that being a long-standing precedent, that being the obvious first step and exactly what needs to happen next. regardless chuck grassly is denying dr. blasey ford that, and apparently the administration is denying it as well. and i think that will cause a lot of people to wonder why. why don t they want the fbi to go out and investigate these claims sphdr. blasey ford wants to investigate it. but the second thing that chairman grassly is doing to treat her even worse than anita hill is he is saying that only two people can testify. only dr. blasey ford and brett kavanaugh. that is worse treatment than anita hill received. there were outside witnesses that she was able to call that corroborated her account. that are not allowing dr. ford to do the same thing, which really shows what are they hiding? it really causes that to come into light, that, you know, as bad as anita hill was treated, that they re doing even worse to
and that would be an outrage. we need to have the investigation. it is something that is so much deserved, and we cannot let her be more abused. i remember the anita hill hearings. and rachel maddow played the tape of the hearings recently last night i think, and it s appalling. it s totally appalling. and if we want to have some independent source do the investigation, i recently served on a pentagon committee look at sexual assault in the military. we have an entire system to look at assault allegations sexual assault allegations. the military lawyers and investigators are very well prepared to do this kind of investigation as an independent source. and they should be called upon. well, lying to the fbi is a crime. dr. ford knows that, brett kavanaugh knows that. one of them is not afraid to the talk to the fbi, and only one of them.
encouraging all of this. susan collins is encouraging all of chuck grassly s bullying here. it s been very discouraging to see what senators have said and treating her with suspicion as opposed to someone who s actually trying coming forward and doing her civic duty to talk about someone who s been nominated not just for a normal judgeship but for a lifetime seat to the supreme court. women are paying attention, and if anyone on that committee thinks that women aren t noticing this, they should just wait until november 6th, because women are upset. they re sick of seeing women bullied and women not being treated with fairness and listening to our stories. so i hope the republicans on this committee are eely, really thinking carefully about how they treat this woman. thank you very much. thanks a lot. and when we come back, more on the fbi investigation and why brett kavanaugh is afraid,
dr. ford says brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, tried to rape her, she believes. brett kavanaugh says nothing like that ever happened. one of them, one of those two people wants the fbi to investigate and the other one doesn t. why isn t brett kavanaugh demanding an fbi investigation? why? why not? why doesn t brett kavanaugh want to submit to the best professional investigators we have, and why does dr. ford want to submit to an investigation by the fbi? why does she want to do that? and why do the republicans on the senate want to save brett kavanaugh from ever facing an fbi question about this? every reason that they give is a lie every single reason. you just saw orin hatch say it s the appropriate thing to do. you saw chuck grassly say that that is exactly what was done when the judiciary committee learned about anita hill s accusations against clarence thomas.
brett kavanaugh has been accused of perjury in his confirmation hearing when he answered questions about his involvement in e-mails that were stolen from the democrats on the senate judiciary committee and provided to brett kavanaugh when he was working in the bush white house. the whole truth and nothing but the truth is not exactly kavanaugh s style in his judicial confirmation process. the committee asked for all of brett kavanaugh s speeches and he gave them those speeches including a written copy of a speech that thee delivered at catholic university law school. but he left out what is now a very important lie. now, was that lying to the committee to leave out that lie? was that just an oversight? here it is. you decide. three classmates of mine at