protesting, coming and expressing your dissatisfaction with the way the process is being handled is a circus-like atmosphere, and we don t want that. i don t think that s a good message to say to people. chasing people in the hallway is a circus. i m sorry, why shouldn t they be confronted in the hallway? i ll express my opinion and then you can express yours. chasing people and confronting them is circus-like. asking a senator what boof means in a supreme court hearing is absurd. and what collins pointed out is not only does she not remember how she got home, no one has come forward they drove her home. and the two witnesses she named, one of whom is a good friend of hers, and both of those witnesses said they have no memory of this event. in fact, a friend of hers says she does not even know brett qu kavanaugh.
and even when one side of this chamber is absolutely dead set on defeating his nomination from the very get go before he was even named. even even in these situations, the standard is that a judge must act at all-times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid improprietary and the appearance of impropriety. and after the hearing that we all watched last week, last thursday, it became clear to me
what the hearing was about and you keep latching onto something rather than talking about what actually happened which was christine blasey ford testifying. do you believe julia swetnick, really quick lly. i don t know. i believe christine blasey ford. so you think julia swetnick is credible. i don t know much about it. i think there were some questions raised about it. you watched the nbc video about it. no one actually said stop interrupting me. kirsten responds and let s go. i just said i had questions about it. because people took it seriously when it was farcical on the face of it. appreciate the discussion. kirsten, thank you. coming up next where the confirmation of brett kavanaugh could take the country politically. all the angles still ahead on
disrepute. how on earth can brett kavanaugh pusably go on the court and be fair in his rulings on cases that involve liberal causes on one side or the other after he s thrown in his lot with the hard right, the trumpian lot in his confirmation. he was seriously accused of being a party to rape he admitted he went over it top in his wall street journal op-ed. quickly. the reason why he was so angry and passionate is because he was legitimately accused. they were accused of victim blaming. that was taken seriously, and this was a guy really, that was the gwhat te hearing was all you want to talk about is gang rape, and that s not what and it was taken seriously.
think in good faith reached a different judgment. i love senator murkowski s tone which was very calm, very civil, very rational and she agonized over, and that s the right way to behave. and unfortunately, not enough senators behaved that way. rich, were you surprised senator collins ended up voting yes? yeah, i saw it was a really a tremendous performance by her this afternoon. there s been so much emotion in this process, seeming to believe just the sheer expression of emotion should pea enough to move someone to your position. with lisa murkowski tonight and susan collins this afternoon, these were carefully thought out statements meant to persuade and explain their positions, and that s the appropriate way to go. and thought collins was especially strong, and the core allegation here against brett kavanaugh, it s not that he got angry in the hearing when he was being accused of all sorts of crimes, it s that he was guilty of a sexual assault.