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So it's all tied together. >> yeah. and john, that point mimi just made about brett kavanaugh's minimizing of his drinking is crucial to his defense because he can't admit he has any memory lapses because that opens up a theoretical window to does he have a memory lapse about dr. ford? and so we have his friends from yale going to a point of having to get together, write an op-ed piece -- they say we each asserted that brett lied to the senate by stating under oath he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. they all drank with him in college, they all saw him get to that poin...

Telling the truth, which by the way a lot of people thought she was after they heard her, and that's gotten erased. and most importantly they really needed to do a probing questioning of kavanaugh. he has not had that. that hearing was not a questioning. it was essentially him giving a written statement but orally. i didn't do it, i never did it but that's it. he was not pres said on it. he was not tested with facts about the drinking, which is relevant to the central issue of -- because if he admits that he drank too much, he can't say for certain that he didn't commit this assault. so it's a...

That covers everything. >> but not the memory lapse. he says he did not have memory laps. >> he says he did not blackout. there's a growing body of witnesses and evidence that he did drink too much and did have memory lapses. >> there are people that said he must have had memory lapses. it's hard to prove he had it without getting in his brain. >> some classmates said he -- >> we have people that say they are aware of his memory laps. >> i think what it shows more than anything else is how brett kavanaugh, as a political -- this was a guy who was not just a great judge or legal mind, but his f...

Christine blasey ford, she said that kavanaugh was inebriated in the alleged attacked, and also the second accuser as well. so perhaps he drank to where he does not remember what events transpired. he notably would not say in the testimony whether he had drank to the point where he blanked out. so it is this idea of whose account is credible and whose account may in fact contain some memory lapse. so they are not unrelated, and we will see if the fbi takes that behavior into account. >> and joe manchin today said that if he lied it should be taken into account. >> if he clearly lied, that is g...