Here is the transcript
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaughs-fox-news-interview-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.40824f00870b
Please point out the lies.
I already told you it was the implications of what he said, but I can point out a couple to you:
"I’ve always treated women with dignity and respect."
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"KAVANAUGH: I do not. And this is an allegation about a party in the summer of 1982 at a house near Connecticut Avenue and East West highway with five people present.
I was never at any such party. The other people who are alleged to be present have said they do not remember any such party. A woman who was present, another woman who was present"
She said there were 4 men and her present. That makes 5. If this other woman was there, then there were not 5 people present, were there? (Not to mention that I have heard no such report of another woman at the party claiming that Kavanaugh was not there.)
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"When I worked in the Bush White House, 84 women signed a letter saying that, in the pressurized environment of the west-wing, I always treated them with equality and promoted women’s advancement –"
NOTE: This one is not a lie (except maybe the last sentence, but that is not why I posted it.
Kiid, what happened that would have prompted him then, during the Bush White House years, to
need a letter signed by 84 women that he treated them well?
Was there an accusation
then that we are not hearing about? Wouldn't there have to have been?!
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"And the drinking age was 18, and yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there."
That one's a lie. In Maryland, when he was a senior, the drinking age was 21 and even the grandfathering would not have worked as his classmates would not have been 18 when the law was changed.
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"the people I went to high school with, the girls and the boys, now men and women, that I went to high school with"
He went to an all-boys school.
That he was a virgin until "many years after college" is impossible to prove or disprove and is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
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And in my job as a judge for 12 years I’ve been promoting women’s equality. There was a problem with women law clerks getting hired at the Supreme Court. I am the leading federal judge in the country – the leader in the entire country of promoting women law clerks to get Supreme Court clerkships. For the last seven years, I’ve been coaching girl’s basketball. Ask the moms.
I believe every word of this.
The stories about how he chooses his clerks are interesting. And... as of
this moment I would not want my daughter on a team he coaches.
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NOTE: This is not a lie, either. It
is however, one of several evasions. This one is a double evasion:
MCCALLUM: Do you believe there should be an FBI investigation into these allegations and that a pause should happen and, you know, sort it all out? If there’s nothing to worry about and nothing to hide, why not have that process, Ashley? And then I’ll ask you that, Brett.
KAVANAUGH: I mean, I’ve said all along and Ashley, too, I want to be heard. I was first interviewed last Monday, the day after the allegation appeared by the committee staff under penalty of felony, and I denied this categorically and unequivocally and I said twice during that, I said, “I want a hearing tomorrow,” last Tuesday, a week ago.
I want an opportunity – a fair process. America’s about fairness, I want a fair process where I can defend my integrity and clear my name as quickly as I can in whatever forum the Senate deems appropriate.
Kavanaugh prevented Ashley from answering and then he failed to answer either of the two questions.
"Do you believe there should be an FBI investigation into these allegations...?"
"If there’s nothing to worry about and nothing to hide, why not have that process, Ashley? And then I’ll ask you that, Brett."
This is one of the main reasons I remain very suspicious of him, Kiid.
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"KAVANUGH: In America, we have fairness."
There's a lie.
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There are tons of evasions. He had his talking points and he repeated them again and again. I thought he did a pretty good job, given what his goal was.
We'll see if it is enough to save his nomination. If the former State Dept./current Mint employee actually has evidence, he's toast. If the Senate Judiciary Committee refuses to allow testimony from anybody but the two of them and the Mint woman has no evidence, he has a good chance of skating.
But why doesn't he want the FBI investigation and why wouldn't he let his wife answer, if he's done nothing wrong.
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