President Trump FINALLY Breaks His Silence On The Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh
is one of the finest people that I've
ever known he's an outstanding intellect
and outstanding judge respected by
everybody never had even a little
blemish on his record
the FBI has I think on through a process
six times with him over the years where
he went to higher and higher positions
he is somebody very special at the same
time we want to go through a process we
want to make sure everything is perfect
everything is just right
I wish the Democrats could have done
this a lot sooner because they had this
information for many months and they
shouldn't have waited too literally the
last days they should have done it a lot
sooner but with all of that being said
we want to go through the process one
thing I will say is that as I understand
it Judge Cavanaugh spent quite a bit of
time with senator Feinstein and it
wasn't even brought up at that meeting
and she had this information so you
would have thought certainly that she
would have brought it up at the meeting
not wait till everything's finished and
then have to start a process all over
again but with all of it being said we
want to go through a full process I have
great confidence in the US Senate and in
their procedures and what they're doing
and I think that's probably what they're
going to do they'll go through a process
and hear everybody out I think it's
important I believe they think it's
important but again he is one of the
great intellects and one of the finest
people that anybody is known you look at
his references I've never seen anything
quite like it
so they'll go through that process and
we'll get it done I don't know it
depends on the process I'd like to see a
complete process I'd like everybody to
be very happy most importantly I want
the American people to be happy because
they're getting somebody that is great I
want him to go in at the absolute
highest level and I think to do that you
have to go through this if it takes a
little delay it'll take a little delay
it shouldn't certainly be very much but
again this is something that should have
been brought up
long before this they had the
information in July as I understand it
that's a long time ago and nobody
mentioned it until the other day it's
very you know it's very unfortunate that
didn't mention it sooner but with all of
that being said it will I'm sure work
out very well you're talking about a an
individual who is as high a quality
individual as you'll ever see I have not
spoken to judge Cavanaugh next question
what a ridiculous question oh I think
he's on track yeah I mean I think he's
very much on track if they delayed a
little bit just to make sure everybody's
happy they want to be happy I can tell
you the Republican senators want to be a
hundred percent happy themselves they're
doing it very very professionally again
this should have been brought up a long
time ago
thank you thank you yeah you're gonna
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joining me now Mercedes slap white house
director of strategic communications'
Mercedes good evening to you a lots of
strategy and a lot of communicating on
the issue that cropped up over the
course of this weekend tell me what you
can about the meeting that Brett
Kavanaugh had at the White House today
well I can't get into any specifics of
the meeting but I will tell you that
Brett Kavanaugh as we know judge
Kavanaugh has made it very clear that he
believes that this is a completely false
allegation this is something that we
very much stand with Brett Kavanaugh as
a president has mentioned we do want a
thorough process we want to make sure
everything is right when it comes to
what the Senate Judiciary Committee has
agreed upon but with that being said of
course judge Kavanaugh is someone with
impeccable credentials someone who I
know personally Martha someone who I
spent many hours in an office working
through important judicial nominees back
in the day in the Bush administration
and it's someone who I respect greatly
and really is someone that as we know
has a very strong character and of
course should be able to defend his
integrity during this process can you
say that the White House is a hundred
percent committed to seeing the
Kavanaugh nomination through absolutely
we are a hundred percent committed to
standing with Judge Cavanaugh as we know
he is someone who is incredibly
respected in the legal circles someone
who has received bipartisan support from
the legal community someone who had
comes with incredibly strong credentials
is very well respected and let me mean
let me just ask you you know it did the
president speak with him personally
Mercedes know the president has not
spoken with judge Cavanaugh today as we
know judge Cavanaugh has been calling
several senators and the key is
obviously as judge Cavanaugh has said he
was not even aware of who this accuser
was before she had identified herself
this is a completely false allegation
and and it's incredibly disturbing that
senator Feinstein would have brought
this up at the at the last minute
which as we know we've gone through four
days of lengthy public hearings with
judge Cavanaugh they had a closed
session where they were able to talk
about the sensitive topics he had to
respond to over a thousand written
questions and now at the last minute
we're seeing senator Feinstein bringing
this up I just think it's an incredibly
disturbing it's incredibly unfortunate
that now we have to delay this yeah
there's a lot of questions about the
timing and the motivation for all of
this nonetheless in this me too
environment that we are all operating in
now is there concern at the White House
about what a potentially long drawn-out
process might mean politically as you
head into the midterms look the key here
is that we know that the president wants
to throw a process and we're going to
let the Senate Judiciary Committee
proceed with that her voice the accusers
voice should be heard with that being
said I can tell you I stand as someone
who knows Judge Cavanaugh someone who's
known him for over 17 years who've seen
him in a professional setting in a
social setting and he is someone with
utmost the utmost character someone who
is a friend and I just feel that he's
having to go about his character and and
that you've known him a long time we do
know now that the hearing is set for a
week from today from next Monday the
24th I believe of September and it will
be a public hearing so this is going to
turn into you know something we haven't
seen the likes of which since since the
Anita Hill hearings is that something
that this White House has the stomach
for look I think that at the end we know
that becoming the supreme next Supreme
Court justice is such an incredible
responsibility something that Judge
Cavanaugh is ready for the task he has
been open he has been transparent he's
been someone who has a be obviously
already served in administration has
gone through six FBI background checks
has been given over 32 hours of
testimony we know for a fact that the
Democrats from day one have been wanting
to stall this process from day one we
know that the vast majority is Democrats
if not all are saying they're not going
to support Breck yeah but in fact
is a last-minute political tactic by the
Democrats to stall this process we know
that judge Cavanaugh is qualified he's
someone who is incredibly respected he's
been and there's so many of these women
who have known him for a very long we're
about to speak to two of them judge in
just a moment I got to go quit but very
quickly has the White House discussed
any back-up plan if the Cavanaugh
nomination derails about who might know
as the president said he said it earlier
is like that's just or even a ridiculous
thought in terms of making sure that we
are we are very focused on getting judge
Cavanaugh confirmed of course we're
going to let this process go through but
at the end of the day we stand with
judge Cavanaugh we know he's a man of
great character and I'm very proud to
call him my friend
thank you very much Mercedes good to see
you tonight Mercedes shot down the White
House well this is moving forward to a
public hearing just receiving word
within the hour
from Senator Grassley the Committee
Chairman as I said earlier anyone who
comes forward as dr. Ford has done
deserves to be heard my staff has
reached out to dr. Ford to hear her
account and they held a follow-up call
with Judge Cavanaugh this afternoon
unfortunately committee Democrats have
refused to join us in this effort
however to provide ample transparency we
hold we will hold a public hearing
Monday to give these recent allegations
a full airing dr. Ford that he
references is Christine Blasi Ford she
is the accuser who has come out she is a
college professor and she is saying that
she will tell her story publicly up on
Capitol Hill and judge Kavanagh has
pushed back again saying it's all not
true let's bring in our panel Brit Hume
Fox News senior political analyst AV
Stoddard associate editor at
RealClearPolitics Molly Hemingway senior
editor at The Federalist and Christa our
wall politics editor here at Fox News
and author of the new book every man a
king a short colorful history of
American populace that's a great read
thank you sir
thoughts it's gonna be a real goat
roping this is going to be a a
contentious fraught space and the
Democrats have to be cognizant of
overreaching but the Republicans have to
be very cognizant about not
turning off offending people like Susan
Collins people like Lisa Murkowski whose
votes could be affected here and if
they're not seen as being fair and open
and even-handed with this woman with the
accuser that will go very poorly a B
this comes in the context of a midterm
election that is looming obviously
within just a matter of weeks right I
have no idea who to believe and we
without getting into any of that I think
the Democrats you know obviously there
are questions about the senator
Feinstein bringing this up before this
woman came forward and why is that
acceptable and then the Democrats there
was a hearing today that Brett Kavanaugh
was gonna meet with judiciary members or
top staff Democrats so they didn't want
to go why not that said and and the
White House responded I thought very
well today the president and I think
it's very smart that they're having
these open hearings few hours ago we
thought that the Senate majority leader
was resisting this idea and that would
have been a huge mistake that said there
is still time for the Republicans on
that committee or in leadership to mess
this up and if they do not handle I'm
gonna echo what Chris said if they do
not handle this well and give this woman
her due they will face a stampede on
November 6th and possibly a Democratic
Senate and it's just a mistake they
don't want to make it well it looks to
me from what we know now as if
somebody's gonna have to corroborate
their own version of events somehow or
we're gonna end up with it he said she
said and no one will be able to say the
others lying or telling the truth
and lastly - he says here there's
another person that's true that is true
mark judge was a alleged to have been in
the room and he said he didn't remember
anything like that happening so that
would be two against one of course he's
being attacked because he's you know had
alcohol issues through the years so you
can imagine how agree that will get but
if it comes down to that where it's you
know can't be proven or disproven the
last time that happened was the was was
Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas it was
never successfully established that she
was telling the truth or that he was in
denying her allegations of improper
sexual advances to her
and he got confirmed and he got
confirmed I might add by a Senate that
was 56 44 Democrat as opposed to this
one which was narrowly Republican but
they were back in those days Brett as
you know I'm sure there were a lot of
there were a lot of centrist Democrats
there aren't very many of those anymore
Republicans either the red Cavanaugh has
now put out a couple of really vigorous
defense and and denials here he said
this is a completely false allegation
I've never done anything like what the
accuser describes to her or to anyone
because this never happened I had no
idea who was making this accusation
until she identified herself yesterday I
am willing to talk to the Senate
Judiciary Committee in any way the
committee deems appropriate to refute
this allegation from 36 years ago and
defend my integrity now he says he
wasn't even at that party right this is
why in addition to the political
implications I think this is a really
interesting question of whether we want
to be the type of society that handles
disputes in this way this is an
allegation that was made it's at odds
with what a gajillion people have said
about Brett Kavanaugh including women he
dated at the time at the same time this
was alleged to have happened and in
college the way it went down as a be
noted is very curious Dianne Feinstein
chose not to bring it up at any of the
many times she could have done it behind
closed doors when she was talking to him
privately only orchestrating a big
public leak that makes it seem like
she's less interested in justice than
using this as a political cudgel and of
course Democrats began this whole
process by saying they would do
literally whatever it took to stop this
nomination and so I think that there's a
additional question about whether we
think it's appropriate that an
allegation that can be neither proven
nor disproven should be the basis for
determining who goes on the Supreme
Court or whether we should have a much
higher standard for rule of law and how
we handle important things like Supreme
Court nomination here is the Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on this
woman's credibility
I believe she's credible a lot of my
Republican friends don't what are they
afraid of they afraid that she might be
very persuasive well if she is it's a
whole different ballgame here isn't it
Chris I mentioned with Jonathan Turley
earlier that
it goes down this road and the
nominations pull the wheel Democrats
start impeachment on judge Brett
Kavanaugh because if he's not eligible
as a as they believe a sexual assault
perpetrator for the Supreme Court how is
he eligible for the second highest court
in the land I'm sure they would but
there is a serious consideration for
Democrats politically here that I don't
think they have wrapped their brains
around completely if they did succeed in
getting the cabin on nomination taken
down and there is a vacancy on the
Supreme Court on Election Day and Joe
Manchin and Claire McCaskill will say
come on Schumer like you're not helping
us here nobody more than those red state
Democrats wants this nomination complete
done and moved on from if this lingers
over it has political consequences for
them does this open up though the
possibility that they now have a free
vote to vote against Kavanagh and maybe
they were going to vote yes but now they
don't I've long believed that you'd get
some Democrats if no Republicans broke
I'd still think that's a distinct
possibility if if all the Republicans
stay together and the nominee is thereby
guaranteed to be confirmed
I'm sure Schumer will privately say to
the wavering Democrats that are tougher
reelection fights this year because of
the states they're in you go ahead and
catch the boat you need to take for your
purposes of your reelection but if a
Republican or two cracks I don't think
this nominations gonna be saved by
Democrats I don't think there's a
slightest chance of that thank you
god bless you and God bless america
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