consequence judge kavanaugh s made a significant contribution to our nation s jurisprudence. and he s won from both sides of the political spectrum. the committee has received letters from former clerks, former colleagues, former students and former classmates all attesting to judge kavanaugh s sterling character and qualifications. some of whom were democrats. imminent members of the supreme court, bar and legal academia have all written in strong support of judge kavanaugh s nomination. the authors of these letters emphasize that they have different political views and that they do not agree on every subject. but to a person, they speak of judge kavanaugh s integrity and judgment and they enthusiastically endorse his nomination. i would like to highlight one letter, in particular, from 18 of judge kavanaugh s former women law clerks. that s all of his former women clerks, all of them, who are not precluded by their current or pending employment from signing the letter. they
shows his caucus influence, for example. the ancient persian dynasties for the medieval persian dynasties in the various [inaudible] he knew quite a lot about them and spend time with them. he read the classics as we would call them his favorite writer and in terms of the old writers because he portrayed billings as real people and stalin like that a lot not just the heroes but also the villains were believable. he read the literature in translation quite a bit so we think he read about 200 pages a day, most of that was military and intelligence of civilian files and there was a worldview suspicious worldview about enemies internal and external, reflected in these files and they had instructions or his reactions to the files made them more like what he was looking for and became a kind of echo chamber in a way where he spent a lot of time with interrogation protocol, he read these people were tortured to confess and stalin read through hundreds of pages of this so this was a
okay. put in a good word with the organizers that was the reason i was late getting on the stage. they re keeping us about five feet apart it is just well that s nice. [laughter] oh would you mind extending cane so i can see how far i need to be away. are we set? okay. let me first of all express my appreciation for your turning out for this event. on behalf of susan and tim and karl. e deeply appreciated. we owe a special debt to karl this is his 23rd panel in 36 hours. [applause] i understand the best panel was at 1 a.m. in had the parking lot of the supermarket across the street from the hotel. and those of you who were in your jammies i know who you are. [laughter] let me say to the panel, when we run out of o time here, i d like each of you to name a book that you think qowb mosten lightening, helpful to anyone in the political system who is considering campaign for president. mow, last year the winning suggestion was emily post and her book courtesy. [laughter
gn morning. the senate armed services committee meets today to consider the nominations of kari binge again to be principal under secretary of defense for intelligence, robert care ren to be international secretary of defense for international security affairs and kenneth rapuano to be the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security. i note the presence of several of our a couple of our colleagues here, including our distinguished majority leader who is here as well as represented by ra comstock and so if it s akrieg to my colleagues, we d like senator mcconnell to make an introduction. i know he has a very heavy, busy schedule. welcome, senator mcconnell. thank you, chairman mccain. senator reed, members of the committee. exceedingly proud to be here today to introduce robert story care recommend and a very qualified person to be here for this position. through hearing you will find and individual who has worked to address some of the majo
gn morning. the senate armed services committee meets today to consider the nominations of kari binge again to be principal under secretary of defense for intelligence, robert care ren to be international secretary of defense for international security affairs and kenneth rapuano to be the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security. i note the presence of several of our a couple of our colleagues here, including our distinguished majority leader who is here as well as represented by ra comstock and so if it s akrieg to my colleagues, we d like senator mcconnell to make an introduction. i know he has a very heavy, busy schedule. welcome, senator mcconnell. thank you, chairman mccain. senator reed, members of the committee. exceedingly proud to be here today to introduce robert story care recommend and a very qualified person to be here for this position. through hearing you will find and individual who has worked to address some of the majo