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I mean, these situations

pull all sorts of people out of the woodwork.

- Attention seekers.

- Yeah, I don't think that's the case here.

She didn't call us.

Someone else sent her column in.

And she has a corroborating witness.

It took some convincing to get her to talk,

but, boy, once she started...

- A loose cannon?

- Possibly. Plus, he fired her.

- Oh.

- (DRAWER CLOSING)

Ex-employee disgruntled loose cannon.

- Yeah.

- Better yet.

- All right, bring her in.

- She won't come.

"Even though I have got the guts of a bull,

"I don't necessarily relish the fallout

from speaking up in this kind of situation."

Well, I'm not gonna be the chairman

who knew about a second accuser

and didn't call her in.

Subpoena her if that's what it takes,

- but get her down here however you have to.

- Okay.

And somebody find me a goddamn dentist!

MALE REPORTER:
An eleventh hour surprise

in the Clarence Thomas case.

According to the North Carolina newspaper

The Charlotte Observer,

one of its own employees, Angela Wright,

has some charges of her own to level.

New accusations are being leveled

against the Supreme Court nominee.

This in addition to

the allegation of sexual harassment

made by law professor Anita Hill.

If that's the best witness they can dig up,

we bring her in. Arlen has a field day.

I disagree completely.

Any woman telling the same story,

whoever she is, is bad for Clarence.

- Sir.

- Yes?

Jamie Bush, the President's nephew, called.

- About what?

- A Dr. Satinover.

Another psychiatrist in addition to

the one we're bringing in tomorrow.

Thank you.

MALE REPORTER:
Who told the lies?

Well, two witnesses,

Judge Thomas and Anita Hill,

told precisely opposite stories under oath.

Which one lied?

A word to boys and girls who may be

in front of the television set at the moment.

We parents know

this is usually your time of day.

If today's testimony

is anything like yesterday's,

there may once again be

extremely graphic testimony

that you may not want your children to watch.

MALE REPORTER:
It was hot off the presses

in San Francisco this morning.

The controversy with more questions

than answers.

The wind-burned fisherman

who believes the professor.

When a woman at her age

gets down in front of the public

and gives herself up like that,

that man is guilty as far as I'm concerned.

MALE REPORTER:
The sex harassment victim

who trusts the judge.

Just didn't seem to me

like she was telling the truth.

MALE REPORTER:
In Compton, California,

at the nation's only NAACP chapter

to support Clarence Thomas,

people still can't believe

a black woman is his accuser.

The ordeal continues

on this Saturday morning

and it can only be called that, an ordeal,

for Clarence Thomas, for Anita Hill,

for the Senate Judiciary Committee,

and for the nation as well.

This is round two of these

renewed hearings, of course,

on Anita Hill's accusations of

sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas.

CHARLES:
They'll be finished with Thomas

by end of day,

Do we have all our folks

lined up for tomorrow?

The four friends of Anita who remember her

telling them about

the harassment at the time.

Three lawyers, one judge.

Make sure

the Committee has their credentials.

We also sent them the names

of the three psychologists who will say

that Anita's behavior is consistent

with victims of sexual harassment.

Get them the published research

on that as well.

- That other woman?

- Angela Wright.

She's gonna bring this thing home.

SUSAN:
(ON TV)

I think the line is the absolute truth.

They are delighted with

Thomas's performance last night.

They felt that the whole dynamic

of the hearing changed.

John, did the White House

have a piece of this strategy?

Were they in on the idea of invoking race?

They were in on the idea.

They knew exactly

what Clarence Thomas was going to say.

CLARENCE:
In this country,

when it comes to sexual conduct,

we still have underlying racial attitudes

about black men and their views on sex.

Once you pin that on me, I can't get it off.

Anita Hill said he discussed

oral sex between men and women.

Yes, I'm a client. Can you tell him I'm here?

But nobody in the Senate bothered telling me

where the hell I'm supposed to go.

"Thomas liked to discuss specific sex acts

and frequency of sex."

Now that last... "Frequency."

That could have to do

with black men supposedly being

very promiscuous or something like that.

So it could be partially stereotypical?

Yes.

Well, I'm concerned.

Well, I was talking about these hearings

with a friend of mine,

and when I told him what I thought

as a mental health professional,

he said to me, "This is something

the senators need to hear."

- Doctor...

- And at first I was just flabbergasted,

but then halfway through her testimony,

it hit me.

Erotomania.

- I beg your pardon?

- It's a psychiatric disorder.

The person suffering has delusions

that another person,

usually of a higher status,

has a romantic interest in him or her.

You're not kidding? Now, this exists?

Ever read this book?

No.

The Exorcist.

- What the hell is he doing?

- No, Senator.

You said you never did say,

"Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?"

You never did talk about Long Dong Silver.

I submit those things were found

from page 70 of this particular version

of The Exorcist.

"'Dennings had remarked to him

in passing, ' said Sharon,

"'that there appeared to be," ' quote,

"'an alien pubic hair

floating around in my gin,"'

unquote.

This is ridiculous.

ORRIN:
You think that was spoken

by happenstance?

ALAN:
I think it is very well that you were

not here to hear the testimony of Miss Hill.

(SIGHS) I'm Angela Wright.

I'm here to see my lawyer, Gil Middlebrooks.

Okay.

Welcome to DC.

They haven't called you in yet.

You can wait here till they do.

ALAN:
And here we are.

You've been before us for 105 days.

I'm waiting for 105 days

of surveillance of Miss Hill.

Then we'll see, you know,

who ate the cabbage...

- The f*** is he talking about?

- ...as we say out in the Wild West.

And now...

- Christ's sake, rein these guys in.

- I can't.

...I really am getting stuff over

the transom about Professor Hill.

I have got letters hanging out of my pockets.

I have got faxes.

I have got statements

from her former law professors.

Statements from people that know her.

Statements from Tulsa, Oklahoma,

saying, watch out for this woman.

But nobody has the guts to say that

because it gets all tangled up

in this sexual harassment crap.

- Have they scheduled Angela Wright?

- Call you back.

- She's in the mix.

- What does that mean?

There's a schedule.

- She's either on it, or she's not.

- (KNOCKING)

Carolyn, there's a Washington Post reporter.

He's found a video store owner who claims

that Thomas is a longtime customer of his.

Rented lots of hardcore porn.

- What?

- What?

Should I get his number

so we can talk to him? Or is that...

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