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bring to big cities. cb cotton is live in new york city with more, cb? >> hi jon good evening nice to see you. newly released data from the nypd certainly shows an increase in one type of criminal offense, retail theft. the staffs are belike nearly one third of those committing retail theft or repeat offenders. this comes as house judiciary committee prepares for to field hearing tomorrow. focusing more violent crime. six confirmed witnesses for the harried members of the gop led commi...

Hearing for david souters nomination about a question that went on for many, many pages. i think, as do you, he is inclined to run. if he doesnt run, it will be because he feels like he has responsibilities to the family and it would be better for the at-large biden family for him not to run. but this is what he wants to do. he is going to have challenges of age, of discipline, of message, and of history, because a lot of things that he did back then, not just the way he conducted the hill/thoma...

A lesson that was reinforced by the rise of donald trump who embraced the same doctrine. >> there were three senators in that room today who were in the room 27 years ago. patrick leahy on the democratic side, chuck grassley and orrin hatch on the republican side. lets listen to what orrin hatch said about todays hearing and the thomas hearing. >> i hate to say this, but this is worse than robert bork and i didnt think it could get any worse than that. this was worse than clarence thomas. i didn...

About brett kavanaugh, theres no doubt about the possibility that he did what dr. ford says. and theres jeff flake saying he will have doubt, at that meeting tonight that he has doubt about the credibility of brett kavanaugh. >> well, i think jeff flake is probably closer to the truth. people may retreat to their corners for the he said and she saids, but in the end there will always be doubt among some people and maybe even many people. the fact is this hearing today was very much actually in a...

And there will be a lot of monographs written in the coming years about what did one of ken starrs deputies really learn from the clinton impeachment. and i think what we saw today is that judge kavanagh learned from clinton to deny, deny, deny, and a lesson that was reinforced by the rise of donald trump who embraced the same doctrine. >> there were three senators in that room today who were in the room 27 years ago. patrick leahy on the democratic side, chuck grassley and orrin hatch on the re...

Only were doing it to make political points and political speeches and turn this into a partisan fight rather than trying to get to the truth of the matter. and that was revealing. >> lets listen to one more moment, the likes of which we really have not seen before, and this is when brett kavanaugh actually asks senator klobuchar a question along the lines of what lisa mentioned about the contemptuous attitude. lets listen to this. >> youre saying theres never been a case where you drank so much...

From outside left-wing opposition groups. and as we all know in the united states political system of the ear ear early 2000s, what goes around, comes around. >> even more important is whether he could give a convincing defense of dr. fords testimony. >> judge kavanaugh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? >> i will do whatever the committee wants to -- >> personally, do you think that the best thing for us to do? you want to answer? >> look, senator, ive said i wanted a hearing, an...

Their role as questioners for more than half of the hearing to someone who never worked in the senate before today. maur copa county sex crimes prosecutor rachel mitchell took over for every republican senator when their turn came to question her about the sexual assault against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. that has never happened in a senate confirmation hearing in the history of the senate. the senate has never seen a hearing like the ford versus kavanaugh hearing like we saw today. ...

But specifically dr. ford in her very credible testimony earlier in the day, very gently but clearly said she didnt know the date but it could be understood if mark judge was called before the committee because of his employment records or if the fbi would interview mark judge, they could have determined the date and the year based on mark judges employment records. so the mark judge piece of this hearing today i think is one of the less focused on things, but it really reveals that republicans ...

Sway public opinionic like he did about 40 minutes after that hearing wrapped up tonight. and he can call his allies on the hill and tell them he wants to get this done. he knows exactly what is riding on this. you talk about the arc weve seen over the last 24 hours and these reports of grim pessimism through it day today, thats because the people i talked to in and around that room were grim and were pessimistic. i am told the president was particularly pleased with that, that search and destro...