gives his rebuttal in about an hour and a half. this morning, we continue our hearing on the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to serve as associate justice on our supreme court. we will hear from two witnesses, dr. christine blasey ford and judge kavanaugh. thanks, of course, to dr. ford and judge kavanaugh for accepting our committee s invitation to testify and also thank them for their volunteering to testify before we even invite it. both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh have been through a terrible couple weeks. they and their families have received vile threats. what they have endured ought to be considered by all of us as unacceptable and a poor reflection on the state of civility in our democracy. so i want to apologize to you both for the way you ve been treated and i intend hopefully for today s hearing to be safe, comfortable, and dignified for both of our witnesses. i hope my colleagues will join me in that is effort of a show of civility. with that said, i ll
i have the floor and before i make my opening statement, i d like to start off, start out today where we left off on september 13. if you remember then we were ng a lot of motions from can we have quiet from the audience? senator grassley: is there somebody that can signal to me that the chairs are filled and peace and have some quiet. i d like to start out today where we left off on september 13, although this is a new meeting. ut i was anticipating a lot of motions from the minority and we did have some motions for the minority. but if you remember i said that i ll give the minority a chance to make their motions and then i was going to make a motion that we have a time certain to vote. and so i want to make that motion time certain to vote but if there is a motion from the minority i would recognize that motion first. mr. chairman. i d like to make a motion to subpoena mark judge as a witness before our committee. senator grassley: let me i d be happy to speak to
this morning, we continue our hearing on the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to serve as associate justice on our supreme court. we will hear from two witnesses, dr. christine blasey ford and judge kavanaugh. thanks, of course, to dr. ford and judge kavanaugh for accepting our committee s invitation to testify and also thank them for their volunteering to testify before we even invite it. both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh have been through a terrible couple weeks. they and their families have received vile threats. what they have endured ought to be considered by all of us as unacceptable and a poor reflection on the state of civility in our democracy. so i want to apologize to you both for the way you ve been treated and i intend hopefully for today s hearing to be safe, comfortable, and dignified for both of our witnesses. i hope my colleagues will join me in that is effort of a show of civility. with that said, i ll lament this hearing how this hearing has co
white house. we know he is traveling from new york to washington today. he will be watching these hearings closely on air force one. the team on the ground keeping him abreast of all the details. tvs in the white house are already glued to this coverage. we know that the vice president has spoken with brett kavanaugh this morning to give him words of encouragement leading up to this hearing. brett kavanaugh will be watching dr. ford s testimony from the vice president s office on capitol hill as we see the chairman, senator charles grassley, enter the hearing room. we see several democrats as well. quickly, jon karl, the president calling brett kavanaugh a good man now, he is his nominee, but he was not always a popular choice with the president. reporter: by many counts he was somebody that was pushed on him by republican leaders by his own team vetting a supreme court candidate, and i m told, george, that the president was not particularly happy with brett kavanaugh s p
andrea mitchell, chuck todd and megyn kelly. hallie jackson, this is set to begin any moment. reporter: any second and in the rows behind where christine blasey ford will sit at the table flanked by her attorneys, we understand that about two dozen of her friends and supporters are in the room including one of her high school classmates. dr. ford arrived on capitol hill within the last 20 minutes or so. she is in a holding room, brett kavanaugh is expected to be elsewhere on the hill. these two are not going to be interacting at the request of dr. ford, so the logistics today, you ll see the opening statements from senator grassley, and then senator feinstein and then dr. ford and she has prepared remarks already. in those, she will describe struggling with whether to share her story publicly, once her name ended up out there. she had hoped to keep it confidential at first but says it is my civic duty to do this and also says for those accusing her of having some sort of pa