the process and how seriously should it be take then and how should it affect the hearing and the vote schedule ed d by the t committee already scheduled for friday? andrea, i just read it, and it is horrifying. it is important to note that it is an affidavit and she has sign signed it under perjury or law. so people don t do this randomly. it needs to be investigated, absolutely. but let me step back for a minute and are remind e everybody that what we do as a senate today and how we react to the allegation, and what message we send by how we deal with them is critically important. if the senate were to switch this aside and dismiss mrs. ford and do what the president said, and start to call the allegations of she was drunk, we will send a message to young girls once again as we did in 1991 to be quiet, sit down and don t talk. and what is that message to
was incapacitate and unable to fight off the boys raping me and i believe i was drugged with quaaludes or something similar. so that is at issue whether or not she is actually placing them at the house party or at the scene or participants. so if this were a criminal case, that is very, very important, because at least in the declaration, she is not alleging yet that mark judge or brett kavanaugh actually participate ed d in the gang ra but we are of course not in a criminal trial, and not in a criminal case. but this is about characterer and reputation. and about lying. i mean, brett kavanaugh has denied all of this both under oath and otherwise. if this is true, if he was what you call in legal circles merely present, that is still contrary to what he has said. and so for the someone nominate nod the supreme court of the united states, if there is proof that they are not being accurate, and if they are not being forth coming, that is very well disqualifying.