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They thought about bringing in a female to question her. republicans are discussing that as a possibility. two sources that told them that was part of the things they were discussing, bringing in outside counsel to come forward. it's unclear if that's what the republicans are going to propose. there will be a formal proposal later today. democrats are rejecting the notion of any outside counsel questioning ford and kavanaugh. one senior democratic aide said republicans need to do the questioning. that appears to be one area of negotiation going forward. it appears that the differences are narr...

Where are we? >> yeah. so things have been moving very quickly over the past week. counteroffers, offers. so where we stand now is an offer was sent to ford, to her attorneys by the republicans. republicans want a hearing wednesday instead of what ford wanted on thursday. >> but they've moved from monday? >> they have moved from monday, yes. they say they will not issue a subpoena for any other witnesses. that is something that ford wanted. >> right. >> was other witnesses at the table. they also said that ford will testify first. ford wanted to testify second after kavanaugh. so that's the co...

About outside counsel questioning the senator, questioning ford next week. that was one of the issues that was raised during last evening's phone call, debra katz the attorney for christine blassey-ford can question if this can turn into a circus-like atmosphere if an outside counsel were asking the questions. attorney mitch mcconnell have had discussion about those requests, member level discussions will continue today until they probably will respond at some point later today. we'll see if they reach some sort of rurks especially on that hearing day. she subject probably next thursday we'll ...

Isn't -- kate doesn't have a funny bone and kate can't take a joke. this is crass. it's inappropriate. >> it's disgusting. >> and i'm constantly amazed when an elected official can stand up anywhere and think, you know what, this joke's going to kill it. this is going to be a good one. >> actually, there was laughter in that room. >> sure. i don't care. >> maybe it did kill nit thit i room. >> people make jokes all the time that are not appropriate. >> what i guess i would say is the country's still changing. we're not there. as a country, as a society, we get better every day but we're not pe...

Could, and they don't. that's what's clear. >> if we could look ahead, and again there are a lot of questions tonight. it was only yesterday we heard the lawyer say ford was willing to testify in public. and now there's questions about whether they've arranged that. if this would take place on monday, who would be questioning ford. there would be four women on the democratic side. on the gop side it's all men. republicans are now saying that they may bring outside lawyers to question ford if she comes before the committee. from the republicans' perspective, how important are the optics here? >...