in the committee today and final passage on the senate floor would happen on monday or tuesday. >> every woman who actually knows brett kavanaugh has come forward to say he is not that kind of guy. he has been at the highest level of public service under tremendous scrutiny, six fbi investigations, and we missed the sophomore junior gang rapist. we didn't miss it. it's a bunch of garbage. >> there's lindsey graham talking about every woman who actually knows brett kavanaugh has come forward to say he's not that kind of guy. he forgot about the woman who came before him yesterday in that hearing room and said that brett kavanaugh and his friend tried to rape her, the two of them together. a bunch of garbage, says lindsey graham. dr. christine blasey ford said that brett kavanaugh and his friend mark judge tried to rape her. it was an attempted rape according to dr. ford by two guys against a 15-year-old girl. there are other gang rape accusations against brett kavanaugh that were made this week by someone else primarily of him witnessing two or more boys taking advantage of a girl at a party. but lindsey graham lumped all of that together today as garbage. joining us now msnbc contributor and president of voter latino, and our senate staffers lisa grave, the former chief counsel for nominations on the senate judiciary committee, and adam johnson, former deputy chief of staff to senator harry reed. and lisa, i want to get reaction to what you saw take place in your former committee today. >> well, i had two observations. one was to see the brave words of the women at the elevator and to see the compelling dialogue of senator coons affect senator flake was just so moving. and for a long time i've embraced a philosophy that changing -- having a revolution in someone's heart can change their destiny, can change our country. and i think we witnessed the power of dialogue and the power of changing someone's heart today. and the second thing is i have been holding out hope that senator flake would do the right thing. i worked with him some when i was lobbying the side on the aclu, and he took brave action then. he was punish bide his party for doing so, and i believe in my heart that he still had the ability in his heart the ability to take courageous action. i think he's wrong on the standard of proof for brett kavanaugh, but today he took the right action and i applaud that with every fiber of my being. >> the turn clearly began on that elevator. that was five minutes after jeff flake made the announcement how he's voting and as the senate staffers know, the announcement how you're going to vote in a highly contentious atmosphere is actually supposed to relieve pressure, actually supposed to make people stop trying to push you one way or another, but it did relieve the pressure on jeff flake. >> it had the opposite. and those two women in the elevator, that's what democracy looks like. it's this notion as americans, as citizens we continue to fight and hold our electeds accountable. the fact they not only heard dr. ford yesterday, but these two very brave women coming out and saying, i too, have to be reckoned with right now because what you're doing is wrong, and she said it so visibly and the fact the media was there to capture it, he knew he had no other option but to reflect. so i applaud them because they basically came forward and they were allies and supporters and they were survivors with dr. ford, and they represented millions of american women across the country. so while flake did the right thing, it was because of the pressure of the protest and recognizing that these were individuals that voted. so when folks basically say, you know, that each individual does not matter, collectively we can make a difference. and i think that's what republicans are afraid of come november. >> adam, senate staff veterans like lisa and mow and me, are never quite as cynical as people might think we are, because we all know about the power of one, and we all know at any moment a senator might stand up and stop the moving train, and every once in a decade or so we something like that happen. >> yeah, and it's been an amazing week, because it was exactly one week ago that mitch mcconnell went to a conservative gathering in kentucky and declared that brett kavanaugh was going to be confirmed in the near future, declaring that he had the votes. and so it's been a week of diagnosing that as a bluff, and, you know, trying to talk to people have having a lot of conversations where people would say it seems like it's locked in, it seems like it's done, and it never felt right. it always seemed there was much more uncertainty there than mcconnell was letting on. his comments were to deflate the energy and activism like the two young women, but democracy had its way today. >> and lisa, we have reporting tonight that at a certain point the senators in the back room there, which included john cornyn and at one point senator tillis, because those situations only involve those people who think they can influence a senator, which it was interesting to watch senator grassly give up and orrin hatch and lindsey graham give up and have nothing to do with it. but in that negotiation there was a certain point in which they decided to call director wray to ask him how much they could accomplish in a week, and they couldn't get director wray and got fbi director rosenstein who told them an investigation could be helpful. >> i think that was an remarkable development. and what you saw there was a tremendous effort to try to have some justice in this case. after dr. ford's compelling testimony yesterday, to see the mood change after lindsey graham's extremely partisan attack, after the extraordinary partisanship of kavanaugh himself, and his disrespect, to see the mood shift as if this was just a done deal, they were going to install this man on the court despite the testimony, the evidence against him of attempting to rape dr. ford, to see that and hear what was happening in that room, in the anteroom was so profound, to see the devotion to actually having what he'we've been calling for, which was a supplemental fbi investigation was an amazing turn of events. we'll see what happens next. >> i want to go back to lindsey graham's attitude because he exemplified the rest of the republicans before they knew there was a problem, before they knew jeff flake was wavering. linda graham made for him compared to yesterday a calm statement. but it was filled with lindsey graham bitterness, and he threatened the democrats on the committee about how he would treat them when he eventually becomes careman becomes chairman of that committee. that's something i've never seen anyone do on the senate committee. but he talked about dr. ford, and let's listen to what he says when he actually uses her name and speaks about her. >> all i can say about ms. ford, i feel sorry for her, and i do believe something happened to her, and i don't know when and where, but i don't believe it was brett kavanaugh. >> and he's lying when he says that's all i can say about dr. ford, because in the very same discussion when he's not using her name very deliberately, he calls all of the accusations against brett kavanaugh garbage. and he's also saying that, you know, i feel sorry for her, but he's saying i believe she perjured herself in this committee when she said she was 100% certain that it was brett kavanaugh. >> i think the challenges that lindsey graham faces right now is that all of americans were watching, across generations and everybody saw her testimony, and everybody's heart and literally stomach went into a knot. and he's not betting on that backlash. and i've had to opportunity to speak with republicans, with independents, with democrats and everybody felt her pain and sincerity. and for him not to have that basic respect is really going to tarnish the republican brand more than it is. but the fact he opened up in such a partisan way, we have to remind ourselves the purpose of serving on the highest court is that you are working onto that seat making sure you have equal opportunity for every single american. and what he was able to demonstrate is he was not fit because he was not going to provide people with actual due process to make sure we're doing right by the laws that govern our nation. >> adam, all of the republicans other than jeff flake was echoing this lindsey graham line, which was i believe dr. ford was definitely assaulted, period. and then the next line, i believe she's a complete outright liar and perjure about brett kavanaugh. but they don't quite say it that way. >> yeah, those two things are contradictory. either you believe her or you don't. but republicans spent all day yesterday trying to have it both ways. and not just graham's words but his tone. yesterday republicans thought they had day one by yelling. they thought basically a full of old white guys yelled each other in a frenzy are and they thought they'd won the day. and today it was a quiet conversation between two friends that caused democracy to succeed and for us to have at least a semblance of a fair process here where we might get some justice. >> and can and just jump in? i think the biggest difference right here is when lindsey graham is trying to basically allude to the fact dr. ford may be purging herself. in fact she was the one who said i took a polygraph, i welcome an fbi investigation. and the person seeking the highest court said he did neither and he did not want either of those things to happen. >> thank you for starting our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. and when we come back, what can fbi investigators actually do now in the week that they have for this new investigation of sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh? and later we will talk to two women who were in college with brett kavanaugh at yale who say brett kavanaugh lied under oath yesterday in his testimony about his drinking history. this is important forkingy people with asthma. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with severe eosinophilic asthma. don't use fasenra™ for sudden breathing problems or other problems caused by eosinophils. fasenra™ may cause headache, sore throat, and allergic reactions. get help right 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also sure "the new yorker" piece with numerous allegations. but they all have to decide, the fbi what that is, you know, how far that goes. this is limited in time and scope. and i think that it's appropriate. when it's a lifetime appointment and allegations this serious, then we ought to let people know we're serious about it. >> a lawyer for brett kavanaugh's high school friend, mark judge, who dr. ford says joined in the alleged sexual assaults said today if the fbi or any law enforcement agency requests mr. judge's cooperation he'll answer any and all questions posed to him. mr. p.j. smith alleged of being at the party when this happened, said his client is happy to cooperate with the investigation. "the washington post" reports if investigators uncover evidence that kavanaugh lied to lawmakers during hearings or on his background check forms, that could spark a criminal investigation in which law enforcement could use the full extent of its legal powers. joining our discussion now, mimi roca, a former assistant district attorney in new york and a former hs nmsnbc analyst. >> i think there were four categories right off the back the fbi is probably going to focus on with respect to the ford allegation. the first is mark judge. a probing interview needs to be conducted of mark judge. i think kavanaugh said during hearing fbi agents don't draw conclusions, yes. but they interview people every single day and do draw conclusions ability their credibility and whether people are telling the truth. and there are many ways to do that with mark judge, to figure out exactly what he means when he says he doesn't remember, does that mean it didn't happen or he can't remember? he needs to pea asked probing questions about his and kavanaugh's drinking habits. he needs to be asked about the book and whether those are references to kavanaugh in his book. and those other people who might not have been participants or witnesses to the actual act but present that evening. and i the kavanaugh calendar, and that may have been the night in question, it may not. but it certainly sounds like a similar type of gathering. and then i would put in the category of sort of the prior consistent statements for corroborating witnesses who dr. ford spoke to. and those are so important because, remember, the people that she claims to have told this about previously, this was before judge kavanaugh was ever even on the short list for the supreme court. and so it goes to her motive. if she really did tell them about this by name or in general description, back then it really would show that she's not lying now because she has no motive, she isn't trying to take him down from the supreme court. this isn't a political motive as some have said. and then the last category i would say would be just generally talking to kavanaugh's friends from high school, from college about his drinking habits. the drinking is central. and i know to some it may sound petty, but it's central for two reasons. one is it goes to whether there's an explanation for why he doesn't remember this event. did he drink to excess and blackout? he never answered that question and he got belligerent and dodged it. and the second reason it's important is because he's made so many statements about the fact he didn't drink to excess. and both in interviews and even in the hearing, as much as he tried to dodge it. and so if we show that is just patently false, if that's what comes out of these interviews, then we're going to see, you know, possible, i think, referral for perjury. >> and anyone who thinks that drinking too much or questions about drinking too much in a senate confirmation don't matter, it's one of the reasons why republican senator john tower when he was on his way to conif confirmation as defense secretary was defeated, was the problems to his answers to drinking questions and how much of a problem with drinking he had. mimi roca, thank you for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. there's never been as much testimony about beer in a confirmation hearing as there was yesterday. but even that apparently was enough to describe how brett kavanaugh really drank in his high school and college years. two college friends of brett kavanaugh's will join us. two college friends of brett kavanaugh's will join us ♪ not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that. the diner staffed up 'cause they all needed lunch. teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. the full value oft wyour new car? 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>> passed out would be, no, but i've gone to sleep. but i've never blacked out. >> you've said you've never had gaps in memories, losses, whatsoever, never foggy recollection about what happened, that is correct, sir? yes or no? >> that's what i said. >> so you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much you didn't remember what happened the night before and yes or no. >> some of those who knew brett kavanaugh during his yale years are coming forward to say that's not true. the cut reports that kavanaugh and his crowd, whom winter characterizes as loud, obnoxious, frat boy-like drunks were the hardest drinkers. it wasn't incidental. it wasn't oh, this weekend someone puked in the bathroom. people were constantly puking in the bathroom, constantly. kavanaugh's other roommate was james roach earlier this week publicly released support with debra ramirez, alleging kavanaugh exposed himself to her while he was drunk at a yale party and thrust himself so close to her face she had to push him away and touch him in a way that horrified her. kavanaugh was quote, a notably heavy drinker even by the standards of the time, and he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. liz swisher, a friend of kavanaugh's from yale told "the post" brett was a sloppy drunk, and i know because i'd watch him drink with a lot of people. it's not credible for him to say he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess. another friend from yale, lin brooks recalls seeing kavanaugh drunk at a party for his fraternity. after watching kavanaugh's interview on fox news on monday she told "the post," he's trying to paint himself as some kind of choir boy, you can't lie your way on the supreme court. and with that statement out, he's gone too far. both roommates of debra ramirez, they'll join us after this break. a ramirez, they'll join us after this break. able, then here's some signs. ♪ quit cable it came from the toaster. ♪ quit cable uh... ♪ quit cable now you can quit cable. switch to directv for $35 per month. rated #1 in customer satisfaction over cable. more for you quitting cable thing. that's our thing. call 1.800.directv. ♪ girls are not in school because of economic issues and they have to work. at the malala fund, we help girls stay in school. the malala fund invests in education champions who work in the community and pave the way so that girls can actually go to school. to have our financial partner guiding us is very important. the fact that citi is in countries where girls are vulnerable ensures that we're able to get funds to the people that we're working with. when girls go to school, we're going to maximize their talents. we could have a solution for climate change in that girl. that girl could be the next nobel peace prize winner. ♪ in college and roommates with deborah ramirez, who has accused brett kavanaugh of sexual aggressiveness, i guess we could call it. liz swisher, your reaction to what you heard brett kavanaugh say under oath about his drinking? >> i was appalled. he was clearly lying, and it was incredibly disturbing to see somebody perjuring themselves who is in line to be a supreme court justice. >> lynne brookes, your reaction to what you heard? >> i agree. the reason that i decided to speak out was when he gave the "fox news" interview, and as i said in "the washington post", tried to paint himself as a choir boy where all he did was study and play sports and every once in a while he would have a beer. that's simply not consistent with the brett kavanaugh that i knew in college. >> i mean, liz, he could have testified that, yeah, you know, i drank, i got drunk a lot. i don't do anything like that now. that was my, you know, teenage years and my college years, and then gone back to his, i think, good talking point that, look, i the all of my homework, i got all of my work done, so how bad could it be. but he seemed to try to do everything he could to minimize the drinking. >> right. that's what was surprising to me, is that i drank too much in college, i think a lot of kids drink too much in college. but if you are able to get, you know, get your work done and you move on with your life and you don't drink as much, we all drink a fair amount and we made some stupid choices. that would have been totally fine, if he had said that i wouldn't be here today. >> and, lynne, let's talk about deborah ramirez. you both were roommates and friendly with deborah ramirez and her story of brett kavanaugh being really incoherently drunk and dropping his pants and aggressively thrusting himself in her face and she had to push him away and touch him in a way that disgusted her. what was your reaction to that story? >> well, i did not witness any of that kind of behavior. i didn't witness that specific incident, nor did i witness brett doing that at any of the parties that i was at with him. i do believe deb bie ramirez's account. she is not someone that would come forward and lie, but that's not behavior i witnessed from brett kavanaugh. >> liz, what was your reaction to debbie ramirez's story. >> yeah, well, that was very upsetting because i do believe debbie. she is very honest. she was an innocent person, but i was not able to corroborate that because, again, i wasn't there. but men rarely do those types of things when other girls are around. >> and, lynne, the ramirez, debbie ramirez's accusation is something that presumably the fbi will take a look at this week. do you suppose they'll be able to find anyone who might be a witness to that? >> well, she does recall people in the room and there were certainly people that were referenced in "the new yorker" article although their names weren't given. i could determine who they were and hopefully they will speak truthfully to the fbi. >> liz, you see a college friend on his way to as big a job as you can get really, and he starts talking about his drinking publicly and he understates it. why wasn't that something you could just let slide? >> because that was blurring the difference between truth and falsehood, and for somebody who is a federal judge and in line potentially to be in the highest court in our country, there can be no blurring of truth and falsehood. there can be no alternative facts. we need somebody who stands by truth and justice. >> and, lynne, certainly there are dozens of other yale people who certainly saw the same thing you did at the same parties. they're not coming forward. what made you decide that you couldn't just sit back when you heard brett kavanaugh say these things? >> well, i tend to agree with liz, that it is really important for people that feel that there's a need for truth in today's dialogue to come forward and speak out. our judicial system is based on the foundation of truth, and if you can't believe a federal judge or a supreme court justice in what they say, then where really is our swjudicial system. that's why i got angry when i saw how brett characterized himself in the "fox news" interview because it is not consistent. it is not truthful, and there is not a separate reality of alternative facts. people need to speak truth to power. >> and the fbi is going to be investigating now, and because his testimony about how much he drank is now relevant, the fbi might and probably will want to talk to you. liz, are you prepared to talk to the fbi knowing that any -- anything that you say that's not true the fbi could be considered a federal crime? >> of course. i will speak truth. >> and lynne? >> absolutely. 100%. i'm very confident in what i've been saying publicly. >> lynne brookes, liz swisher, thank you both very much for joining us the night. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. tonight's last word is next. . ♪ dad: oh, hey guys! mom (on speakerphone): hi! son (on speakerphone): dad, i two goals today! vo: getting to a comfortable retirement doesn't have to be an uncomfortable thought. see how lincoln can help. this is not a screensaver.game. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ start with 100% cleancheese? ingredients. like vermont white cheddar. then... add bacon, bbq chicken, or baja blend. catering and delivery now available. panera. food as it should be. how can you spot ambition? is it written on our faces? or something woven into the dna of the doers, the determined, the driven? and while the bar keeps getting higher, ambition gives us the power to tackle any obstacle. opening the doors to bigger leaps, larger goals and financial freedom. sofi. we stand for ambition. time for tonight's last word. >> oh, lindsey, lindsey was serious about what he was seeing and he had this message for his fellow lawmakers. >> to my republican colleagues, if you can ignore everything in this record, look at an allegation that's 35 years old, that's uncertain in time, place, date and no corroboration, if that's enough for you, god help us all as republicans because this happens to us, it never happens to them, but let me tell you, my democratic friends, if this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees. >> yeah, democrats. if you're not careful, if you're not careful pretty soon there will be no accused section offenders in government. do you really want that? 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