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The morning, you see the frustration here that this came upon them just last week and they didn t know about this and filed with the team before last week. there is a lot of frustration and questions about motives. one thing there is agreement on is that the accuser needs to be heard and judge kavanaugh probably needs to be heard again. trying to thread a needle here and the question remained and this is what i heard from aides throughout the day. whatever republican senator, susan collins and lisa murkowski and jeff flake said they need to have concerns addressed. that s likely what s going to have to happen. you saw senator collins making clear there needs to be testimony under oath. she did not say whether that needs to be public, but that s the push from democrats. if republicans start heading in that direction, too, the honest answer is republican leaders don t have much of a choice. right now the chairman of the committee clearly trying to make the point, we are going through a process and the committee has
After the fact, which was very tough. i look to a couple of criteria on this stuff. the named accuser on the record and two contemporaneous reports and helpful as in the roy moore case when they are verifiable. and four, not are necessary, bu they were in the roy moore case. in this case we have a named accuser at this point. the next step would be to hear more from her. if you get more of those things, fine. this is a tough situation for the gop and designed to be one partly by the timing. there is no question the timing is unfortunate and complicates everything. the attorney is an esteemed attorney for the woman who is defending feinstein. even her democratic colleagues were not happy about it. she is defending her saying ms. ford was having a hard time
About whether to public publbec or not. a reason to have a hearing. everyone can ask every question. the attorney for the accuser describing in more detail the party where ms. ford alleges brett kavanaugh assaulted her. was your client also drinking? my client had a beer. she was not stumbling drunk. the men were stumbling drunk. one only needs to look at the writings of mark judge who was the only person present. he and other members were repeatedly, routinely, this was part of their culture. mark judge is a former classmate of kavanaugh and cold the weekly standard he has no recollection of this and doesn t believe it happened. he said it would be out of character for them. you have by ms. ford s account, brett kavanaugh and mark judge
Is she in conversations with people? have people have the lawmakers reached out and tried to talk to her via phone? we ve heard from no one yet. yet. there s supposed to be a vote thursday in the judicial committee. will that happen? joining us now, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and nia-malika henderson. thank you for being here. so much has changed in the last hour. yes. since we last saw you. good thing you didn t leave. this is a major development. dr. christine blaise-ford who on the record has accused a supreme court nominee of harassment sexual assault. thank you, that is an important distinction, sexual assault, saying she is willing to testify under oath in front of the u.s. senate. how do you not let her testify? how do you say thanks, but no thanks? i think it s very difficult for the republicans in charge. if they want to hold this vote
stay with me because i want to go up to capitol hill. phil, come into the conversation in the sense that all morning long the question is what will the republican leadership do? chuck grassley is striking what he calls a reasonable compromise. can he sell it? that s right. the chairman of the judiciary committee putting out a lengthy statement. anyone who comes forward as dr. ford has deserves to be heard. i will hear her out in an appropriate, precedented and respectful manner. one of the key take aways is what i have been told. republican staff behind the scenes over the course of the weekend was trying to work with minority staff to set up a phone call with the accuser and touch base with judge kavanaugh. democrats rejected that and believe there should be public testimony and the confirmation vote on the committee level needs to be postponed. when you read through the statement that grassley put out and talking to republican staffers and aides throughout
Fema itself didn t after action report discovered that there were deficiencies and that say that they are working to address some of the problems that existed, that affected the response to hurricane maria. the white house, on the record, won t dispute those numbers, the death count numbers. when the report came out and the numbers were fixed, sarah sanders put out a statement saying that, you know, they continue to work with the government of puerto rico. she didn t dispute the numbers on the record. but the president of the united states says different things than what his administration says. and certainly what members of congress say. and the president, i m just looking now. he was asked about this, when this gw study came out. listen, we had correspondents on the ground for months after hurricane maria hit, right? covered it. covered the updated numbers out of the gw study when those broke. i vividly remember that day. the president was asked about it when he was at this event for drug-free community. unrelated event. the reporter shouted questions as we often do in the press
In this new place in this world. by repositioning himself between trump and investigators. regionally that meant fighting back through the media. at the end of last week he got his hair freshly shorn and picked out a black suit to wear for his first on the record interview. on saturday afternoon, abc news anchor george stephanopoulos entered his sweet at the regency hotel where the two men spoke for 45 minutes. it was supposed to be on camera but at the advice of mr. cohen s counsel, the new lawyer due to start this week, quote, they stuck on an audio only format. quote, for months, people in his circle told me about the possibility of him sitting down with the formedable anchor. they said he would talk to steph no, ma am lust, perhaps with his family onset to demonstrate the legal toll. all of this would be heavily promoted, maybe for weeks and it would be truly revealing and
Today we learned more than 1.3 million documents and items seized from donald trump s personal attorney michael cohen. those are as of today in the hands of federal prosecutors who say they are working on federal criminal case against michael cohen. he has just done a strange on the record but off camera interview with abc news with their star anchor, george stephanopoulos. in that off camera, on the record interview, he vaguely hinted but didn t directly say that he might be directly working with prosecutors. michael cohen is still adjusting
Don t have unilateral wars waged by the executive branch. congress approves war. if this comes to that, congress would have to approve it. but i know from what he said on the campaign trail, this president has no desire to get bogged down in a syrian civil war, especially with u.s. troops. so, that all seems very, very hate speech. abby: the president has also said in the past that president barack obama should get approval from congress as well. when you are in that position you are having to make that decision, i think things change. and this is a time where the country needs to come together and say what do we stand for? what is crossing that red line? how do we respond? this is not a time to play politics. i would actually be if the president called on congress this week i think you mentioned this, griff. put them in a corner and say you guys you approve of these actions in syria. if you say no to this? are you approving of chemical attacks of these people in syria. griff: on the record. pete: i would say yes and no. obama did that to punt. remember obama? should i strike or not? i will let congress to