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Ailes' sexual harassment there. shine denies doing so. while donald trump still occupies the white house there has been a seismic cultural shift that has meant allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men are now taken more seriously than they were in 1991 when anita hill's credible accusations against clarence thomas were greeted by skepticism and scorned by members of the all male members of the senate judicialery committee. some things haven't changed. christine ford was ee luck tant to come forward for fear of being dragged through the mud and like anita hill she will see plenty of men...

Much. >> what would you say your position today is on a woman's right to choose? >> as a judge. >> as a judge. >> as a judge it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, it's been reaffirmed many times. casey is precedent on precedent. >> precedent on precedent. i am joined by people who know their way around precedents, sharon eiffel, elise hope, and my favorite legal eagle npr's nina totenberg who is still covering the hearing there at ground zero. my thanks to all of you. cherilyn, off the top, did judge kavanaugh help or ...

At this point. republicans have been turned away as well. and it seems to me that congress should be holding hearings where hhs and where nielsen and azar have to come before and actually tell the truth about what is going on. >> absolutely. obviously, one of the problems that we see is that the republican leadership in this congress have their arms so tightly wrapped around donald trump's ankles that they will not do anything that upsets him. >> ankles. congressman dan kildee, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> coming up, the president's upcoming announcement for his supreme court nominee....

Accountability. i wanted to sit and talk to him face-to-face and challenge him on whether they were going to continue in terms of training, whether they were going to deal with the corporate culture of doing business with blacks, of helping youth. i mean, real across the board things or was this a one-day thing and i think they put a lot of serious thought into it, the proof will be in the pudding. we'll see where it goes but i think that he wanted to put on the record the commitment that they are going to do other things, howard schultz came by, the founder and they are going. what those othe...

Investigated paranormal activity. okay. joining me now is sharon eiffel, the president and director council of the naacp legal defense fund. there's people, there's personnel. the old saying is personnel can be policy. judges aren't supposed to make policy, but this complete step backwards in diversity, not only from the obama administration, but even from other republican administration tells us what? >> ari, i think we have to focus on the nature of the candidates that are being nominated by this president. and i think diversity is only a part of the picture. president trump has only been in...