this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the clintons, and millions of dollars in money from outside left wing opposition groups, and as we all know in the united states political system of the early 2000s what goes around comes around. you don t often hear that from a federal judge. that was a very angry brett kavanaugh yesterday, and now that man facing questions about his temperament and his past
back since. what we do expect, and as i say, he made a formal announcement today that he was going to back kavanaugh because he said we have to follow the presumption of innocence and there wasn t hard to prove other than the testimony of christine blasey ford that this event happened, there s a little bit of doubt as to whether the democrats were able to get him to change his mind. harris: you are talking about the tears, i think you mean senator chris, who watched and he was on the verge of tears. let me ask you about what happens going forward. they are going to take this vote right now and we will know in just a few moments if it does shake out 11-10 or somehow different than that, we will know whether or not judge brett kavanaugh will be full senate vote next week to become the next justice on the supreme court. where do we stand in washington
phrases can, harris, and good afternoon to you. it appeared that the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court was going to pass out of the judiciary committee on a straight party line vote, all 11 republicans in favor, all ten democrats against. that seemed to be sealed when jeff flake, the one wavering republican indicated this morning that he was going to support judge kavanaugh. however, after he announced that, and democrats were very upset, a couple of them literally were on the verge of tears. after they had their first meeting this morning, a number of the democrats walked out while others were making speeches and they were able to corral senator flake into a side room there in the senate and they were lobbying him, harder, to try to switch his vote and persuade him not to vote for kavanaugh and flake has not been
what is the meaning of nonparticipation at this juncture, does it matter to get it to a full senate on brett kavanaugh and the supreme court? it doesn t matter, but i think they will vote no in the vote on the actual recommendation. they were protesting, that was booker and harris, they were protesting the setting of the time and moving forward and also the fbi investigation in motion by senator senator blumenthal,s booker and harris said they didn t vote at all in protest, they also walked out with mazie hirono from hawaii. harris: we are watching the scene, you ve been covering all of this since they began the hearings, listening to dr. christine blasi ford and judge brett kavanaugh yesterday, and all the way through today and in each moment there was this build to what senators
that s what the democrats have been hanging their hat on pretty much all yesterday and all toda today. the problem with that scenario is one, what do they get? they always go back to mark judge and what is going to say or not say. he s now filed a letter he signed saying he doesn t remember anything like this party, are they going to get something more? the fbi could ask him questions that probe him, that s what democrats want to see. they also want to see other avenues explored. the problem, as i said, they sat on it. up until the end of this process. and now it s being delayed and the argument on the other side is that doing so by politics. there you see senators coming out of that room. harris: i ve taken out that