appropriately pursuant to a proper fbi investigation. just to be clear, i was certainly not saying that i don t believe it and i just want a clarification and your explanation makes a lot of sense to me actually. you know what, i want to go to maya on a question about this. the montgomery county district attorney has indicated an openness to hear a criminal complaint related to these crimes. i don t think there s a statute of limitations on rape, right? there s no statute of limitations on felony rape or sexual assault. so in theory if miss swetnick or if anyone who believes that crimes were committed against them in montgomery county were to go forward, we just saw bill cosby was convicted and sentenced to 3 to 10 years for events that took place years earlier. so in theory this could result in criminal charges? sure. any person who has an allegation that someone has sexually assaulted, attempted rape or raped them has the ability to go
waiting for the fbi to contact her. now, i was pleased to see what happened yesterday afternoon, that the committee vote proceeded. however, there s a one-week delay. but i want to tell you this, i m very concerned about this scope question. when i hear people throw around things like, well, the fbi is going to investigate credible allegations, well, hold on a minute. the fbi is supposed to determine what s credible or not. if they don t get a chance or if they re told not to speak to certain individuals, then how can they determine whether an allegation is credible or not. so i m hopeful for this investigation is going to be thorough, i m hopeful that it is going to include my client s allegations, which, as you stated, were made in a sworn declaration under oath. they absolutely should interview my client. i m hopeful that all the facts are going to be known ultimately to the american people. but if the fbi does not meet with my client or question her,
play, i m start with you, mimi, and how they might play into this fbi investigation. i d like to start with a question to michael if i could, because i think it s important to clarify something. michael, you re a great lawyer and i m sure this affidavit is worded very carefully. there s a statement in there that i ve heard some people debating. she says, i think it s paragraph 13, in approximately 1982 i became the victim of one of these gang or train rapes where mark judge and brett kavanaugh were present. now, i was with you on tv the other day and you clarified that you were saying that they actually participated in that gang rape, i believe, but that isn t no. no? okay. then i misunderstood you so i want to clarify. no, that s not what i ve said and i ve been asked a number of questions about this paragraph 13. you know, i wish people would concentrate on many of the other paragraphs in the declaration, because they are equally damning
charges, the fbi investigation will show that. are you afraid they might not? come on. you know that s a phony question, because the fbi doesn t reach conclusions. judge kavanagh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? i will do whatever the committee wants. personally do you think that s the best thing for us to do? you won t answer? look, senator, i i ve said i wanted a hearing and i said i would welcome anything. i m innocent. kavanaugh also got into it with several senators who questioned his beer drinking in high school. here s senator sheldon whitehouse referring to an entry in the nominee s yearbook. let s look at beach week ralph club biggest contributor.
because they switched over both ways, thomas, they swichld over both ways, so if joe mansion is in with them. he s also somebody who s up for reelection in a very in a state trump plus 42. he s gone through liere like seven times and if he s talking to republicans, i m guessing his republican challenger down in west virginia is saying, what are you guys doing to me here? he s been very clear that he s worried about the supreme court on the issue of health care, which is very big in west virginia. i don t think that professor ford is the key thing for him at this point. i mean, his constituents care about what happens to the affordable care act, what happens to preexisting conditions. he talks about it all the time. so, it s interesting that the republicans have invited him in. maybe he invited himself. i mean, we just don t know. that s my guess. he was part of that group earlier with collins on health care when they were trying to figure this out. the question is, di