that was posted online saturday night, which is an edited excerpt of their new book that will be published tomorrow. the education of brett kavanaugh and investigation. the article in the new york times was apparently enough for democratic candidates to call for impeachment. the article in the times concentrates on what deborah ramirez says happened to her when she was a student at yale college with brett kavanaugh and what happened to her when she told her story to the fbi during the brett kavanaugh background investigation. deborah ramirez story first appeared in the new yorker during the kavanaugh confirmation process. here is her brett kavanaugh story as it appears in the new book that will be published tomorrow. during the drinking game, ramirez said the guys kept picking her to drink more, and she became inebriated. at one point someone strapped on a fake penis and pointed it at her. then later ramirez said she had a penis thrust in her face. she remembered pushing it aw
story? my sense that max stier feels as if he did his duty, which is he brought the information he had to senators and to the fbi. he made them all very aware that he had these this experience that he had witnessed firsthand in a dorm room during his freshman year at yale. what they did with that information was then up to them. it never actually materialized and became part of the process. brett kavanaugh was confirmed and he was done. his work had been done. he had done his part, he had no interest in revisiting it. in the article, you say that brett kavanaugh didn t you didn t agree to an interview because you couldn t agree to terms for the interview. what terms did he want? we had some back and forth with the supreme court spokesperson about this, and ultimately he wanted to be able to have a say that he declined to comment for the book, and we just weren t comfortable doing that if we were going to have any sort of a meeting with him and and to deborah ramirez. this sto
happened to max steyer, but he had more direct contact with lawmakers. we have reports that he had direct contact with senator kunz and others. he knew them. they knew him. they had a sense of his credibility. i want to talk about one of the most surprising things that i read, which is literally the last line of the new york times article. this is deborah ramirez. after what you just talked about, this very frustrating experience with the fbi, you talked to a lot of people who are bitter and angry about the way this investigation went and didn t include them. and she says, you can t look at justice as just the confirmation vote. deborah ramirez said, there is so much good that came out of it. there is so much more good to come. what did she mean by the good? i think in the case of christine blasey ford, this experience is one she may have
the investigating process raising additional questions as to whether certain information was followed up on. the recent reports senator klobuchar refers to are the work of our first guests tonight, new york times reporters robin bob rubin and kate kelly who published an article in the new york times sunday edition posted online saturday night, which is an edited excerpt of their new book published tomorrow, the education of brett kavanaugh and investigation. the article in the new york times was apparently enough for democratic candidates to call for impeachment. the investigation concentrates on what happened to deborah ramirez during college with brett kavanaugh and what happened when she told her story to the fbi during the brett kavanaugh background investigation. deborah ramirez story first appeared in the new yorker during the kavanaugh confirmation process. here is her brett kavanaugh story as it appears in the new
the times later on sunday added that line to the end of the paragraph about max stier s accusation. that line in the times now reads, the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. leading off our discussion tonight, are robin pogrebin and kate kelly who writes about wall street for the new york times. they are the authors of the new book, the education of brett kavanaugh: an investigation, which will be out tomorrow. first of all, let s start with what happened at the new york times. what happened with that omission that the times later felt belonged in the piece? well, first of all, lawrence, there was zero intent to mislead anybody about the details of the incident. that excerpt that we ran in the times was an adaptation of what s in our book that you just described so aptly. it really focuses on the experience of deborah ramirez as we understand it, after robin