let me finish tonight with what we saw today in the hearing room of the senate judiciary committee. up through 2:00 p.m. we heard dr. christine blasey ford deliver what one expert called dazzling testimony, remembering being sexually assaulted by judge brett kavanaugh when they were both in high school. i believe those who wanted to believe her did. and those who didn't were left fearing that they had just confronted a witness who was not only credible, but likable. and most important, authentic. starting at 3:00 p.m. today we heard a prominent man, judge kavanaugh, defend his hard earned reputation. he spoke of having worked hard to make great grades in high school, having gotten into yale, and then into yale law school will ever beginning a successful climb in the washington political governmental and judicial world. in a sense, dr. ford and judge kavanaugh were arguing past each other with equal emotion. and despite or because of all of his protestations and claims to liking beer, i had the feeling