Assault her back in the 1980s while they were in high school before any potential testimony on capitol hill. President trump says that is not going to happen. Well, it would seem that the fbi really doesnt do that. Theyve investigated they would if you ask them to. They have investigated about six times before and it seems they dont do that. I would let the senators take their course. They have given tremendous amounts of time. They already postponed mayjor hearing. The fbi does have the power to investigate these situations. In fact, they i venvestigated aa hill back in 1991. In order to do so, President Trump, all he has to do is ask the fbi to investigate the allegations. That brings us to todays big question. Why wont President Trump ask the fbi to investigate the allegations. Joining me now, nbc news capitol hill kacie hunt, phil rutger. Matt miller is an nbc justice and security analyst. Your titles are all too long. Im going to go on the record and say it officially. I want to s
Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside alex witt a. The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has called the hearing not a good faith investigation. Ford continues to believe that a full nonpartisan investigation of this matter is needed and she is willing to cooperate with the committee. However, the committees stated plan to move forward with a hearing that has only two witnesses is not a fair or good faith investigation. There are multiple witnesses whose names have appeared publicly and should be included in any proceeding. The rush to a hearing is unnecessary and contrary to the committee discovering the truth. A Spokesman Says that chairman Chuck Grassley is willing to send Committee Staff to california to speak with ford. However, grassley has informed lawyers for ford that if he wishes to testify on monday, ford must provide the committee with prepared testimony by 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Senator Susan Collins voiced her hopes that ford would testify. I dont t
present for this assault. he says he doesn t remember anything like that. these are all questions that the fbi could get to the bottom of by interviewing the witnesses. maybe she didn t say anything about it but maybe the boys did. here s a tweet from christina king. i graduated and new both brett kavanaugh and mark judge. christine ford was a year behind me. i remember this. he should stop lying. own up to it and apologize. do you have any idea why this woman is coming forward now and why delete the facebook post after she put this out there? she signed a letter along be with a number of other graduates expressing support for blasey ford. just saying we believe this woman. this consistent with the cult e
this is a social media post surfaced a few hours ago by this woman christina miranda king who is a schoolmate of blasey ford. she says that this she heard about this incident at the time. she has no first hand details to corroborate the allegation and declining all media interviews. she took down the post and nbc news was able to verify it s an accurate post. she s a real person. she doesn t have details. the notion that anyone was talking about this at the time more than 30 years ago would be l hugely relevant. we should clarify that blasey ford told the washington post she didn t share information about this alleged assault in any detail with anyone else. there s a contradiction there. those words in any detail are important. also, she alleges that another person, mark judge, was there,