Consulted, she should be heard, and so should he. It should be weighed with the considerable body of evidence that this man has about his character, integrity, temperament, exceptional qualifications. Many women in his life, right, left, and center, ideologically, who have testified and said that. Dana john roberts is live on the white house on a busy monday. John . Good afternoon. We will hear from the president shortly. I would be surprised if he says anything about this, because the white house really wants the Senate Judiciary committee and the judge to handle all of this. Judge kavanaugh has been at the white house since about 10 00 this morning. He is often over here. Clearly, the circumstances under which he is having meetings with white house officials today are a lot different than they were before this allegation came out. One of the first things the judge did this morning was to release a statement saying this is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like
And florences rain and winds may have moved on but its left the carolina coast submerged. And pat mccrory joins me to talk about why the recovery will be extremely difficult. We had been telling you Brett Kavanaughs confirmation was a sure thing but news tonight that could make a difference. Doug jones says we should hold off and wait but most critically breaking tonight, republican jeff flake tells politico hes not comfortable voting yes until his Committee Hears more from christine ford. Because its a party line vote, thats going to have a real impact on how this moves ford. That vote is scheduled for thursday. Ford says she is the author of that letter to Dianne Feinstein saying Brett Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault her more than four decades ago. Ford, now 51 years old and a Research Psychologist tells the paper that while his friend watched a drunk teenage kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, groped her and attempted to take her clothes off. Ford alleges when she tried to scre
Something that we have not seen in probably a generation, americans around the country huddled in bars early in the morning and around cell phones as they walked down the streets, sneaking into closets in the office or just watching at their desks, rapt and paying attention to two people before this committee at this profound moment of cultural disruption around power, around men, around women. Today for the first time men and women got to meet dr. Blasey ford. That is the woman who says when she was 15 years old judge Brett Kavanaugh as a High School Student sexually assaulted her in a room with his friend mark judge. She was there before the committee with 11 men from the gop on one side. But she did not face questions from them. They instead had outsourced their questioning to Rachel Mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor from arizona, and a woman, a female assistant in the words of mitch mcconnell. This woman who came forward with her story was someone evidently reluctant, both in the r
She is accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both at a high school party. She must decide if she will testify before the Senate Judiciary committee on monday about her allegation. In a letter from her attorney today, chairman senator grassley of iowa wrote, quote, you have said repeatedly that dr. Ford wants to tell her story. I sincerely hope dr. Ford will accept my invitation to do so either privately or publicly on monday. I must remind you that dr. Fords prepared testimony and biography are due on friday, september 21 if she intends to testify on monday. But ford insisted the fbi investigate her allegation before she testified, a request that grassley has already rejected. He did offer to send Committee Staff to california to speak with ford. Tonight fords attorney released this statement, quote, dr. Ford was reluctantly thrust into the public spotlight only two days ago. Shes currently unable to go home and is receiving ongoing threats to her and her f
Agenda. The only thing moderate about her approach to kavanaugh was her timing. Collins was not the first republican to support him. He was effectively the last and announced her vote after another republican senator, Lisa Murkowski broke ranks to say that after all we have learned in her view, kavanaugh is not the man for the job right now. I did not come to a decision on this until walking into the floor this morning. I believe that Brett Kavanaugh is a good man. I believe he is a good man. It just may be that in my view hes not the right man for the court at this time. Not the right man for the court. Meanwhile here colleague, senator collins offering a 50minute speech defending kavanaugh and arguing to deny him this promotion would be effectively to presume people guilty. This is not a criminal trial. The allegations failed to meet the more likely than not standard. Therefore i do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent judge kavanaugh from serving on the court. Moments a