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With professor hill? >> absolutely not, senator. >> did you ever brag to professor hill about your sexual prowess? >> no, senator. >> why in gods name would you ever speak to a man like that the rest of your life? >> i was afraid of retaliation. i was afraid of damage to my professional life. >> me now, cnn supreme court analyst, joan misscubic. who has covered the highest court in the land for 25 years. i know there are all kinds of similarities between then and now, but first, highlight the di...

Certainly is interesting. he is standing by him in every way, but taking a careful silence and not going after the accuser as we do in other instances. there is a tone being set from the top here from his top adviser kellyanne conway who said the accuser deserves to be heard without insults. clearly sending a message to others in the presidents orbit. >> she should not be insulted or ignored. she should testify under oath on capitol hill. the senate judiciary committee needs to decide. and judge...

Bipartisan process welco, not b advising the judiciary committee staff through proper channels. oh, but by leaking it to the press. because the chain of custody of this letter runs through the democratic side of the judiciary committee. thats the chain of custody. i cant explain the situation any better than the senior senator from maine put it yesterday evening, when she said, if they believed judge kavanaughs accuser, why didnt they surface this information earlier so he could be questioned ab...

Her or to anyone. because this never happened, i had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday. he said im willing to talk to the senate judiciary committee in any way the committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation from 36 years ago. and defend my integrity. and whats interesting there, right, is so now we have brett kavanaugh saying hes willing to come forward. either in closed or open session, but we also have christine blasey ford, the accu...

Conduct. we need to get to the merits of what has been said here. as to whether judge kavanaugh was involved in this and listen to the accuser and give the accuser the respect of these allegations. these are tough matters and they need to be aired properly. >> let me shift gears for a moment while i have you, senator. paul manafort is the latest trump associate to enter a guilty plea. he agreed to cooperate fully with the special counsel, robert mueller. how significant is that and what does it ...

Both in high school says through her attorney that she is willing to testify before lawmakers. offering more detail on exactly what she said happened that night. >> the reason she felt that he might inadvertently kill her is he had his hand over her mouth, and she was having a difficult time breathing. and he is larger, and he was pressing his weight against her. and so inebriated, he was ignoring the fact she was attempting to scream and having a difficult time breathing. she believes that but ...

Quickly. look, senator mcconnell said 11 months was not long enough for president obama to consider merrick garland and you have the same leader saying he can do this in two months. its ridiculous. we have not had the opportunity to vet this nomination and now this fact is coming forward. lets get a hearing on it and have judge kavanaugh and professor ford under oath before the judiciary committee. >> officials say president trump is upset and annoyed by the latest developments. kellyanne conway...

The date of the letter and wondered why the information had not been released long ago. i asked judge kavanaugh when i had my final hour-long telephone call with him on friday about the letter and the allegations that it contained. he emphatically denied that the allegations were true. he said that he had never acted that way, not only with this unnamed accuser but with any woman. he was absolutely emphatic about that. >> thank you -- >> if this turns into a he said/she said, how do you make the...

Here? >> thank you. >> senator susan collins, republican of maine, and one of the key swing votes in the senate when it comes to the kavanaugh supreme court nomination saying that both the accuser of kavanaugh and kavanaugh need to testify under oath about this incident that the accuser alleges took place around 1982. my panel with me. susan collins seems to have an open mind. wants to know what she says, wants what he says. your reaction? >> susan collins is a champion of womens rights, a defen...

Protecting the accusers identity? >> well, i dont know what she could have done. i think she did everything that she could in terms of being -- you know, her legally, her legally required. she did contact the fbi and she stuck with what the accuser asked her to do. if you read the letter from the victim, she said that, please, please keep this confidential. i think, again, i have to reiterate, this is what a lot of victims of sexual trauma want. they want complete privacy. in the military, it wa...