![]() ![]() senators, aside from everything else that happened today, this is just unheard of for a sitting jurist. A federal appeals court judge behaving that way, speaking that way in any setting let alone in the Senate, yelling like this at U.S. MADDOW: Revenge on behalf of - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh isn`t on the Supreme Court at this point, but he is already a federal appeals court judge. This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent- up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons. No one can question your effort.īut your coordinated and well funded effort to destroy my good name and destroy my family will not drive me out. Some of you were lying in wait and had it ready.Ī long series of false last-minute smears designed to scare me and drive me out of the process before any hearing occurred. When I did at least OK enough at the hearing that it looked like I might actually get confirmed, a new tactic was needed. The behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment, but at least it was just a good old-fashioned attempt at borking. ![]() For decades to come, I fear that the whole country will reap the whirlwind. People have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family, to send any violent e-mail to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends, to blow me up and take me down. Since my nomination in July, there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to block my confirmation. You have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. JUDGE BRETT KAVANAUGH, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NOMINEE: My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. ![]() Senate while that nominee was being assessed for the job. Nobody has ever been confirmed to the federal judiciary in the United States after anything even close to this happened in the U.S. I think when you talk about the impact of what happened today, even without us knowing what this is going to do to the Kavanaugh confirmation, I think you have to start with this. But in terms of - in terms of what happened today, this is all out of chronological order, because I`m just trying to make the most sense of it. I want to start tonight with some of what we saw today, with the way I think today went and what was just this sprawling, gut-wrenching emotional hearing.Īfter we talk about sort of what I think happened today, we`re going to talk a little bit about what`s going to happen because of this hearing today, where this is all likely to go. But today was a historic day for a million different reasons, and let`s try to make some sense of it together. Things are going both faster and slower than it seems like they ought to. Thanks, my friend.Īnd thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.Īll right. I feel like time has lost all meaning at this point. RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Chris. Show: THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW Date: SeptemGuest: Amy Klobuchar, Nina Totenberg, Seung Min Kim
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