or part of what happened? it s you re asking about, yeah, blackout. i don t know have you? could you answer the question, judge? i just so, you have that s not happened? is that your answer? yeah, and i m curious if you have? i have no drinking problem, judge. well, after watching that hearing, mark oszler, a yale law school classmate of kavanaugh s, who had originally supported his nomination, retracted his support. in a letter written with another yale law school classmate, he wrote, having watched those hearings, we must withdraw our support for judge kavanaugh s confirmation. mike ostler is a professor at st. thomas law school and joins us now. professor, thank you for joining us. and tell us how it s gone through your mind from the beginning of this a couple of weeks ago to now where you do oppose the nomination? well, i originally signed the letter supporting judge kavanaugh, because i knew him, i liked him when we were in law school, and i knew that he had a
but they re part of the larger sphere of those who control our government. they have to interact with the other branches of government. and one of the things we saw with the interchange last week was judge kavanaugh having that kind of troubling discourse with a co-equal branch of government. and that added to the weight of what s troubling a lot of people, i think. well, mark, let me know what you think of this. at an event today in florida, former supreme court justice john paul stevens who s 98 now, said that last week s hearings caused him to change his mind on kavanaugh. let s watch. the qualifications for to sit on the supreme court. the hearings caused me to change my mind. he has demonstrated a potential bias and that the senator should really pay attention to it.