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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.

For more infomation >> 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.

For more infomation >> 5 Major Problems With Dr. Ford's Testimony That Could Ensure Kavanaugh Gets The Vote - Duration: 5:49.

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Prosecutor Who Questioned Ford Makes an Admission That'll Leave Democrats STUNNED - Duration: 2:05.

For more infomation >> Prosecutor Who Questioned Ford Makes an Admission That'll Leave Democrats STUNNED - Duration: 2:05.

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Local Police in Maryland Deliver a CRUSHING Blow to Christine Ford's Claim - Duration: 3:18.

For more infomation >> Local Police in Maryland Deliver a CRUSHING Blow to Christine Ford's Claim - Duration: 3:18.

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This Tweet Exposed Kavanaugh's Accuser's Biggest Lie - Duration: 3:27.

For more infomation >> This Tweet Exposed Kavanaugh's Accuser's Biggest Lie - Duration: 3:27.

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A Reporter Pointed Out One Fact That Caused Ford's Story To Fall Apart - Duration: 3:25.

For more infomation >> A Reporter Pointed Out One Fact That Caused Ford's Story To Fall Apart - Duration: 3:25.

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Dem Rep. Slips Ford Attorney Small Packet, Checks the Room Instantly - Duration: 4:14.

For more infomation >> Dem Rep. Slips Ford Attorney Small Packet, Checks the Room Instantly - Duration: 4:14.

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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