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Information that has come to light? >> they should vote when they have a more thorough understanding of what happened. ideally it would be thursday but i dont see that happening. i think its important given all that has come to light in the last 48 hours or even more that both sides hear everything from both sides, republicans and democrats on the judiciary committee should hear this from the accuser and the accused. its critical to do that. my question is why didnt feinstein release this inform...

Jeffr jeffrey toobin and mia. chairman chuck grassley was working last night to try and set up calls with judge kavanaugh as well as the accuser, christine ford, so they could have private phone calls with members of the committee. senator feinstein says the staff calls are not the appropriate way to handle this. procedurally and legally must this happen in public? can it happen behind the scenes like this? >> this is not a legal proceeding, its a political proceeding and its up to the senate to...

With kavanaughs hand over my mouth i feared he may inadvertently kill me. her attorney insists it was an assault. >> he was ignoring the fact she was attempting to scream and having a difficult time breathing. she believes but for his ineastbound ration and his inability to take her clothes off he would have raped her. >> reporter: both ford and kavanaugh are willing to testify. kavanaugh maintains hes innocent, saying in a statement, this is a completely false allegation. i have never done anyt...

And a man of the highest character. unassailable integrity, and these allegations are flatly inconsistent with the man i have known for over a decade. >> abigail, should this come to public testimony by both of them, by the accuser and the accused in front of the senate judiciary committee, you would think as we saw with anita hill, character witnesses as well. you would hope on both sides, all of those witnesses would be heard, as was not the case in 1991, but you know, you hear from those wome...

Past has sought to push back on allegations like this when they have been lobbed against other people close to this white house, like his former staff secretary rob porter and others. the president, we know, is privately annoyed by all of this. he believes his nominee is being railroaded by what he characterized as old allegations. but what were seeing publicly is the white house saying lets hear both sides. lets have brett kavanaugh testify and lets have his accuser testify. listen to kellyanne...

Bit and she was really clear with "the washington post", she said, now i feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and temporary about retaliation. so now she is ready to come forward, and thats a change from the early weeks there. >> and theyre both apparently ready to testify in open session before the senate judiciary committee under oath, and if one of them is lying thats perjury. >> thats where we are, and theyre eager to do it. >> all right. lets see what happens. thank y...

Have come out that the accuser is offering. and also, because of the person who was in the room him. this guy, mark judge -- >> who hasnt denied it. says, he doesnt recall. and went on to writing a book about alcoholism and talks about the keg clubs and the yearbook -- >> yea, thats right. all of those things make it more plausible to me that the incident happened, which tells me that kavanaughs potentially lying. and that to me is disqualifying in and of itself. >> or if he just doesnt remember...

>> right, but, brooke, the only thing that mattered was that last sentence he said, which is, i trust senator grassley to hear from mrs. ford and judge kavanaugh, because thats the only thing -- everything else before that is spin. now, you could argue hes right, hes wrong, it doesnt really matter. what matters is you now have the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and the senate majority leader essentially saying, yes, were going to hear from these two people. now, when is that going to...

And conservatives defend the indefensible on the character front. you cant have it both ways. so which is it? so i think what theyre -- again, this is -- i kind of chuckle to myself, actually, when kellyanne conway came out about that. the self-righteous, oh, she should be heard. really? well, then we apply the same standard to this administration, a lot of people, including the president of the united states, wouldnt hold up. they wouldnt stand the scrutiny. so they need to have it both ways. o...

The alleged victim as they come forward. this is a very difficult thing that she is doing, and i applaud her for her courage. >> kavanaugh will also have this chance to respond publicly to this allegation, but senator hatch already said that kavanaugh denies being at the party to begin with and says his accuser might have mistaken him for someone else. what is your reaction to that? >> well, i have heard, you know, many, many predators say and refute allegations against them. i think what we nee...