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How did we get from a chorus of expert praise and professional respect to wild tales of violent acts, sexual assault rings, fistfights on boats in harbors and the possibility of get this, of an argument in a college bar? an argument in a college bar? that is the way republicans believe they have to lie about brett kavanaugh s history. brett kavanaugh is the only supreme court nominee that we know of who got in a bar fight while he was at yale, a fight that had to be stopped by the new haven police. brett kavanaugh managed to get his name on the new haven police department police report of that bar fight. police don t get called for arguments that happen in bars. ....
Today. certainly they none of us saw this coming from justice stevens. this was actually a long scheduled minor event in florida where he was scheduled to speak because a friend invited him to. but the person interviewing him said it felt very deliberate that justice stevens wanted right off the bat in that interview, which i watched in its entirety, wanted to get out there and make this statement. and it seemed the white house realized there s got it be a response to this. it certainly does seem like a scramble to get this out and use the wall street journal as a vehicle to do it. and also it s the case that judge kavanaugh is facing virtually unprecedented opposition by law professors from all backgrounds, right, left and middle because of his temperament, because of his behavior at the hearing last week or a week ago. and i think that what you see now is a nominee who has in essence besmirched himself ....
Over with. that would would presumably be make my path to re-election easier. i didn t come here to do the easy thing. i came here to do the right thing. senator heitkamp offered two reasons she is voting against brett kavanaugh. the first is that she believes dr. christine blasey ford. i believe dr. ford. i believe her story. i found her testimony to be incredibly credible. and i found his presentation to lack the impartiality and the judicial temperament that i have come to expect from a supreme court justice. politically brave votes are rare in the united states senate. sometimes years pass without seeing one from either party. today senator heitkamp had another senator s words in mind when she made her decisions. when you make decisions about what you re going to do in your life, history will judge you but ....
The president lies and makes other republicans lie. the president s lies led to judge kavanaugh s toxic performance before the judiciary committee last week where he was really trying to appeal to trump not to pull his nomination. and today you see susan collins and jeff flake saying that that fbi investigation was quote-unquote very thorough. well, it was a lot of things but there s really no human being who believes it was very thorough. we just got a contagion of lying spreading through the republican party launched by donald trump, and others are just following along in his example. lisa graves, i m wondering since jeff flake was the one who stopped the train and really forced this investigation, i m wondering if jeff flake sees this investigation and an insult to him. because this really is mitch mcconnell making sure that the investigation was literally the least that the fbi could do. it s hard for me to imagine that a senator who had a serious ....
Police get called for fights that happen in bars. there s a big difference. but what mitch mcconnell obviously believes is that any accurate description of what we know about brett kavanaugh s proven out of control drunken behavior in high school or college hurts kavanaugh s chances for confirmation. so mitch mcconnell can t bring himself to say one honest word about that. joining our discussion now ron klain, and he was also a former chief of staff to vice prests joe biden and al gore. and lisa graves, also former senate staffer of the judicial committee is back with us. and mitch mcconnell cannot handle the truth on this one, so he has to take everything and mischaracterize it, minimize and describe it as something it wasn t. this is the contagion of the trump era. ....