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This is about the ideological bent of the supreme court maybe for the next generation. and they are going to fight this tooth and nail to prevent kavanaugh from being in that seat. >> bill: you look at the calendar and the way the hearing was conducted two weeks ago and the amount of resistance or lack there of and you have two accusers becoming public. one effectively delaying the nomination process for a period of at least a week. perhaps longer than that. if this hearing is conducted on thurs...

Solicitor generals office. unfortunately the department refused to turn over the memos. that is the historic position of the department of justice, the solicitors office advocates on behalf of the federal government and federal work product, its not turned over to the united states senate during a confirmation process. next. you can see april 17, 2007, elaine, elaine jones, would like the committee to hold off. now first of all, before we go on, look whos in the meetings, elaine jones of the naa...

Expect to hear there are parallels, we can expect republicans to say both of these women are represented by democratic attorneys, we can expect to say both of these women are bringing forth their allegations late in the process. republicans will say that that means the allegation should be treated with less weight we can also expect republicans to argue that it undercuts the seriousness or the gravity with which we should view these allegations because there arent additional witnesses that can c...

Defend my integrity. my lifelong record. my lifelong record of promoting dignity and equality for women starting with the women who knew me when i was 14 years old. im not going anywhere. >> neil: i dont want to read too much into that. given the original pause, i thought it must have crossed their mind. >> you know, lee mentioned all the victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment in this country. we dont know as i said we cant prove and disprove these accusations and adjudicated the facts ...

Court nominee brett kavanaugh. according to the new yorker, senate democrats are investigating an incident from kavanaughs college years, debra rodriguez reportedly claims he exposed himself and violated her during a drunken dormitory party, and stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti revealing in a tweet hes representing yet another accuser. hell be demanding the opportunity to present testimony at the senate judiciary committee. kavanaugh and the white house dismissed the allegations saying its...

All right. time now for we said/they said in the sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. making headlines overseas. >> president trumps supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault has said she wants the fbi to investigate her allegation before she will testify at the senate. >> all right. many point out what was once thought to be a smooth confirmation process for kavanaugh could now actually be in jeopardy. >> president donald trumps nominee to t...

What happened here? why does ivanka want the president, her father to drop the judge and what was his reaction? >> really this story grew out of a question we all last week, why was he not tweeting support of kavanaugh and playing it down the middle in which both sides should be heard. there was a lot of fear more could come out about the judge and ivanka in particular is worried about the presidents standing with wo standing with women. and this was more baggage around the president. and she wa...

This allegation involving a supreme court nominee and she says its about justice. its really not, you know, specific to workplace, you know, or the power that men may have over women in a workplace but it really is about justice. thats why even this, you know, nomination process and these allegati allegations and how its treated is so incredibly significant. >> we ask ourselves i think the wrong question. we asked why didnt she report. that could be dr. ford or anybody else. the question we real...

Voluntarily chosen to share information, we do need the facts and legitimate investigation. arthel: what testimony will she provide now that you know dr. long will testify, what do you think it will do to nomination process. >> when she testifies she can tell testimony. we need more witnesses, we need witnesses who may have direct information and knowledge about what took place. we need witnesses and experts who understand sexual assault and violence, we need a real hearing, it cant be he said, ...

But here is what i want to tell you. in the very near future, judge kavanaugh will be on the united states supreme court. >> reporter: and there are other concerns up on capitol hill as to how the presidents tweets will affect the nomination process. in the words of one republican senate staffer, the presidents tweet about christine blasey ford was, quote, not helpful. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. steven erlanger joining us now, chief diplomatic correspondent in europe for the "new york t...