well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 616 of the trump administration saw perhaps the most dramatic day in a y generation or more on capitol hill in washington.on dr. christine blasey ford spoke publicly for the first time about her allegations of sexual assault at the hands of supreme court nominee judge brett r kavanagh. judge kavanagh. they were the only witnesses at the senate judiciary hearing which lasted nearly nine hours. competing stories with common themes, anger, memory, gender, class, affluence and the influence of alcohol. there is a missing witness, there are missing pieces of the story.ar it was also a clear and rolling demonstration of just how deeply partisan we have become. led by the people we have elected and sent to washington, and this is how we proceed. a vote on kavanagh in the