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Discussed throughout the process, now we're trying to make amends and rectify this in the best way possible so that the me too movement can make something positive happen out of this in regard to giving women a voice in this difficult situation but also getting to the truth. >> alice, i have to push back on that to look at the timeline here. to be clear, this came out. the accuser called a tip line at the washington post in july, then went to her congresswoman. her congresswoman referred it to senator feinstein. senator feinstein has said she didn't go public with this because the accuser -- k...

Differences here. remember, clarence thomas called those allegations a high-tech lynching. this is also the me too movement and moment. walk us through it. >> sure. i remember so vividly. i'll mention those briefly. it was a woman who did not want to come forward initially, encouraged to come forward after there was a leak, sexual allegations, both of them, and the senate was approaching a key vote. what's different now, poppy and jim, is the fact that the me too movement atmosphere, also the nature of the allegations. anita hill and clarence thomas were both adults at the time of the alleged ...

Susan colins is questioning the timing of these accusations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. this morning the attorney representing christine ford is pushing back hard on those asking why now and any talk of the timing being politically -- sorry, live picture here now. this is brett kavanaugh, the nominee, leaving his home this morning. he just walked behind the car there. >> right. >> probably hidden now by that tree. but this is going to be a different -- it's a different morning. this is him, moments ago, leaving his front door there. >> remember, we just learned, as you noted...

Minutes" or some other public forum. the right forum is in the u.s. senate. >> alice, if i can ask you, part of this is how we, as a country or society are dealing with accusations like this today as they come into the public forum. as you said, alice, the accuser has a right to have her voice heard but so does the accused. what's more important, that thursday deadline more important or is a public discussion of both sides? because just as democrats can be accused of politics on this, republicans can be accused of politics for pushing for that deadline, as errol laid out here, a lot of that is...

Important, because that is how the judiciary committee has had this set up. but this is a lifetime appointment -- >> set up for a political reason, right? >> my point is, if i can finish, this is a lifetime appointment. that being said, knowing that, knowing the issues at stake and the gravity of these accusations and what this job entails, i think we owe it to ourselves as a nation and in this me too movement, if we have to delay the vote, if we have to delay the markup, we owe it to ourselves as a country to fully vet this story, get all the facts out there and move on according to all the i...