Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
forward of brett kavanaugh attempted to rape her in mon montgomery county, maryland. her lawyer needsed to respond t them by 10:00 this evening. those republicans would plan to go ahead with the vote and without hearing from dr. ford at all, they would schedule a kavanaugh nomination. dr. ford responded to the you will ultimatum. republicans in the senate had initially demanded that dr. ford had to appear before them to testify on monday or bust. that was the only chance they re going to give her to give testimonies to this systcommitt. they have no budge.
threat and a deadline for one hour from now that is aimed at christine blasey ford. that s the woman who in the past week came in with a put forward a serious allegation against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, saying that he attempted to rape here in montgomery county, maryland when he was 17 years old. in just under one hour now, republicans in the senate say that their lawyers must respond to them and must agree to their conditions for their client, dr. ford, to testify or senate republicans are going to go ahead without hearing from her at all and they will schedule a vote for monday morning on brett kavanaugh s supreme court nomination regardless of this pending accusation against him from christine blasey ford. now republicans in the senate had initially demanded that dr. ford had to appear before them to testify on monday or bust. that was the only chance they were going to give her to give testimony to this committee.