he is suggesting if she is going to appear and he is going to appear, by tomorrow morning or sometime tomorrow, the committee wants to see their statements. is that realistic? we don t know. we haven t heard the person holding the cards to that question and so many others right now is christine ford. she is the who can decide those answers. my understanding and my impression is that they understand what chuck grassley s deadline is and working to figure out how to answer it in some way, shape, or form. it s a big open question right now. let s gain this out and say there is testimony on monday or maybe another day. then what? she comes out and gives her story and he gives his story. then it is going to be because there is a lack of basic objective investigations going on behind the scenes, the pressure is going to be even
the truth. you add that to concerns today that she may not necessarily be in a position to show up on monday. notwithstanding the difficult, indeed heart-wrenching decisions that go into that, which i don t think anyone can second-guess from the outside on a personal level that does leave the committee and the senate with a big open question. if there is not testimony under oath from both sides. what should happen then? look, they schedule this hearing before they knew she was available, right? so clearly that s proof that they re trying to push this through. but at planned parenthood, we see survivors of sexual assault every day in our clinics and our health centers. and it s no surprise to us that 80% of sexual assault goes unreported. because it is such a difficult, traumatic experience to have to relive and to have to relive on a public stage. so first i want to say i admire dr. ford s bravery tremendously. i think if she is not ready to come forward on monday, the only
bring in cohen after the onslaught we saw when he was facing the most dramatic moments of his legal crisis. so it is not a surprise that cohen and mueller are now in communication. the big open question that isn t answered is, is mueller doing this to check the box, or did mueller find out somehow in the last several weeks that, oh, shucks, i forgot to talk to michael cohen. we didnon t know. and we ve all reported that he said that he would take a bull let for the president and w he is talking to mueller s team. the article says that cohen closely watched the white house s reaction to his as allocation in court and he has bristled at the feeling that he has taken the fall for a man who refused to take any responsibility or face any consequence himself. so kevin, break he down how we got to this point. is it because he is not as rich as manafort? his family is number one, his
talk about the big stuff. how do we get together on controlling the spread of nuclear arms? how do we take some steps to ensure we don t dive headlong into an arms race. so this was a very traditional approach for the russians. now, whether we live in an era where the u.s. and russia can talk about these things and reach some solutions i think is a big open question. brian, thank you very much. really appreciate it. up next, the governor of virginia has declared a state of emergency in charlottesville ahead of the one-year anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally there. one year later, a member of the ku klux klan has a change of heart. his story, next. you re watching msnbc. gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea
witness. if the defense doesn t take him down it s very hard to see how they win. and then the only hope for the defense at that point would likely be the testimony of paul manafort. once a defendant takes the stand, if he does and that s a big open question at this point, it ultimately comes down to whether the jury believes him or no not. you were talking about reports of how the judge was handling things and what that says to you about how and where this trial is moving. judge ellis is a clearly experienced trial judge. he s working to move things along at a fast pace and jurors are happy. they want to get back to their regular lives and get this done in an efficient way. that s very good for prosecutors. the white collar trials, i used