court judge from the u.s. district of massachusetts. nancy, maybe i ll start with you because you had expressed a concern that was then echoed after the last time we spoke by justice former justice john paul stevens and others, retired federal judges who call themselves conservatives about the temperament on display from brett kavanaugh on thursday, the wildly partisan fashion in which he conducted himself. he wrote a sort of apology, although not really an apology in the wall street journal. i wonder if that assuaged you in how you re feeling about his impending confirmation. i ve never seen a performance of a judge that one could say a proposed candidate that one could say was dis qualifying in the way that judge kavanaugh s performance was. it was not ambiguous. the notion that he shouted out the clintons, that he talked about left wing funders conspiracy, i think i mentioned in the column i wrote that i was listening to this on the are radio. when i first heard him i thought he
the recipients of these text messages as to whether there was a anticipatory narrative about debbie ramirez and her story coming out as early as july. that was months in advance of when the story about debbie came out. one part, for instance, that s really telling is that days after christine blasey ford contacted the washington post anonymously, she was an anonymous tipper at that point, days after that the eyewitnesses who were identified by debbie ramirez were trying to get a photograph of debbie and them and to send it to the post. what was that about? these are questions, they re merely questions, the women make clear they re not drawing any conclusions, but they re questions that were never asked, never answered. all right, heidi przybyla, great reporting, eye opening, thank you very much. bring in sherrilyn ifill and nancy girtner, a retired federal court judge from the u.s. district of massachusetts. nancy, maybe i ll start with you because you had expressed a
ifill and nancy girtner. this was not a search for the truth. how we move forward after a nightmare week were survivors. indelible in the hipaa campus is the laughter. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. well, in the words of mitch mcconnell they plowed right through, ignoring testimony from christine blasey ford that even they themselves said was credible and compelling. as well as evidence that brett kavanaugh repeatedly lied under oath, senators from the party of trump today moved to give kavanaugh a lifetime appointment on the supreme court. final vote is expected tomorrow, but the fight appears to be over. one republican, senator lisa murkowski of alaska voted no today, a decision she said she made at the last minute after spending yesterday meeting with sexual assault survivors.
journal op-ed was not an apology, it was a justification. correct. it was an explanation that i get to do it because i feel that i was wrongly accused. do you know how many people are wrongly accused in our justice system? he thought that was good enough. i get to present myself, and he actually thought it was something good. he described himself as passionate. you know, when you start using those words that i was forceful and passionate and you describe yourself in that way you think that you did a good thing. so i don t think this you can t unring this bell. we can t unsee what we saw. there are going to be consequences to that in terms of how people think about our justice system, how they think about the supreme court and what the rules are for who has to obey the rules that are set forth and who doesn t. sherrilyn ifill and judge nancy girtner, thank you both. thank you. unless something changes judge kavanaugh will be confirmed one month before voters show up to the p
but the thread that you see that runs through it is questions from these women who got were the recipients of these text messages as to whether there was a anticipatory narrative about debbie ramirez and her story coming out as early as july. that was months in advance of when the story about debbie came out. one part, for instance, that s really telling is that days after christine blasey ford contacted the washington post anonymously, she was an anonymous tipper at that point, days after that the eyewitnesses who were identified by debbie ramirez were trying to get a photograph of debbie and them and to send it to the post. what was that about? these are questions, they re merely questions, the women make clear they re not drawing any conclusions, but they re questions that were never asked, never answered. all right, heidi przybyla, great reporting, eye opening, thank you very much. bring in sherrilyn ifill and nancy girtner, a retired federal