Haley: "Icy dead people"
Supreme Court showdown.
>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Brett Kavanaugh, fantastic man. Fantastic.
SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, (D) NEW YORK: I believe her, because she's telling the truth.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford wants to testify on Thursday. Judge Kavanaugh's nomination hangs in the balance.
>SEN. ORRIN HATCH, (R) UTAH: Clearly, somebody's mixed up. I think she's mistaken.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, (R) KENTUCKY: Don't get rattled by all this. We're going to plow right through it.
SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, (D) CONNECTICUT: There are plenty of reasons to disbelieve Judge Kavanaugh.
SEN. MAZIE HIRONO, (D) HAWAII: I just want to say to the men of this country, just shut up and step up.
Will the hearing actually take place? Under what conditions? The most consequential moment yet for the #metoo movement, the most consequential senate hearing in a generation. The Supreme Court, the Senate, the Trump presidency all at stake.
And...
>TRUMP: There's a lingering stench and we're going to get rid of that, too.
Trump targets the DOJ after The New York Times reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested secretly recording the president and recruiting cabinet members to remove him from office.
>TRUMP: Look at what is now being exposed in our Department of Justice and the FBI.
Rosenstein is pushing back against this latest report that shows top administration officials questioning Trump's fitness for office. Will this report push the president to fire Rosenstein, try to shut down the Russia investigation. We'll analyze it all on our powerhouse roundtable, plus UN ambassador Nikki Haley previews this week's general assembly at the UN.
We'll break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week.
This is the 3am hour
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