jonathan turley, professor at george washington university and fox news contributor. welcome back. we will see what we get in about 20 minutes. good morning, professor. i can see you now, i do believe. there you are. democrats yesterday consistently came back to you two things. one of which was the question of did you ever black out? the question goes to why? why was that line of questioning so persistent? what would explain that from a legal sense? first of all, i thought that the democrats were remarkably uncoordinated and really ineffective in their questioning of kavanaugh. they have had a very carefully orchestrated plan until that point, but it seemed to sort of fall apart. he put them back on their heels a little bit and going on the offensive. the returning theme to the alleged blackout could mean a couple of things. one, they were just a simply
here is what i would say. ms. ford, all i can say about ms. ford, i feel sorry for her, and i do believe something happened to her, and i don t know when and where, but i don t believe it was brett kavanaugh, and as a prosecutor, you couldn t get out of the batter s box because in america, before you can accuse somebody of a crime, you have to tell them when it happened and where it happened, and you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it did happen. the reason this case will never be brought in maryland or anywhere else, you just can t get there. if you wanted to get a warrant, which is a probable cause standard to search or arrest them, you have to present by probable cause when and where it happened. how are you supposed to defend
at the moment, things appear to be breaking brett kavanaugh s way. martha: tough session for dianne feinstein, who is accused of sitting on this for weeks. that part of the process has helped a lot of people with some questions on all of this. that will linger with her for quite some time. bill: dianne feinstein, the ranking member. let s drop in now. judiciary committee back in action today. nine: 40:00 a.m. we did have some motions for. if you remember, i said that i will give the minority a chance to make their motions. and then i was going to make a motion that we have a time certain to go. so i want to make that time certain to vote. but if there is motion from a
i ve been doing this legal stuff most of my life. i have never heard a more compelling defense of one s honor and integrity than i did from brett kavanaugh. he looked me in the eye, everybody in the eye, and he was mad, and he should have been me met. he could tell you what he was doing during high school in a way that just blew me away. brett kavanaugh and women. if you are getting rapist when you are a software and a junior in high school, you don t let it go. every woman who actually knows brett kavanaugh has come forward to say he is not the kind of gu guy. he has been at the highest level of public service, under tremendous scrutiny, six fbi investigations, and we miss sophomore, junior gang rapist. we didn t miss it. it s a bunch of garbage. we are in the twilight zone, and
thank you, mr. chairman. this has been a very difficult set of hearings. i think you have handled it very well. i complement all of our people on both sides of the aisle. taking this very seriously. it should be taken seriously. it has been 81 days since trump nominated brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. since then, we have reviewed more records of this nominee then for any supreme court nominee in history ever. ever. judge kavanaugh has testified for well over 30 hours, including in the closed session. he has answered nearly 1300 written questions. more than all of the past nominees combined. in the more than 12 years that judge kavanaugh has been a judge on the circuit, he has built a reputation for honesty, courtes