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kavanaugh, of sexually assaulting her in a high school party back in the early 1980s. brett kavanaugh will testify as well after his accuser, and we know from his opening statement, he ll admit he was not perfect in high school, but, and i m quoting now, never did anything remotely resembling what dr. ford describing. not appearing today will be other accusers who have emerged in the past week or so. one in the past day. a former class mate of brett kavanaugh s at male claims he exposed himself to her again at a drunken party. yesterday a third woman publically accused brett kavanaugh of physically abusive behavior towards girls and claims brett kavanaugh was present at a party where she herself was drugged and gang raped. what is it that caused you to decide to come forward at this very moment one day before the hearing and make yourself public? well, it wasn t that i wanted to come out one day before the
party on this. all key senators to watch as we go into and out of today s historic wearing, wolf. all right. thank you so much. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh s historic hearing is now just moments away. we will see christine blasey ford live for the first time in that senate hearing room. let s bring back our panel and talk about this and let s start with a couple new panelists, senator rick santorum. you have been through this process. although, the nominees you voted for, this was certainly not as contentious. what are you going to be looking for today? well, i guess, you know, if i was a member sitting there, i would be looking at dr. ford as someone who is a, i hate to say this, but a pawn in a bigger chess game. and that and i d be sympathetic, frankly, because this is someone who came forward, didn t want to have her information disclosed, got outed
and that would probably wouldn t come testify, but it would have the effect of slowing it down. and what kind of company does she have with that? you typically see suzanne collins and lisa murkowski together and they were getting tremendous pressure from back home. folks threatening to run against collins in maine. murkowski, the governor of alaska coming out against brett kavanaugh, some local groups as well. so there is a tremendous amount of pressure, and it will be interesting to see if, as we have seen in the past, they basically kind of do it together. comes to the credibility of question. let me read from the prepared testimony of professor ford. there was music playing in the bedroom. it was uturned up louder. i was pushed on to the bed and brett got on top of me. the american people viewed it as a draw. how do you settle that? in today s world we know people
in, senator, but the mood today with the me too movement is a lot different than it was in the early 90s. i get that. and i think what republicans believe is that democrats, for partisan and for political purposes, have weaponized the me too movement to attack brett kavanaugh in order to stop a fifth judge to be on the court. when i said that christine blasey ford is a pawn, there s a war going on here. and she is an unwilling participant in that war because she didn t want to be. the war to stop kavanaugh. but it s a bigger war. this is the big schism that we see in this country between the left and the right. and the progressives and the conservatives. and the central role that the court has played in moving this country to the left. and now we see it, the principal vehicle for the transformational change we have seen in a lot of the progressive ideology is now being threatened.