Something that we have not seen in probably a generation, americans around the country huddled in bars early in the morning and around cell phones as they walked down the streets, sneaking into closets in the office or just watching at their desks, rapt and paying attention to two people before this committee at this profound moment of cultural disruption around power, around men, around women. Today for the first time men and women got to meet dr. Blasey ford. That is the woman who says when she was 15 years old judge Brett Kavanaugh as a High School Student sexually assaulted her in a room with his friend mark judge. She was there before the committee with 11 men from the gop on one side. But she did not face questions from them. They instead had outsourced their questioning to Rachel Mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor from arizona, and a woman, a female assistant in the words of mitch mcconnell. This woman who came forward with her story was someone evidently reluctant, both in the r
Himself innocent of this charge. And now tonight the biggest question of them all. Were any votes changed after what we witnessed today . The 11th hour just getting underway on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 616 of the Trump Administration saw perhaps the most dramatic day in a generation or more on capitol hill in washington. Dr. Christine blasey ford spoke publicly for the first time about her allegations of Sexual Assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanagh. Her testimony was followed by judge kavanagh. They were the only witnesses at the Senate Judiciary hearing which lasted nearly nine hours. Competing stories with common themes, anger, memory, gender, class, a influence, and the influence of alcohol. There is a missing witness, there are missing pieces of the story. It was also a clear and rolling demonstration of just how deeply partisan we have become. Led by the people we have elected
Meaningful. He wrote, quote, Law Enforcement agencies use polygraphs to test the credibility of witnesses and criminal defendants. Refeudsing to take a polygraph, judge kavanaugh has failed that test. Judge kavanaugh claimed that all four witnesses dr. Blasey ford identified as being present at the party said that the Sexual Assault, quote, didnt happen. Only one person has said the Sexual Assault didnt happen. Brett kavanaugh. The other three party goers dr. Blasey ford identified said they do not remember the incident. That is a big difference. Do not recall is a different statement than it didnt happen. And the other woman dr. Blasey ford named who was there has since publicly stated that she believes dr. Blasey fords account. Judge kavanaugh tried to give himself an al bibi making it sod like he didnt drink on weeknights. His own High School Calendar that he provided as evidence contradicts that statement. In an exchange of senator booker, Brett Kavanaugh admitted an entry on the c
Im not an activist, and i look at this and see this in a completely different way than you see it. And i think these people should be taken seriously. The problem is, this would be quite a conspiracy for her to have been telling her therapist in 2012 about this, for her having discussed this with a friend in 2013. I mean, thats an amazing conspiracy on the part of the democrats. The name was mentioned to her husband, and she told three other people who have done sworn affidavits that it was a person who was currently a pral federal judge and someone she went to high school with. Thats an amazing conspiracy for the democrats to have known in the future this was going to happen. The other thing is, if this is what democrats do, then why didnt they do it to neil gorsu gorsuch, who went to georgetown prep, and nobody can seriously suggest democrats werent upset about that seat after what happened to merrick garland. And so but see, its a seat that was stolen in their eyes from the democrat
Sneaking into closets in the office or just watching at their desks, rapt and paying attention to two people before this committee at this profound moment of cultural disruption around power, around men, around women. Today for the first time men and women got to meet dr. Blasey ford. That is the woman who says when she was 15 years old judge Brett Kavanaugh as a High School Student sexually assaulted her in a room with his friend mark judge. She was there before the committee with 11 men from the gop on one side. But she did not face questions from them. They instead had outsourced their questioning to Rachel Mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor from arizona, and a woman, a female assistant in the words of mitch mcconnell. This woman who came forward with her story was someone evidently reluctant, both in the reporting and her presentation today, to tell what happened to her, evidently traumatized by what happened. And the story she told was remarkable and affecting. And i think traumati