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response to your reporting. he said, quote, the new york times story is factually incorrect. i will not respond on a story that s biased against the department and advancing their own personal agenda but let me be clear about this. based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. i want to give you a chance to respond to that. i also want to point out when he says there is no basis, he s talking the present tense. he s not saying, i never thought there was a basis. yeah. that was my read. i mean i m not going to parse rod s statement. i think, myself and other news outlets have all now, including cnn, have recorded the basic facts that are now in dispute. the two basic facts are rod raised the idea of wearing a wire and in a second basic fact, in a memo andrew mccabe road that special counsel has rod raced the idea of the 25th release of the transcripts of the witnesses in the russian investigation. the republicans refused. ....
ford s lawyers have asked for one more day to make that decision. and there s no conceivable reason why they can t give her that one more day, but these are people who are fighting over wednesday instead of thursday next week, as if that makes any difference. and again what they re using to bolster their argument is we don t want to delay anymore, we want it to be wednesday and not thursday. and we want to go. we want to do this. and if you say no, we will vote on this lifetime appointment to the supreme court without ever hearing this allegation, without hearing from the accuser or any witnesses or anybody who might be able to cooperate or deny this story. that doesn t seem like a very strong place from which to push from the senate republican side, but that s where we are. yeah, and they try to use normal juris prudential norms like the accuser goes first and then the person who s defending himself goes second, which is norm in jurisprudence. but every other norm ....
subjected to hate mail and death threats. our mod effort request is that she be given an additional day to make her decision, and i am so glad that debra katz has used the word bully to describe exactly what chuck grassley and all the republicans in the senate are trying to do, every republican senator has joined and supported chuck grassley in the bullying tactics that chuck grassley has been using well dr. ford. the first deadline that he gave to christine blasey to agree to his terms, to the judiciary was 10:00 a.m. this morning. nawaz her deadline, then he moved it to 5:00 p.m. today, then he moved it to 10:00 p.m. each time senator grassley did that, he did it in the media first. he announced it to the media before he announced it to communicated directly with dr. ford s lawyers. senator grassley reached some compromises but refused some of dr. ford s request. they agreed that brett kavanaugh would not be in the room. but did not agree to her request that kavanau ....