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 democrat perment, t me temperament, the evenhandedness 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 the factors we have before us, i do not belie
allegations that judge kavanaugh committed an assault while in high school. these hearings made the anita hill hearings in 1991 look fair by comparison in this hearing there were no corroborating witnesses on either side. no independent investigation of the facts to inform the questioning. they even hired an outside counsel to put a witness, dr. ford, on trial. only at the 11th hour republicans submitted reluctantly to a one-week investigation of the allegations. an investigation which was then severely circumscribed by the white house. our republican friends blame us for this process. they re always finding a strawman, but nothing could be further from the truth.
committee somehow mysteriously found its way into the press. chairman grassley immediately set 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 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. 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 democratic colleagues, of course. the facts were not exactly the
be. what kind of pressure will jeff flake face over the next 24 hours given that last week, if you flash back to the end of last week, jeff flake announced he was going to be a yes vote on judge brett kavanaugh, walked into that judiciary committee hearing but before he got there was stopped by you and somebody else that you know who shared your very personal story of sexual assault. yes, he s going to there are hundreds of people today in the senate building trying to have conversations with senators. we think it is fundamental that they remember that this is not just about brett kavanaugh. this is about our democracy working for people. what the lesson that i want to draw from the moment in that elevator is that when we force human connections with elected officials who almost never practice listening to us, we can actually help them make better decisions. the decision that senator flake made on friday was better for the country. he said the country needs an investigation, and