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But john, during the hearing last week, the questioner brought in by the gop rachel mitchell, told dr. ford about best practices for interviewing sexual assault victims. listen. >> have you also educated yourself on the best way to get to memory and truth in terms of interviewing victims of trauma? >> for me interviewing victims of trauma? >> no. >> oh. >> the best way to do it. the best practices for entire viewing victims of trauma. >> no. >> would you believe me if i told you that there is no...

Hes going to talk to the fbi. the white house cant stop that from happening. are they allowed to seek corroboration? youve had a number of senators say if judge kavanaugh lied to the committee, thats a deal-breaker, this confirmation is off. how will the fbi be able to establish that if theyre not allowed to look into the disputes about it? this is a very restricted investigation as of now. the question becomes, will the fbi push back on this? because what im hearing is, the fbi, they want to in...

Itself, take command, and do this in the right way. and i dont hear that happening. and it concerns me. >> well, it concerns you, it concerns a lot of us. maybe by raising this issue, were going to see things get a bit better. john, ken, thank you so much. ken, excellent, excellent reporting. we need that reporting. next, were going to get into brett kavanaughs drinking. he admits to drinking quite a bit when he was younger. and there are plenty of witnesses who will back that up. im going to ...

Affects. trade deals are very obscure to most people and as you said earlier, this is essentially slapping a new label on an old trade deal and workers generally speaking are going to understand that. the positive for the president is it removes the source of conflict and nervousness in markets and any time a president comes out and says look at this international agreement i just made, that is a soft positive for the white house because people like progress being made. its just not a huge posit...

>> i think its very revealing. because what miss mitchell is actually talking about are very valid concepts with respect to any interview. what i would like to comment on, just briefly, is, while a white house in certain situations in other investigations ask for specific things to be run out or checked, with respect to what was developed initially, in this particular case, we have so much negative information coming forward regarding the candidates behavior, past behavior and perhaps calculated...

Okay, john, this is basically a deal for freer trade which is not something president trump or peter navarro talked about on the campaign trail but something americans and the market like today. do you take this deal as a positive? >> yes. i think its positive as compared to the alternative which is to have the old nafta fall apart. it is mostly -- >> what about the old nafta stay intact? >> yes. it has improvements for the digital economy most of which had been negotiated by president obama and...

As we said, accuser julie swetnick, along with former classmates who have contradicted kavanaughs account of his college drinking, and high school classmates who could shed light on his yearbook references. also not on the list, kavanaugh and ford themselves. now, this entire investigation depends solely on whether these witnesses cooperate. in a criminal investigation, the fbi could obtain every piece of relevant testimony and evidence, including e-mails, texts, phone records, with subpoenas an...