weren t factoring in, and so this is real news time. and you re right, that s why mitch mcconnell is really worried about a welding in montana this weekend. once again tonight brett kavanaugh has broken sharply with the tradition of supreme court nominees and has decided to make another public statement outside the judiciary committee hearing room, which is usually the only place we ever hear from a supreme court nominee. his first break from tradition was to go on and defend himself against dr. christine blasey ford s allegation. it was a strange performance on fox news that raised more questions than it answered and was the first time that brett kavanaugh lied about the drinking age in maryland being 18 when he was an 18-year-old senior in high school. tonight brett kavanaugh has taken to the op-ed page the rupert mer dock wall street
reporting was. fripd friends of mr. comey had been putting out the word on some of these things especially now we know professor dan richmond from columbia was basically advised by mr. comey to call a reporter new york times and walk them through what was in the memo about his meeting, his dinner at the white house where he was asked about loyalty. and then the oval office meeting where he was asked can t you flynn is a good man, can t you let it go. so for those two reasons, a lot of it wasn t strikingly new. the things that will leave a mark are of course the big obstruction question and what the members weren t factoring in, they were looking more at sort of the thing that the president said to mr. comey at the time, would that be obstruction. but of course what bob mueller will have to factor this is all of that plus the fact that the president fired mr. comey and