Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is giving a defiant opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee to clear his name of allegations of sexual assault.
Kavanaugh told senators on Thursday the allegations have left his family and his name “totally and permanently destroyed.”
The appellate court judge sounded angry, his voice rising. He says, “This confirmation process has become a national disgrace.”
He lashed out at the committee over the time it has taken to convene the hearing after Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation first emerged. He says, “This is a circus.”
He urged senators to listen to the people who know him and not those making grotesque allegations against him.
He says his confirmation process has become “a national disgrace” and a “character assassination.”
Ford says the attack is seared in her memory and she is “100 percent” certain that it was Kavanaugh who attacked her.
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