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About delays in reporting the incident. he talked about the fact there is a committee process. he did everything but directly answer the question, and the only conclusion that i was able to reach at the end of hearing that happen over and over is this is someone who is fundamentally afraid of having a full investigation. he is perhaps afraid, as cynthia says, of having his high school friend mark judge questioned and cross-examined. he was okay with the submission of a written sworn statement. c...

Defer to outside counsel for questions." is that the advice you would give at this point? >> the challenge is trying to maintain the integrity of the committee process at a time which that integrity and the respect for it has been abandoned by the democrats. and at left-wing groups are scripting out this series of allegations. i think the sentiment expressed by senator flake, on the floor is admirable, the hope is senator grassley with the interviews hes conducting, we will make a determination ...

How is it the democrats are in the dark? >> julie, i dont understand it i mean, i was chief nominations counsel to the committee for several years and the committee has a process in place where there are staff members who work for the ranking member, in this case senator feinstein who as well chairman grassley who work together to vet allegations like this. its highly unusual that senator feinstein did not share that information with chairman grassley, did not start the committee process which w...

Winners and losers. >> dianne feinstein, she knew about fords accusations for six weeks. she didnt ask kavanaugh. didnt take advantage of the committee process to have a confidential investigation in all of this, she really failed. both judge kavanaugh and dr. ford. >> bret: when eric? >> met the hermit who went into rising floodwaters to -- he started a gofundme page to buy her a new car. >> bret: thats good. >> henry winkler. 42 years later, gets the me he deserves for the fonz. 20,000 empty s...

Steve: sounds as if the ford team wanted to subpoena some of the people like mark judge and others and they said we are not going to subpoena anybody else. john cornyn, the senator from the great state of texas said no more witnesses. we had a hearing. thats what i call hijacking the regular committee process to accommodate political interest. there was one other factor, and im sure being down in washington yesterday, you saw the fact that a fellow by the name of ed wheelen one of the clerks for...

Republicans be botching this themselves or do you think because they hold all the cards, because they control the committee process, they can walk away from monday without having christine testify and be just fine and sail right on past this? >> i think it depends on who you ask. yes, theres always a chance that they are going to look really bad in this situation. but as things stand, as david said, this is the process that were dealing with at this po t point. and there is an argument to be mad...

Takes place as democrats and as now ford is demanding. this is what murkowski said. >> i think that an allegation has been made by dr. ford. i think her story deserves to be heard, and the -- the committee process has been made available to her. >> so its a sign that she wants the hearing to take place, not necessarily agree with this effort to reopen the fbi background check. so the question now emerges back to whether or not dr. ford will agree to this process, talk to the judiciary committee ...

The time. we talked about senator lisa murkowski and susan collins the swing votes take a look at what they had to say. >> i think an allegation has been made by dr. ford. i think her story deserves to be heard and the committee process has been made available to her. >> reporter: its all said and done, if you feel these allegations are credible, are they disqualifying? >> i cannot make that determination. i should not make that determination. >> one idea that i have been thinking of is that it ...

Information that has come to light? >> they should vote when they have a more thorough understanding of what happened. ideally it would be thursday but i dont see that happening. i think its important given all that has come to light in the last 48 hours or even more that both sides hear everything from both sides, republicans and democrats on the judiciary committee should hear this from the accuser and the accused. its critical to do that. my question is why didnt feinstein release this inform...

Want to come and tell us her side of the story? what are we going do? move forward on this. i am not ready to shut down any avenue of possibly here. i do think -- donny touched on this earlier, the dynamics of something like this -- i mean this is -- this very well could be enough to prevent him from getting confirmed. as we were discussing earlier, if they do move it past the committee then you are looking at the full senate. frankly if lisa murkowski or lisa collins or corker signal to the of ...