Thing, i didnt know him. But i heard his name for ten years. You know how i heard his name . Everybody was saying, he should be on the Supreme Court. I said, who is he . His name is Brett Kavanaugh, and he should be, hes the most brilliant person, hes the most brilliant lawyer. They were talking about him on the Supreme Court ten years ago. With all of that, i want to hear what she has to say. You said that you dont feel you said that you feel like there have been numerous false allegations against you. Oh, ive had many false statements against me. And you understand what he ive had many false statements against me and if the press would have reported i would be very happy. I think john roberts would tell you you covered the story where the women were paid to say bad things about me. Sean hannity covered it. I will tell you, when i saw that on sean hannity, i actually called him. Believe it or not. I dont speak to him very much, but i respect him, i called him. I said, this is the bigg
he painted this picture of sexual assault as if it is just a world full of women waiting to make false accusations against men and none of them are accurate, none of them are true. and he said that what they have done from his perspective, this big, fat con job, what they ve done to this wonderful man, judge kavanaugh, in his word, is incredible. clearly he is siding with judge kavanaugh, although he says, as you pointed out, i m willing to listen to what this woman has to say tomorrow. one other thing. we should point out he goes farther in condemning christine blasey ford than judge kavanaugh goes. judge kavanaugh has repeatedly said he is not doubting, not expressing doubt that something happened to her. he is just saying it wasn t him, but he s not doubting her, the sincerity of her belief. in fact, the senate judiciary committee today got some letters from individuals whom dr. blasey ford had told about this assault
hollywood tape that we all heard, he s now telling people privately it is not even his voice. he has this alternate reality. that doesn t play well with people he needs to support kavanaugh. another major headline out of this news conference, all of the sudden the president is saying his preference is not to fire the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he may even delay the meeting he had scheduled with rosenstein tomorrow. he doesn t want to necessarily step on the hearing itself, and maybe it will wait a few more days. well, he s a showman, as we know, and he probably realizes that a double bill on one day is a waste. you have a good story to play out on friday if he keeps rosenstein or if he fires rosenstein. that s what it seemed like he was talking about, the idea that he didn t want to step on one story with another story. both of them, of course, are indicative of the chaos that marks the trump administration. gloria borger, what do you think of the president s news c