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Series of widely attended parties in which gang rapes took place. people don t realize how small these communities are. if there had been ten of these if there was one of those that have been an enormous upper uproar among all the catholic schools and would have spread like wildfire, or even if it was a public school if any catholic kids were involved. not ten would never happen, if even one happened like that it would have been known. tucker: this claim being taken seriously throughout the press by many politicians that there were at least ten rape parties that brett kavanaugh took place and that somehow no one-third heard about for 35 years, that doesn t strike you as credible? 100% not credible. if anything even close to thate had happened, word would have traveled like wildfire throughc our different schools and communities and parents on all of that. tucker: how do you think the kavanaugh family is doing in the face of all this? i think they are trying to stay strong a ....
Lifetime appointment to the supreme court and who i now think bears the burden of disproving these allegations rather than dr. ford and miss ramirez. tucker: richard goodstein has thought ary lot about due process and he advised both bill and hillary clinton s campaigns. can you think of any period in american history where the presumption of innocence and due process were suspended in cases where people were accused of sexual misconduct and they were punished? i don t think presumption of innocence really plays a role. tucker: has that ever happened in american history? was there ever a time where we, like right now, said we accused him of it, and he must be guilty? of course he is guilty. this is not a jury, we don t have a presumption of innocence and it s certainly not a criminal proceeding where we have to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. this is you re last guest said derisively, it s not a job interview. it kind of is. ....
Come at a case with assumptions based on immutable characteristics. in other words, there is a man, there is a woman, but we know that women tell the truth all the time and men often like him or vice a versa. what happens to the justice when you approach those on those terms? it s not justice, tucker. social media for saying that this #ibelieveher is absolutely. that is 200 years of jurisprudence, and it s not a criminal trial, it s a job interview. i don t care what it is, you are calling someone a sex offender and a rapist and he has absolutely every right to have those allegations challenged, tested, and even questioned, and that s not victim blaming, it sc simply seeking justice. tucker: what you said used to be obvious, i don t think i met anyone who would disagreee with that, but now it seems half the country seems what you re saying is a micro-aggression. ....
Since? washington is a very small place. among the permanent population here, everyone knows everyone or know someone who does. so where are all the witnesses to this? where are the people that have spoken to witnesses about it over the last 35 years? did swetnick herself tell anyone over that time? kavanaugh s attorney beth wilkinson raised these a questions today.e i have had people call me and email me saying they know him, they were at the parties, they ve never met her and never seen her. they ve never heard of any of these allegations. if this was happening over two years with all these women and all these men, someone else would have heard about it and would have reported it by now.pe tucker: fair questions. what s the answer? and by the way, what was julie swetnick doing at these parties? swetnick graduated in 1980 which meant she would be in college at the time that took place and yet she went to parties with high school kids. at these parties she saw horrific gang rapes, ....
Have a lot of support even though they see the opposite on their doorsteps and other ways. we are all here to support them and i think they know that.en tucker: i think it sr important to remember that these are people, human beings. yes, and there are children involved. tucker: yes, that s awful. thank you very much. a lot is going on with the story and it s developing all kinds of different directions, even tonight. every person who s covering this is getting text after email after text, with new threads and other allegations. we can t guarantee which are true but we will determine that. we will cover tomorrow s hearing starting at 9:00 a.m. and will go throughout the day. that s it for us, to any and every night to the show that s the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. good night from washington. ....