son. my family and i intend no ill will toward dr. ford or her family. but i swear today under oath before the senate and the nation, before my family and god, i am innocent of this charge. thank you, judge kavanaugh. before we start questions, i won t repeat what i said this morning, but we ll do it the same way as we did for dr. ford. and five-minute rounds. and so we will start with ms. mitchell. good afternoon, judge kavanaugh. we have not met. my name is rachel mitchell.
women. in a letter to this committee, my women law clerks said i was one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers. and they wrote that the legal profession is fairer and more equal because of me. fairer and equal because of me. in my time on the bench, no federal judge, not a single one in the country, has sent more women law clerks to clerk on the supreme court than i have. before this allegation arose two weeks ago, i was required to start making certain administrative preparations for my possible transfer to the supreme court, just in case i was confirmed. as part of that, i had to, in essence, contingently hire a group of law clerks who could be available to clerk at the supreme court for me on a moment s notice. i did so and hired four law
i ve been a judge for 12 years. i have a long record of service to america and to the constitution. i revere the constitution. i am deeply grateful to president trump for nominating me. he was so gracious to my family and me on the july night he announced my nomination at the white house. i thank him for his steadfast support. when i accepted the president s nomination, ashley and i knew this process would be challenging. we never expected that it would devolve into this. explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives. ashley has been a rock. i thank god every day for ashley
welcome, again, judge. before i begin, i would want to give you, judge, an opportunity to introduce your family. thank you, mr. chairman, and senator feinstein push the red button if its not on. thank you, mr. chairman and senator feinstein and members of the committee. i m honored to be here today with my family. my wife ashleigh, proud west texan, now the town manager of our local community where we live, our daughters margaret and liza. thank the committee for arranging a day off from school today. my mom and dad, martha and ed kavanaugh. my aunt and uncle, nancy and mark murphy and my first cousins rosie and elizabeth murphy. i m very honored to be here, honored to have my family here.
few hours. category one, what else can you tell us? we re seeing strengthening happen right now. it didn t happen all night long and we re sitting here going this may be nothing. this may be a t.s. at landfall but now the hurricane hunter airplanes flying through it are flying into stronger winds. 61 mile per hour. all night it was 55 but we re seeing a much larger increase in lightning and thunder out there. that s the center of the storm and when the lightning and thunder get there, that means the storms start to get there was no lightning and thunder all night but we are expecting that to get going. like ed was saying, it s in the warm water. this water 187 is 87 degree out there. warmer than you want to swim in your pool. it s making landfall near bay st. louis, biloxi, gulfport, somewhere between 10:00 and midnight tonight. don t let that fool you because by 6:00 winds will be somewhere