Evidence to support their allegations. Including naming over two dozen witnesses each. Unfortunately, the limited investigation that was conducted by the fbi failed to interview any one of the witnesses these two women identified who could support her account. Let me say that again. They refused to investigate, to talk with any of the 24 witnesses that could have supported their accounts. Mr. President , i think its important to remember why were here today. Were here to determine whether judge kavanaugh has demonstrated the impartiality, the temperament, the even handedness thats needed to serve on this Great High Court of our land. If confirmed, he will join eight
other individuals who are charged with deciding how the laws of our land are interpreted and applied. He would be a deciding vote on the most important issues affecting our country. And every american for generations to come. Mr. President , Madam President , based on all of the factors we have before us, i do not believe j
of them today. today seems to be so far all about anti-kavanaugh protesters. all sizes, all shapes, all different walks of life. americans, non-americans, men, women, lots of families, people are really turning out today. i think over the course of the day we re going to see thousands more people. we ll keep you updated neil. neil: all right thank you very very much. let s go to iowa republican senator joining us from capitol hill. senator you are for judge kavanaugh and approving him to move up to the supreme court. one of your colleagues, lisa murkowski, the only one of republicans is a no. what did you think of her argument against the judge whenever are other republican, including yourself, was for him? well, i sat through the brief when we had the seventh fbi investigation, the supplemental that came forward sat through those and there was absolutely nothing that corroborated any miss-doing by judge kavanaugh and so the case to me is pretty clear that we
dr. ford in confidence with the committee somehow mysteriously found its way into the press. well, chairman grassley immediately sat out on a sober focused search for the truth. the committee collected testimony, organized a new hearing, and most recently asked for the supplemental fbi background investigation, judge kavanaugh s seventh, seventh fbi investigation. by any fair standard, the facts, the actual facts, proved to be straightforward. no corroborating evidence, none. none. was produced to support any of the allegations leveled against judge kavanaugh. no corroborating evidence from the fbi inquiry or from anywhere else. nothing. well, that wasn t enough for our
that you can t even call a criminal investigation, though the purpose is not to create a prosecutable case or not. it s to uncover the credibility and validity of some of the allegations made. to just present that to the senate and let them make the decision about how they feel about the information. that has not been done. it was not done by the senate judiciary impliee at all, nothing even close to a full vetting of this information has occurred yet. here s one of the interesting issues that i haven t heard a lot of people talk about. the fbi has at its disposal the capacity to subject brett kavanaugh to a polygrapher test. we know that dr. ford willingly submitted to a polygraph test and she passed. we know that brett kavanaugh did not. he was asked questions he did not even take one. i don t mean to suggest he did not pass. he did not even take one.
the interesting thing about the fbi is, unlike local law enforcement, the feds use polygraphs all the time. one of the reasons they do is because they want to see how the person reacts when they ask the question, are you willing to submit to a polygraph. so whatever happens, brett kavanaugh could get in trouble with this investigation if he says, i choose not to submit to one, which he can. he can, but if he takes one and the fbi does its job well, with polygraves, which is their area of expertise, we may well get a scientific piece of evidence on this case that we have not yet had. he was quite emotional during that hearing. he called the process a circus. the president reportedly told white house aides that he liked the tone. as a defense attorney, might he have been too aggressive. can it hurt?