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They say he was known as a heavy drinker, and thats not the end of the world, but if he is lying about that, there is a question of why he is lying about that. the issue with drinking also led to some of the most baffled, disjoint even strange responses from brett kavanaugh today, including him not answering questions from senator amy klobuchar and him sort of culminating that exchange with a series of aggressive questions to her where he appeared to be insinuating that she had a drinking proble...

Theres no way around that. >> mimi rocca, in the world of sports, they call it a designed play. and i hate to reduce this to sporting terminology, but dick durbin came into the hearing with two of them in mind. his first one highly effective. whats your degree of certainty? his second one was to kavanagh about the fbi, im going to play it. well talk about it on the other side. >> so youre saying theres never been a case where you drank so much that you didnt remember what happened the night befo...

Some new evidence and its not as conclusive a week from now as it is now, im sure there could be more certainty around this process. the judge has always said that whatever the committee feels it need, hes willing to cooperate with. >> let me replay an exchange between the judge and democrat being senator amy klobuchar. >> so youre saying theres never been a case where you drank so much that you didnt remember what happened the night before or part of what happened. >> youre asking about a black...

And i can say with pretty much great deal of certainty that hes not a happy dude. >> on the lets talk about that and the way he thinks. underground two supreme court nominees and the idealology of your liking. thats a hell of a season for him. and now that season is real jeopardy. he can walk away with one, but he could also look away with a guy with a lot of stuff on his face as guy who if i could wrong guy who had a drinking problem, whatever else problems, belligerence problem, and the guys b...

Somebody for the person making the allegation. there was not one short of supporting was brought to back her account, kavanaughs denials were just as emotionally effecting. i dont see any reason to suggest -- by the way, the evidence is more on hers than it is. i dont have any reason to suggest that his nomination didnt based on what should happen today. >> laura: were you happy with the democrats performance? he didnt seem to be bolstering her factual remembrance of what happened. it seemed mor...

Lapse. >> it was a lapse, which he apologized for, but my gosh, not a window into -- not a window into his soul that he would want to show people. watch this. >> okay. drinking is one thing. but the concern is about truthfulness. and in your written testimony, you said sometimes you had too many drinks. was there ever a time when you drank so much that you couldnt remember what happened or part of what happened the night before? no. i remember what happened and i think youve probably had beers, ...

Drinking problem. is that what you want to hear from a potential united states supreme court justice? fair question. >> i totally hesitate to judge someone whos in the situation that he found himself in yesterday frankly. he -- im sorry, to judge just their tone or their tenor. he admitted that that was an inappropriate question or over the line and he apologized, but the fact that he was emotional and even, you know, resistant to some of the questions i dont think it surprising at all and i don...

Supporting was brought to back her account, kavanaughs denials were just as emotionally effecting. i dont see any reason to suggest -- by the way, theon evidence is more on hers than it is. i dont have any reason to suggest that his nomination should end based on what should happen today. >> laura: were you happy with the democrats performance?n. he didnt seem to be bolstering her factual remembrance of what happened. it seemed more like a bunch of little speeches. >> lets remember that this is ...

>> yeah, and im curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> nor do i. >> pete williams, have you ever seen a supreme court justice ask a question in a supreme court hearing and have the lawyer -- >> yeah, but it didnt go quite like that. >> and have the lawyer throw the question back at the supreme court justice? >> i mean sometimes they get flustered and do ask the senators a question often rhetorical, but never quite like that. couple of things in context. first of all, after...

>> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you hes talking about? >> ill explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem, an addiction problem, that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from. he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his therapy or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fictionalized book...