That christine blasey ford had. it might be this court battle and whether or not he can with stand that pressure remains to be seen. what do you think happens here? with kavanaugh he s standing firm and standing his ground. a big difference between the kavanaugh situation and justin fairfax is that fairfax doesn t have this broad backing from the party the way kavanaugh did from republicans. so i think there s a lot more pressure and if it comes from within the party then it gets harder and harder for him to stan firm and say i m not going anywhere. hang on for just a moment. another story i want to talk to you about but first a new development in the battle between amazon ceo and publication closely associated with president trump. sources say federal prosecutors are reviewing claims by the owner of amazon jeff bezos who alleges the parent company of national enquirer tried to extort him. jay gray tells us more.
Content of his comments, how would you sum it all up? it was a gargantuan 81-minute event. it was sort of the kind of news conferences he gave frequently during that campaign, or more frequently. it was rambling. it was wide-ranging. it felt very free flowing. he i think in terms of the hearing the most salient point to me was that he said that his thoughts on this were influenced by his personal experience. he feels that he was falsely accused several times of sexual harassment, of sexual misconduct. and so when he looks at what s happening to judge kavanaugh he s thinking about what happened to him. but as bob pointed out, he also really left open the door to putting somebody else in if he s not happy with what he sees tomorrow night, which is not what republicans on the hill really wanted to hear. and there is a real question of timing. the reason republicans, part of the reason they ve wanted to really push this nomination through is because there s a real question of whether t
Content of his comments, how would you sum it all up? it was a gargantuan 81-minute event. it was sort of the kind of news conferences he gave frequently during that campaign, or more frequently. it was rambling. it was wide-ranging. it felt very free flowing. he i think in terms of the hearing the most salient point to me was that he said that his thoughts on this were influenced by his personal experience. he feels that he was falsely accused several times of sexual harassment, of sexual misconduct. and so when he looks at what s happening to judge kavanaugh he s thinking about what happened to him. but as bob pointed out, he also really left open the door to putting somebody else in if he s not happy with what he sees tomorrow night, which is not what republicans on the hill really wanted to hear. and there is a real question of timing. the reason republicans, part of the reason they ve wanted to really push this nomination through is because there s a real question of whether t
Pressing girls against him without their consent, grinding against girls, and attempting to remove or shift girls clothing. southwestn n swetnick also alleges she witnessed kavanaugh and his friend mark judge cause girls to be inebriated or disoriented so they could be gang raped. today kavanaugh responded to swetnick s accusations through the white house calling them ridiculous and from the twilight zone. his attorney beth wilkinson added this. he doesn t know her. he doesn t he s never met her. and we ve had people already calling our office and e-mailing us saying they don t know her, they ve never seen her at the parties they attended with him. but when you think of the allegations, they are alleging that for years there were gang rapes going on with multiple men-w multiple women being victims. that is such a frightening allegation. no one ever went to the police? no one s gone to the police to this day to report those
Swetnick also alleges she witnessed kavanaugh and his childhood friend mark judge cause girls to become ineffective briiated or disoriented so that they could be gang raped. today kavanaugh responded to swetnick s accusations through the white house calling them ridiculous and from the twilight zone. his attorney beth wilkinson added this. he doesn t know her. he doesn t he s never met her. and we ve had people already calling our office and e-mailing us saying they don t know her, they ve never seen her at the parties they attended with him. but when you think of the allegations, they are alleging that for years there were gang rapes going on with multiple men with multiple women being victims. that is such a frightening allegation. no one ever went to the police? no one s gone to the police to this day to report those allegations? it s truly outrageous. tonight michael avenatti says the fbi should begin looking into his client s allegations.