Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Testify: A Closer Look
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- Seth takes a closer look at Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony to the Senate about the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh Testify: A Closer Look- Late Night with Seth Meyers
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She gave voice to millions of victems all over the world who have no voice ! Thank you !
That was raw courage! Shitty that her and her family needed security from nutjobs just for her to state her story.
@KanadianSpaceProgram I thought she was coherent and stated many facts that a victim of abuse would have ingrained in their consciousness. Especially since the assault happened when she was 15.
OriginalJimShorts she didn't state any facts, her own witness couldn't collaborate her own story. So it's her say vs he say, actually it's her say vs they say.
KanadianSpaceProgram if you got sexually assaulted who would you tell? It’s scary for these people
Lindsey Gale so true! It's huge.
Lindsay Graham had a meltdown. He’s such a coward
He's trying to get the attorney general spot if sessions is fired.. He had that all planned out.
I thought he was clunk over with a heart failure.
He's a drama queen...emphasis on...well, you get my drift
Graham is that to important to play golf? Be Careful, look. What happen to Session , maybe a bad move
Move.
Lindsey Graham has been quoted, telling tRump " I wouldn't trust anyone in congress to buy me a car, they don't have a clue". Such two faced bad excuses for human beings!
real question is why do we keep voting senior citizens to congress 🤔
@Eileen Farrar I don't wish death on anyone, not even Trump. But wish he would exit America, though. He encourages evil and division. Evil, corrupt manchild.
They come in at K s age and get to sit til they die. No strenuous work having fun playing with folks lives they live forever
I would also add that why dont we have term limits on congress and Senate seats? We desperately need them to help cut back on corrupt career politicians.
Part of the reason is because you generally need something to build your first campaign on. That doesn't necessitate a senior citizen, but there is also natural bias to assume old people are wise and sagacious, regardless of the actual old person.
Thank you so much for acknowledging Dr. Ford the way you did. Your job is to find the cracks in people and bring it out... but this time you helped her shine her light. Thank you.
If this is just a Democrat tactic, why did no one come forward for Justice Gorsuch? Why have there been plenty of other high profile Republicans run without these accusations? It is because this guy is guilty.
excellent point. thanks!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Yeah Sen Harris did a really nice a really nice job of laying out this point, noting that Gorsuch also graduated from Georgetown Prep, had an elite education, and served in the federal court circuit, and yet no allegations arose against him. Kavanaugh did not have a good answer.
His very public attacks on the left & the Clintons means he'll never be a fair judge.
Pietro Jenkins...you make a good point! The fact that Kavanaugh IS so partisan and WON'T be a fair judge is exactly why the Republicans (and especially President Trump) want him on the Supreme Court so badly.
Why doesn't he just withdraw his nomination for this guy and actually find someone worthy of the supreme court?
He likes beer
Because he needs someone crooked to help him out when the time comes.
He needs someone that will do whatever he says.
I'm not sure he could find anyone. Anyone he associates with is almost always unqualified, corrupt, racist, crooked, or wanting to take us back to dark ages, or all of the above.
Kavanaugh's already bought and paid for.
Shouldn't a Supreme Court judge be impartial and free of politics? Kavanaugh's speech was totally political, siding with the republican side of the committee. His rhetoric was very much like Trump's. In fact, it sounded as though he was just repeating what Trump says. This alone should raise red flags for the American people.
Caramelo trump picked him - what else could we expect?
it does but unfortunately its out of the peoples hands...the peasants don't get to vote on supreme court justices...I feel they should but well The nobility has decided that They will not eat cake in this instance
Well if the Republican-led Senate do confirm him then we should hope for a massive swing against them in the forthcoming midterms, returning enough of a Democrat majority to pass an amendment to the Constitution imposing term=limits on SCJs, preferably one starting with 0 weeks for Kavanaugh!
Well considering that the democrats are attempting to ruin his life and accused him of being a gang rapist I don't think he has all much of a choice. They forced him to pick a side.
I wish you were being realistic here. Once he is in, there is nothing that will take him out.
1) Kavanaugh continued to refer to a piece of evidence that Ford debunked. He claimed that Ms. Kaiser said she didn't know him or recall the incident. Ford stated clearly that her friend has been ill and had apologize about the letter to Ford, saying that Kaiser's lawyer wrote the letter without consulting her.
2) After the female prosecutor Republicans hid behind (because they don't know how to ask women questions like big boys) hit on a particular date in Kavanaugh's calendar-- July 1st--which indicated he was going to a party with some of the other males Ford said were at the party she recalled, Republicans switched tactics and stopped using the prosecutor to speak for them.
3) Kavanaugh routinely answered with non-answers and distractions. He seemed to be claiming that people from Yale and A-students could not also be capable of sexual assault.
4) Kavanaugh refused to say whether he would support an FBI investigation, at one point when asked about an investigation starting to whine about how he asked for a hearing the day after the allegation. Except that no one said anything about a hearing. Holding a hearing doesn't solve the problem. An investigation would potentially benefit him if he's innocent, but strangely neither he nor Republicans want any more information on the matter. He then pretended that being questioned by Senators in the hearing (a format he has lied in before) was the same as an FBI investigation.
5) The hearing demonstrated the usual Republican tactic of projection. They have run an unethical confirmation process where they have withheld millions of pages of documents about Kavanaugh's past, refused to let the public hear about information in many documents, refused to have any other witnesses (including Mark Judge, who was part of the alleged assault), refused to hear from any of the other women who came forward, who refused to call for further FBI investigation, and who staged their own partisan investigation using Grassley's own staff people, and the GOP senators and Kavanaugh complained about how Democrats were causing problems by calling for a fair, normal process instead of the unprecedentedly biased one the right staged.
6) After portraying himself as a non-partisan, fair judicial nominee, Kavanaugh flew into a partisan conspiracy-theory laden rant that demonstrated he does not have the temperament for the Supreme Court.
Nada Doyle 7) Nobody reads long comments like this.
i sat through the ten hour long hearing and i am still 100% sure that kavanaugh is guilty. but i still have family members supporting him without even watching ford’s testimony and bringing up pointless and random evidence as to why her accusations are false, like the fear of flying. it’s interesting how republicans will bring up the most minuscule of issues to prove their points and blow it way out of proportion to make it seem as a bigger deal than it actually is.
FlatusOhlfahrt not feminazi or bullshit. just facts. watch the full hearing to see the contrast between an honest and genuine woman, and an angry man dodging questions and disrespecting democratic senators. sexual assault accusation aside, the hearing was actually his job interview, and i don’t even think he should be on the supreme court because of how he acted. he continually cut off democratic senators mid-question and asked one of them if she’d ever drank so much that she’d blacked out after she got done explaining that her father suffered with alcoholism. he was temperamental and insubordinate and completely out of control of his emotions. someone like that shouldn’t carry the title of supreme court judge.
Calero Calero - Don't comment for others, just yourself. I read it all and appreciated it.
8) Her testinomy is inconsistent and their is no corrobative evidence to charge. Democrats just want an open fbi investigation so his investigation takes so long no one would be able to vote. And trust me, once it has started, we will hear no more of Dr. Ford... Because it has never been about that.
His paranoid accusations are the ramblings of a guilty man.
yea 36 year old allegations that can not be verified by anyone in attendance of these parties.... This is unfortunately how low the democratic party has become after Trumps nomination, what are they going to run on higher taxes, open borders, free this free that....so the only hope they have is to accuse them of sexual assault also the democrats were holding onto this knowledge before the hearings began...
KanadianSpaceProgram, what color is the sky on your planet?
What I know is Kavanaugh was ready to get Trump's snake story out and then started crying instead. That's real meat balls hanging there.
Whether Kavanaugh is guilty of the allegations or not really should not be what worries you about his paranoid accusations today. What should worry you is that his response WAS paranoid and that he latched onto a conspiracy theory as the basis for his argument. This action reveals much about the actual man and his values, as it pierces the veil of his otherwise "safe" pre-packaged testimony from previous weeks. Was his combative, spiteful performance today indicative of the type of person we Americans want to sit on the highest court of our land, where a measure, SOBER demeanor is required to evaluate the most profound legal questions that our nation must confront? No person is an angel. However, Kavanaugh appears to have very troubling character issues. And we Americans deserve to have a better individual - conservative or liberal - ascend to the bench.
bellesogne, very well stated... I hope they find someone more suited for such a high position. Trump level will not work for America. Trump will be gone but Brett will stay on forever. Scary thought.
I suspect going to the science of memory and other things was Ford going to her comfort zone more than anything else. She was very impressive through the entire hearing.
Holy god, after hearing
kavanaugh's outburst, are you seriously telling me this guy is going to get a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court? Talk about bias and conspiracy theories. No wonder the Republicans desperately want him on the SC.
How is he not going to break down if he's elected.
He was jusiifiabky steamed. This comedian be twisted it
Whatever is true, this judge is no longer acceptable after this freak show. Look for another one.
Be careful what you ask for. The next choice could be worse, and sneakier .
+Ikallicrates
Why is Brett disqualified again? You made no argument
False rape allegations is a freak show. Yes.
deepblue64 Yes we have another one even more conservative a woman and totally vetted ...so there you go ..America's getting better all the time...
Ikallicrates No judge is unbiased. You’re just mad because this one is biased towards the other team when you want one biased towards your team. An unbiased judge has nether and will never be selected for the Supreme Court because everyone wants someone that’ll bat for their team.
Someone needs to officially have a way to remotely cut Chuck Grassley's microphone any time he starts talking out of turn.
he’s the chairman you dolt that’s his job
Put a taser in his chair and zap him every time he talks, even when it is his turn to talk. That would be priceless.
Even the homeless can't stop talking about trump.this is insane
Two words......TERM LIMITS sheesh 85 is too old to be there
Even if he did nothing, Kavanaugh just showed that he holds grudges and showed that he is indeed political.
And that fake crying, on cue. He cried when mentioning football, and again on baseball. 😒😧
pebmets In few words: “ Even if he did nothing, he is still guilty! ...That is quite a logic... lol
Myla Porter Yes he could be not guilty, but he showed that when it may come to a ruling in the future, instead of basing it on the constitution, he may use a grudge or his political belief to come to a conclusion.
Let's not kid ourselves; they are all political as judges
And that's why we have this problem
TCt83067695 I agree. We went from judges who are suppose to interpret law based on the constitution vs what we have today, judges who want to make law.
I'm sorry but can we just take a moment to really think about Grassley's choice of words that he was (apparently) going to introduce Dr Ford "as she was about to speak"..? Because to me that sounds an awful lot as though he was planning on interrupting HER which would arguably make her flustered as she was about to make her statement. Am I reading too much into it? Probably, but I sure wouldn't put it past any of these guys to try a trick like that...
Frankly, I see no other reason for him to wait on the introduction, so I thought the same thing
Yup.
Grassley is an ass and I have no doubt he was intentionally playing political games but he also demonstrates delusions of grandeur which cause people to assert their authority in order to gain personal pleasure and a sense of self-importance. Since committee chairman will undoubtedly be his highest ranking position he is making *sure everyone *well knows who is BOSS in this matter of governing. The truth is, I will always remember that he was just an ass.
Respect from Canada to Dr. Ford. 😊🇨🇦
I know Ford isn't a judge, but I think she would do a better job on the Supreme Court than Kavanaugh. He came across as flustered and angry. Someone a little more rational under pressure would be a better pick I think.
SweatyShivers you mean like someone who can teach how memory works while she’s under extreme stress? Without verbally floundering all over the landscape and without coming unglued at the seams. That kind of better pick?
He was so emotionally aggressive and rude that I can’t imagine him as a rational and objective judge. I would not want him to rule on anything that has to do with me.
Kace vang how would you act when some when accused of horrible crimes like sexual assault knowing your innocent. Thank god we don't live in the Wild Wild West.
henryjw15 I definitely wouldn’t behave like a petulant child throwing a tantrum when I could just clear up my name. Seriously this fool is upset but refuses to take any initiative to clear his name. If he didn’t do it then there is nothing to be upset or scared about. Allow the investigation and the evidences to speak and the truth will come out. So yeah, for someone who claims innocence, he sure seems guilty. Definitely not someone I’d want as a judge.
@@henryjw15 yeah he just need to agree with FBI investigation another way to prove his innocence and to gain people trust. Which he didn't.
Anyone else notice that when his appointment was basically guaranteed he was super calm. But now that people are legitimately giving it thought he's losing almost all composure. When a predator is finally backed into a corner his* true colors start to show.
Edit: fixed the word "his" to "their" because people were butthurt and thought I was only saying men could be predators and not women, even though my post was only about B.K. in this instance.
Edit2: changed it back.
"his"- should be "their". Women can prey on others too.
No. "A predator" is singular. And it is a man that the writer is talking about. "His" is the right word. Don't muddy the waters.
G. P.-No Muddying the waters here, just saying that "him" implies that only men can be predators, which is not factual, when women can and do the same thing. Now is the post about B.Kavanaugh yes, but to generalize that much is sordove America's problem right now. I would never generalize about race, creed or gender today, just because we are being divided enough as it is. But your point is duly noted.
derkaturka it’s not about generalization, it’s about context. Stop zoning on a single word, instead understand the context in which the whole thread is based upon.
Thanks, I was NOT* "Butthurt" just saying that there is enough divide in the country already, and to make the, hasty generalization, is a logical fallacy, simple as that. But, name calling, or ad homenim attacking me is usually reserved for the right-wing, am I wrong?? Must say, that to was a bit hasty?!?!?
Dr. Ford, thank you for the enormous self-sacrifice in coming forward and making known facts pertaining to the spoiled, malignant, silver-spooned GOPper who would twist this country's law into pretzels. I hope you get your life back very soon and can pick up the pieces and move forward. Such a valiant, honorable deed on behalf of our country, and this applies as well to the second and third (so far!) accusers. Brave, principled people, all. Thank you.
I wonder how many were paid off? I'm sure their is more ladies and I pray they come forward#
Except theres still zero proof, and the 4 witnesses ford called on for their testimony denied such a party happened.
@TheLukieBoi1 - Do you have a link to your source? Only think I heard is that they say they don't remember.
Yes it must be hard for a fucked up party girl to remember where this particular party was. After awhile one is just like the next . Kind of like one train is just like another, except I have pictures.
She has made over $500,000 off of this scam. *So brave*
I knew Trump will throw anyone under the bus but... George Washington, I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting that.
I can’t believe I still have the ability to be surprised.
That speaks well for you, Artemis Wolf. When none of us care any more, then we will be doomed.
so funny but so true
I've been where Dr.Ford had been and unfortunately, worse. What struck me most was her calmness and humility. Kavanaugh was vitriolic and unapologetic, despite his own admissions of his more than boys will be boys stance on his behavior. It was riveting history. I am in awe of her.
So you wouldn't be furious if people called you a rapist over and over again with no credible evidence?
And I would want my name clear meaning I’d take that polygraph test, I’d accept the FBI’s help. Bratt Kavadouch is like a petulant scared bully who knows he has DNA under his finger nails after having assaulted someone and now results to praising himself in hopes that no one notices his nails and sitting on his hands refusing to let the FBI swab his nails for evidence because he’s says he’s so great and awesome.
She certainly sparked a few memories in me too. The hand over the mouth, the crushing weight. Most telling for me was the fear that he might kill her accidentally. That's a tiny detail, one that doesn't always get talked about when recalling these types of assaults. But I remember it, and the 4 other women I've talked about this testimony with agreed: The fear that, whatever else he was trying to do, whether it was a genuine attempt at rape or 'just messing about for a laugh' (at a terrified female's expense) - with a hand being held over your face and the weight pressing you down, you panic because you feel you could easily be suffocated here!
There are plenty of men in prisons who absolutely never meant to *kill*. They meant to beat, humiliate, grope, rape ... but they never meant to kill.
Enough is enough, there needs to be a fire and Kavanaugh is one of the men who should be on it.
@@Inkbleedful he lied over and over again about things in his year book his excessive drinking etc his lying under oath alone should see him disqaulifed from the position..
Joab Johnstone
"I was the president of the rofup beach party group because I threw up all the time because I always throw up when I eat spicy foods."
Well first beer is not a spicy food. At least none that I know of.
Second people who throw up spicy foods don't keep eating them over and over.
Either Tits%Clist lied or he is one dumbass who should not be allowed to be a voter much less a judge.
I would not trust him to mow my paved driveway.
I can't. I just can't.
The hearing today was just disgusting.
Dr. Ford is an amazing human being who absolutely deserves to be heard and given all the praise this earth can provide.
Agree but due process for both, but kavanaugh sure does look guilty.
She broke my heart. It's as if she was frozen at fifteen. This man ruined her.
Oh yeah it was disgusting and well coached for ford. With no credible evidence she is a great woman.
And on that she is a clinical psychologist! Damn women can't get over this trauma.
And with an argument that she is a clinical psychologist, she knows a lot how brain works, why not use it to gather some money.
BTW she already got close to an million $ in her GoFundMe campaign.
Parth Sharma : Great to hear the Go Fund Me campaign is going well.
“If he only had a-brain” 🎶
Probably one of the best comments XD👏🏾👏🏾
oh man, perfect. And yes, I sang it out loud. BWAH. Who else? 😄
Erik Weimer I’m laughing but I also feel unhappy about using such a great movie quote on such an undeserving person
Beth E I did too!
@@rosierose9787 😃😂
Being the daughter of a pedophile, this guy's tactics turn my stomach. The self-pity is real I'm sure, but not for the sake of innocence. The anger, the resentment, the smugness; those were the most honest moments coming out. But Graham still took the cake. The script he wrote was disgraceful, misleading, and disgusting. The only consolation is that Grassley and Graham WILL BE remembered by this single moment in history. After 27 years, it seems all they've learned is how to better reinforce the man and more subtly denigrate the woman.
The daughter of a pedophile? I've heard a lot of people in fucked up positions in life, but this one takes the cake, or at the very least a sizable slice.
As for the rest of your comment, I completely agree! I just hate how people are willing to walk on each other and compromise common moral principles for the sake of political BS.
@Vivek Tarkunde
My ex was the son of a pedophile, and one who went to jail for several years because of it. Sadly, I think this is more common than any of us would like to acknowledge.
Who cares if you are daughter of pedophile? What in earth does that have to do with absolutely anything here? A man is being accused of sexual assault. Not the same thing as pedophilia. Self pity? If you are accused and deamonized by mainstream media for something you didn't do, you don't think there would be pity? Reverse the roles. How DARE ford have self pity for herself. False accusations are outrageous! She's a liar! Saying anything like that about a potential victim of SA is unacceptable. It should be equally unacceptable to do it to a white male. Yet, nope!
Angel Array God bless you and hope your tomorrows are much brighter.. amen
@@soofihasan jhm
When the nominee can't answer a couple of easy questions with a simple yes or no, he's lying! He could have said yes or no instantly and then explain afterward. Brett is an absolute "no".
Doug Kawakami Absolutely!!
Why did no senators call Graham and Kavanaugh out for being "shrill" and "hysterical". Cos that's exactly how they were behaving. 🙄
Rin Y don't forget Oral Snatch. He was very shrill like a kid going thru puberty.
✍️ *WANT ME? LOOK, I MASTB*ATE NAK8ED,снеск3 снann6el* 👩👩
Seth’s delivery of that Outback Steakhouse joke was perfect.
Even the American Bar Association said they wanted an investigation.
Supreme Court Justice’s shouldn’t throw temper tantrums... just my opinion.
James Thomas mine too!
Completely agree.
Damn, major kudos to the writers for such a beautifully eloquent yet witty take on this weeks events
Fish of Mocking That was my take too! 👏👏👏👏
yes i got teary when he was talking about her bravery. very well-written!
A bunch of 80 year olds deciding the future of the most powerful country in the world. LOL
It's scary
I think they should be forced to retire at 65
SunzOffski I agree with you, life experience is important. I just think that if representatives and senators work for the people, they should also represent as many age groups as possible. Today the median age in America is about 38 years old. The median age among senators is 61. An 85 year old has a tough time understanding what young people in the country wants and needs today.
I agree. The old should not be deciding the future of a country. Their wisdom, if they actually have any, although judging by how they act it's doubtful, should be used to help decide the future of a country, but not to be the decision makers. Also, the senate should be decided by vote and only be for a certain period of time. It should not be a lifetime appointment. But face it, American politics are fucked, not unlike my countries politics, except not quite as bad. Sorry, I'm a bit loquacious in my writing tonight.
The amount of dumbass on this video, also Hillary wouldn't be able to run as she would be another 80 year old running the country
Grace under pressure does not equal Brett Kavanaugh.
OMG ... Just LOOK at Kavanaugh... un fricken hinged ... No composure... acting like a baby ... ! And THIS is who they want as a Supreme Court Justice !! Seriously ??!!
He does not act like that when he is in charge behind the bench with the law protecting him. Only when he is the guilty person in a court of people judging him. He knows he is guilty. We know he is guilty. I am pretty sure he is going to be unemployed and penniless in a few years. His wife will divorce him and take everything.
Dr. Ford is such an amazing, brave, smart, and strong woman. She has carried all the negativity with such poise. I give her all my support and love.
Oh you're so good you copied and pasted your comment from everybody who has already said the same damn thing who sits on the left 😂😂😂😂
@@FLOODOFSINS mean while "I like rape ". Said every Republican perv.
Floodofsins...well, I hope they start copying this one about you, "What an Asshole!". I don't care whether you're Left or Right...your comment says you're just a trolling jerk.
As in political leaning has anything to do with personal opinions of an individual? Do you want to actually make comment on her actions, or are you nothing more than a backwards Neanderthal who likes to stick to fallacious tribalism rather than rational discourse?
Fight on brave American.
You melted down Beavis 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm saving "you melted-down Beavis" in my bank of insults for future use. That one had me struggling to breathe
Grassley tells senator Whitehouse that he is not running this committee, then proceeds to allow Graham to take over the proceedings and have a 2nd, round of questioning. They're literally like preschoolers changing rules as they go along, to gain a winning advantage!
Francesann Jackson I find that funny, you know the dems do it too?
GOP in a nutshell
At the beginning of proceedings Grassley said Rachel Mitchell would do the questioning for the Republicans, but when her questions shone an unflattering light on Kavanaugh they took back their time, not to question the candidate, but to rant and yell. Disgusting.
henryjw15 explain how the minority accomplishes that.
I admire Dr. Ford and Anita Hill. Both are strong women and both are patriots.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
Fucking kidding me right? This is the saddest times this country has ever seen. Strong women and Patriots? Wtf?
Seth called him a 'melted down Beavis'
A MELTED DOWN BEAVIS!!!
*dead*
I just want to be able to at least respect republicans like I used to when I was younger. I may have not always agreed with them but at least I used to at least been able to respect them. There are VERY few I can do that with now. It’s sad.
I agree.
True. Something has changed. Maybe it comes from having to back the current president.
Term Limits!
Dr Ford you are amazing, for of grace , strength and courage. THANK YOU
Kavanaugh's rebuttal shows how unfit he is for the position of Supreme Court Justice
There should be definate term limits for Supreme Court judges, as well as senators and members of Congress. It's called social evolution.
There's no need for term limits. Vote the cottenhead fuckers out. It's that simple
No boundry for old men :)
and definitely after this hearing... he openly displayed with his tantrum, his disgust for the liberal side of this senate. How would anyone still consider him a truly bipartisan candidate that would make an ideal supreme court judge? Unwise decision for the country. Go back to the short list, ..Kavanaugh is unfit (either b/c he's guilty and/OR the fact that his character shown at this hearing is so inappropriate for ANY court system!)
At the moment it's more a question if he's fit for this job than what it started out this morning. Setting aside the sexual abuse charges it's the way he views issues that's kinda creepy.
Dr. Ford is so brave. It must be an extremely traumatic memory.. Those who have never experienced a sexual assualt may say she remembers wrong. A sexual assult is so traumatic. You can never forget the moment and disgusting feelings at the moment. No one wants to bring up such painful memory.. Those who threatened her and her family’s life must feel ashamed!! I appreciate and support her courage to do right things.
People who would threaten her life aren't capable of feeling shame.
Brett's got everything you want in a Supreme Court justice. He's calm, measured, erudite...wait. What? Ohhhhh, nope. He's a whiney bro.
You might need to do something about the intern who gave you those notes at the beginning there lol XD
Valid complaints are whining
Wake me up when September ends.
Actually....wait another 2 years 😩
2 years later now 2020 end of September. Man things went really South since 2018.
Now? is now a good time to wake you up?
Dr Ford demonstrated tremendous courage and grace under fire. What a shameful display by the Reps.
If it was not for shameful displays republicans would never be seen in public.
Mike Layton Ha ha - good line.
Violets Inbloom Call your congressmen, tell them how you feel about this. Especially if they're Reps and happen to be on this committee or up for reelection.
The Republicans treated her with more respect than the democrats did. Democrats receive an allagation if attempted rape........and just sit on it. Disgraceful.
Dr Ford was a class act. Kavanagh just proofed himself to be a bully when he immediately cut off and yelled at the female senators. If he thinks that's being respectful to women, he needs to go back to high school.
He needs a complete reboot. High school seems to have been too much "fun" for him; a reward even.
Proofed?
Dr. Ford showed great courage and strength, very great patience and fortitude during an INSANE amount of pressure. But my God her explaining how memories work. 🤣
Wes B -- if you havent watched the hearing. kavanaugh spent 8 minutes trying to redefine what "blackout drunk" means. he continually asked what kind of beer the jury liked. He repeated the idea "i like beer" some 40 times. Kavanaugh created yelling, refused to answer questions, brought up ideas of conspiracy theorists and hiliary clinton. donald trump and interupted questioning many times.
also. to OP.
Oh my god no. please no.
This man going back to highschool would only raise the number of pedophilia suspecisions in politics.
I have no desire to be fair to Kavanaugh, but to give him his due, he's undergoing one of the worst and most public humiliations imaginable. No one's likely to react well to this kind of public ruination.
That out of the way...
Isn't it a recognised psychological fact that guilty people tend to react to accusations with anger, while if you're innocent, you're more likely to react with bemusement and sadness?
And plus, so much of his defence is this ridiculous resort to all the pious, flag-kissing, apple pie stuff he supposedly spent his teenage years on: going to church, studying hard, being an athlete and 'service' whatever that means. It's almost like he's desperately crying: goddamnit, why doesn't this veneer work for me anymore?
Well for a start, _judge_ as a legal defence it's nothing at all and anyway, most of it, if you've ever been on the wrong side of it or known of anyone who has - abusive priests, bullying jocks - is just horrific anyway, especially for the way it couches itself in unimpeachable wholesomeness.
And how revealing it truly does seem to see that mask of conventional moral probity contort into this nasty snarl when cornered.
Dr. Blasey Ford may have explained how the brain works to those dinosaurs, but they sure didn't understand a thing !
One took a polygraph. One says they’re unreliable. One is open to cooperating with any context that requires you to be under oath. One seems less thrilled by that prospect. But he shared his conspiracy theory with us. So I should believe him then? Gotcha.
She is a trained clinical psychologist, she can easily pass any polygraph test as she very well know how it works and how to crack it.
Psychologist designed it didn't they?
Meanwhile she is famous in Hollywood and getting rich.
I call her a genius!
And people like you gullible fools!
Right? I don't know if Kavanaugh is guilty, none of us really can - we weren't there, but if Ford is some sort of Democrat plot, like everyone keeps trying to say, she's being awfully cooperative in things that would earn her jail time. Her kids had to be pulled from school, she had to quit, her husband's off work, and they've all been pulled from their home by the FBI, all because they've received so many credible death threats, and she's still willing to testify, after passing a polygraph, and all she's asking for is an investigation.
Meanwhile, Republicans won't call witnesses, won't force Mark to testify under oath, when he was allegedly in the damn room, won't let any other women who've accused him speak, won't allow an FBI investigation, and Kavanaugh himself is a proven liar. Kavanaugh belonged to a frat, that was disbanded only years after he graduated, for sexually assaulting, and drugging and raping women. The exact same accusations multiple people have made towards him. His comments in past year books have been wholly offensive towards women, and people say that in some speeches he gave at the time, and in yearbook comments, he referenced several inside jokes about drugging and raping women. He said he was a virgin who'd never drunk at the time in a previous interview, then he changed his story completely after many people who knew him at the time came out and said he'd get black-out drunk every weekend!
I can't say Kavanaugh is guilty, but at the VERY least, this demands an investigation.
andyroose There's another way to pass a polygraph test. And that is TO TELL THE TRUTH. So why doesn't Kavanaugh take one?
@@janeryan2709 Because it's bogus! That's why its not admissible in courts.
And he said he would take one if it requires.
Man are you dumb?
andyroose
Psychologists don't have magical powers to manipulate machines and other people's minds. Clinical psych professors are experts in psychopathology, they're not Svengali hypnotoads. Also, polygraphs aren't admissible in courts because they're not reliable enough to present to juries who have to reach a verdict _beyond a reasonable doubt._ They _are_ reliable enough to be used as a guide in investigations. That's why the FBI administers and uses them.
Dr Ford showed courage and presence of mind in the face of hostile republican old geezers.
Kavanaugh ... I wouldn't want him deciding my future ... the insanity, the insanity ...
Kav spent a week getting coached at the White House, and this was the best he could do? Sad
Dr. Ford showcased amazing bravery today, but I swear Brett Kavanaugh was acting _SO_ hysterical...! And his voice was so shrill! He should really try to calm down and smile more and maybe pick up a hobby like, say, knitting!
BTW, CAN’T WAIT UNTIL YOU HOST SNL ON OCTOBER 13TH, SETH MEYERS!!!
Mmmm... that's good sarcasm!
New Message Brett’s wife’s a total mood, right now lol
Probably he is on his periods or something 😂
albilevizm Menopause
If Kavanaugh was a women they would say that she was hysterical.
This!^^^
That is so true. Oh my gosh it is
Reminds me of how the world reacted to Serena Williams.
☆☆☆☆☆ Five star comment
That's exactly what I was thinking x)
LOL - didn't you raise your eye brows when he said "His large..." I was omg I hope he doesn't say penis...I now know that I am forever traumatized by this administration....
Brett Kavanaugh defending himself looks like a toddler demanding ice cream
I was sick to my stomach watching this hearing. America is supposed to be better than this.
@Jon Adam True... but the political parties have kinda swapped places on that. When it started, Democrats were the slaveholders, the racists. Now its Democrats who push for sanctuary cities and Republicans for the detainment of children from their families.
He remembers he was not at that party. He remembers he never blacked out when he got drunk 30+ years ago. He remembers who played third base in a baseball game, 30 years ago, yet he can’t recall if he discussed Russia’s probe at Kasowitz Benson & Torres, a law firm that’s long represented President Donald Trump.
He also remembers where his 1982 calendar is.
I hear he remembers where he keeps his first poo-poo - but that one is easy , in his front left pocket.
Also lied under oath about WMD's!!!! Which is a felony, by the way. Love his selective memory that was just called out.
Kas...Kas...o...Kaso....Kasowitz?
RassBrass - excellent point!!! =)
how would he remember never blacking out 30+ years ago? :P he would have to remember every minute of every day, since birth, to be able to claim such a thing. (at least perfect recall until 30+ years ago :P)
Is it so hard to imagine that someone can sometimes handle their fears and sometimes can't?
I have social anxiety, if I could not handle them sometimes I would literally not be able to leave my apartment, like at all - I'd just starve to death.
Especially important things like meetings or just your weekly grocery shopping just have to be done, yes sometimes even that fails but most of the time I manage even though I feel like I'm losing it at any moment due to heavy physical symptoms.
These men are not psychologists. Theyre not trained to understand how fears, phobia and challanging mental fear, with physical ability means.
But Ford is a psychologist and she explains why that happens. Along with scientific studies about how fear responses are not the same thing as physical disabilities.
If any of these men had studied in college. Maybe 4 of the 17 minutes Ford was on stand, wouldnt be wasted with telling them how the mind works.
If you have to tell people you are smart, you very likely are not. People who are intelligent, know other people can tell.
he fake to cry was so obvious
...his whining certainly was genuine
I was inclined to believe Kavanaugh, but watching him rant today, all I could think was “ this is him sober “ imagine him drunk....
I leaned more toward Ford, she seems more professional and credible and not once did she feel the need to talk about how much she liked BEER!! Kavanaugh LOVES beer, he loved it back then, he loves it now, he drinks it here, he drinks it there, he drinks it everywhere!
@Eileen Farrar what's it like being raise by wolves?
Facts please, they matter
@Eileen Farrar Or a myriad of reasons such as annoyed you're falsley accused without evidence in court of public opinion and countless morons like u
"I like beer,
You like beer,
she likes beer,
he likes beer,
let's all get some beer and do some rape'n!"
Besides the beer, Christie, BK was an asshole w/o it. Bad judgement.
Outstanding _A Closer Look,_ Seth. Possibly the best ever.
BRILLIANT ..the coffin joke had me laughing in my sleep.
Our country is so screwed. I am begging Flake, Murkowski, Collins, and all republican senators to not do this to our country. Lindsey Graham must definitely be compromised by Russia, he is acting ridiculously. Call your senators, please!
BUT THE MOVEMENT #METOO IS BROKE FOR KAVANAUGH
Ivanhoe Sanchez is another Trumpy too LAZY to compose a sentence that can be understood.
Dont stress, the American Bar Association is on it, and they've demanded an FBI investigation.
Graham acts as if he has something in his past. That, or he's totally lost perspective and is only focused on getting his radical right nominee onto the SC. Could be either or both.
Trumpet Man uses George Washington in his argument, but has a problem with accusations from 36 years ago🙄
You get to pop out of your coffin like the crypt keeper, killed me lol.
The cryptkeeper burn was savage xD
It was an intense day to say the least.
Am I alone in thinking Kavanaugh was totally unhinged? Ranting, crying and drinking water like crazy?
He was like Trump and had a lot of talking points Trump would of liked.. I have a feeling Trump aides gave him so pointers to win over Trump
Hot pipes? Lol
Unhinged is correct! He started talking seriously about left wing conspiracies --- a sign of paranoia. I thought that at any moment he was going to scream obscenities at both the Democrats and Dr. Ford. At one point, it even looked as if he was having a nervous breakdown or something.
I call that guilty
Debra Perez Yes, you are alone.
What an avalanche of apsurdity from this presidency. Unbelievable.
As usual top notch Seth thanks
OMG I WAS SOOOOO HOPING YOU WOULD PICK ON HOW MUCH HE DRANK WATER.....I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD WATCHING LIVE NEWS FEED....#CONSERVETHEWATER
Maybe he was hoping the water would turn into real tears instead of the dry eyes he had
And what was the deal with his tongue??? Yish!
Kavanaugh kept wishing that the water was his beer. So he could get drunk and assault another woman.
"Bart O`Kavanaugh" needs to learn what `judicious` means. I`m not sure an angry, petulant child should be making any decisions at all, let alone in a courtroom.
I'm sorry what? He is blocked by Democrat partisans who can't find anything on him. So they resort to character attacks and delay his hearing for 10 days hoping to scare him out of the position. He was ready to testify the moment the allegations were made. Yet no one seems to mention that in this leftwing echo chamber.
Doctor Lyoko, blocked for 10 whole days, my god. Don’t tell Obama as he might just fall on the floor laughing at that statement. Heaven forbid we carry out due diligence on a life appointment on the highest court in the land.
@@jonjonvids Cavanaugh was appointed by a man who said he is respected for having " very, very large...a brain". I'm still laughing like the whole world is, and you heard and saw it, but if you believe your leader with very, very large a brain who said what you see and what you hear is not what is happening, then you are beyond salvage!
@@jonjonvids Dr Ford's testimony was beyond credible. Kavanaugh is backed by an illegitimate puppet who is a self confessed sexual predator. It obviously takes one to know one.
dopamining Judicial temperament used to be a thing.
I look forward to this segment every night.
Seth's Grassley impersonations at 4:30 are hilarious.
I think after she talked about epinephrine and norepinephrine, she should've talked about neurons. Memorable event causes neurons to fire more frequently, making the experience more intense and increasing the likelihood that the event is encoded as a memory. Because she is referring to a traumatic experience, action potentials (neurons firing) would be occurring very frequently during and after the event and would cause her to have a very vivd and detailed memory of the event, unfortunately.
What the hell is happening in this country??? My dear fellow Americans please vote this cancer out this midterm. Also vote it out in 2020!!!
I agree and im in there! Sometimez though, we have to actually meet our neighbors n knock on doors.. and get them registered to vote.
That double parked BM line was incredible. Without question one of the best I've heard on US TV.
Kavanaughs unstable rant should be all the evidence needed that he is not worthy of a seat on the Supreme Court
Time for the Kavanaugh - Freudian slip conversation!! Did anyone notice when they asked Kavanaugh when he had last seen Mark Judge, he said, “Not since the thing.” I thought there was NO “THING.” If innocent, shouldn’t he have just said, “not since high school”? OOOOPS!!!
Brilliant observation!
I thought he said he hadn’t seen him for a few years although your recollection IS SO MUCH MORE FUN so I’m going with that! 🤣
I’d love to hear what professional body language experts have to say about him. Particularly those who specialize in reading suspects, witnesses and (potential) victims. He definitely wrinkled up his nose and leaned back every time he had just lied or heard a question he didn’t like.
Lol he was friends and went to school with Mark Judge for years after, so no if he was referring to a "thing" it was clearly something else. Though did you notice that Ford said she didn't tell anyone what happened because she didn't want to admit to her parents she was at a party drinking with boys, she she claimed not to have been drinking the night in question? Bizarre.
Mr. J _
It’s not bizarre. I myself don’t like beer but went to many many keg parties because I liked socializing. I would have been in HUGE trouble if my parents found out that I was even there. It wouldn’t matter to them if I was drinking or not. Although I would have been in a lot more trouble if I had been. Something did happen at a party. But I was damn sure not going to tell my parents about it! I didn’t want to be a victim AND get punished even more at the same time. Does that make sense?
**quivers lip**
Do you believe me now?
No?
**starts screaming**
HOW ABOUT NOW?
But I should believe her?
Ink-Bleedful You mean the only one who passed a polygraph & called for a FBI investigation of herself? Yeah
Ink-Bleedful You shouldn't believe anyone yet. However, the way Brett acted was just unprofessional, his evidence and defences were often shaky and irrelevant, and as an accomplished judge you would expect he would know better. Doesn't mean he's guilty, does mean he'll he an awful Justice
@@Inkbleedful As per previous he lied under oath.. Still does not prove he did this but does not look good.. He needs to be disqualified from the position.. Unless you think the reference to a girl in the year book actually was a sign of respect by him and his friends and the boofing statement was really about farting.. The lying on those things automatically disqualifies him...
Spot on! Thank your for telling it like it really is.
I laughed so hard when I watched this. Brilliant!
This has been more than enough to deny Kavanaugh's appointment, to my mind. I do not condemn Kavanaugh while there is still reasonable doubt (but I certainly wouldn't be alone in a room with the man), but the burden of proof that should bar one from the Supreme Court should be much lower than the burden for a criminal conviction. Ford's credibility and the fact of additional accusers is enough, and even were it not, Kavanaugh's lack of decorum and judgment should prove his unsuitability.
Bismuth Crystal There is no one corroborating her story.
So now you should only believe someone if their friend instagrammed it?
100% agree. Almost no employer would hire someone who is currently under investigation for sexual assault, but for the Supreme Court it's supposed to be okay? Nah.
Considering the dismal numbers in rape cases, I'd definitely agree with you.
Less than 30% of all rape gets reported, and even in the western world, less than 10% of those reported cases end in conviction. This doesn't mean that more than 90% are false allegations, mind you. This means that guilt beyond reasonable doubt couldn't be established, even in cases with corroborating witnesses who spoke to the accuser right after, or heard it through the walls, or sometimes even observed it. With enough denial and a lack of physical evidence, even the most obvious rapist can walk free, simply because it's a ridiculously difficult crime to judge.
Taking all those numbers into account, the growing sentiment of "unless he gets convicted in court, he should walk scott free!" seems insane to me. There's basically no chance in hell he's gonna get convicted, but that *does not* mean he didn't do it. Really, we might feasibly see facts pointing to his guilt, but still be unable to have him convicted in court. Should we just let him have a seat at SCOTUS then? Should we let him work as a judge in any capacity? These are difficult questions, but the "innocent until convicted" crowd refuse to take them up, because their slogan sounds better, and seems more reasonable. Hard truths are great when they work, but in this case, the devil is in the nuance.
Couldn't have said it better myself, Clemens. The aforementioned crowd fails to realize that this is not a courtroom, it is a process designed to determine Kavanaugh's character, and that the members of the Senate are meant to make their own judgments on that matter, as are we. No one is required to ignore evidence because it isn't proof. And even in a court of law, this testimony would be acceptable - just not enough to convict. But it would be weighed.
Grassley's voice sounds like out of tuned bagpipes
Got to love it, when a Dr, explains the in’s and out of the brain 🧠
Dear Dr. Blasey Ford,
Thank you for your bravery. We 💙 you!
Sincerely,
America
Kavanaugh's testimony proved to me that he's too short tempered to be on the supreme court.
Jay I disagree. I was believing him until he started to lose it.
If this was an Obama Supreme Court appointee and this happened, Trump and the GOP's heads would have exploded!
lets not forget graham and the gop boys when they tried to impeach clinton over him getting his wiener sucked in a consensual manner . though, when trump cheats on his wife with a pornstar and pays them to keep quiet with campaign money so the story won't come out.. Crickets.
tihzho - The GOP simply showed Obama's nomination (Merrick Garland) the middle finger so they didn't have to even listen to him in the first place.
That pause before "A brain ...." Eeek
That old boys club up there couldn't even eat that much brains they're lacking right now.
Time for women to show who is stronger and Vote to get all these hypocrites of so called men out of office. VOTE LADIES.
So called men? Possibly because they are men, you so called Nancy Walkling.
Wow ...candidate for Supreme Court with no respect at all and so rude ....and we expect better from other folk?
... you clearly did not actually watch it, and/or are highly predisposed to believe anything and everything a middle-aged white male says. Grow up, and learn to think, and get a Perception roll that's higher than -4, please.
--Dave, and learn to fact-check, without which you shsll remain forever uncredible
Wtf? What does flying for her work have to do with anything? I never heard this line of questioning until now.
Bravo! Well said!
Kavanaugh ‘s response was that of a man who knows he’s guilty and desperately clutching at straws.
The questions around her "fear of flying" were weird because all they sort of established was that she does fly, but hesitates to (at times). Ford mopped the floor with the pro-Kavanaugh supporters. While Kavanaugh acted like a goddamned baby.
Yeah what was the relevance in that?
Current Resident I’m afraid of flying but I do it when necessary. I totally get why her first response was to hesitate about the trip
D Smith Exactly. That's how I understood her too.
This entire thing is just soul crushing. I feel for Dr. Ford and I can't believe these men are getting away with this...
Hi there. The Lincoln reference was so spot-on. "He left his wife in the middle of the play". Priceless, because he refers to President Lincoln being assasinated during a theatre show that he was attending with his wife. Lovely!