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Same senate judiciary committee offered to professor anita hill in similar circumstances 24 years ago. and theres no other word for what the chairman chuck grassly is trying to do to dr. ford. it is the senates version of bullying. senate chairman have bullying powers. and chuck grassly is trying to use his. chuck grassly is desperately trying to create public rationales for what he is doing that sound reasonable. but they only sound reasonable if you know absolutely nothing about senate procedu...

Hatch said there was true. it was true then. its true now, but orin hatch wont say it now. now, when these two old men of the senate, orin hatch and chuck grassly, lie to us now they lie as if they dont know that the video still exists. they lie as if they dont know theres a congressional record of every word theyve ever spoken on the committee floor. they believed an investigation that only lasted a few days was the appropriate thing to do in response to anita hills accusations. and now theyre ...

And hes not treating her with the same accord that i saw him treat whistleblowers over the years i worked in the committee. its surprise to me because i have seen him over the years be very protective of the confidentiality or need for protection of whistleblowers who are risking their careers and privacy to come forward to inform the committee. >> lisa, i want to get your reaction about that and your personal view of both senators grassly and hatch. and i want to throw in parentheses here, i ha...

That being a long-standing precedent, that being the obvious first step and exactly what needs to happen next. regardless chuck grassly is denying dr. blasey ford that, and apparently the administration is denying it as well. and i think that will cause a lot of people to wonder why. why dont they want the fbi to go out and investigate these claims sphdr. blasey ford wants to investigate it. but the second thing that chairman grassly is doing to treat her even worse than anita hill is he is sayi...

Think thats the only way we even have the slightest chance anyway of getting to the baultm of it. >> and voice swrans, today, chuck grassly saying no, no, no the republican committee staffers are the best investigators for this. >> well, he certainly made the right case for it way back when. theres no doubt that the fbi, the professionals conducting background investigations have rule play here, and keeping them from playing that rule has in many ways obstructed the investigation. and keeping th...

Week so that he and the committee members can have it all weekend and of course start leaking it at 10:00 a.m. on friday morning. chuck grassly didnt expect to be here. even when the accusations first became public, he was still sure he was going to be able to hold a vote on this nomination tomorrow. chuck grassly began this week along the rest of the senate republicans believing they were going to have a vote on this nomination tomorrow. they believed they would not have to delay anything, and ...

Procedure, in fact. in fact, democrats either. they do not understand senate judiciary committee procedure, really. and do not understand senate judiciary committee history. and only one of them knows chuck grasslys personal history with this subject. and that is the 87-year-old republican orin hatch who sits beside chuck grassly in the senate judiciary committee now. they are the two republicans on committee who have been here tomorrow. they are the two republicans who personally bullied profes...

Encouraging all of this. susan collins is encouraging all of chuck grasslys bullying here. >> its been very discouraging to see what senators have said and treating her with suspicion as opposed to someone whos actually trying -- coming forward and doing her civic duty to talk about someone whos been nominated not just for a normal judgeship but for a lifetime seat to the supreme court. women are paying attention, and if anyone on that committee thinks that women arent noticing this, they should...

The republican senators who are all lying about the fact that theres no time for an fbi investigation. the news medias job now is to penetrate and expose that lie. that is a lie. and any member of the news media who accepts that lie unchallenged by any republican member of the senate is complicit in that lie. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is on his way to committing a crime against the truth in his committee. and im no longer sure that chuck grassly even knows that. im no longer...

Want you to get outside the bubble of madness youve been captured in the glare of this story since it became public. and theres susan collins encouraging all of this. susan collins is encouraging all of chuck grasslys bullying here. >> its been very discouraging to see what senators have said and treating her with suspicion as opposed to someone whos actually trying -- coming forward and doing her civic duty to talk about someone whos been nominated not just for a normal judgeship but for a life...