Ted Cruz Takes Christine Ford's Case Into The Courtroom And SHREDS It Into A Million Pieces
Thank You mr. chairman
we're living in a divided time this country is divided right down the middle
there is an enormous amount of anger there's rage there's hatred we see
demonstrators screaming at each other
reflecting that rage reflecting that anger and I know there are great many
Americans who wish we could and believe we can get back to an environment where
we treat each other with civility and decency get back to an environment where
yes we have policy disagreements we disagree on what the right legislation
is to pass and we even have vigorous debates about what the right policy is
but we do so in a context that respects each other that doesn't demean the
humanity of each other that doesn't attack the character and drag people
through the mud the politics of personal destruction that we have seen on display
in recent days is Washington DC at it's very ugliest and all of us should
remember that we're talking about real human beings here these aren't pawns on
a chessboard these are real people dr. Ford has been through hell the last two
weeks I have no doubt have been extraordinarily painful for her for her
family the testimony she gave yesterday was powerful was clearly heart-wrenching
was clear she was hurting and hurting mightily having her name made public
against her wishes and dragged through the mud was a
hurtful thing to do it's the wrong thing to do and judge Kavanagh he too has been
dragged through the mud for the last two weeks in a way that has no precedence in
our polarized society we live in today it's almost tribe alized were half of us
we're one team's Jersey the other half we're the other team's Jersey and
everything we see we see through the lens of our Jersey so it would not
surprise me if across the country a
significant percentage of those on the Democratic side of the aisle saw
yesterday's testimony and concluded he must be guilty and it would not surprise
me if a very significant percentage of those on the Republican side of the
aisle saw yesterday's testimony the same testimony and concluded he must be
innocent one of the consequences of that you know Judge Cavanaugh talked about
how these smears and the many that had been leveled against him in the last two
weeks how they have as he put it destroyed his family some that may sound
like hyperbole I don't think it is Judge Cavanaugh has two young daughters a
ten-year-old and a 13 year old for the rest of their lives there is their
daughter's will go to school will interact with people many of whom are
convinced their father is a rapist I want you to think of the effect that
has when those are the allegations that's where it starts not I disagree
with your jurisprudence not I think you're wrong and how you interpret the
Constitution but you are I mean let's be clear he has been accused of among other
things participating in repeatedly drugging and gang raping women to take
some of the more sensational I think ludicrous claims that have been aired
these little girls are going to have classmates of theirs repeat those
charges to him some of the most poignant testimony yesterday when Judge Cavanaugh
described how he's taught law at Harvard Law School for over a decade and he said
he may never get to teach law again and that's entirely possible that's entirely
possible even if judge Cavanaugh has confirmed to the US Supreme Court as a
sitting justice in our polarized world I'm a graduate of the Harvard Law School
I think it is entirely possible those on the Left would say we don't want someone
we believe as a rapist ever teaching again he also talked about how much he
is loved coaching girls basketball coaching his daughters in basketball and
he mentioned he may never coach again
that's a very real possible consequence of the mudslinging and irresponsible
behavior of the last two weeks it may well be in this tribe alized partisan
divided world that the parents of the other girls say no we don't want him as
a coach anymore our words and actions have consequences that being said even
though this is a divided time even though this is a partisan time
I have faith in the American people I have faith in the American people that
we want to be fair minded we want to actually assess the facts we want to
actually assess what happens I think it's important that once these
allegations became public that dr. Ford was given a full and fair opportunity to
tell her story I emphatically urged my colleagues that was the right thing to
do to give her the opportunity to testify in public and that it was
important that when she testified she be given an environment that was fair that
was respectful that she not be too mean that she not be attacked and she wasn't
that was the right thing to do the committee once this had been forced to
the front pages of the paper the right thing to do was give her a public forum
and a full public forum to tell her story but the right thing also requires
and we saw yesterday judge Cavanaugh being given a full and fair opportunity
to defend himself
the American people watched that testimony and you come away with a
number of conclusions number one it is clear their testimony is in direct
conflict what they said is directly conflicting judge Cavanaugh
categorically and unequivocally denied the allegations
so the question is how do you resolve that discrepancy how does this committee
how does the United States Senate how do the American people resolve the
discrepancies when you have two witnesses that testify to things
diametrically opposed well the only way I know to do and this is how a court of
law operates this is how most reasonable people operate is when you have
conflicting testimony you look to well what is the rest of the evidence
demonstrate what other evidence is there and what does the evidence demonstrate
dr. Ford named three fact witnesses who she says were there and could
corroborate her story none of the three corroborates her story
not only did they not corroborate her story all three of the named fact
witnesses explicitly refuted her story and they did so under penalty of perjury
they didn't do so lightly they didn't just say it they did so in a context
that under the United States Code they can face up to five years in prison if
they lied to this committee so every single fact witness but dr. Ford named
has explicitly disputed her allegations now one of those fact witnesses was mr.
judge we've heard a lot of discussions about mr. judge a lot of my colleagues
saying why didn't we hear testimony for mr. judge
well mr. judge refused to talk to the committee he submitted a statement a
statement under penalty of perjury under penalty of felony but he refused to be
interviewed by investigators it's not complicated to understand why the public
record indicates mr. judge has had a very troubled life that he is battled
with addiction for most of his life we heard testimony yesterday that he's been
near death that he battles with depression that he's a cancer survivor
he has also been directly accused of multiple felonies so when committee
investigators asked to interview him he said no that shouldn't surprise anybody
we had a vote earlier today on subpoenaing mr. judge it's not
complicated what would happen if he were subpoenaed he came before this committee
any defense lawyer worth his salt would tell mr. judge not to testify
now I understand politically Democratic members of this Senate would very much
like to see a man who struggled with addiction most
of his life sitting before this committee and pleading the fifth that
would make great theatrics that would make great political theatrics it
wouldn't help one iota in the search for the for the truth but it would make a
great public show and I will say of the three fact witnesses the one who I think
is most revealing is Leland Kaiser MS Kaiser was close friends with dr. Ford
miss Kaiser had every incentive to back up her story and instead miss Kaiser
under penalty of perjury says she doesn't know judge Cavanaugh
and she has no recollection of any party like the one dr. Ford describes dr. Ford
testified yesterday that Miss Kaiser texted her after submitting that
statement to say she was sorry sorry for not backing up her story I think that
indicates powerfully that her incentives if at all possible were to back up the
story and yet she didn't feel she could she had no incentive no motive to lie
every incentive to agree with dr. Ford's story and yet she did not do so so all
three fact witnesses have explicitly disputed the allegations what other
evidence do we have we have judge Cavanaugh's calendars detailed day to
day I have to admit when the calendars were first released there were press
stories about them I didn't find that terribly persuasive evidence until Jeff
Cavanaugh walked through day by day each of the possible days when this was
alleged to have happened and walked through the specific conflicts how he
was out of town for many of the days how he had conflicts for many of the days
the notion that his calendars were almost like Diaries I frankly I think is
kind of odd that's not something many people do but it appears to be something
both he and his father do that contemporaneous evidence that he
kept in 1982 I'll tell you the court of law that kind of contemporaneous
evidence would be powerful if you're trying to ascertain two conflicting
witnesses and which one is telling the truth you would look for contemporaneous
evidence one way or the other and finally we know judge Cavanaugh's
impeccable record of decades of public service he's 53 years old and prior to
two weeks ago there have been no allegations whatsoever of this kind six
FBI background checks detailed thorough FBI background checks nobody raised any
claim like this now all of us know from human experience that if someone is a
sexual predator if someone is committing the kind of actions that have been
alleged that it is very rare that they're a one-time offender but if
someone is carrying out this kind of conduct they typically have a pattern of
doing so over and over and over again we have seen powerful men throughout
society and politics in journalism in Hollywood whose careers have rightly
been ended but they've been ended for a pattern of harassment of abuse that
typically extends decades because when someone behaves like this they behave
like this over and over again there's no credible indication that that's occurred
indeed it's striking that in his 12 years as a federal appellate judge a
majority of his law clerks have been women that is exceptionally unusual I do
not know of another federal appellate judge for whom that is the case and I
can tell you his law clerks revere him they hold him in the very highest of
respect his reputation judge Cavanaugh his reputation in this town
is it being a Boy Scout is it being a boring Boy Scout that's been his
reputation for a long time now some might say well gosh and the press there
been these other sensational allegations we've seen others that have popped up
after this one well I thought it was striking in yesterday's hearing that not
a single Democratic member of this committee chose to ask about any of the
other allegations I think that indicates how little credibility there is behind
those allegations what the one that is the most sensational by the client of
mr. avenatti makes extraordinary claims which apparently our Democratic
colleagues are embarrassed to say publicly because they demonstrate that
this has become a partisan circus this is not about substance this is about
smears can I ask the senator if he could sum up the reason I've done that is
because I'd like to give everybody a chance to speak this committee has given
dr. Ford and judge Cavanaugh a full and fair opportunity to lay out their views
and I will say unfortunately the conduct of our Democratic colleagues it's been
clear that this has been all about politics all about delaying this
confirmation until after the election hoping that they win the Senate in the
election and then keeping this Supreme Court seat vacant until 2021 every
Democratic member of this committee before the confirmation hearing started
said they opposed judge Cavanaugh before a single thing started and not only that
this allegation the ranking member of this committee had it in writing on July
30th if on July 30th that had been reported to the committee chairman this
committee has a process to investigate it a process to investigate it that is
confidential that the FBI could have participated in investigating starting
back in July 30th that we could have had a hearing
that is closed that is not dragging either of these individuals through the
mud that's the way this process should have worked
and the testimony yesterday from dr. Ford is that the only people who had
copies of the letter were herself her lawyers representative su and the
ranking member of this committee dr. Ford further testified that neither she
nor her lawyers handed the letter over that leaves the only conclusion possible
is that the letter was leaked to the public by either of the two Democratic
members of Congress or their staff or that or someone else to whom they gave
it if there are only four people that have it and two did not give it then the
other two are the only possible sources and that unfortunately demonstrates a
cynicism a willingness to smear dr. Ford if it helps politically delay this
nomination I think we have an obligation to be fair to be impartial to listen to
the evidence to weigh the evidence that's the right thing to do and that's
what I hope this committee does and that's what I hope the full Senate does
thank you god bless you and God bless america
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