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Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. The president fiercely defending judge kavanaugh, but insisting he is open to, you know, this fbi investigation, trying to shut down reports that his white house is working to try to narrow the scope of this investigation. He says hes fine if the fbi interviews all three accusers and judge kavanaugh himself. He also weighed in on kavanaughs drinking habits. I was surprised at how vocal he was about the fact that he likes beer. And hes had a little bit of difficult...

Ive got these calendars, these beautiful, creepy calendars. Give me a can of water. My god, it is classic saturday night live. Welcome to morning joe on this monday, october 1st. We made it to october. Donny deutsch is with us and we also have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and cohost and executive producer of show times the circus John Heilemann, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments elise jordan. Nbc news chief White House Correspondent hallie jac...

As we begin a new week, good evening from our nbc headquarters. Day 620 of the Trump Administration and there are new and potentially damaging revelations about Supreme Court nominee federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, many of them still rolling out tonight as the president defended in front of a rally in tennessee. They have been trying to destroy him since the first second he was announced. He is a good man, great student, great intellect. Never had a problem. All of a sudden, lets go back to high ...

What . And there you have it, you heard Somebody Just saying to chairman grassley, what . Were adjourning two hour rule. What we have seen there, i do not believe we have at least in the open era ever seen and that is senator jeff flake went into that small ante room that we were speaking of just before they took the vote and he cut a deal of some sorts with the democrats and then it wasnt clear what he cut. So, chairman grassley said a point of personal privilege allows senator jeff flake to ex...

But we begin with mike emanuel. Mike . Reporter dana, good afternoon. There are reporters and news crews following key senators all over capitol hill these days. A short time ago we had an unusual instance where you had Lisa Murkowski talking to reporters. She jumps in with maine Susan Collins another critical senator on the kavanaugh nomination. Murkowski told us shes been told the fbi will be thorough. What i have been assured is that they are conducting this Background Investigation as they d...

Her, not the woman who says kavanaugh exposed himself to her, not any woman. The real victim, it would seem to the president , is the man, and by extension all men. I say that its a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. This is a very, very this is a very difficult time. Whats happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You could be somebody that was perfect your ent...

Becoming more likely in november. But we begin with the Bombshell Development in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle. Attorneys for Christine Blasey ford will continue talks now that shes attentively agreed to testify on thursday. Her decision coming exactly one week since she decided to go public with her allegation of Sexual Assault by Brett Kavanaugh when they were in high school. The white house is calling the tentative call a delay tactic. He has been in and out of the white house just ...

This is a very, very this is a very difficult time. Whats happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You could be somebody that was perfect your entire life and somebody could accuse you of something. It doesnt necessarily have to be a woman, as everybody says. But somebody could accuse you of something, and youre automatically guilty. But in this realm, you are truly guilty until proven innocent. Thats one of the very, very bad thing...

Supreme court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during which period the fbi has a week to investigate these allegations against kavanaugh. This came after the Senate Judiciary committee this morning voted to send kavanaughs nomination to the senate floor for a final vote among all 100 senators. But that came with a condition. Republican senator jeff flake said his vote came with strings attached. And those strings were the oneweek delay and the fbi investigation. Flakes move coming after he was confront...

I think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope to the current allegation that is are there. Okay. Then this happened which caused major confusion. Because of the twohour rule were adjourned. What . The twohour rule. No vote . When did we come in . Did we come in at noon . Yeah, we did. The twohour rule. We knew we had to get this all done by 2 00. Well, is it done . Is flake...