all of it, former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, and michael steele, former republican committee. mr. chairman, i ve yet to talk to you all day. we had this situation today, mr. chairman, where a sex crimes prosecutor from maricopa, arizona, was questioning a sitting federal judge as designated woman to ask the kweds and questions and take the heat for the 11 white male republicans on that side of the committee. did that backfire or did that turnout pretty well for them, do you think? i think it fell very flat, to be honest with you, brian. in fact, i think the general consensus emerging out of that was at the end where i thought she just kind of punted, to be honest, she was she was not
immediately after that sort of collapse on the issue of why the fbi can t look into this, it was immediately after that that republicans actually abandoned their whole game plan for how this hearing was going to go today. if you remember if you saw anything in the morning session with dr. christine blasey ford, republicans sat silently through the entire morning. they ceded all of their time to ask questions to a sex crimes prosecutor they had flown in for this occasion from arizona. in the afternoon session, democratic senator mazie hirono actually clarified at the outsweat the republican chairman that again, like the morning. that would all cede all of their time in the afternoon to that same prosecutor, rather than saying anything themselves to judge kavanaugh. chairman grassley confirmed that was the plan for the afternoon as well, but after what just happened there with dick durbin, after kavanaugh fell apart under questioning about why there can t be an investigation of these c
committee chairman. mr. chairman, i ve yet to talk to you all day. we had this situation today, mr. chairman, where a sex crimes prosecutor from maricopa, county, arizona, not that there s anything wrong with that, was questioning a sitting federal judge as designated woman to ask the questions and take the heat for 11 white male republicans on that side of the committee. did that backfire or did that turnout pretty well for them, do you think? i think it fell very flat, to be honest with you, brian. in fact, i think the general consensus emerging out of that was at the end where i thought she just kind of punted, to be honest, she was she was not the prosecutor. you could almost see in the way she was asking the questions two things going on in her mind. one, i ve got to somehow preserve my reputation out of this.
done enough and he did here. to be clear, and now i am doing a time check, and i keep checking my computer because if there s any information about the four senators, that matters. what does the white house and the president think? we note arc of their testimony yesterday, they thought they were in real trouble? they were extremely concerned and then i got several texts from people in the white house that it was a disaster, and what ended up having was when you have a sex crimes prosecutor doing it, you are talking about the facts of what happened. they were in a no-win situation. didn t they have to outsource this to a female sex crimes
the answer is, they do not. laura: scott bolden, the ford s recollection was shaky at various points. she couldn t definitively say when she saw mark judge or brett kavanaugh leave that second floor. she also couldn t say she wasn t saying that she hadn t been at the country club before columbia country club before. obviously, she couldn t say how many people were at the party. and yet she could remember she had one beer, which i think wasn a stark way of examining the factual not discrepancies but differences here. what was your reaction to that? as a former sex crimes prosecutor from new york memories and details fade. first there, this with 36 years ago. i don t think this takes away from her credibility because the fact that she didn t know the smaller details. i m hearing somebody forgive me. in any event, she certainly