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White house is planning to break with brett kavanaugh, but again, we await the official statement, and there a broad sense in the trump world that these are allegations, and they want to get to the bottom of what has happened here. and there seems to be agreement, andrea, that if these allegations are true, and if they are verified and verifiable, and nbc news has not been able to corroborate them, and we have not been able to reach the woman at the center of this making the new allegations that this is something that would be disqualifying. now, president trump is going to be having a chance to say all of this himself, and are respond to questions about this, and he is going to be holding a news conference later today, andrea, but to underscore the strategy from the recent days, he is becoming increasingly dug in and increasingly trying to paint this as a political hit job and will the fact as kate pointed out michael avenatti makes no secret that he is a democrat, and will that give ....
Kavanaugh meet with the fbi agents and have brett kavanaugh take a polygraph examination as my client is willing to do, and have mark judge take a polygraph examination as my client is will t willing to do. and it is one thing to issue statements through spokespeople to news media outlets and anybody can do that, but they need to step up and be examined and be questioned and then let s let america decide who is telling the truth. i want to be clear about something, i will put my client s credibility up against mark judge or brett kavanaugh s credibility any day of the week. in the declaration, your client julie swetnick says that she shared the experience after the 1982 al alleged gang rape with two other people, and she is also aware of other witnesses who can athe toast the truthfulness of each of the statements, and 14 statements in the declaration. are you prepared to share who those witnesseses are or are you going to be putting them forward? at the appropriate time, we ....
Serving our country. it is go g ing on for another p. and clearly, the white house, and the kavanaugh team putting this out in advance as they put him on fox the other night to try to put out a strong counter attack, defense, and mitigate gai against some senators who might be wavering and might want this nomination to be put on hold or withdrawn. yes, to a point. they are allowing judge kavanaugh to make his position known, but the white house needs to make a calculation, do they want to continue to stand by this nominee, and so far they believe that the whole fight against the allegations is actually galvanizing conservatives and republicans ahead of the midterm elections, and week ago they were worrying that the whole episode would alarm independent voters and even some republicans, and so they have to make a decision of whether they will continue to stand by him, and for now, andrea, the white house is saying that don mcgahn is prepping him for the hearing thursday, and the presi ....
Ammunition to try to make his case, and that is remaining to be seen, and we are awaiting the official reaction from within the white house, and many of the top officials are with the president at new york at the united nations, and so there is a scramble with the officials there, and the folks here covering the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearing tomorrow to get on the same page and put out a response, andrea. and kristen, as you point out, we are here in new york because of the united nation, and trust me on this, because i have been talking to people, and ambassadors and even heads of state, and everyone is watching this drama, and has been for the last couple of days. this is not a president operating in a vacuum here, and not only is he pausing to talk about it at official functions, but it is everywhere in the media. kate snow, i know that you have to go and keep on reporting, but i don t need to go, but i was flagging you, because we did verify one, and it is a small deta ....
Senate republicans, and do they move forward? do they need a more time or the moderate conservatives going to call for the fbi en investigation, and a lot hangs in the air this afternoon. and now, robert, we also have the prepared written testimony from judge kavanaugh and this is the best evidence of what he is going to say if this hearing takes place as scheduled, and he is denying the allegations, and unequivocally and categorically, and these are false accusations aired and there is a frenzy to come up with something no matter how farfetched or odious on my nomination. these are last-minute smears plain and simple and debase the public concourse, and the grotesque and the obvious character assassination if allowed to succeed would dissuade people of good and political persuasions from ....