give senators to read and digest the fbi findings before you vote? it shouldn t take long. as interesting as this all is, i can t imagine that any members who want to read it will not go over there and read it immediately. hours, a day is this. they ll read it as quickly as they can. that will not be used as another reason for delay, i can tell you that. that may not sit well is murkowski and sue can collins. murkowski appears in no her are you, even as mcconnell pledges to move forward with kavanaugh vote this week. he talked about a vote last week too. collins smiled and told murkowski, good answer. for more on the fbi investigation, what happens next, i m joined with msnbc contributor joyce vance, and nancy girtner, former federal judge.
no matter how they may feel about kavanaugh, want to get at the truth of the matter. you know, dr. ford and the other women who came forward, a great personal risk to themselves. their lives have been changed and altered in a way that will never be the same. and they came forward as credible people and they deserve a thorough investigation as to the allegations that they are making. what about that final point about temperament, or partisanship that nancy girtner, former federal judge, just made? you know, to me, sad to say, and i m not a historian on the supreme court, that bothered me less. i knew from the very beginning, and the reason why a day after trump nominated kavanaugh, i said i m not going to vote for this guy. i know he s a right wing operative, he s going to vote against the women s right to truth and overturn roe v. wade. he s going to make it easier for
nancy, let me start with you. there s two issues here, the allegations of the allegation of sexual assault and of exposing himself to deborah ramirez. what is the question of truthfulness more broadly, it seems lots of things he said in that raerl room are simply not true. more evidence coming out that s the case. how important is that for someone who s a federal judge and wants to be on the supreme court? actually, i think that there are three things. one is the underlying acts. the second thing is representations about misrepresentations that he may have made during his testimony. but the third thing is something i ve written about, which is his assets. i literally when i heard judge kavanaugh, i thought that i was i thought i was just listening to him on the radio, and i thought he sounded like a talk show host. it was so inappropriate for a judge. and i think that that raises questions about whether not just
we re under a constraint of time, the fbi is, the senate is, that was manufactured by senator mcconnell. when you think about the year in which merit garland s nomination didn t even get a hearing, this is an artificial i mean, this is really an artificial timing, that i ve never seen before. i mean, i was my nomination took ten months. that s about normal. ten months? ten months, that s right, a supreme court nomination here that is essentially proposed in august, and now they re voting on it, you know, after two months. this is extraordinary. and suggests that it s really a hollow exercise. yeah, do you feel that way about the timing as well, joyce? i do. i think it s just, you know, completely artificial and manufactured. i have wondered this afternoon whether the fbi is sending either deliberately or perhaps just because of how little the white house has permitted them to do a message of their own with these stories that we re hearing that they may complete their invest