confirmation investigation. they can do it expeditiously. it won t delay unnecessarily. and at the same time it will give dr. ford the time that she needs and the time that she deserves, quite honestly, as a non-lawyer who s never testified on the hill before to prepare her testimony, to understand the process and to appear so she along with every other witness and all of the information that the fbi uncovers can be presented to centers. and jill, there were two reasons why the bush white house ordered the fbi to investigate anita hill s accusations. one was they actually had some confidence in their nominee, in that their nominee was telling it truth. and the other was they couldn t possibly expect the public to allow this confirmation to go forward or the senate to go forward without an additional fbi investigation. i think that s true. but in this day of alternative facts, which are really lies
hatch said there was true. it was true then. it s true now, but orin hatch won t say it now. now, when these two old men of the senate, orin hatch and chuck grassly, lie to us now they lie as if they don t know that the video still exists. they lie as if they don t know there s a congressional record of every word they ve ever spoken on the committee floor. they believed an investigation that only lasted a few days was the appropriate thing to do in response to anita hill s accusations. and now they re saying there s no reason to do that before hearing dr. ford s testimony. this means it s being issued with malice. chuck grassly won t even give her what he thought was appropriate for anita hill. before he then abused anita hill. he personally did in that
that being a long-standing precedent, that being the obvious first step and exactly what needs to happen next. regardless chuck grassly is denying dr. blasey ford that, and apparently the administration is denying it as well. and i think that will cause a lot of people to wonder why. why don t they want the fbi to go out and investigate these claims sphdr. blasey ford wants to investigate it. but the second thing that chairman grassly is doing to treat her even worse than anita hill is he is saying that only two people can testify. only dr. blasey ford and brett kavanaugh. that is worse treatment than anita hill received. there were outside witnesses that she was able to call that corroborated her account. that are not allowing dr. ford to do the same thing, which really shows what are they hiding? it really causes that to come into light, that, you know, as bad as anita hill was treated, that they re doing even worse to
think that s the only way we even have the slightest chance anyway of getting to the baultm of it. and voice swrans, today, chuck grassly saying no, no, no the republican committee staffers are the best investigators for this. well, he certainly made the right case for it way back when. there s no doubt that the fbi, the professionals conducting background investigations have rule play here, and keeping them from playing that rule has in many ways obstructed the investigation. and keeping the senate from having critical information that they need to fulfill their constitutional duty. the fbi does this quickly. everybody who s worked for the justice department has seen a rush come through an a judicial confirmation investigation. they can do it expeditiously. it won t delay unnecessarily. and at the same time it will give dr. ford the time that she
dr. ford says brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, tried to rape her, she believes. brett kavanaugh says nothing like that ever happened. one of them, one of those two people wants the fbi to investigate and the other one doesn t. why isn t brett kavanaugh demanding an fbi investigation? why? why not? why doesn t brett kavanaugh want to submit to the best professional investigators we have, and why does dr. ford want to submit to an investigation by the fbi? why does she want to do that? and why do the republicans on the senate want to save brett kavanaugh from ever facing an fbi question about this? every reason that they give is a lie every single reason. you just saw orin hatch say it s the appropriate thing to do. you saw chuck grassly say that that is exactly what was done when the judiciary committee learned about anita hill s accusations against clarence thomas.