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Said but others who had said they wanted to hear from christine blasey ford have said monday's the day they want to hear from her. >> reporter: and, ali, that is a political deadline chosen for procedural reasons, the soonest they could hold a hearing after they decided to delay the last one because you need seven days' worth of notice for something like this to go on. but the reality it seems as though from talking to my sources and looking at the public comments that have come out from republican senators that this is becoming their line in the sand. i think the most significant indicator ca...

At the same time we want to give tremendous amounts of time. if she shows up, that would be wonderful. if she doesn't show up that would be unfortunate. >> reporter: ali, to give you a sense how the president wants to use this as an opportunity to burnish his disaster recovery efforts, he gave that speech upon landing, almost declared victory before he got the actual briefing from all the officials on the ground that he was presumably here to see. now he'll get more information throughout the day and it is important to come see the devastation but the president's initial victory lap happened b...

Ford is making the requests to ensure that if there is a hearing, the right protocols are in place to ensure she has a fair forum to raise these issues. the absolute miss treatment and abuse that anita hill suffered. dr. ford came ford and raised these issues. i would be remiss if i didn't say we were only dealing with these very suspect record that judge kavanaugh has. and many other concerns about his credibility. so this is one larger story and the senate should not deal with this simply as a political matter. this is a cops city tuesdayal matter. >> a need at that het speaking to ampt b.c....

Either privately or publicly on monday. republicans have begun closing ranks on this of course signaling they will move on with the kavanaugh hearing without her. >> i don't understand why the hearing shouldn't go forth. i think it's not fair to judge kavanaugh for her not to come ford and testify. both of them need to testify under oath next monday before the judiciary committee. >> she says she'll testify only if there's an investigation first. would that be something that would be acceptable to republicans? >> she's really not in a position to make conditions in my view. >> he was unequivoc...

Those who say, hey, we're giving her an opportunity to testify on monday. if she doesn't testify on monday, we should simply go ahead. take a listen to susan collins, her interview on a local radio station in maine earlier today. >> it seems to me the best way to proceed is to have the public hearing. and since we know that dr. ford had already secured the services of an attorney and presumably knows what she wants to say and there's a week between -- well, more than a week between when she made the allegations and the date of the hearing which was slated for next monday, i just don't understa...