i d like to go over a couple of guidelines for our question and answer session today. if i ask a question yeah, i m ready. if i ask a question. thank you. if i ask a question that you do not understand, please ask me to clarify it or ask it in a different way. i may ask a question where i incorporate some information you have already provided. if i get it wrong, please correct me. i m not going to ask you to guess. if you do estimate, please let me know you re estimating. i want to make sure that all of the committee members have gotten a copy of the definition of sexual behavior? yes. at least i have one. we all do. and you have that as well, judge kavanaugh? yeah. okay. first of all, have you been given or reviewed a copy of the questions that i will be asking
bush s office. here s what she recently wrote in centralmaine.com. today she stands by her comments. quote, brett was an advocate for young women like me. he encouraged me to take on more responsibility and to feel confident in my role. in fact, during the 2004 republican national convention, brett gave me the opportunity to help with the preparation and review of the president s remarks, something i never something i never would have had the chance to do if he had not included me. and he didn t just include me in the work, he made sure i was at madison square garden to watch the president s speech instead of back at the hotel watching on tv. end quote. as a judge since 2006 i have had
nation s most sensitive secrets. i traveled on air force one all over the country and the world with president bush. i went everywhere with him, from texas to pakistan, from alaska to australia, from buckingham palace to the vatican. three years in the west wing, five and a half years in the white house. i was then nominated to be a judge on the d.c. circuit. i was thoroughly vetted by the white house, the fbi, the american bar association and this committee. i sat before this committee for two thorough confirmation hearings in 2004 and 2006. for the past 12 years leading up to my nomination for this job, i ve served in a very public arena as a federal judge on what is often referred to as the second most important court in the country. i ve handled some of the most
column. if we can read body language at all, we just watched the entire republican side file into this hearing room and we re ready to listen to grassley s mike if there s any audio to listen to. all they re missing is judge kavanaugh, but something tells me there he is. there s judge kavanaugh and his wife. let s listen into the hallway.
as soon as my team learned the names of these three potential witnesses, we immediately reached out to them, requesting an interview. in response, all three submitted statements to us denying any knowledge of the gathering dr. ford described. if we had calls with them, we would have invited the minority to join. every time that we ve received any information regarding judge kavanaugh, we ve sought to immediately follow through and investigate. the minority staff sat on dr. ford s letter for weeks and staff told us that they believed it is, quote, highly inappropriate to have these follow-up calls before the fbi finishes its investigation, end of quote, even though the fbi had completed its background