because democrats now do have a reason to not vote for this nominee. so i wonder how much are you going to worry about the red state democrats at this point, more so than their own conference. it if republicans go forward with this, they will be making the political risk that they can go forward without a full accounting, without calling in everybody they could call in. number one, if they can t reach an agreement with professor ford, obviously she s the most important player here. and they said they would ask kavanagh questions, he would deny it and then they would call for a vote in the committee. but the question is would it leave a cloud over the judge s head if you confirm him. but that process, doing it that way, is in professor ford s view unfair to her. she will talk with the committee. she s not premarpared to talk w them at a hearing on monday. this just came out 48 hours ago. asking her to come forward in
kavanagh is the only preelection option. the president touched on the politics in a tweet last night. he said the supreme court is one of the main reasons i got elected president. i hope republican voters and others are watching and studying the democrats playbook. we touched on this earlier, senator lindsay graham said it was all about midterm politics. requiring an fbi investigation of a 36-year-old allegation without specific references to time or location, before professor ford will appear before the judiciary committee is an un our correspondent sarah west, she said the senate commissioner, chairman chuck grassley, the chairman of the committee is sending a later to prothe i sorry fofessor ford s to interview her here.
four or five days and sit before the judiciary committee on national tv is not a fair process. and if they care about doing the right thing here and treating this seriously as they have said, then they will do the right thing and they will properly investigate this and she will work with them in that investigation and also to share her story with the committee. however that happens. and this is this is the risk, the politics before us, republicans have every right to say this came up after the confirmation hearing, the timing is late, we re trying to moves delay, there s every reason to delay. but we re speaking to a woman who s gone through an incredibly traumatic experience and she s decided to come forward and now she s talking with her lawyers about talking about it in public. the attorney here may have to
senates, and you can take that as republicans have he says it didn t happen, or you can take it as he doesn t want to testify under oath. and that s significant. patrick smith, from your reporting, i have no knowledge of the party in question, nor do i have any knowledge of the allegations she has leveled against brett kavanagh, that s a statement, but a statement issued to the media is different than a statement given under oath. why wouldn t the committee want to call in all the other parties, and just get them on the record, under oath, which would help clear judge kavanagh if he s telling the truth. the accusers attorneys said that they don t think they would do a compare investigation if it was the senate committee that was investigating it. and we kind of saw a little bit of that from oren hatch yesterday when he said he wouldn t even ask christine ford a question if she shows up on