kavanaugh s accuser to respond in 30 minutes. what are you hearing? reporter: well, moments from now we will learn whether we ll be hearing from christine blazey ford this week or whether on monday we ll have a new supreme court justice, because senate judiciary committee republicans have now drawn a red line saying that although they set a deadline at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, extended it to 10:00 p.m. last night, and then finally set a final deadline of today at 2:30 p.m., they re no longer going to be waiting around for ford s legal team. ford s legal team said they wanted legal team to question ford to avoid looking it look too much like a trial. they said they wanted ford to testify second and have the last word. they wanted kavanaugh to go first, and they said the initial proposed hearing on monday was a nonstarter. they wanted that hearing moved to thursday.
representing andrew mccabe. that s the other story. that s the russia investigation. it s interesting to see they ve chosen now to bring in a new lawyer. a little late. might that promote a conflict of interest or questions about that? i don t see a conflict of interest, but what it really shows is that they are recognizing that this hearing is going to go forward. they want his muscle. he s not they want to be fbi wanted the fbi to get involved and grassley said it would not get involved, and here they ve brought on this new big player. avery, how do you see that? i think it s good. we don t know, frankly, what the senate judiciary is going to do. one of the battles is it was a demand by counsel for dr. ford, and that is look, no lawyers representing the senators, let the senators ask the question. i still think and we don t know, i still think the white
and richard hermann. glad you could all be with us. avery, you first. how do you classify this? is this considered a small victory? hearing the stories, or is this still a very tenuous situation as we hear the ford camp still trying to work out details? yeah. i m troubled with it, fredricka. there should be an fbi investigation prior to the testimony. people are not talking about the reality that in the prior hearing with anita hill and clarence thomas, the fbi did an investigation. only took three days. that s it. three days. that s it. and secondly, there s been no discussion about standards. the fact is there are no standards when it comes to these kind of proceedings. and we don t know what the conditions are. we will soon learn what they are. i must say it is premature to
far as we know, an offer? it s very significant, because what chris blazey ford is saying to not just the committee but to the american people is i want to testify. this is my intent. i m going to make this work. we re figuring out the details, but i want to testify, and why that is important is because now for the senate republicans, anything that derails her testifying is going to look like it was arguing over logistical or arbitrary or, frankly, political details in terms of who gets to testify when or who is asking the questions. she s basically standing now on she s taking a clear stand and position, and it makes the other side risk just looking political if this doesn t somehow come together. and tim, this is still a very delicate situation, because we
the opportunity to testify treating her with respect saying she should be heard and continuing to praise the integrity of brett kavanaugh, the supreme court nominee but over the course of the week president trump has gotten closer and closer to going on offense against christine blazey ford. that started thursday evening in las vegas during that interview with fox news where president trump first started questioning why ford didn t go to the authorities 36 years ago when this alleged assault took place. on twitter friday morning he continued to go after ford, continued to question her motives and the timing of why she s coming forward and also slamming senate democrats for sitting on the allegations since july when they first received it. we don t know if president trump is going to continue to approach professor ford with the caution he showed earlier in the week or if he ll remain on the attack as we get closer to what looks like a public hearing. we also want to bring in avery fre