kavanagh s high school life that he could legally drink, not one day, and boy, did that kid drink. brett kavanagh put it in writing in his high school year book. he stated, his stated ambition in writing was to be part of a group who drank 100 kegs of beer. a small school. he would have had to drink a keg himself to do his part. and it sounds like brett kavanagh maybe did that. his yale freshman roommate issued a written statement saying brett kavanagh, quote, was a notably heavy drinker even by the standards of the time, and that he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. i did not observe the specific incident in question, but i do remember brett kavanagh drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk. now, that s freshman year in college, and it doesn t sound like somebody who learned how to drink freshman year at yale. sounds like he showed up there knowing how to drink. the incident brett kavanagh
two probably collide and that s the reality. the question is how you mediate that. high school can be ugly. high school can be petty, it can be where mistakes were made, but now he s holding himself up as a paragon of virtue in high school and there is contradictory evidence baked in the cake in his yearbook. he says repeatedly i ve always treated women with dignity. the fact is just that yearbook alone is not treating this woman with dignity. that doesn t prove or disprove the sexual assault allegation, but it does disprove the notion that he always treated women with dignity. i could be wrong, but if we go back to his yearbook there is not a lot of references to going to church on sunday but there are a lot of references to drinking in excess at 100 kegs and all that stuff. i understand that it s high school but it is just a very this captures it in realtime. yearbook is in realtime. it s an indelible snapshot. it also could have very little to do with the man he is. he s sta
mccallum on fox. does that jive with your reporting? even just judging from the yearbook, craig, there s a lot of referencing of alcohol, booze-fueled parties. apparently judge kavanaugh and his friends at the time had this thing called the 100 keg club, and some have interpreted that as wanting to drink 100 kegs of beer over the course of the year. the drinking age in the area at the time was 18, so some of them might have been of age, at least for part of senior year, but there was definitely a lot of alcohol-related aleutians. that is not entirely surprising. i don t know the degree of it, though. i should add on the renate club we have no reason to believe that there was sexual contact with these boys. in fact, her friends from the time have denied that, and so have kavanaugh and some of the boys in the group who responded to us say there was not physical, sexual contact between themselves and her. there may have been a lot of boasting about things that
and yes, there were parties and the drinking age was 18, and yes the seniors were legal and had beer there. and yes people might have had beer on too many occasion. and i think all of us have done things we look back on high school and would rather cringe a bit. drinking age was 18 he says when he was a senior. he s reported to have done an awful lot of drinking before that. the idea he might have had to mean beers, in his high school yearbook his stated ambition is 100 kegs. he s in the group of boys who want to consume 100 kegs of beer senior year and may have succeeded doing it. if brett kavanaugh is going to be reckless enough to understate his drinking when the evidence
amount of drinking, he is in very serious trouble under oath in the senate judiciary committee. that is an easy way to get in trouble there. joining us now msnbc contributor and back with us lisa graves. and ruth, a book has been written. no book was ever written about my high school drama and beer. but with the image we already have very reliably delivered about what was going on at that school for brett kavanaugh to try to understate his ambition to be part of the team that drinks 100 kegs, he s walking into serious trouble under oath in the judiciary committee. well, i think there s a lot of interesting questions that he could be asked in the judiciary committee. and not just about how much he drank in high school. but, for example, i m interested in what knowledge he had of ed whalen at the ethics and public