people that they on the other side. on the other side. that they already wanted to get out. but this is not a bipartisan phenomenon. the left has been much better about cleaning house. although that instinct to me is pretty universal. right. the instinct but i think that there has been a kind of recognition of that instinct on the left and an understanding that you have to transcend this. things are changing. what you ve basically seen is kind of house cleaning in liberal institutions. the media kind of politics, but really none on the right except where it s utterly convenient. don t forget that it was bill shine who was coaching brett kavanaugh for this performance, right? so there is sort of no consequences on the right for multiple accusations unless they re so egregious like roy moore and then they ll stay behind you. they supported roy moore. they were there for him. donald trump afterwards went down there. they congratulated him. steve bannon was
well, i m very, very depressed about it. i really am. i i waited until after the judiciary committee hearing and i interviewed judge kavanaugh personally, watched the hearing to decide after i had read his opinions. i announced my opposition to two reasons, that he was too frankly too deferential to the executive. i think he won t hold the president accountable. i was worried about whether he would uphold precedent. then when dr. ford came forward with her allegations suddenly it was a real test of the senate, would we take an allegation, a serious allegation of sexual assault with significant corroboration, would we take it seriously or not? and the senate, i don t think, took it seriously. i m reminded of that one of my favorite movies china town when they asked the detective who used to be a detective back in china town, what did you do there? he said as little as possible. that s basically what the gop majority did. the investigation was a sham. they interviewed a handful o
talk me through the story, heidi. chris, well this just shows how the issue of whether it was a complete investigation is going to linger for a long time. here you have basically electronic information from people who wanted to come forward to the fbi, wanted to come forward to the judiciary committee being turned away. and these text messages that nbc obtained exclusively show here that brett kavanaugh was actually advising one of those people who deborah ramirez identified as an eyewitness. and i think you have the text message there. but if you put it up, you will see that this eyewitness, who we ve confirmed was one of the people that debbie ramirez identified as in the room is lashing out and saying how could you tell anybody that i was talking to brett kavanaugh in advance of this new yorker story? and so what does this tell us, chris? it just tells us that at this moment, when we don t even know if the eyewitnesses that debbie
the lasting damage to the supreme court with sherrilyn ifill and nancy girtner. this was not a search for the truth. how we move forward after a nightmare week were survivors. indelible in the hipaa campus is the laughter. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. well, in the words of mitch mcconnell they plowed right through, ignoring testimony from christine blasey ford that even they themselves said was credible and compelling. as well as evidence that brett kavanaugh repeatedly lied under oath, senators from the party of trump today moved to give kavanaugh a lifetime appointment on the supreme court. final vote is expected tomorrow, but the fight appears to be over. one republican, senator lisa murkowski of alaska voted no today, a decision she said she made at the last minute after
journal op-ed was not an apology, it was a justification. correct. it was an explanation that i get to do it because i feel that i was wrongly accused. do you know how many people are wrongly accused in our justice system? he thought that was good enough. i get to present myself, and he actually thought it was something good. he described himself as passionate. you know, when you start using those words that i was forceful and passionate and you describe yourself in that way you think that you did a good thing. so i don t think this you can t unring this bell. we can t unsee what we saw. there are going to be consequences to that in terms of how people think about our justice system, how they think about the supreme court and what the rules are for who has to obey the rules that are set forth and who doesn t. sherrilyn ifill and judge nancy girtner, thank you both. thank you. unless something changes judge kavanaugh will be confirmed one month before voters show up to the p