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About the sexual assault allegations made against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh is at the white house as allies try to bolster his character. >> i remind you murkowski and collins called for al franken to step down, and he didn't have due process. supporters of kavanaugh are calling into question professor christine blasey ford's memory of the alleged assault, along with the 36 years that passed between then and now. these methods of discrediting a woman's accusation against a man, especially one with significant political, social, or financial power, are nothing new to sex ...

Idea? do you think the public hearings are a good idea? anita hill wrote a piece saying hold on a second. >> they don't have any better systems than back then. >> if you think about what she went through personally, professionally, i mean, brutal. >> i've given that a lot of thought. i'm not sure monday is going to happen. a lot could happen between now and monday. >> what do you mean by that? >> other things could come out. maybe somebody who was at that party says hold on a second, judge kavanaugh was there and that sort of refutes what he said to senator hatch. another woman could come forw...

Pursuant to the constitution is to provide advice and consent. >> right. and not to determine guilt or innocence? >> exactly. if there is a -- i mean, i've seen people say even if it's true he should be confirmed. i certainly don't agree with that that's for sure. >> this is where the rubber hits the road that i keep hearing things are so different. so much has changed since the 1 1990s, but sadly i don't see that. i see that the me, too, movement exists, but if this is a repeat of what happened to anita hill, look at twitter, and look at how professor ford is getting attacked, her character a...

Resum -- vacuum. that needs to be done by comparing what they've said over time and what the other corroborating evidence is. if i can just explain what i think some of that corroborating evidence is already for dr dr. blasey, it is, first of all, she did tell her therapist back in 2012 about this, and for people to assume that she's lying now, that would mean that back in 2012, before judge kavanaugh was even nominated to the supreme court, she somehow planted the seeds of the story for some unknown reason. that in and of itself i think is very good corroboration. she has already passed a lie...

Something that people who are critical of her use to attack her credibility? >> yeah, that's correct. it is not uncommon for somebody who has been sexually assaulted, first of all, not to come out immediately. we all know that. the me, too, movement has really shed some light on that. what's interesting, actually is senator hatch yesterday said in a conversation with judge kavanaugh that judge kavanaugh actually remembers that he wasn't at the party. >> right. >> i just had my 50th birthday over the weekend and i was thinking back to the 1980s, i can't recall which parties i went to, that's fo...