Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) emphasized the need to hold sworn interviews and “some sort of hearing” over Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
“I believe that in order for me to assess the credibility of these allegations, that I want to have both individuals to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testify under oath,” Collins said.
“There are an awful lot of questions, inconsistencies, gaps, and that’s why, to be fair to both, we need to know what happened,” she told reporters. “It’s my understanding that the staff is doing interviews, or has proposed to do interviews, and then that I assume will be the prelude to some sort of hearing.”
She added that it was important “to observe [Ford] being questioned, read a transcript or a deposition.
“Obviously, if Judge Kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying,” Collins said.
On Friday, Collins noted, Kavanaugh “emphatically denied that the allegations were true.”
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 17, 2018
I think the knives are well and truly out. Took them long enough.
The question becomes how much longer Kavanaugh wants to see his name dragged through the mud before he withdraws as a “distraction”.
Thanks for the additional bit of posturing, Senator Collins.
Please do something decent and honorable here. And I do not mean the Republican definition of decent and honorable.
Noticeably absent: the word “publicly.”
If it’s not done publicly it is worthless
And Putin has emphatically denied any transgressions in the 2016 US Elections.
We all know what that means.