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Correspondent john roberts has more. John . Good afternoon to you, dana. My colleague Doug Mckelway and i both spoke to the same source in the past hour. A person who has spoken with judge kavanaugh since all of this news broke. This person claiming that kavanaugh does not know who Christine Blasey ford is. That even though women who kavanaugh socialized with knew of her and went to school with her, its because they went to school with her that kavanaugh went to georgetown prep, which which is a...

On this and this was not going to get any better if we didnt vote. Dana indeed, chief Congressional Correspondent Mike Emmanuel, mike, is a sense of relief among republican senators now that they feel sure that they have votes for confirmation. Dana, there seems to be no question about that, quite the roller coaster for weeks, as you heard from the majority leader republicans didnt know they had the votes until major speech from maine Susan Collins. Weve heard a lot of charges and countercharges...

Rape by Supreme Court nominee with an otherwise impeccable reputation lets revisit with the president said about Brett Kavanaughs case. He has talked about it more than once. Reporter if he has. It took a little longer than expected to get the president to the stage but the crowd was fully engaged and ready to hear from the commander in chief, not just here to talk about his Supreme Court nominee but a spate of gop candidates, supporting dean heller in a dog fight for the senate seat, trying to ...

Hurricane florence. It is a storm like no other. Mr. President , we have a long road ahead. Shepard lets get to it. Good wednesday afternoon from the fox news deck. Judge Brett Kavanaughs accuser says she wants the fbi to investigate her Sexual Assault allegations before she talks to lawmakers. Republicans say theres no reason to delay mondays hearing. Some democrats are accusing the gop to try to rush the confirmation process. Dr. Christine blasey fords attorney writes the 51yearold processer w...

President trump is in new york at the u. N. Will he be ready to focus on threats such as north korea, iran and syria, or might he be distracted by all the d. C. Drama . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with high drama in washington. Drama that could have a major impact on the russia investigation. President trump moments ago discussing the fate of Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein after sources say rosenstein submitted his resignation to white house chief of staff john kelly th...

Dont hear that kind of support for yet, but the process is early, you know, ultimately, i know this is a relative scale, i think if the biden white house wanted to be smart about this they would put up someone who tilted towards the more moderate end of the scale and not the more liberal end of it but hes going to get a lot of pressure from his left flank to get somebody as young and liberal as possible so be interesting to see how it plays out but having graham endorsement of one of the candida...

Hours. senators on both sides of the aisle will give their opening statements and then once theyre done, well hear from judge ketanji brown jackson. we know she has been having conversations with lawmakers as you laid out meeting with more than 40 of them, according to the team that has been sherpaing her and the hill here. there are going to be questions about judicial philosophy, something we have heard from multiple senators who have met with her and of course on the republican side, the jack...

Fairfax, who yamiche was talking about. so again, an attempt by the white house in her confirmation team to evaluate this out of the usual partisanship of the hill and instead make this squarely focus on her qualifications and of course, republicans have questions and theyve said this to us on the hill in recent weeks, as theyve been meeting with her, about her judicial philosophy. certainly, that is going to come up, but i think the interesting thing about this nominee is that while she does ha...

Protestors, quote, women for kavanaugh and many others who support this very good man are gathering all over capitol hill in preparation to 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. vote. a beautiful thing to see and they are not paid professional protestors who are handed expensive signs, big day for america end tweet. chief white house correspondent jon roberts to pick it up from there. >> bill, the president will be leaving to topeka, kansas we may get a chance to throw questions on his way from south lawn and has b...

Try to discredit her, saying she was drunk at the time, there were holes in her recollection, basically suggesting why is she coming forward with this now? earlier today, he gave his pole support to judge brett kavanaugh and at the same time, for a strip off the democrats. listen here. >> hes an absolute gem and hes been treated very unfairly by the democrats. they know what they are doing, they go into a back room and talk with each other and they laugh at what they are getting away with. its a...