questions. i think it s fair to ask the most basic question which is this in the recovered memory or not? are you aware that anyone has asked that question of christine ford? tucker, one of the things that disturb me the most about the hearings last week where the questions that weren t asked by rachel mitchell. the memories of the events surrounding the events, the memory of giving information and paperwork to the washington post, what happened under polygraph, it appeared to me that there was some memory questions asked that left a whole lot of other questions in limbo. we never got anything that would have helped us with the question of her memory and how it came about. you are so right about that. tucker: so would it be an attack on a witness, on someone who says she s been a victim of a crime to say, you say that
two weeks ago. yesterday, for example, fox news obtained a written declaration from an ex-boyfriend of christine ford s. in that declaration the ex-boyfriend said that ford once coached a friend through a polygraph exam to help her get a federal job. if true, that would contradict what ford told congress. the man also said that during their entire six year relationship, ford never mentioned it being a victim of sexual assault or any other kind of trauma and said she flew on airplanes many times including small prop planes around hawaii. you will recall that she was too afraid to fly to come to washington. she also claims she was a claustrophobic and he claimed that she was not afraid of enclosed spaces. are these claims true? we don t know. for disputes them and there s no evidence to support them independently but there s also no evidence to support ford s allegations against brett kavanaugh. and that s a point, we need to know more but we don t know more
it for a fully 30 years. how can that be? in a washington post profile, ford says that she came to understand her assault and its significance during a therapy session. what does that mean exactly? this is a central question because most the psychiatrist consider recovered memories however sincere roughly as reliable as dreams. it s worth getting a clear answer on that but so far, nobody has because nobody has asked that question. why is that? when an adult makes a serious allegation asking real question questions, what is the correct response? it s not victim shaming. in fact, it s patronizing not to. we don t consider it christine ford a child, but many of her advocates clearly do. the press obviously does. instead of gathering facts about the story they are busy moralizing and lecturing the rest of us about how brett
because no one is asking these questions. in many other questions. for example, we still haven t seen ford s therapy notes. ford s team is only now at the last moment covering to reveal these but only if the fbi agrees to interview christine ford. i want these notes turned over at the beginning of all this? if the goal would have been to get to the truth, they would have been. why has ford told different stories? it s significant because it bears directly on her credibility. and her credibility is the only reason to believe her story is true. and there are other obvious unanswered questions, here s this one. ford said the assault defined her entire life. apparently, she thought about it every day. it defined her academic performance and all of her personal relationships and yet, she says she told not a single other human being around about
i mean that screaming is very much mitigated by the television cameras. it s violent. it s disruptive, and i don t think anyone should have to go through that, especially given the circus atmosphere that s beginning here. either the witness against mr. kavanaugh or mr. kavanaugh himself. well, look, we ll grab some tea sandwiches and tea sometime and we ll have a long discussion about why i think the entire confirmation process is a sham with both parties on both sides every time since bork. we ll take that up in private. tom fitton, appreciate your take. you re welcome, chris. all right. we re awaiting a response right now about what we were just talking about. what will the republican senators say to christine ford s attorneys? they requested an additional day to make a decision. will the senators give it to her? former attorney general mike mukasey is here next. this is a story about mail and packages. and it s also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deli