just actual bias but it s the appearance of impartiality that a judge might have. that was a performance that was unmasked. and what i worried about was that it was actually president trump s idea of what a judge should be. right. as opposed to what a judge should be. and in the wall street journal, that was already extraordinary that he felt the need to write an op-ed. and the op-ed was so fundamentally disingenuous. he said that thursday s performance was because he was emotional and acting as a dad and a husband and a father. that performance on thursday was not spontaneous. he rued out that talk. so the notion that you were swept away by emotion doesn t make any sense. the problem is you can t unring that bell. he was unmasked in a way that i thought fundamentally disqualified him from going forward. cherilyn, susan collins had a long section in her quite lengthy speech today about presumption of innocence. it s a theme that mitch
find a cabinet member, these are coming from public service. that ought to set an example of civility in american society. and it s been made worse by what has happened to judge kavanaugh. i hope we can say no to mob rule by voting to confirm judge kavanaugh. no to mob rule. well, first of all, american democracy is built by the people, for the people. it is our attempt at americans pursuing self-governance. but, you know, i think if a lot of these republican senators are upset at the reaction that s going on, maybe they should stop running away from their town halls. maybe they should visit their constituents. maybe they should pick up their phone. maybe they should answer e-mails. but because they are running away from the basic tenants of
investigation, nothing normal about how this whole process was handled. for the life of me, we are telegraphing something very, very damaging about the senate, the judiciary committee s operations and, of course, should judge kavanaugh get on the supreme court, which is where he s heading, we re going to send yet another person with a huge cloud over his head to the supreme court, it s bad enough we sent one person like that. i think it affects the credibility of the supreme court and let s not forget that he just ripped the veil of objectivity by showing us what a partisan operative he s going to be. and he is. senator mazie hirono, thank you for being with me. sure. joining me now, nbc national political reporter heidi przybyla detailing how kavanaugh s yale classmates were ignored by the fbi in its latest investigation and it includes some remarkable texts that you acquired.
whose side they will be on is white men. at this moment we re reminded of where we sit and where we stand. the idea is that there s no one to have faith in but ourselves in november to show up at the polls and do what is necessary. yeah. to the fact that there are two collisions in american life, and everyone s chosen sides in washington about which ones to pardon. susan collins is in the political collision of donald trump. george h.w. bush tweeted today cheering on susan collins. they re ride or die. honestly, one of the things that has most kind of shaken me is how much this episode has solidified that coalition. yes. the extent to which all these people who maybe were uneasy about trump, something about the spectacle of brett kavanaugh kind of almost being derailed from his life s ambition because of the words of a couple of
kind of stolen from him. that he s entitled to this supreme court seat, and that anything short of reasonable doubt, beyond reasonable doubt is not an excuse to take this prize that he has worked his tail off to achieve away from him. it s just been amazing the deeply felt anger. totally, that you see on the right among people who have been skeptical of trump but who are now all in, and who like they re all in around the white rage. like that s what this is. when you saw brett kavanaugh s face and you saw that anger, that was the physical embodiment of white patriarchy and like evil. like it really was. the rage on his face and the entitlement that you re talking about, that is the embodiment of this entire presidency, this entire administration, and he is winning. and the republicans are now like this is our guy. we re behind him, and we re going go all the way in. i m telling you, the time for civility is over. democrats need to stop treating this like this is every other