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Everything we can to contact her. that is such [ bleep ], i cant hardly stand it. >> all right, mary bruce with us live tonight, on the hill. and mary, democrats want to call other witnesses on monday, in addition to christine blasey ford and brett kavanaugh, including another student who the accuser says was in the room. >> reporter: yeah, david, they want to call witnesses like mark judge. ford says he was there in the room when this alleged assault incident took place. but judge says he has n...

He chooses to respond, if hes willing to move that monday date. >> the white house view 24 hours ago had been this confirmation was looking more secure, more -- i wouldnt say sure but like it had sort of turned from the shock of the -- of professor fords account over the weekend. this seems to reverse that tide a little bit. >> a little bit, but the white house has been preparing for her to come forward and testify. theyve been spending all week with judge kavanaugh who has been hunkered down wi...

Midterm, midterm elections, and democrats get control of the house or maybe even the senate, thats going to make moving more judges ford, potentially close to impossible and other issues they care about. so theres intersecting politics and issues to think about. >> fast tracking all the -- white males, under the age of 50 -- >> and women voters in suburban districts, theyre in danger of losing a lot of those. and rushing through and trying to slime an accuser is not the way you want to court tho...

Got. >> harris: if other witnesses are people who say they knew something through somewhere else like a proposed classmate of dr. ford or another friend of judge kavanaugh, how do they factor into this? is that important? >> if they have no actual information, there was a story today about a classmate, a young woman who was two years ahead of fort at school who heard talk about this, she had nothing to add except for the fact that there was some talk about an incident. >> harris: my point quickl...

And unequivocally, and david, that he understood that if he did not tell the truth, he could be charged with a felony. >> jon karl live leading us off tonight. jon, thank you. and as you heard jon report there, senator lindsey graham, for one, saying the senate could vote anyway, even if they dont hear from dr. blasey ford on monday. but there is a lot at stake for these senators. many of the senators on the committee are men. many senators who will have to decide on kavanaugh are up for re-el...

>> no, i think the responsible thing to do right now as a journalist is to tell the story with the facts that we have so far. and that doesnt mean being a stenographer and saying we have no idea if the presidents aids had involvement in this. that means being true to the facts, putting them in a narrative and making that narrative clear, telling that story to the american people as et we know it so far. and thats really all we can do. quite frankly, theres a lot we can say so far. the evidence i...

Team, but i was a democratic strategist helping her to navigate the u.s. congress since none of her team really knew what the congress was like, and i feel like were living the same story all over again this time, indeed, professor hill at the time, very much wanted her corroborating witnesses able to testify and they were denied. she needed support from senators, she got very little of the democrats who were chairing at the time, and they thought it was a hearing and the republicans thought it ...

Lets get the facts. and so i think that theres no problem in kbgarnering those facts, were getting a who ingtt of accusation, but very little facts. and its concerning when youre on the threshold of nominating or confirming a supreme court justice whos been before the senate many times, that this has been around for decades and this has never been brought up. weve never seen any other pattern whatsoever from judge kavanaugh. not another accuser, no pattern that would illustrate any type of this ...

Unfairly so hes made no mistake what side hes on here but the question is, how long will republicans and the white house and senate republicans be willing to put this on hold? politics is at play here. they are trying to get this right for the midterm elections. they dont want to be accused of trying to push him through, but the reality here is time is of the essence. but one thing thats been very interesting as weve watched this day by day here, the president has been more disciplined and more ...