WEBVTT - Kavanaugh Chaos 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:16.160 You are entering the freedom hunt pandemonium. On day one 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.759 of Brett Kavanaugh's Scotus hearings, we'll talk about what happened 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.120 today on Capitol Hill with the Senate confirmation battle heating up, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.240 and also are all jobs worthy of dignating respect? The 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.600 answer is yes. We got quite a reminder of this 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.000 over the weekend. I'll break that down a much more 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.199 coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.479 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:46.680 actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, break You're a great 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:56.560 American Again. The Buck Sexton Show begins, set no Welcome 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.560 everyone to this confirmation hearing on a nomination of Mr 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.080 Chairman Brett Kavanaugh, Mr Chairman, to serve as Associate Justice. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.679 Mr Chairman, I'd like to be recognized for a question 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.920 before we proceed. I've been through nine Supreme Court hearings, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.840 Mr Chairman, I have the opportunity to respond to my 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.560 colleague from Texas because he is directly challenged, you're out 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.720 of order. Well, I was just going to say some 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.959 things that portion of today's hearing with his testimony tomorrow morning, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.800 Mr Chairman, when will we review Senator Blumenthal's motion to 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.720 a journ, motion to adjourn. Mr Chairman, I think we're 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.080 entitled to a vote on it, Mr Chairman, If I 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.560 might add an additional point, and Mr Chairman, Mr Chairman, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.000 or I agree with my colleague Senator Harris, Mr Chairman, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.160 law class and documents that we haven't everyone else. Mr Chairman, 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.000 If I may go on to what I believe was 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.680 a personal I'd like to have you give Senator Feinstein 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.960 the courtesy of listening to her oldening statement or read 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.840 or analyze you're you're out of order. I'll proceed. We 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.560 cannot possibly move forward. Mr Chamber extend the very warm 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:14.760 Well there are two daughters. Well, I was just going 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:20.760 to say some things. Pandemonium down on Capitol Hill today, folks, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.560 welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. That was just a 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.799 just a taste of what went on there. So that 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.799 was from the Senate side. Now you had a bunch 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.480 of senators acting like a bunch of cry babies. They're 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.200 they're pulling all these procedural and they're not even really 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.440 this is the equivalent, folks. It's not parliamentary procedure that 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.480 they're relying on here. It's not oh, emotion to to 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.880 do this and and it's actually gonna happen. This is 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.800 the equivalent of we we can't do this because I 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.120 need a potty break. I need a potty break. We 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.320 can't confirm him. Well, that's not a thing. That's not 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.919 a rule. There's no potty break exception to the constitution. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.280 What what do you mean you you don't have time 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.959 to review that. You've had eight weeks or have you 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.000 all kinds of documents? These are the documents that have 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.000 been produced. That's it, that's what you got, deal with it. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.040 We wait, we need more time. Let me guess by 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.960 November seven, then they might be able to make a determination. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.399 This whole thing was ridiculous today, but it was tough 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.200 to tell who was more more ridiculous that the senators 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:26.920 or the the insane I mean insane left wing protesters. Um, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.680 you know, Corey Corey Booker. For example, on the Senate side, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.320 he kept saying that he wouldn't hire an intern if 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.720 he only saw of his resume. This was a line 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.000 he repeated ad nauseum. You know, I wouldn't hire somebody 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.880 if only the resume. And I just want to note 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.680 for the senator that if you're intern applicant submitted a 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.720 four hundred thousand page resume, you would call the Capitol 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.400 police on him. Okay, you wouldn't say where's pages. It's 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.960 the dumbest analogy I've ever heard in my life. This 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.280 guy keeps just digging into it. It's it's just it's 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:06.400 poss z are absolutely positively bizarre. But you know, it 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.520 was never about the documents, folks. It was never anything 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:15.240 that they There was never any principle involved here um 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.279 and the left was just nuts today the left was 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:25.920 completely losing it. Let's see we've got here. Play to 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:40.200 me a favor, play fifteen and then fourteen Wat's Rachel an, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:53.640 I love Sandy, Sandy t I read half poe as 0:04:54.400 --> 0:05:08.000 is a guy. Oh well, she convinced me, like whatever 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.000 that screeching. There's an attack on women's rights and an 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:16.120 attack on democracy. Shut this hearing down. This hearing is 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.160 an attack on women's rights and an attack on democracy. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:24.560 Shut this hearing down. Now, shut down hearing down, Shut 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.400 this hearing down. This is an attack on women's rights 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.400 and democracy. How is it? How is the hearing an 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.200 attack on Think about this? What if the hearing? What 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.920 if they decided, you know, not not to vote for Kapital. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.000 How is the hearing itself? I mean, these people are imbeciles, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.120 absolute imbeciles. And you know, at the rate they were 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.599 being tossed out of that room, I wonder if MSNBC's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.480 ratings are gonna go down tonight because they've got some 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.520 people that might have to get out of jail. You know, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.480 this is this is a bunch of louns and folks. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.680 I can't help but notice this didn't happen during the 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.040 Hagan or so do my oar hearings. You didn't have 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.760 people like, you know, my name's my name's Bob, and 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:10.320 uh I'm you know, uh work at own an autobought 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.800 a shop downtown and and I'm married and have three children. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.839 And I'm just here to stream and yell in the 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.480 back of the room because I I hate the liberals, right, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.840 I mean, you know, you don't get people on the 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.360 right doing this. We don't do this. Our people, our 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.680 side just does not do this. I don't know what 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.080 else to say. You know, uh we we we don't. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.960 We don't show up at these hearings and act like maniacs. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.839 We we don't have a guy named named Bill in 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.440 accounting from you know, Massachusetts, who's uh, you know, traditional 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.799 Republican who shows up and he's like, well, I really 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.120 disapprove of so do my oar and okagan, and I'm 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.080 going to interrupt the hearing. Now, you know, we don't 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.600 have that. We don't do that. I'm a constitutional conservative 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.159 and I also believe in the Second Amendment. And now 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.320 I'll let me yelling scream this is a thing that 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.080 the progressive left does and we're not supposed to remark 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.080 on this right like they We knew they were gonna 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.520 be lunatics at the hearing. Linda's are sore was there, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.240 you know, has to get has to get her, you know, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.360 two minutes of TV time or whatever. We knew that 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.960 they would do it, and it was a a circus. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.040 And you also had this notion that they should just 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.680 so you have the crazy hecklers trying to shut it down, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.920 and you even had senators basically trying to shut it down. Bloomenthal, 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:36.400 who is just so gross. Bloomenthal was was trying to 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.679 just say that the hearing shouldn't even happen. Play ten 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.960 and you're rightly, press chairman, if if we cannot be recognized. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.520 I moved to a journe the American People. Chairman. I 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:52.320 moved to a journ directly from Judge seven all, Mr Chairman, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:58.840 I moved to a journ and Mr Chairman, we have 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.480 been denied. We have been denied real access to the documents. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.960 We need to advise German regular orders, which turns this 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.840 hearing into a charade and a mockery of our norms. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.440 Mr Chairman, I therefore moved to her during this hearing. Okay, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:37.240 these people are crazy. These people are nuts. You know. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.719 They're all all a bunch of Hillary all a bunch 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.000 of Hillary voters back there, folks, just remember that, you know, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.760 I know that. It's look, on the one hand, it's 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.920 just amusing that this is uh that these are They're 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.720 all Democrats back there, They're all leftists that are screaming. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.360 I'm just just yelling and oh yeah, she's convinced me whatever. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.280 She's shrieking back there, and now I must think she's right. 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.520 I want to remind all of us of this, and 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.320 I want to take the time to speak to you 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:12.040 about it, because one of the pitches that you hear 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.560 from Democrats is, you know, we need more responsible adult 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:22.480 leadership in uh you know back back in the White 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.600 House that we need serious politicians not like Trump to 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.120 be in charge. And then you see this, Not only 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.199 do you have the Democrats base showing us who they are, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.120 which is a bunch of lunatics, a bunch of maniacs 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:41.160 who have no respect, no decorum, no public decency whatsoever, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.559 and just thinking and are just mad with baby ish rage. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.200 And then you get the Democrats who are just making 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:57.440 fools of themselves. If they want to oppose Kavanaugh because 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.960 he's not going to be some leftist who gives them 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.640 whatever they want, fine, you know, if that's the approach 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.320 that they want to take, if if they are really 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:12.320 gonna uh make this completely and overtly political, all right, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.080 you know that's that's at least an argument. But to 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:17.920 say that they don't have the documents and all this 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:23.400 other stuff is just bunk. And by the way, before 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.439 you before some of you may be thinking, buck, it's 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.080 not fair to to blame the Democrats for the protesters. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.200 They didn't most of the Democrats senators there, they didn't 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.120 shut them down, they weren't rebuking them. Here's, uh, what 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:43.280 what Elizabeth Warren said, play sixteen. All these protesters out 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:52.240 here today, I'm glad you're here. They're exercising the Now. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.040 To be fair, I would I would assume that in 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.600 that case she's talking about some protesters probably who are 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.240 outside of the actual gallery Harry is happening. But she 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.560 likes the protesters. Well, what are they doing exactly? What 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.960 do they think they're accomplishing other than just harassing people 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.120 walking in and out of the building. The whole notion 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.880 of protests and folks the protest movements of the sixties 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:20.600 and getting a massive of people together on the streets 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.439 and causing a spectacle, which is what what a protest is. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.199 It is meant to be seen by people. This is 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.120 really an outmoded thing that um now, when you look 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.160 at it, it doesn't take into account that you don't 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.000 have to do this. There's so many ways to organize 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.800 and get your message out without shrieking and yelling at say, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.400 but there's a protest culture on the left. They like 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.640 to do this. This goes to a Lynsky. Lynsky said, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.880 for for the purposes of of left wing organizing an 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.080 active activism, you know, you want your activities to be 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.839 fun and people like they like to do this on 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.800 the left, they like to protest. That makes them feel 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:03.440 relevant and powerful and virtuous and good and you know 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.679 all that stuff. That's why they sit out there and 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.680 say these things. That's why, uh, they would waste everyone's 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.439 time by by shrieking at this hearing. Um. It is 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.559 only the left though, that you see this stuff. It 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:23.640 is only a leftist tendency. Um. And you know, it's 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.960 tough to tell who was worse. You know, on the 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.760 on the one hand, you had all of these uh 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.360 senators who were just acting like complete clowns, I mean 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.880 really really low grade stuff from them, and I don't 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.120 expect much from Democrats senators. And then on the on 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.360 the other hand, you have these these crazy left wing 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.600 activist protester types who just have no respect whatsoever for anything. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.880 And we're just on day one, folks. This is just 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.600 the beginning of this. It's only it's only gonna get worse. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.559 It's only gonna get worse. Um. Well, we will continue 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:02.880 to watch it. I mean, at the end of this, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.600 I gotta say, I think capital gets through, which is 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.040 a huge win for Trump in the administration and a 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.559 great thing for I don't want to say concerned them 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.600 just for constitutional jurisprudence. This whole, this whole idea of 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.280 a of a court that's divided four four and one 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.280 with a swing vote, this is a farce. I don't 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.599 want judges that are on one one ideological side or 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.400 the other. I want judges who look at the law 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:35.720 and interpret the law. That's what I want. I don't 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.199 want judges who come up with their own policy preferences 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.800 and replace the law with that Democrats do. This is 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.960 this is eight. We're seeing a major difference here in 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.960 philosophy about what the Supreme Court should really be all about. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:58.160 Um And I just think that that you know that, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.400 this is this is worth every everybody remembering. You know. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.439 The other thing, Well, let let me get more into 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.040 what you can expect from the Democrats of the next 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:11.040 few days. Eight four five buck uh, we have much 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:21.800 more coming. Will be right back. The whole argument is, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.080 you can be a conservative Republican president, but you gotta 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.800 nominate a liberal to be fair to the country. That's absurd. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.600 What do you think Ruth Vader Ginsburgh came from. She's 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.760 a general council with a c L. You wonderful person Clinton. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.960 It didn't bother anybody for Clinton to nominate Briar while 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:46.000 he was under investigation. Who actually did it? This is 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.600 shaping up to be the hypocrisy hearing to do in 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.680 the Senate. Know that actually came up as well when 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:58.360 I had when I interviewed UH actor and activist Elissa Milano, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.840 as she said, well, you know, Trump's uninvestigation. He shouldn't 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.320 be able to UH, he shouldn't be able to appoint anyone. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.800 I said, well, Clinton was under investigation, so how could 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.400 you know? Unprecedented? We'll talk more about unprecedented later. This 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.920 concept of Trump is doing something that no one's ever 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.400 done except for the last president before him, and probably 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.400 the one before that. But you know, the the the 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.960 arguments being made by Senate Democrats here are not arguments 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.320 made really in good faith. And that's why I think 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.920 that's very important for us all to to keep in 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.040 mind as we go through this. The arguments that the 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.920 Democrats are making are the democrats in the Senate are 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.680 are not things that we should be forced to take seriously. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.320 You know, for one thing, there'll be a lot of 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.920 there's no political litmus test for the Supreme Court nominees. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.320 You'll you'll hear that a lot, but then they'll ask 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.440 a bunch of political litmus test questions. It's very tiresome, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.760 but it is a constant in these hearings, and it's 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:59.680 a constant that is reliant on a faulty sensibility or 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.440 fault the idea of what the Democrats, or rather what 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.800 the Supreme Court is supposed to do and how it 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.960 really functions as a coequal branch of government. Um. But 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.720 I mean, it was, it was, it was a bad day. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.040 I think for the Democrats there. They're going after the Scott. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.600 I'll talk to you more about Kavana on a moment, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.040 and then we'll get into Woowards book and socialism and 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.520 healthcare in this country. I got, I got a lot 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:25.960 for you and the rest of the show. And we're 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.240 not just talking. I know a lot of people are 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.920 gonna just beat the whole hearings thing into the ground 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.000 here to talk about it all day, all night, and 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.600 it's it's really not worth that much of our time. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.680 But I mean, as my friend Kim Strassol wrote today, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.920 Senate Dems in the Kavanaugh hearing, all we're asking is 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.280 for Republicans to throw over all president and procedure so 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.160 we can pretend we didn't lose an election. That's right, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.960 That's what this is really about. Democrats are throwing a 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.880 tantrum because elections have consequences, and they don't like this 0:16:55.920 --> 0:17:01.840 particular consequence one bit. It is going to boost conservative 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.040 support for this president, especially going into the mid terms. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.360 It's going to unify the party. It also will help 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.640 those of us who you know, don't don't see eye 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.760 to eye with Trump and all of his stylistic and 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.480 personal matters. But signed on for the agenda, signed on 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.719 for for what he could produce, what he could do, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.120 what he could accomplish. This is big once you get 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.359 from but gorcia as the snark has been from the 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.040 never trumpers too. But Gorcich and but Kavanaugh get rid 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.959 of the butts. It's a lot, uh that that is 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:42.440 a multi generational win for conservatives and conservative and for constitutionalism. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.520 So we will have Trump to thank for that, assuming 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.159 this doesn't go off the ray. Else. I do have 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:53.080 my worries. I do have my worries that uh Flake 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.040 might defect. I think he will. I think Flake might 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.360 be the be a no vote on Kavanaugh and then 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:06.359 all you need is one other weak, quizzling Republican one 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.919 other one too, and then you've got a real problem 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:13.560 on your hands. So I'm not treating this as as 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:18.320 mission accomplished already. I'm I'm holding out on that until 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:19.639 we get we get quite a bit more. But I 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.879 wanted to talk to you more about Kavanaugh because you know, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:27.080 the efforts to discredit him and the efforts to um 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.879 go after him have been really disgraceful. Uh. And this 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.159 is a guy who he's he's as good as it 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.960 gets as a as a jurist, his resume, his background, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.040 his temperament, everything. So let's let's look at the positive side, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.960 or the real side, I should say, of what's going 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.280 on here with Kavanaugh and who we're seeing on display 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.640 here and what a great Supreme Court now Supreme Court 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.160 justice he would be. Over the past eight weeks, I've 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.680 witnessed firsthand the Senate's deep appreciation for the vital role 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.720 of the American judiciary. I have at with sixty Senators, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.879 including almost every member of this committee. Those meetings are 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:10.400 sometimes referred to as courtesy calls, but that term understates 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:15.119 how substantive and personal our discussions have been. I have 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:20.560 greatly enjoyed all sixty meetings. In listening to all of you, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.159 I have learned more about our country and the people 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.439 you represent. Every Senator is devoted to public service in 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.439 the public good, and I thank all the senators for 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:39.520 their time and their thoughts. Guy sounds worse than Hitler 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:45.359 to me, folks. I mean, oh man, it's it's amazing 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.359 to watch these Democrats just make make complete fools of 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.440 themselves on this. It really is. Um. They they are 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:59.280 so utterly shameless. Um, They're they're complete, They're they're just 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.680 it's all kabuki theater. It's all meant to appeal to 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.600 the base. I mean, they have different, uh, different emails 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.680 going out from fundraising committees and and you know, packs 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.920 and things, and senators are already on the while the 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.119 hearing is going on. Senators are already on the record 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.240 saying that they won't vote for Kavanaugh. But they're acting like, well, 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.440 I won't vote for him now because now you said 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.320 you wouldn't vote for him a month ago, But now 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.920 we're supposed to believe that you care. Now we're I mean, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:36.240 this thing about the documents is just completely completely insane. Um. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.639 And uh yet yet here we are, folks, here we are. 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.480 You have uh so, just just to dig into the 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.639 document component of this for a minute. You have four 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.240 hundred thousand pages that have been given. It's five times 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.040 as much as we're ever handed over for any other 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:59.680 any previous Supreme Court nominee. Four hundred thousand pages. Some 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.000 pay ages that have to do with Kavanaugh's time in 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.240 the White House have he was deputy counsel and then 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:13.639 also uh he was um secretary. I forget what the 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.560 specific terminologies for the job. I'm blanking on it right now, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.520 but you know he was there, and and there's some 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.679 executive privilege that applies to some of the documents, so 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.240 he they're not his to give. But they still act 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:31.440 like they still act like this is something well or 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.879 relligant plot. If you want to hear uh, if you 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:40.159 want to hear from Senator Leahy, for example, um, you 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.919 know here here's what he said. Play thirteen. We've received 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.480 used a half a chairman grasses partial records request, meaning 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.320 we're moving forward even though we've received a fraction of 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.440 the records. Even Republicans claim they needed to bet your 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:59.280 nomination just a few weeks ago, and then we received 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.040 additional for two thousand pages form the record a few 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:07.000 hours ago. The notion that anyone here has properly reviewed 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.040 them or even seeing them at all, is laughable. It's laughable. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.720 It doesn't pass the giggle test. And any claim this 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:19.720 has been a thorough transparent processes downright or William, This 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:26.080 is the most incomplete, most partisans at least transparent vetting 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:30.919 for any Supreme Court nominee I've ever seen. Today. The 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:36.040 Senate is not simply phoning in our vetting obligation. Quit 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:49.960 discarding you. It's not only shameful, it's a shape. Thanks 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.880 centaer lady. That's really that's really whatever that was, that's 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:59.480 really helpful. Uh. You know they really they make jackasses 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.399 themselves today. They did they they I don't want to 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:08.560 hear anymore from liberals about how, you know, uh, institutions 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:13.800 are being undermined because liberals made the Senate look like 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:18.720 an absolute clown show today. Liberals made the Senate look 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:28.280 ridiculous and there their arguments are nonsensical, they are completely 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.000 self refuting. I mean, you you give them five minutes 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.439 to talk in a one minute uh one minute, there's 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.560 the problem is that, you know, he's not gonna support 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:40.240 Roe v. Wade or something. And then the next minute 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:42.760 it's the documentar view. In the next minute it's well, well, 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.399 you know, which is it? I mean, and are we 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.399 really supposed to believe it's all these things or is 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.919 it just they're having a tantrum? And that that's what 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:50.679 today was. Today it was a tantrum. It was a 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:54.720 bad look, a bad look for the Senate um and 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.639 oh one of these you know, Bluementhal said something about 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:01.200 how no one can select a judge in his own case. 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:05.359 And that's what the president is doing here, selecting, potentially 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.400 doing here selecting a judge in the Supreme Court. Bluementhal. 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:13.359 Who it's just he's so, what's that phone where we 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:19.320 use here on the show? Only aginists, Bluementhal, So only Aginius. Uh. 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:21.399 He's established a standard, I don't want to be very 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:23.840 clear about this. He's established a standard where no president 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:27.720 could ever pick any Supreme Court justice because of the 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:32.040 theoretical premise that the president may at a future time 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:35.520 be in legal jeopardy that goes up to the Supreme Court. 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:41.919 Bluementhal's objection if if, for example, there was already a 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.320 case making its way up to the Supreme Court. Might 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.440 might have some limited merit, but but at least it 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.960 would it wouldn't be it wouldn't be the rantings of 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.840 a crazy person. I mean, this is just bizarro. This 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:57.600 is not This is not something that anybody could look 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:02.760 at and really get into an the analysis of, because ultimately, 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.600 this is just shameful. And the Democrats conduct conduct today 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:08.040 has been absolutely shameful. There is no excuse for it. 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.240 It doesn't matter what you think about Trump. Uh, this 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:14.080 is about a highly qualified nominee for a co equal 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:19.920 branch of of government and Democrats. Democrats, that was kind 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.960 of footing Democrats. They're acting like a bunch of screaming 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:28.480 Brady children, they really are, and they did not comport 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:34.240 themselves well today at all. But maybe this is a 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:36.520 good thing. I think it's a good thing for everybody 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:40.679 to have it be remembered that this is, this is 0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:42.199 what we were up against. That's why we started the 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:44.879 show with just what a what a complete lib con 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:48.480 one freak out this was. And and it also just 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:51.560 goes to show you one Supreme court, one Supreme Court 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:56.320 pick should not matter so much. It matters so much 0:25:56.400 --> 0:25:59.480 to the left because they have gone to the Supreme Court. 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.960 They have used Supreme Court as their own little super 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.840 legislature to give them some of their some of their 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:08.480 biggest victories, especially in the culture War. But let's be honest. 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:12.240