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Investigation as well, have you been contacted? >> you know, ive been scratching my head about that. i was listening to the radio, gosh, i want to say a week ago, and they were talking about brett having been interviewed by the fbi, backgrounds done on five or six occasions prior to this. and it struck me that, you know, i was his freshman year roommate and if you wanted to know how somebody behaved in college, which is a time, especially the transition from high school to college, where people ...

Do, damned if you dont. damned if you follow the written rules, damned if he doesnt come out and ask for more. damned if he doesnt give a statement, heres how we do backgrounds and damnede if he doesnt call for reform and the client relation and comes out and does that. this is a conundrum im sure that has people sequestered on the seventh floor of the hoover building. >> one more follow up to both of you. professor fords attorney is out with a pretty damning statement about todays fbi. fords at...

Crazy is that sexual assault was -- unless you have to be bloodied, broken bones, a stranger. that was sexual assault. it wasnt something that the popular basketball player who was on the honor roll did to you. >> and why do you think -- im so glad you say there was just this one guy. of course the vast majority of all of our guy friends, i mean, 99.9% were good guys, fun guys that would never consider doing this. there was often one guy that we knew about and avoided because that guy was gross....

Suitability for a federal job. its about your habits, your temperament and your finances and employment and all of these things. so when you do a case like this when all six of these other investigations were done, bill, they looked at and interviewed friends & associates and neighbors and colleagues. im sure there are several hundred interviews for all six of these backgrounds. they know they have gathered nothing that would have stopped judge kavanaugh from becoming a district judge and its hi...

Christine blasey ford through the mill and make sure -- >> have you ever done a federal background investigation? just asking. >> ive tried cases inn federal court. >> i have. i have. see i did this so you dont know how this works and what youre saying is that the fbi does criminal investigations and background. they dont. they get history backgrounds. they dont do criminal investigations into areas they have no purview on. this is not what the fbi does. you making this sound like they are going...

Backgrounds, socioeconomic status, are falsely accused of sexual assault and rape and they can never, ever get their names back. many of them have been successful in getting themselves exonerated after being falsely convicted. it takes five, ten, 15, 20 year years. whatever subtle civil sedimenty can win after losing their freedom and losing their lives and reputations can neverth compensate for the loss, the devastating loss thatta they and their families suffer. so that is why rape, of course,...

November? it could be responsible for a red wave in the mid-terms. ryan writes -- if democrats fall short this november they will suffer the rightful consequences of using the victims of sexual assault to advance a political agenda. bryan joins us now. now if this tactic worked in the past why wouldnt it work now? >> weve hit a different point. people have used peoples backgrounds to slime in dc. that is not new. but starting in july through middle september there was a victim of sexual assault ...

November? one democrat perfects that the kavanaugh allegations could be responsible for our red wave. if democrats this fall fall short this november, they will suffer the rightful consequences of using the victims of sexual assault to advance a political agenda. obrien joins us now to discuss. brian, this tactic has worked in the past, why wouldnt it work now? >> we have seen it at different points. people have used peoples backgrounds to slime in d.c. that is not new. so through the middle of ...

And should that be part of what the senators decide in the voting? >> andrea, 100%. his demeanor and the temperament and the reaction no the questioniquestion i -- reaction to the questioning, needs to be take into consideration, and puts a side the allegations of the truth or not truth or what is proven or not, and how he conducted himself. the political nature of his statement, and the political rage fran u cli is just completely unbecoming of someone who is going to be sitting on the supreme ...

This is a note that purportedly he wrote, brett kavanaugh road, it is signed by "barred," i dont know if that was a nickname, it says it was -- informing all of his friends about the plan for beach weekend he is is outlining what everyone needs to bring, and he said we need to be careful because we dont want to get kicked out. ps, it will probably be a good idea on saturday the 18th to warn the neighbors that we are loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us." is this relevant in any w...