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We want to get to the bottom of everything. we want everybody to be able to speak up and speak out. >> shepard: christine blasey ford claims that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when she was 15 years old and the now supreme court nominee was 17. she says kavanaugh was drunk. pinned her to a bed and held her mouth as she tried to scream and groped her before she was able to escape. she told "the washington post" newspaper that had he not been stumbling drunk as she put it, she feared he would ha...

President joe biden about anita hill and the investigation. and also joining us is robert costa who is a political analyst and host of "washington week" on pbs, and nbc political contributor ben rhodes who is former deputy adviser to president obama, and frank kazluzzi who is a former assistant for counter intelligence at the fbi, and chuck rosenberg is former u.s. attorney and former r senior fbi official. so we have all of the experts here. and fill rucker, to you, because we are waiting for w...

One senator wants to make a 30-second comment -- i am willing to turn to that, but let me say, each of our 21 senators on the committee get to ask questions for 20 minute rounds. every couple of hours we will take a break, and that would include a lunch break. judge, if you need a break at any time, have your staff informed my staff. as a standard practice for every judicial nominee, the fbi conducts a background investigation and provides to the senate a background report. moreover, like with p...

30-second comment, im willing to turn to that. let me say each of other 21 senators on the committee get to ask questions for the 20-minute round every couple of hours, well take a break and that would include a lunch break. and, judge, if you need a break at any time, have your staff inform my staff. and as is the standard practice for every judicial nominee, the fbi conducts a background investigation and provides to the senate a background report. moreover, like with prior nominees, including...

These are not proven facts. but what should the white house be doing if its not true, then i dont think theyre doing him any favors by letting the allegations hang out there, if they are true, then they didnt do him any favors by nominating him without answers to the questions ready. >> that is the tough part here. we dont know exactly what is in the black box again. what is true and in the report and what is the -- in the fbi background report. hes had four stti background checks to be done and...

Anything that the fbi might have been finding out about him in their background report. general mcmaster was said to have been, quote, taken aback by what he learned about jared kushners meeting with foreign officials that he took without notifying national security council that those meetings were happening. mcmaster reportedly had been briefed repeatedly on what foreign officials were saying back home about what their meetings with jared kushner were like. just as an aside here, one of the rat...

As a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. msnbcs nicolle wallace reports today, based on five sources with knowledge of the matter, that h.r. mcmaster will be out soon as trumps second national security adviser. he will be out by next month. now, if this president does think of his family first, the departure of h.r. mcmaster as national security adviser was probably written on the wall as soon as we saw mr. mcmaster named in that bombshell "washington post" story a few days ago abo...

New information about north korea and important new information about a scandal now engulfing the trump white house. remember, rob porter, the staff secretary, forced to resign earlier this week after allegations surfaced from two former ex-wives about domestic spousal abuse. one of the big questions has been who knew what when inside the trump white house. when did an fbi background report get to the white house containing allegations of this abuse? the white house was given a bunch of mixed an...

Response later in more detail. one example of -- and you can answer this and take as long as you need. one example of an insider loan was the media deal. the fbi denied a foia request. have you been questioned by law enforcement on this? yes or no. >> i have not. and i saw that you wrote that letter yesterday. i assume that the fbi did a thorough review of my background report. i have no idea why they didnt prove the foia issue. ive been told we have no reason to believe its any issue associated...

Extraordinarily long period of time to not come back and try to question her further. but without any evidence or any evidence of motive, its hard to see they would have had a case against her. but we know today they would have had a case for a weapons violation and an assault charge, and they didnt even pursue that. >> so the university also didnt do a background check on her. i guess if they had, this incident with her brother wouldnt have shown up, anyway, since she was never charged, right? ...