says if what this woman says happened is true, these gang rapes, these train rapes, why did avenatti not immediately go to the fbi? she couldn t answer directly why kavanaugh himself would not go to the fbi to clear his name. they don t have a good answer for it. cynthia, it s important to remember while we watch this, there are other aircraft circling. this is not the only accuser. that s right. that s exactly right. i got the sense yesterday, because katy i watched your show, that was a fascinating interview with beth. she wanted to focus on the train rapes. but let s remember as outrageous as that claim is, and as hard as it is as the mother of four daughters that that was happening but as a sex crimes prosecutor didn t surprise me, mark judge, the great mystery man in all of this, his girlfriend said he told her that was basically what was going on.
information. when we followed up with judge kavanaugh after we received dr. ford s allegations, the ranking member staff didn t join us, even though these calls are usually done on a bipartisan basis. they joined other calls with the judge but they didn t participate or ask any questions. would you please rise, sir. do you affirm that the testimony you are about to give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? i do. and like we like we offered to senator or to dr. ford, you can take whatever time you want now for your opening statement and then we ll go to questions. so proceed. mr. chairman, ranking member feinstein, members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to make my
this committee said, quote, judge kavanaugh is your worst nightmare. a former head of the democratic national committee said, quote, judge kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of americans for decades to come. i understand the passions of the moment. but i would say to those senators, your words have meaning. millions of americans listened carefully to you. given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family, to send any violent e-mail to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends, to blow me up and take me down.
significant and sensitive cases affecting the lives and liberties of the american people. i have been a good judge. and for this nomination, another fbi background investigation, another american bar association investigation, 31 hours of hearings, 65 senator meetings, 1,200 written questions, more than all previous supreme court nominees combined. throughout that entire time, throughout my 53 years and seven months on this earth until last week, no one ever accused me of any kind of sexual misconduct, no one ever. a lifetime, a lifetime of public service and a lifetime of high-profile public service at the highest levels of american government. never a hint of anything of this kind. and that s because nothing of this kind ever happened.
white house counsel don mcgahn. this is don mcgahn s last campaign for the trump white house. he will either leave the white house payroll after a victorious campaign to get his man on the supreme court or he will leave the white house payroll having gone down in defeat with his nominee for the supreme court. mcgahn will take his place behind the witness, in this case a federal judge. you heard one of the reporters live voicing in the scene of the hallway, we can concur very serious faces on the face of judge kavanaugh and his wife as they went by the camera location. kavanaugh s parents are there, left-hand side, front row, and he will now come forward and sit at the very same spot where dr. ford did. the questioning will get under way.