first, reading from the front page of the new york times. the facts are still in dispute about a bitter he said, she said case. a supreme court confirmation drama unfolding but lawmakers are being accused of a lack of sensitivity and some prominent politicians are saying hey, what s the rush? we need a little more time to follow up on the accusations and allegations. all of this playing out in washington, a city where men have always made the rules and the senate is an overwhelmingly male club. this case is sending what one expert called an electric current of anger through women and a greater conviction women must be represented in high places in greater numbers. all of that from the new york times from the fall of 1991. days before another senate confirmation hearing. the title of the story by the way was my maureen doud. the title was the senate and sexism. it was about the male club was
great to have you-all here. i d like to start by going back in time to the anita hill, clearance thomas hearing. do you look at this and see a sequel? do down see parallels today? i see tremendous parallels. i was in the hearing room back in 1991. in fact, sitting directly across from maureen doud for the new york times and this has so many erie parallels down to the fact that even though now we think we re having a hearing thursday, that s no time to really get to the bottom of the facts in this case. to report stran strange justice book i co-wrote that had a large amount of new evidence showing that anita hill absolutely told the truth when she testified and
mishandling anita hill s allegations against clearance thomas. 27 years later, some of the same men in the same club are in charge of a sequel of sorts. doud says in this morning s new york times it s unnerving to think how far women have come to find ourselves dragged back to the same place. it may be tempting to think that a lot has changed since this day, since anita hill sat down to testify and certainly some things have. but america seems even more divided along gender and part s partisan lines and the media is complicated and a mess. viewers are hearing about the same set of allegations but reacting to them in very different ways and keep in mind as we head into what could be a consequential week for the united states, judge brett kavanaugh was supposed to be on his way to confirmation right now but the interview with christine blasey ford went into
stones i put there and formed them in the shape of a cross, and sort of sat back, looked at it. then rush limbaugh and maureen doud and those that wrote about that moment filed a pool report and rush for the next week talked about how phony president clinton was. i was an eyewitness to it, i was standing where that picture was taken, 20 feet away. it was legitimate. the point is, there s only so much you can control. now, the president has landed in saudi arabia and there are all sort of pitfalls. let me put on the screen from 2015, a tweet from candidate donald trump where he was critical of michelle obama for not wearing a head scarf at the time. do we have that? we now know that, he said that obama refused to wear a scarf. the saudis were insulted. melania didn t wear a scarf, neither did ivanka, nor did the president, president trump, hold hands with king salman today.
question or starts name-calling or whatever, don t let him get up. keep him down and ask him specific question after specific question. that s where we see he has trouble answering the questions. he comes up with nonsensical answers if anything or tends to blame the referees, if you will by going after every single reporter, not just megyn kelly. we ve seen it time and again. he has called chuck todd a loser before and went on camera this morning. did not go on fox this morning. one quote from maureen doud s column this morning. toward the end of the column she says i asked trump if he can at least admit that president obama was born in this country. no comment was his answer. to me, jay, that s a big scandal if he s continuing to not back away from the birther ideas. he has redefined gaffes