Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
president trump saying, a delay is certainly acceptable. we have time available. we will delay the process until it s finished out. that s right. and i think that that statement by senator graham and also the way that senator grassley set this hearing so quickly is really contempt with us of not only dr. ford, but of the seriousness of this matter. it s certainly it s certainly relevant to whether someone should be entrusted with a lifetime position on the court to examine this. and i think that dr. ford has come forward with a very serious and credible statement of what happened or with corroboration about how she described the story and who victimized her. brett kavanagh. and so i think that this idea they have to rush is completely arbitrary. it s completely made up. and in this instance, dr. ford has everything to lose by telling the truth. she has been subject to death threats. brett kavanagh has everything to gain by lying. and, in fact, we ve already shown in the evidence th
interviewed by fbi agents because lying to fbi agents is in and of itself a crime. i think that s right. there is certainly legal jeopardy there because judge kavanagh has already made a number of statements to the senate about this. he hasn t spoken under oath. if he were to testify under oath, lying to the senate, lying to congress is also a crime. he has to be careful exactly what he says in testimony in either place. but i do think there is a challenge here. and i think that they have a challenge in trying to remember exactly what happened in this instance, in the way that mark judge describes their high school years. it is possible that this is not the only question of legal culpability that they may have. now, people are going to try and dismiss it as youthful high jinx. when we re talking about the supreme court, we re talking about people who are held at a higher standard. barbara mcquade, i want to talk about the credibility level of the testimony we will be hearing from
we are getting more breaking news reports tonight from senators reactions to dr. christine blasey ford s demand of a full fbi investigation of her accusation of sexual assault against brett kavanagh before she testifies to the judiciary committee. we have a truly disappointing, to put it mildly, almost shocking response from senator bob corker. we will get to that in a minute. and remember that a full investigation means questioning all of the witnesses. it always does in every investigation. this time it would include brett kavanagh s friend mark judge, who according to dr. ford s account, was the other stumbling drunk, that was her word, stumbling drunk teenage boy in the room at the time of the sexual assault that she describes. today mark judge s attorney sent
chairman grassley in the 36 hours hours since her name became public she has received support from the public and community across the country. at the same time, however, her worst fears have materialized. she has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats as a result of these kind of threats, her family was forced to relocate out of their home. her e-mail has been hacked. and she has been impersonated online. while dr. ford s life was being turned upside down, you and your staff scheduled a public hearing for her to testify at the same table as judge kavanagh in front of two dozen u.s. senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident. the hearing was scheduled for six short days from today and would include interrogation by senators who appear to have made up their minds that she is mistaken and mixed up. while no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, dr. ford wants to cooperate with the committee and with law e