to a nonvote. in fact, a lot of senators used to do this a lot of the time in the past. it s a very common thing. you never took the closure vote to mean the guarantee on what the next vote would be. it was simply senators saying, well, of course, this should go to a final vote. and so that s also a possibility here. and it does feel like every day this story takes another twist, this nomination takes another twist. there is a new either external or intrinsic nafactor that we weren t factoring in, and so this is real news time. and you re right, mitch mcconnell is really worried about a welding in montana this weekend. once again tonight brett kavanaugh has broken sharply with the tradition of supreme court nominees and has decided to make another public statement outside the judiciary committee hearing room, which is usually the only place we ever hear from a supreme court nominee.
shoulder and said i got no moment. you know, nothing they wanted to say about this. people were leaving ashen-faced. that s not to say no one had anything to say. i spoke to orrin hatch. asked him whether he thought dr. ford was credible. in his answer, he said, it s too early to make those kinds of determinations but she s a good witness, articulate, she s an attractive person, but i think it s early to make those determinations. that comment there, a little bit of evidence as to why republicans wanted to make sure they had an outside prosecutor asking these questions in the room today. yes, well put, garrett haake. andrea mitchell? well, you know, garrett s right there and he s seeing it and witnessing it in real time. lindsey graham has been the president s bodyguard on capitol hill for quite some time, which was a quick conversion, as senator mccain became more and more indisposed and eventually
witnesses as we find them. you don t often find them with us. they come to us with criminal histories and problems of every sort, not able to articulate. to have a witness like this seared, as she says, the memory of this seared in her mind, and to be able to hear her explain it, to have written that paper herself, to deliver it. the impact through the screen, i can t even imagine sitting in that room and, and not buying in to every piece of it. yes, she can t remember specifically date, time and place and she d come to one of us a week after or two weeks aft after, we would have had cops drive her around, work those things out. they are, to me, so minor in the broader context of what we ve seen. but her credibility is just overwhelming to me. and i think the last thing i d say about that, between the time she came forward and her appearance, probably to you, as
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across the board. listening to gram there, that sound bite could have come from any day this week. he s been judge kavanaugh s most vocal defender in the senate, making exactly this point over and over and over again. that if a person s career can end or life can end based on an accusation without proof, as he sees it, everybody s going down in the united states senate, and having been in the room for the last hour or so, graham has been visibly annoyed by these proceedings as they ve gone on. we all heard him interject several times over last hour or so. even when the cameras weren t on him, he was fidgeting in his chair, looking armd the ro ing . he s made his feelings about this entire exercise abundantly clear. other colleagues are having a different reaction. i can tell you. that room, it s small, it s packed, it s claustrophobic. even folks who are normally very chatty, including senator kennedy, from louisiana, you know, just put his arm around my