narrow audience. this is not aimed at everybody in the country. this is aimed at four people, the four people you showed, manchin, murkowski, flake and collins. and i would say manchin is kind of the fourth out of those four. it s knows three republicans. the testimony last week was aimed at the guy in the white house. yeah. i think what this op-ed is is you want to try to the extent that he hears, he kavanaugh and the white house more broadly hears there s still some worry about your temperament, the way in which you present yourself. matt damon on saturday night live turned this into a cultural moment. is there any way you can address it. this is the wait to address it. this is the way to say to susan collins, lisa murkowski and jeff flake, i may not have handled myself great there but the fbi investigation doesn t according to republicans doesn t show any corroborating evidence so you can be for me. that s all this is. and tug at some heart
hear. the momentum is moving in his direction. thank you for sitting by patiently. i want to ask you about, i ll get to the cover story about christine blasey ford. why do you believe that she will have a lasting impact on had country? there is the cover there. i think that there s a couple reasons. there s layers of it. one of the points we make in the story is at a time when you had the full force, the full sort of freight of the republican power moving in one direction, she stood up and halted it. perhaps temporarily but that showed us that it s possible, that a single voice standing up, she said she used those words very early on in her testimony. she said i don t want to be here. i m here because i feel like i have to be. it s my civic duty. the other reason is that the reaction to her testimony was so powerful for women all over the country, all over the world.
days early. i was surprised. you have called kavanaugh s testimony petulant and combative. just tonight he wrote the op-ed saying he s an independent impartial judge, that he was just emotional. do you believe he has the right temperament for the supreme court? you know, i really think america can do a lot better. i think democrats understand that a conservative judge is going to be appointed to the supreme court. i do not think it should be that conservative judge. forget about the fact that he assaulted my friend for a moment, but the fact about his aggression and how he handled adversity, i think just shows that his demeanor might not be the best when certain issues come before the court. cheryl amitay, thank you. i appreciate you coming on tonight. you hut. you re very welcome. a vote looming on this nomination as judge brett kavanaugh puts out a last-minute
they rallied outside the supreme court. where does this leave our country. how will this go down in history? i want you to take a look now. this is time magazine s new cover an illustration of christine blasey ford using words from her testimony, words like these. with what degree ofernity do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? 100%. 100%. indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. the uproarious laughter between the two. and their having fun at my expense. apart from the assault itself, these past couple of weeks have been the hardest of my life. i ve of to relive this trauma in front of the world. and i ve seen my life picked apart. well, the cover s title, her
45% of americans believed her afterwards compared to 33% of to 33% who believed kavanaugh. that s quite a spread. and one that we didn t see after anita hill testified. is this why we re seeing scenes like this, do you think? absolutely. it the outpouring of anger and frustration that we ve seen across the country and across the world is just absolutely a result of her. here s what you write in part you. say the facts remain unsettled and her testimony may not prevent his confirmation. but it was an important reminder that it was no longer enough to override allegations of sexual assault no matter when they occurred. to young men it was a message that drunk condition violence could shadow them all their lives and for victims, her testimony was an invitation to speak up no matter long ago the attack. people will listen. we will believe you. but it looks like if it goes