there s never been a republican woman on the judiciary committee. so that s a problem. that s why they couldn t trust themselves to question judge kavanaugh or dr. ford. i understand there s a gender component. but there s not a race component. and yet liberals constantly keep bringing race into this okay. i m not a liberal, steve. i m a conservative. you sure sound like one. i ve been a conservative my whole life. it s diversity hold on. why do you think it s not about race? there s no racial component? because everyone involved in the case is white. there s not a racial component to the kavanaugh nomination. there s absolutely a gender component. i understand that. what i m saying is i think what liberals are doing here is there s a grievance overlay where they want to inject race even into issues where race doesn t have relevance. and i think it s indicative unfortunately of their fixation how is race not relevant when you don t have people who are making dec
three tonight with that op-ed. and who knows whether it will work. what do you think of the former supreme court justice stevens saying he shouldn t get the job? i think it s improper for justice stevens to be weighing in on current nominees to the court. but i share his sentiments. i think he s speaking for a lot of people who are very disquieted by kavanaugh s performance before the judiciary committee. and it wasn t just the i can understand look, i can understand kavanaugh being angry if he thinks he was a genuinely innocent person who was being accused of these horrible things, you can understand that anger. but i think he took it too far. he took it in a partisan direction. he took it in a conspiratorial direction claiming this was somehow payback for the clintons or as steve was suggesting this is part of a vendetta against trump when in fact the previous trump nominee, neil gorsuch, he didn t face these accusations because there was no woman coming forward to say that s
lasting impact. so what is the lasting impact of christine blasey ford? if the fbi report doesn t support ford s allegations as some republicans are suggesting and kavanaugh ends up on the supreme court, what message does that send to this country? what message does it send to victims of sexual assault? what does it tell them about the consequences of speaking out about a horrifying experience in did the leaders of this country really listen to christine blasey ford? we re going to discuss right now. chris sill lis za is politics editor-at-large, haley edwards is here, as well, the author of that time magazine cover story. good evening. i want to get into the cover story with you but i have to ask our politics editor about this op-ed. yeah into it is a last-minute dramatic move. yeah. you know at a baseball game when it s the ninth inning you re ahead by one run, you bring in your closer. this is an attempt to be a closing argument with a very
they rallied outside the supreme court. where does this leave our country. how will this go down in history? i want you to take a look now. this is time magazine s new cover an illustration of christine blasey ford using words from her testimony, words like these. with what degree ofernity do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? 100%. 100%. indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. the uproarious laughter between the two. and their having fun at my expense. apart from the assault itself, these past couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life. i ve of to relive this trauma in front of the world. and i ve seen my life picked apart. well, the cover s title, her
so where does this leave our country? how will this go down in history? i want you to take a look now. this is time magazine s new cover. it s an illustration of christine blasey ford using words from her testimony, words like these. with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? 100%. 100%. indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. the uproarious laughter between the two. and their having fun at my expense. apart from the assault itself, these past couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life. i ve of to relive this trauma in front of the world. and i ve seen my life picked apart. well, the cover s title, her lasting impact. so what is the lasting impact of christine blasey ford?