Ford Lied Under Oath – Caught In Major Scandal To Set-Up Kavanaugh Before Vote Delayed
Christine Blasey Ford, who testified Thursday about an alleged sexual assault by Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, came under scrutiny over her fear of flying after it
emerged she is a regular jetsetter.
Ford says Kavanaugh assaulted her at a high school party in 1982, and testified about
the alleged incident at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Kavanaugh denies the accusation.
As part of that hearing, she was questioned by prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, including about
media reports that Ford was unable to attend a hearing on Monday in Washington, D.C., because
she had a fear of flying and it would take too long to get there from California at such
short notice.
Ford told Mitchell that she did, in fact, fly from California to the East Coast for
the hearing — saying that it was unreasonable to expect prosecutors to fly to her instead
(Chairman Chuck Grassley later clarified that committee Republicans had offered to do that.)
She said that she had hoped to avoid getting on a plane but eventually was able to "get
up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane."
However, Mitchell also queried Ford about other plane trips.
"In fact, you fly fairly frequently for your hobbies, and you've had to fly for
your work is that true?
"Correct, unfortunately," she said, adding that she wouldn't be able to make it to
Australia, where her company's headquarters are located.
Mitchell then noted in Ford's CV that she lists surf travel as one of her interests,
and has traveled to Hawaii, Costa Rica, South Pacific Islands and French Polynesia.
Ford said that she had visited all of those places by airplane.
"Your interests include oceanography, Hawaiian and Tahitian culture.
Did you fly by air as part of those interests?"
"Correct, easier for me to travel going that direction when it's a vacation,"
she said.
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Polygraph Released Shows Kavanaugh Accuser Has Been Lying(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 11:43.
Polygraph Released Shows Kavanaugh Accuser Has Been Lying
so now with that miss Mitchell you have my five minutes to ask
questions good morning dr. Ford you also wrote out a handwritten statement for
the polygrapher when you took your polygraph test is that correct yes okay
and I see Corrections on that where you crossed out so I will go on to the
Washington Post article that was originally published on September 16th
of this year and should I just not look at this frac you're a seer we're just
gonna believe that we may come back to it okay to refer to okay
you told senator Feinstein in your letter that you and four others were
present you've corrected that today to say it was at least four others when you
were interviewed by The Washington Post you said that there were four boys
present at the party and then in your polygraph statement you say there were
four boys and two girls when you say two girls was that you and
another or was that two other girls that was me and one other girl and that other
girl's name Leland Leland Keyser now correct
okay so then would it be fair to say at least PJ Brett Kavanaugh mark judge
Leland Ingram at the time and yourself were present and possibly others and
when one other boy the report there were four boys I just don't know the name of
the other way have you been contacted by anybody saying hey I was at the party -
no I haven't talked with anyone from that party okay
in your July 6 text to the Washington Post that you looked at earlier you said
that this happened in the mid-eighties in your letter to senator Feinstein you
said it occurred in the early 80s in your polygraph statement you said it was
high school summer in 80s and you actually had written in and this is one
of the corrections I referred to early and then you cross that out later in
your interview with The Washington Post you were more specific you believed it
occurred in the summer of 1982 and you said the end of your sophomore year yes
you said the same thing I believe in your prepared statement how were you
able to narrow down the timeframe I can't give the exact date and I would
like to be more helpful about the date and if I knew when Mark judge worked at
the Potomac Safeway then I would be able to be more helpful in that way so I'm
just using memories of when I got my driver's license I was 15 at the time
and I did not drive home from that party or to that party and once I did have my
driver's license I liked to drive myself so I assumed the legal driving age was
16 yes okay now you've talked about attending
therapy in your text to the Washington Post date at seven six so that's the
very first statement we have from you you put in there quote have therapy
records talking about it I want to make sure I understand that did you already
have your therapy records at that time I have looked at them online to see if
they existed yes okay so this was something that was available to you via
a computer like a patient portal actually no it was in the office of a
provider okay she helped me go through the record to locate whether I had had
record of this conversation that I had remembered did you show a full or
partial set of those marriage therapy records to the
Washington Post I don't remember I remember summarizing for her what they
said so I'm not I'm not quite sure if I actually gave her the record okay so
it's possible that the reporter did not see these notes um I don't know if she's
I can't recall whether she saw them directly or if I just told her what they
said have you shown them to anyone else besides counts your counsel just the
counsel okay would it be fair to say that Brett Cavanaugh's name is not
listed in those notes his name is not listed in those notes would it also be
fair to say that the therapist notes that we've been talking about say that
there were four boys in the room
it describes the sexual assault and it says erroneously by four boys so the
therapists got the content of it wrong and you corrected that to the Washington
Post reporter correct correct Christine blase Ford's legal team
releasing the results of a polygraph test she took in August the former FBI
agent who administered that polygraph test
Jeremiah Hannifin Nikki likes to go by Jerry it's here to describe that session
and tell us what Ford told him great to have you with us tonight thank you okay
let me ask you a couple of things you've been doing this since 1995 I understand
you spent about an hour and a half to two hours with dr. Ford in this process
and only asked two questions so we'll get to that but part of it was getting
her written statement which I think we have we can put up for folks but also
you did an interview with her about all of these allegations before you then
administered the test first of all how were you approached about the test how
does that work who pays for it believe it or not was Monday night August 6th
about eight o'clock at night I got a call from Deborah Katz Alisa banks I had
done some work for them in the past and they asked if I could do a polygraph
test the next day I told them I had a commitment I could do it later on the
afternoon and they said they had a client who was
in from out of town that was leaving later on early in the afternoon if there
was any way they said it was important anyway I could try to rearrange my
schedule so I did I was able to rearrange my schedule for the next day I
called them back and and I said I could do it the next morning and that's when
they told me about the fact that they had a client who was making allegations
back in high school that she was assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh so we we
discussed the details that night and we discussed the questions that I we both
thought were appropriate to ask in these situations I've done these kind of tests
before with no victims and normally what we'll have them do was write out a
statement about the facts so my introduction to this case was 12 hours
before I actually conducted the polygraph so does it work that her law
firm pays for your service okay and it's done because you want to maintain that
attorney-client work product privilege yeah okay okay so she in addition to
providing the written statement which we've put up and it basically tracks
with the facts that we've heard publicly for the most part you did and then spent
quite a bit of a time with her doing an additional interview before you would
get to the part where you'd actually ask for the questions so I want to ask you
about a few of the things that are in your summary in the summation at one
point you say she states Marc was laughing
meaning Marc judge and coaxing Cavanagh on this is the period where she says
Kavanaugh was on top of her blasé recalls making eye contact with Marc and
thinking he may help her did she explain that at all where she felt through most
of her account that he was a bad actor is there a reason that she felt like
making contact with him in some way would help her I understand and again
it's just might we're talking with her I think when she said she made eye contact
she thought legitimately maybe he and I think she said at some point I was canoe
is conflicted I thought maybe he was gonna try to help me when you do your
interview before the polygraph especially on a victim you don't ask a
lot of follow-up questions okay it's you know it's kind of a heinous thing that
that's happened that they're alleging okay she was interviewed in depth the
day before by by Lisa and Debby I'm assuming and so you want to get the
general facts so to continue to ask questions and pry it can you don't want
someone to get too emotional so your victim so when you asked that
question which is a good question no I just let her state the navin her okay
she also said according to your summation on a couple of occasions mark
would come over and jump on the bed while this was all playing out the last
time he did this all three became separated and blase was able to get free
and run to the bathroom I've always been intrigued by this did she say that he
was piling on to the two of them he was jumping on the bed separately did you
get any indication I think at one point that she told me during the interview
that you know he would jump on the bed and sometimes they'd be I think the
phrase she used is kind of you know hit each other a little bit and then he
would jump off in 30 and he and Brett market meeting Brett yes exactly and
then the third time apparently he jumped on the bed it caused some separation in
as she described in the pile which she said I don't know if was my
strength that it was enabling me get off or it's just that I was free and they
were so inebriated that I was able to go into the bathroom and lock the door okay
but there was something going on between Brett and Mark that just an horseplay or
something I would describe it probably as horseplay okay cuz she describes him
to is laughing that they were laughing there was this whole thing but she felt
in fear for her life is it in a statement that she has to you at one
point so these are the two questions that you after she put together the
statement and then you interviewed her these are the two questions you asked is
any part of your statement false she said no did you make up any part of
your statement her answer was no I don't know a lot about polygraph tests but to
me reading this from the outside it seemed that I would expect many more
questions is this standard to just have the - yes it is and you know especially
we need to do very rare in law enforcement I spent most of my obviously
my career in working with the FBI you don't normally give polygraph tests to
victims you represent victims okay and you believe them unless you have some
corroborating evidence that there's something about these persons
allegations this person's allegations that you found some corroborate that you
don't believe so when you do polygraphs the most valid polygraph test Yemen is
what we call a specific issue polygraph it's this you phase polygraph
examination it's part of the department defense polygraph Institute you're
addressing one issue the one issue here is her statement Oh
and you have to address that one issue only asking two questions so the
protocol that I followed people think I'm gonna come in and take a polygraph
he's gonna ask me 10 questions was it Brett Kavanaugh this happened yes
exactly but you just look at the overall statement look at your overall as you
asked two questions and that is the most validated polygraph is it possible for
someone to pass a polygraph test based on the conviction that they believe what
they're telling you is true you're not getting to the veracity of what they're
saying you're getting to their belief about what they've told you right
exactly okay very interesting thank you for coming in jury it's great to meet
you my pleasure nice to meet you too thank you god bless you and God bless
america
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Suspicious Note Left For "Dr Ford" In Senate Hearing Room — Here's What It Said - Duration: 3:33.
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5 Major Problems With Dr. Ford's Testimony That Could Ensure Kavanaugh Gets The Vote - Duration: 5:49.
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Ford Lied Under Oath – Caught In Major Scandal To Set-Up Kavanaugh Before Vote Delayed - Duration: 2:09.
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Trump Was FURIOUS Watching Dr. Christine Ford's Testimony Because She Was Credible - Duration: 3:04.
While most of this country was watching Dr. Christine Ford's testimony on Thursday, feeling
compassion for her, feeling empathy for her and actually believing the things that she
had to say, there was one person who wasn't feeling any empathy.
They were feeling rage, and no, not talking about Lindsey Graham there.
The person I'm talking about is President Donald Trump.
According to aides inside the White House speaking to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman,
Donal Trump was, quote, raging during Dr. Christine Ford's testimony because he was
so pissed off because she seemed credible.
Trump was actually listening to this testimony thinking, "I could believe this.
I think this woman might be telling the truth and, more importantly, other people think
this woman is telling the truth because she has credibility," and that made him angry.
You know who else said that Dr. Christine Ford's testimony was very credible and was
bad for Republicans?
The people over at Fox News.
Sure, not all of them, but a couple also admitted that, "Wow, she was really credible.
She was very moving.
We believed what she had to say."
Now, like the Republicans on the panel, it didn't change their opinion of whether or
not Kavanaugh should be sitting on the US Supreme Court, but at least they were all
willing to admit that, "Yep, pretty obvious that this woman is telling the truth.
Luckily, we're Republicans, and we don't care about sexual assault."
In the case of Trump, if he thinks she is credible, kind of makes you wonder what he
thinks about the 19 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, because I'm willing
to bet, not only does he think they're credible, he also has to know that they're credible.
I mean this guy knows what he's done to these women in the past.
He knows that these accusations are true, just like he understood they were true against
Brett Kavanaugh.
Donald Trump was hoping that Dr. Christine Ford was going to walk into that Senate and
be an absolute train wreck, that she was going to trip over her words, that she was going
to get caught in a lie.
None of it happened.
The only person caught in multiple lies was Brett Kavanaugh.
Dr. Christine Ford came in to that Senate with credibility, composure, poise, and honesty.
Brett Kavanaugh walked in there with anger and rage.
The Senate decided that they were going to side with Kavanaugh, which is exactly what
Trump wanted, so no matter how mad he got yesterday during her testimony, no matter
how angry he was shouting at his television, none of it mattered because the people who
were in a position of power, even if they believed Dr. Christine Ford, once again, chose
to put their party over the country.
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JUSTICE SERVED! Kavanaugh Vindicated Dems And Dr.Ford Have Hell To Pay(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 12:16.
JUSTICE SERVED! Kavanaugh Vindicated Dems And Dr.Ford Have Hell To Pay
all right the lesson this week politics is a game that turns players into
monsters and monsters into players when Diane Feinstein got dr. Ford's
allegation she was a player but rather than hold a private meeting about these
allegations which would have protected the families and lives of both Cavanaugh
and Ford Feinstein sat on it until it could only become a show trial one held
in honor of Merrick garland and here's the key part it normalized collateral
damage you know what collateral damage is you drop a bomb and innocent people
die the mob in that room knew their bomb would destroy reputations humiliate a
family scar to could kids but they did the math politically collateral damage
was worth it so they unleashed the public accusations
leaking to accomplices something Feinstein couldn't quite deny with
conviction because in the end the Ford letter went from Feinstein to the media
my son doesn't know how this happened how could it she investigated right
there on camera can you tell us that your staff did not leak it oh I don't
believe my staff would leak it I have not asked that question directly but you
know that I mean how in the world did that get in the hands of the of the
press the answer is no the staff have you have you asked your staff or other
staff dance or the Judiciary Committee pardon me
well Jennifers reminds me I've asked her before about it well so that's true well
somebody leaked it if it wasn't you well it was I'm telling you it was not I did
not owe the pharisee Hall in a mystery call it transubstantiation but for sure
it was a miracle one created one that created a hell no one would want to
endure happily for Feinstein and Friends the
target still entered the Coliseum this is way bigger than he said she said this
is we said due process replaced by political vigilantes presumption of
innocence be damned yesterday we saw a mob seeking payback tribalism trumping
institution and common sense a female victim gets
used a wife mother and daughter are wounded perhaps permanently America gets
sick while feinstein holds a pitchfork and says who me good he's good do you
know why you know this was so manufactured is where Alyssa Milano was
sitting over there to the I think directly to the over Cavanaugh shoulder
she was the guest of doctor of fine Stein so and she was smiling and texting
and it's like why was she there that was orchestrated this was a show trial yeah
show trial that had the intended effect yes look where we are today
mm-hm you had a situation where when he came back when Cavanaugh came back off
the ropes yeah someone talked to him at lunchtime after dr. Ford's testimony
said listen dude you want this job you get out there and you fight for this job
he got up with using that boxing analogy he went back out there and he swung and
he did it he had the momentum he who got back on top he was heading toward
cruising toward that nomination then Jeff Flake happened right now I'm a
University of Arizona beer Democrat meets Jeff black cap oh yeah
so the Jeff Lake happened and for anyone as a former activist attorney myself if
you think that there was those noisy demonstrators have no impact other than
making a new system though you should take took two the two ladies who
confronted Jeff Flake in that elevator they made history
they made him he's not it doesn't seem like the strongest that rod in the shed
anyway he collapsed then they had no choice they no choice Lindsey Graham
says it didn't come from the leak came from Feinstein shouldn't there be an
investigation well then I think the prosecutor yesterday did a really nice
job establishing the chain of custody for this letter she said it's either
Ford personally and she gave it to the congresswoman Democrat and then it went
to Feinstein those are the only three people that had cussed out of it the
leak must have come from them and if you look at this woman Ford yesterday
incredibly riveting very compelling obviously believable personally but
she's incredibly naive she's an academic she's you know a little bit she seemed a
little out of it at times and she has been manipulated by the Senate
Kratts in the Judiciary Committee and by her lawyers and the prosecutor did an
excellent job explaining that and here's how the whole flying thing afraid of
flying that was manufactured they showed that she goes to Hawaii she goes all
over the country she had just flown back and forth across the east and west coast
so that was like it was also established that she never even heard right the
invitation to come interview her on the west coast her lawyers were keeping that
from her now it's not a lie I mean isn't that against the the truth well no it
could have been the lawyers be in trouble from with other things yeah I
mean you don't have to tell your client everything Geraldo would know more but
it seemed like she had no idea that that offer was proffered and then the the the
polygraph was very bizarre that they did it on the same day she had gone to her
mother's funeral and she couldn't they won't release any of the audio and the
video from the polygraph and the the sex crimes prosecutor again but made a great
point at the very end in closing and said this is not how you treat a true
victim of sexual assault get sick interview you don't polygraph her up and
lawyer up and then parade her out on national television
these people like you said in the monologue white watching Ford being
tortured rights watching Kavanagh being tortured it was sadistic what they did
there was all of those things but it was also premeditated yeah you don't have to
be guessing around the Democrats they come back to this point the Democrats
would represent the pro-choice forces in this country they were holding the weak
hand the pro-life forces represented by the Republicans holding in the stronger
hand they're Democrats desperate what do we do
ah ha they get the golden ticket the golden ticket in the form of the doctor
Ford accusations how are we going to use this to the best effect we're gonna hold
it we're gonna hold it we're gonna look like we're losing when this first came
up no we're holding the vote on Monday we're not extending it's a Thursday for
a hearing that's the complaint if he had done that it would have avoided this
delay and it would not have jeopardized this vote it would have suffered I think
it looks like they're not willing to hear from women about sexual assault
which is a playbook that Democrats have been using for decades really they've
been using it in political campaigns midterm presidential four years that
would have not been optically a good luck now the consequences of that I do
want to say about Dianne Feinstein dropping this bomb in the middle of the
committee her staff and Senator Grassley staff used to actually have a pretty
good relationship they used to have a really professional working relationship
when it comes to important big issues like protecting whistleblowers national
security oversight of government agencies and she has completely
destroyed any kind of relationship that they had in the past as the left
continues to lecture the right about civility and coming together in
Washington working to make sure we're bettering the country she destroyed that
relationship it was a good one and she has a lot of explaining to do and as
Greg mentioned there should be an investigation points like doing this
because she's in trouble too it with the left in California this is big you have
to go back to this I was a young lawyer when roe v wade was argued and passed
this was a sea change this was an incredibly profound women in the streets
the first lap of the women's movement was happening unfolding the nation was
beginning to fracture along these lines this is the generation later the
pro-life forces finally had an opportunity to to sway things back their
way a generation later and this is the fight to the finish this is any means
you could acknowledge that if you can say this is this is political this is
about abortion then can't you see that no matter how many investigations you do
there's always going to be something else always something else I agree so
you can't just keep calling for investigations of uncorroborated claims
because this is political and Cavanaugh said it was political which they hate
him for yeah they said it was revenge for he was willing to come out salacious
claims they play dirty with Merrick garland now what goes right this
don't see like that I think that you could actually predict or say that with
this Supreme Court nomination anything happens to roe v wade I think that's a
game in itself I don't think that it's under threat you're wrong I do I do it's
I'll tell you very easily very very quickly roe v wade said there's a
competing interest mother and unborn child at some point the child becomes
viable when the child can live outside the mother of the child now it's the
rights of a human that bed date gets keeps getting pushed back six months
five months four months into the pregnancy nine you get the technology
they'll use technology to sonogram showing that a baby's real thing the
message we're giving is that you can derail a nomination if you don't like
the policy and it's being allowed it's being tolerated right now well we knew
that the president's hands were tied once the Judiciary Committee issued the
request over to the White House for the president asked the FBI to open up a
quote supplemental investigation into a judge Brett Kavanaugh his background the
president didn't really have much choice so that's when we got the statement from
press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders which said I've ordered the FBI to
conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Cavanaugh's file as the
Senate has requested this update must be limited in scope and completed in less
than one week and that's where the argument really is going to come down
here limited in scope how do you limit the scope what will the scope be limited
to the request from the Judiciary Committee was for all current credible
allegations to be investigated now does that limited just to Christine Blasi
Ford does that include Debra Ramirez does that include Michael a vanadis
client I think that the White House and Republicans will argue that this is
limited only to the Christine Blasi Ford allegations in which case you would
interview her you would interview the the judge judge Cavanaugh you would
interview the other judge mark judge and other people who were said to be at that
party and now remember this is not a criminal investigation first of all
they're not investigating an alleged crime that happened some 36 years ago
this is merely collecting background information and it does not come to any
kind of conclusion any conclusion on the information contained would have to be
made by either the White House or the Senate in this case it's already gone
through the Judiciary committee so it'll be the full sentence
that it has to consider all of this judge Brett Kavanaugh also released a
statement this afternoon saying quote throughout this process I've been
interviewed by the FBI I've done a number of background calls directly with
the Senate and yesterday I answered questions under oath about every topic
the Senators and their counsel asked me I've done everything they have requested
and will continue to cooperate Geraldo said just a short time ago this
is war and he's absolutely correct about this after what has gone on with this
nominee it is now all-out war between Republicans and Democrats I was talking
to a prominent Republican political operative just a short time ago who told
me wait until the next seat and the Supreme Court comes up and maybe it's a
Ruth Bader Ginsburg or somebody like that and rather than following tradition
of nominating a more liberal judge the President may go for the hardest hardest
core conservative that he can find to fill that position so Geraldo you're
right this is political war here in Washington thank you John thank you god
bless you and God bless america
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After Using Her Feinstein Actually Threw Ford Under The Bus With Jaw-Dropping Accusation(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 11:02.
After Using Her Feinstein Actually Threw Ford Under The Bus With Jaw-Dropping Accusation
hey sir de croo Thank You mr. chairman judge Cavanaugh you and your family have
been treated incredibly poorly by Senate Democrats and by the media and let me
say also I think dr. Ford and her family had been treated incredibly poorly by
Senate Democrats in the media you have both seen your good names dragged
through the mud and this has been sadly one of the most shameful chapters in the
history of the United States Senate let me say to you and your family thank you
for a lifetime of public service I will say watching your mother's pained face
has been heart-wrenching as she's seen her son's character dragged through the
mud after not only your lifetime of public service but her lifetime of
public service as well and I know as a father there's been nothing more painful
to you than talking to your daughters and explaining these attacks that the
media is airing I also believe though that the American people are fair-minded
people that the American people can set aside the partisan warfare of Washington
and look to substance and facts and that is the charge of this committee now
there have been three different sets of allegations that have dominated the
media I think it's important to note that two of those sets of allegations
had so little corroboration that even the New York Times which is no
conservative outlet refused to report on them because they could find no basis
for them and it was striking in this entire hearing that not a single
Democrat in this committee asked about two sets of those allegations mr.
Ramirez's allegations and the allegations of the client of mr.
Robinette II not a single Democrat I don't know if they were just to
embarrass mr. Evan Eddie's allegations were so scandalous that the ranking
member of mitad his clients most scandalous accusations
of you as a criminal mastermind essentially omitted those scandalous
accusations from her statement this hearing has focused rightly so on the
allegations dr. Ford presented and let me say I think the committee did the
right thing and giving dr. Ford a full and fair opportunity to tell her story
that's what we needed to do when these allegations became public and the
committee treated her with respect as we should i do not believe senate democrats
have treated you with respect what do we know we know that her testimony and your
testimony are in conflict a fair-minded Assessor of facts would then look to
what else do we know when you have conflicting testimony well we know that
dr. Ford identified three fact witnesses who she said observed what occurred all
three of those fact witnesses have stated on the record under penalty of
perjury that they do not recall what she is alleging happening they have not only
not not corroborated her charges they have explicitly refuted her charges
that's significant to a fair-minded fact-finder in addition you've walked
through before this committee your calendars from the time now I will say
you were a much more organized teenager than I was and that many of us were but
it was a compelling recitation of night by night by night where you were in the
summer of 1982 that is yet another contemporaneous piece of fact to assess
what happened and we also know that the Democrats on this committee engaged in a
profoundly unfair process the ranking member had these allegations on July
30th and for 60 days that was 60 days ago the ranking member did not refer it
to the FBI for an investigation the ranking member did not refer it to the
full committee for an investigation the ranking member this committee could have
investigated those claims in a confidential way that respected dr.
Ford's privacy and some of the most significant testimony we heard this
morning is dr. Ford told this committee if the only people to whom she gave her
letter were her attorneys the ranking member and her member of Congress and
she stated that she and her attorneys did not release the letter which means
the only people that could have released that that letter were either the ranking
member and her staff or the Democratic member of Congress because dr. Ford told
this committee those are the only people who had it that is not a fair process
and we should look to the facts not anonymous innuendo and slander German I
asked for a point of personal privilege to respond merci mr. chairman let me be
clear I did not hide dr. Ford's allegations I did not leak her story she
asked me to hold it confidential and I kept it confidential as she asked she
apparently was stalked by the press felt that what happened she was forced to
come forward and her greatest fear were realized was realized she's been
harassed she's had death threats and she's had to flee her home in addition
the investigation that the Republican majority is heralding is really nothing
that I know about other than a partisan practice normally all the witnesses
would be interviewed however that's not happened while the
majority has reached out to several people they did not notify me or my
staff that they were doing this and so ought to argue that we would not
participate but not tell us what they were up to is somewhat disingenuous I
was given some information by a woman who was very much afraid
acid it'd be held confidential and I held it confidential until she decided
that she would come forward mr. chairman would would the ranking member
answer a question please if I can I I have great respect for senator Feinstein
we've worked together on many topics and I believe what you just said can you
tell us that your staff did not leak it oh I don't believe my staff would leak
it I have not asked that question directly but you do not oh you know that
I mean how in the world did that get in the hands of the of the press the answer
is no the staff have you ever asked have you asked your staff or other staff - of
the Judiciary Committee pardon me well a Jennifers reminds me I've asked her
before about it well so that's true hope well somebody leaked it if it wasn't you
well it was I'm telling you it was not I did not I mean I was asked to keep it
confidential and and I'm criticized for that too mr. chairman could I ask the
Chairman a question which is does the committee have a process if there is an
allegation against any nominee to assess that allegation in a confidential forum
rather than in the public dread since dr. Ford requested that it be kept
confidential is there a process for the committee for considering confidential
allegations and the answer is yes and I sent senator Tillis pointed out the
document that I put out to show of all the things that we've done along the
lines of your equation and mr. chairman what would you have done if on July 30th
the ranking member had had raised this allegation with you has the chairman of
this committee how would you would have done like we have done with every
background or let's say FBI report that comes from the White House with the
nominee and then subsequent to that because maybe the FBI got done with it
three months ago we go through the FBI or information comes to us then we have
our investigators in a bipartisan way both Republicans and Democrats follow up
on the whatever those questions are or those problems that
have to be worked out so bipartisan investigators could have
investigated this two months ago and it could have been heard in a confidential
setting without dr. Ford's name or Judge Cavanaugh's name being dragged through
the mud correct and except for one or two conversations that we had with the
judge to our investigators Democrats didn't participate except in those two
but in those two or one or two they didn't ask any questions
Thank You mr. chairman I want to would mr. chairman yes Matt mayor respond it's
my understanding that her story was leaked before the letter became public
and she testified that she had spoken to her friends about it and it's most
likely that that's how the story leaked and that she had been asked by press but
it did not leak from us I assure you of that
Oh mr. mr. chairman I I'm a little confused I thought only the member of
the house and senator Feinstein and her lawyers had the letter so her friends
she might have talked to about it couldn't leak the letter if they just
had a book verbal conversation unless she gave that my copy of the letter
senator I don't think the letter was ever leaked well how did the press know
to contact her about her complaint she apparently she testified here this
morning that she had talked to friends about it and that press had talked to
her senator our judge a sense there was reference to the problems the legitimate
problems and the and the change of lifestyle that dr. Ford had if you want
some time to say the impact on your family I'll be glad to hear you if you
don't want to talk about that's okay I've talked about that okay then senator
Harris thank you god bless you and God bless america
you
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