intellect and experience. he does easily fit within the mainstream of legal thought. i look forward to the committee over the next few days getting to know the judge kavanaugh that i know. at the end of that process, i hope you will agree that he should be confirmed to succeed his former boss on the supreme court. thank you, mrs. lisa blatt. thank you each of the panel for their introduction. and you re dismissed now. judge kavanaugh, can you shake your head? i was told you might want 5 minutes now. you need that? okay. then, just stay seated until we change the table a little bit. then, we will get to you. neil: all right, they are just repositioning judge kavanaugh for what will finally be his opportunity to say something here. he got words of praise from
judge kavanaugh himself spoke glowingly of her stating she is a brilliant journalist. she thoughtful, considerate, works well with others, good man, great integrity, and is supremely qualified by the objective airdrie s leaks of experience, temperament, writing ability to the supreme court. all of this is equally true of judge cavanaugh. i do not think it is fair to hold judge kavanaugh responsible for the fact that judge garland is not adjusted today. instead, i would urge this committee to treat him as we expect him to treat litigants that appear before him on his own merit and with an open mind towards someone whose abuse different from our own. our judicial system is not well served by tit-for-tat politics. at the end of the day, i enthusiastically support judge kavanaugh nm and proud to introduce him because he is qualified by his extraordinary
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is in asylum not because the u.s. is trying to extradite him, but because the government of sweden is. and so, you know, what might actually affect assange s situation is that donald trump has become an admirer of wikileaks. because so much of the information they released was about the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee and he is about to become president. that may help his case. it s interesting. i saw you tweet about this. many on the right are embracing wikileaks and touting them and yet their one of their biggest sources ever was chelsea manning, who they are critical of. it seemed sort of an odd way to look at things. yeah. everything is sort of turn around. i have been writing ability and defending wikileaks for many years, going back to 2009 and 10. back then almost no republicans were support wack i was doing. a lot of democrats were leaking information about the wars that george bush had started.
to be screened by the news management team for writing ability and his on-air performance ability and all of that. and i don t think he was the strong e strongest applicant we ve ever had, but he passed muster of our news management team at that time. and it s very similar to the process we ve used time and time again that has produced outstanding journalists. i want to clarify something i just asked my lawyer. said have you picked up on anything yet. he said make sure the people understand that when we send somebody to the employee assistance program or when they reach out, that can be for any number of reasons. it doesn t necessarily singnal any kind of mental health issue, although it can. family assistance, financial problems or what have you. and i think he had a number of issues that caused us to think