murkowski, flake are all huddling trying to decide their vote. see ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a remarkable day. brett kavanaugh just stepped away from the microphone in the senate hearing room. he spent three and a half hours there. it was a remarkable moment. stunning in many ways like without precedent in the lifetimes of many who watched it. until this afternoon, kavanaugh had struck many who watched him as bookish and academic. the classic temperment of a federal judge. but he emerged transformed. a man on fire, fighting with everything to save his family, himself, and the presumption of innocence. kavanaugh began the testimony with an unequivocal denial of the allegations against him.

"i did not sexually assault chrstine blasey ford or anyone else at any time." he said, his voice rising. "the charges are false." but then he broadened the response and aimed it at senate democrats sitting before him. >> this confirmation process has become a nationall disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process. but you have replaced advise and consent with search and destroy. since my nomination in july, there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything, to block my confirmation. shortly after i was nominated, the democratic senate leader said he would, "oppose me with everything he's got." a democratic senator on this committee publicly referred to me as "evil." evil. think about that word.

and said those who supported me were "complicit in evil." another democratic senator on this committee said, "judge kavanaugh is your worst nightmare." a former head of the national democratic committee said, "judge kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of americans for decades to come." i understand the passions of the moment. but i would say to those senators, your words have meaning. millions of americans listen carefully to you. given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to do anything? to make any physical threat against my family. to send any violent e-mail to my wife. to make any kind of allegation

against me and against my friends to blow me up and take me down. you sowed the wind. for decades to come, i fear that the whole country will reap the whirl winds. >> tucker: no supreme court nominee has spoken like this in memory.or not even clarence thomas. but none has been more accusedre more recklessly or with less evidence than brett kavanaugh has. and he did nothing to hide his rage. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and an orchestrated political hit. fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trumpic and the 2016 election. fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record. revenge on behalf of the clintons. and millions of dollars in money from outside left wing opposition groups.

this is a circus. the consequences will extend long past my nomination. the consequences will be with us for decades. this grotesque and coordinatedad character assassination will dissuade competent, good people of all political persuasions from serving our country. as we all know in the united states political system of the early 2000s, what goeses around comes around. i am an optimistic guy. i always try to be on the sunrise side of the mountain. to be optimistic about the day that is coming.n. but today, i have to say that i fear for the future. >> tucker: throughout the hearing he categorically denies her claims about him, kavanaugh shows no animus

personally toward chrstine blasey ford. he explained how his family had prayed for her in one of the most rivetting moments of the day. >> i'm not questioning that dr. ford may have been sexual assaulted by some person in some place, at some time. but i have never done this. to her, or to anyone. that is not who i am. it is not who i was. i am innocent of this charge. i intend no ill-will to dr. ford and her family. the other night, ashley and my daughter liza said their prayers and liza, all of 10 years old, said to ashley, "we should pray for the woman." a lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old. we mean no ill will.

>> tucker: behind him as he spoke, brett kavanaugh's mother wept with emotion. he concluded his remarks today as he begun them, defiantly. >> i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process. you have tried hard. you have given it your all. no one can question your effort. but your coordinated and well funded effort to destroy my good name and destroy my family will not drive me out. the vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. you may defeat me in the final vote, but you will never get me to quit. never. >> tucker: democrats in the room seemed stunned by kavanaugh's remarks and for a moment they seemed thrown back on their heels. but not for long. ranking member dianne feinstein began the questioning for democrats. she seemed to suggest that kavanaugh was secretly a

sexual predator. reading from a script she referred to a woman called julie swetnick, a college student in suburban washington when brett kavanaugh was in high school. yesterday as we told you, swetnick claimed that she witnessed at least ten public gang rapes in which brett kavanaugh was supposedly present and participating. it was a remarkable charge. yet feinstein never mentioned that part of swetnick's claim. why is that? because the story is ridiculous. it clashes with common sense and it's lunatic. nobody believes it. feinstein left that part out in order to smear kavanaugh in front of the world and omitted highly relevant information about his accuser. indeed the entire accusation. it was reprehensibly dishonest behavior, especially for a u.s. senator. kavanaugh all but said so. >> i'm talking about getting the evidence and having the evidence looked at. and i don't understand, you

know, we hear from the witnesses. but the f.b.i. isn't interviewing them and isn'tt giving us any facts. so all we have -- >> you're interviewing me! you're interviewing me. you're doing it, senator. i'm sorry to interrupt but you are doing it. there is no conclusions reached. >> what you are saying if i understand it, is that the allegations by dr. ford, ms. ramirez, and ms. swetnick are wrong. >> that is emphatically what i'm saying. emphatically. the swetnick thing is a joke. that is a farce. >> would you like to say more about it? >> no. >> tucker: it was a surreal moment. the day was filled with those. at times, the hypocrisy level got so high you wondered how people in the room could breathe. there was the only senator

from new jersey a man who once admitted molesting a girl in high school sitting there accusing someone else of molesting a girl in high school. >> there are dark elements that allow unconscionable levels of sexual assault and harassment. you are opening up to open air hurt and pain that goes on across this country. if you were speaking truth, this country needs to understand. >> tucker: it would be interesting to hear that the girl cory booker says he molested speak her truth. we eagerly await that testimony, hopefully soon.n. then there was bloodless senator from connecticut who lied about serving in vietnam tried to impugn another man's integrity. >> false in one thing, false in everything. meaning in jury instructions that some of us as prosecutors heard many times, is told ase jury that they can disbelieve

a witness if they find him to be false in one thing. so the core of why we are here today really is credibility. >> the core of why we are here is the allegation of the four witnesses present said it didn't happen. >> tucker: false in one thing, false in many things. if you are senator blumenthal, can you even imagine saying something like that? what kind of lack of self-awareness would it take to say something like that? remarkable. underneath all of this, though, hung the most obvious question of the day, which nobody asked out loud. who did this to chrstine ford? democrats claimed they held the hearings for her. because they care deeply about herem well-being. it was democrats who leaked her name to press against her wishes and dragged her in the maelstrom. who did is that? likely someone in dianne feinstein's office. feinstein claims she was not involved.. she would like the presumption of innocence on that.. okay. so who was it?so if you care about chrstine ford, about all victims of sexual assault, you

would be very anxious to know. maybe we could have a new investigation in that. republicans could start one immediately. like tomorrow. would democrats participate in an investigation to find out who leaked christine ford's name no the press? probably not. they seem strikingly uninterested in talking about christine ford today. they rarely asked about her when judge kavanaugh on the set. instead they peppered him about the georgetown prep yearbook and how much beer he drank in high school and college. here's one of his responses to that line of questioning. >> i never sexual assaulted anyone.to there is a bright line between drinking beer, which i gladly do, and which i fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone which is a violent crime. if every american who drinks beer or every american who drank beer in high school is suddenly presumed guilty of sexual assault, it will be an ugly new place in this country.au

i never committed sexual t assault. >> tucker: when they were demanding answers about the high school yearbook, democrats stalled for time. they did that to try to get another f.b.i. investigation into kavanaugh. >> why aren't you also asking the f.b.i. to investigate the claims? >> judge kavanaugh, will you support an f.b.i. investigation right now? >> you could actually just get this open so we can talk to these witnesses. and the f.b.i. can do it instead of us. >> are you willing to ask the white house to authorize the f.b.i. to investigate claims made against you? >> tucker: an f.b.i. investigation sounds reasonable. i would be the seventh f.b.i. investigation that has looked deeply into brett kavanaugh's personal conduct. he was once staff secretary to president of the united states and had the highest level of security clearance this country gives. one that gave him access to america's nuclear codes.

he got that clearance becauseme the f.b.i. spoke at length to a cross section of everyone he had every met, going back to high school and earlier and there were no hints of sexual assaults. none. there is nothing left to investigate here.. everyone knows that. this is a political tactic and it's disingenuous. why are they doing it? simple. democrats know if the vote on brett kavanaugh is held soon, he will be confirmed. if it's delayed by pointless f.b.i. investigations demanded by demagogues in bad faith, he will not be confirmed because the accusations will never end. the incentive to make them is too strong. you will see anonymous claims he led gang rapes on sailboats in rhode island or wherever. this grotesque circus will continue. our ancient standards of justice will further degrade with the help of the senate democratic conference. the democrats retain power and that is the point. it's the only point of all of this. but for now until and if that happens, no republican senator who watched kavanaugh testify today is likely to vote against him.

those who did would be quickly punished by voters. many voters at home wept as they watched kavanaugh testify. maybe you did as you saw it. those of us who've been wrongly accused wrongly of sexual assault by strangers know well emotion on his face. prove you didn't do it or everything you have be taken away from you. he came as close as he could to clear his name. he didn't get help from the republicans other than lindsey graham. the next time you are falsely accused of a crime don't ask them for a backup. kavanaugh did it all himself.ku he had no choice. as his life collapsed around him, he spoke clearly and hard to imagine a fiercest testar of a man's character than that. we'll be considering all for the next hour. what happened in the senate today and the implications but we will begin fittingly with the fox senior analyst brit hume who spent all day covering the story. you were on the set from 9:45 this morning until now. what was that experience like

as someone who has watched a lot of senate hearings? >> it was personally distressing to me we got to this point, where this squalid allegation came up after the matter was essentially closed and he had to respond to in such a way he had to prove a negative, which is virtually impossible to do. and then as i rather anticipated, came her testimony, which was emotional, as was his, and powerful in its way. i thought to myself now thehe burden is even higher on him.. and the republicans did next to nothing in the hired questioner -- through the hired question they had to cast doubt on her testimony. politically speaking, it might have been wise. and it was all up to him. i think he was extremely effective. the mild-mannered young man would be effective in these settings under these circumstances. i have to say i think he was

extremely effective. i think his emotion, he was near tears at times and that made his testimony credibly. if you are accused, and you may know this, of something that wrong and it's false, it makes you emotional. >> tucker: i do know that feeling very well. >> exactly. i think that came through. so the audience here really comes down to a handful of the republican senators who are undecided. i least normally undecided. it's a little hard to imagine after today's testimony by him they would turn against him. remember, these allegations against him were uncorroborated when the day began and they were uncorroborated at the end of the day still. the only corroborative evidence produced were his old calendars and diaries he produced. they are not dispositive. but they are something. it comes down to his word against his and he seems to me as credible as she was. it's utterly regrettable we got here. the process has been damaged for years and now it's ruined.

this is where we are. one hopes he is may survive it. >> tucker: the moment that shocked me the most -- i agree. i never thought a man like brett kavanaugh could do what he did today. i was stunned by it. the moment that really shocked me is when he spoke about praying with his daughters for chrstine ford. as a father, what did you think? >> this is what serious christians are called to do. love your enemies and pray for those who may have harmed you. i'm not saying that ford was an enemy. but in this setting, of course she was. she was pitted against him. >> tucker: she has harmed him. >> exactly. this is the kind of people, i don't know kavanaugh but ie know his father.r. i know the family to some extent. i also know her father. and that family to some extent. they're fine people all of them. that is one thing that makes this so terribly sad. when senator lindsey graham, who i think has been indignantn about it for weeks now got his

turn, he wasn't having any questioning done by somebody else. he made as powerful statement and denunciation of the process as anyone i have heard from anybody in this town and i have been around a long time.tu >> tucker: unbelievable moment. we'll play clips on that in a minute if you missed it. that was a moment. i will never forget that. brit hume, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> tucker: in the testimony earlier today, chrstine blasey ford said she had no doubt she was the victim of brett kavanaugh 36 years ago. >> dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> tucker: senator lindsey graham who has been a judge, a defense attorney, said much more was needed. shortly after kavanaugh's opening statement, he denounced the entire process as a sham and a disgrace with a level of vehemence we almost never see in the u.s. senate. watch this. >> if you wanted an f.b.i. investigation, you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this

seat open, and hope you win inif 2020. you said that! not me. you have nothing to apologize for. when you see sotomayor and kagan, tell them that lindsey said hello. i voted for them. i would never do to them what you have done to this guy. i cannot imagine what you and your family has gone through. boy, y'all want power.ur god, i hope you never get it. i hope the american people can see through this sham. that you knew about it and you held it. k you had no intention of protecting dr. ford. none. she is as much of a victim as you are. god, i hate to say it. these have been my friends. but let me tell you when it comes to this, you are looking for a fair y process, you came to the wrongro town, at the wrong time, my friend. you have interacted with professional women all your life. not one accusation. you are supposed to be bill

cosby when you are a junior and senior in high school. all of a sudden you got over it.. it's been my understanding that if you drug women and rape them for two years in high school, you probablyrs don't stop.gh here is my understanding. if you lived a good life, people would recognize it. to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. you want this seat? i hope you never get it. i hope you are on the supreme court. that is exactly where you should be. i hope that the american h people will see through this charade. and i wish you well. and i intend to vote for you. and i hope everybody who is fair-minded will. >> tucker: when is the last

time you saw that in the senate? molly hemingway is an editor " with "the federalist" and she joins us tonight. watching lindsey graham give that speech -- we truncated it. it's worth pulling up and watching the whole thing. not reading from notes. most of the people are reading directly from a script. he meant that. >> yeah. i think he spoke to a lot of people who feel like the sane part of the country has been taken hostage by the insane part of the country. what we have witnessed in thehe last couple of weeks is a travesty. anyone who cares about the rule of law, presumption o of innocence, having legal and political institutions, is wondering what is going on. l the media is throwing their credibility away and diminishing their standards and the democratic partisans behaved shamefully, shamelessly, depending how you look at it. >> tucker: both. >> it's something that people don't understand what was unleashed by this behavior by democrats and the media. there is extreme sadness at what we saw happen to this man. >> tucker: yes. >> there is so much anger, too.

>> tucker: i agree. >> and a desire to make sure we do not let it happen. d regardless if you are liberal or conservative, democrat or republican, we have standards for how we do things in this country. we have standards for what we demand. >> tucker: if the republican party was doing this now to a democrat, i would attack them as vehemently. this is totally immoral. i don't know kavanaugh. i don't anything about him. i don't care. this is wrong. >> it's so beyond a supremee court nomination. it's even beyond this man's honor and his name and integrity which he cares a lot about. this is about the republic and whether we will do things this way and let the political andd the legal institutions crumbleol or whether we have a higher standard we are known for that's built in constitution in the sixth amendment where we have rights for people who are accused. where we don't destroy people's lives because we disagree with them politically. >> tucker: i had honestly, at least ten people text me today to say, men, too, they were weeping as they watched his testimony. >> i was sobbing when i was

watching it. i heard it a lot from people as well. it was hard to watch the clips here. i commend the 10-year-old daughter for praying. i think a lot of people who are christian and people who pray should do that. this is one such time. it is hard to watch what this family has gone through. a reminder that this is not -- there are standards for when you accuse someone there. must be evidence to support that. we did not have any additional supporting evidence today. any at all. it's not issue of whether you find one person compelling or another person compelling.f this is an issue of whether we have evidence to convict someone in this court of public opinion or otherwise, to destroy their life. we did not get it today. >> tucker: right. >> this is a fairly simple issue. >> tucker: it told us everything. lindsey graham summed it up. he said, this is about power. you want power. i hope you never get it. that is how i feel about it. mollie hemmingway, you have been great on this. thank you very much. a lot more to be said about what happened today in the senate. up next we will hear what the legal and the law enforcement experts have to say about what they heard.

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>> the details about that night that bring me here today are the ones i will never forget. they have been seared into my memory and haunted me h episodically as an adult. >> i swear today under oath before the senate and the nation, before my family and god, i am innocent of this charge. >> tucker: we are continuing to cover today's senate hearings for judge brett kavanaugh. probably the most dramatic in the lifetime of anyone watching. what is the political effect of this? a jonathan turley from the school of law and measured observer of all things political and joins us tonight. professor, given that the fact set for the case is so tiny, we don't know that much, we don't know a lot more now than we did this morning. does this change the calculation of the case?

did you learn anything? >> well, i actually thought he gained a lot of ground. if the vote had been taken right after dr. ford finished i think he might have lost. >> tucker: yes. >> he regained that ground. it was a difficult need to thread. he could only be on defense. he couldn't be seen as going on offense against her but he went on the offense against the committee democrats and that worked very, very well. i think what people saw in that anger was a certain genuine quality. they saw brett kavanaugh for the first time. he came off wooden and robotic in the original confirmation hearing. there was nothing particularly practiced here. people saw raw anger. he didn't become the michael dukakis of judicial confirmation. if someone accuses of you being a rapist, people expect you to be anger. and he certainly was. >> tucker: speaking for myself as an observer and not

a friend, i had no idea that was within brett kavanaugh. >> neither did i, quite frankly. when he came in, i was like, whoa! he didn't even look like the kavanaugh i met through the years and he was going to take this over himself. >> tucker: so you are a law professor and you have met him a number of times. the legal community in d.c. at the high levels are pretty smal small. is there a debate on left or right about his legal qualifications for this job? >> no.nspe he is highly respected and lawyers give him high marks as an appellate judge.. this is very uncharacteristic for him. he is not known as someone who is emotive, or gets angry. it's the contrary. he has a reputation being polite and civil to everyone. this was a genuine moment or uncharacteristic one for him. >> tucker: i wonder, since you have watched the confirmation hearings going back so far, they once took place on the level of the

principle and law. we argued about what a nominee believed. now we are arguing about the soul of the nominee. whether he is a good person or not.ut >> what troubles me is the mantra repeated, "this is not a trial. that this is a job interview." this is a man accused of a serious crime. i wrote a piece in "the hill" saying it is wrong to say there is no standard of review here. you have to have a standard to look at the evidence, where a nominee is presumed guilty ord innocent in this scandal. i suggested a clear preponderance standard but i don't think it would meet the mere preponderance of the evidence standard. it's not even over the 50% t mark. maybe there is more support there. but at the end of the day, you have to look at this, and there is a look of corroboration. i thought dr. ford performed well. she came off quite compelling. but at the end of day, you have to look if there is

corroboration and it's not there. so i think the senators will have a tough decision to make. but if they make it on the evidence, then they will return to the original question of merit. does this man have the qualifications to be a supreme court justice? >> tucker: you would like tour think that is where the debate would have remained.d. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: besides christine ford and kavanaugh himself, the chief figure in the hearing today was the arizona prosecutor rachel mitchell. did she ask the right questions or miss anything important? possibly a rhetorical question. we have the nationalue coordinator for childhood intradiction and she joins us tonight. i watched the hearings and i kept thinking how alone brett kavanaugh was. i am not attacking the prosecutor who asked in the first half but kavanaugh seems to be the only one making apr case for kavanaugh. >> you know, tucker, unfortunately i agree with you. although the way i look at it is that kavanaugh was the only

person even trying to challenge the allegations, which i think is the role ofof miss mitchell. she did a couple things well, establishing possible political bias in the sense of the delay of the hearing. this ridiculous allegation that she was afraid to fly.id she certainly blew that out of the water. and the elucidation of the issue of whether or not dr. ford delayed in her own word coming forward with the information. she said that she knew about c brett kavanaugh's position on the short list and that she was determined to prevent his nomination. yet, somehow this ph.d. was unable to figure out how tohi call either of her two senators, both of whom sit on the judiciary committee. miss mitchell did a good job with that but when it came to asking about the allegations, i was shocked when she told dr. ford she would not be s asking her about the allegations at all.er

and she didn't. >> tucker: right. like buying a new car and not mentioning a price. on the plane thing, she established that chrstine ford has flown an awfull lot. she could have teased out is why she lied about it in this case. we can't come to washington to testify because she can't get on an airplane. this had a politically significant effect. delaying the confirmation of kavanaugh. that is a lie. why is nobody saying that? >> i don't know. i thought judge kavanaugh did a brilliant job explaining what the delay meant to him, his family and his reputation and their future.. prosecutors like to say don't ask a question you don't know the answer to.on so don't ask a why question. all trained prosecutors know that is garbage. you have to ask questions you don't know the answer to. in every trial you often don't know the answer. she should have challenged dr. ford and she did not.

>> tucker: i noticed. i was grinding my teeth. thank you very much.h. >> thank you. >> tucker: the media, for reasons that are not exactlyke clear, are using the allegations against judgere kavanaugh to attack people on the basis of their skin color. though, of course, everyone inhe the story is the same color. it's bizarre and everywhere. nobody is mentioning it. why wouldn't you mention it? it's totally wrong. we'll have more on it when we come back. ♪ how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com.

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>> tucker: so if you have been watching the coverage of the kavanaugh nomination overgh the past ten days or so, especially on other channels, but not exclusively, you might have noticed something strange about the coverage.bu repeatedly reporters and on-air analysts havers interjected the question of race in to this story. and that is odd. because this is not a racial story. everyone involved is the same color. and yet again and again, you see people use the story as a pretext for denouncingng an entire race of people. we are going to remind you something you probably already knew. that is the definition of racism. yet it's everywhere. >> women across this nation should be outraged at what these white men senators are doing to this woman. >> this is all gross strategizing from 11 old whitess men. >> it's a white man strategy that is politically dumb in my opinion. >> these people in congress right now, in that senate

judiciary committee, these white men, old, by the way,di are not protecting women. they are protecting a man who is probably guilty. >> tucker: so why are the morons pushing race conflict on the country when again the story has nothing to do with race? and why is nobody saying anything about it? those are all questions weod should ponder going forward. in the meantime, though, over at cnn, jeff toobin, normally an objective reporter went further than anyone and said demands for due process for judge kavanaugh show that the entire country, you and me and everyone, is evil. >> maybe this country is a lot more racist and sexist than we thought. maybe a lot of people find this allegation preposterous. who won the election? the guy from the "access hollywood" tape won the election. >> tucker: so if you don't

believe the allegation made by a white woman against a white man, you are a racist. what the hell is going on?hi tammy bruce, president of the independent women's voice and a wise person joins us tonight to unravel the complexity of this world. huh? >> right, look, we have spent clearly what, 150 years at least, arguing that your complexion does not equate to who you are, what your morals are, how smart you are, what your intentions are, what you do in life. hundreds of thousands of us died fighting to make sure that our skin color would not matter. that we rejected that notion. now in the 21st century the democrats, who have nothing to argue with and rejected on principle and foundation of legislation and ideas, they have failed. they damaged this country. we are bringing it back. what they are trying to do is appeal to the worst part of us.

they want individuals who look to look to the worst parts ofts themselves. to think awful things about other people. about, tucker, the very personal aspects of who we are. our gender, our race, our ethnicity. maybe ultimately our age. certainly gender. everything with kavanaugh certainly, maybe that is why the liberals have been inspired to go even further, has been about the worst in what they want from people. arguing for division. looking for the emotionalin buttons to have people certainly be upset, to not trust their neighbor, or even themselves. to really look at america again as being evil. this now is what the democrats have become. we saw it on display today. we have seen it destroy -- i don't think it's destroyed judge kavanaugh yet. obviously, dr. ford's life is changed forever. we all deserve better. and what we will not do is go back to that time in this

country where gender and race defined who you were. >> tucker: exactly. >> we have fought to change this. t >> tucker: amen. let's not put up with this garbage. seriously. speak out against it. don't let them divide the country along tribal lines. which is what they do even as they accuse the opponents of doing that. it's always projection. tammy, so nicely put. thank you for that. >> thank you.ayio nice seeing you. >> tucker: our coverage of the brett kavanaugh hearing continues. professor alan dershowitz told us yesterday he thought that the pick of rachel mitchell as outside counsel might not be a wise move. was he vindicated? he joins us next to tell us. ♪ s you need a partner that is willing to break free from conventional thinking. we are a different kind of financial company. we are athene, and we are driven to do more.

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>> you know, we hear from the witnesses. but the f.b.i. isn't interviewing them. and isn't giving us any facts.sn

so, all we have -- >> you're interviewing me. you're interviewing me! you're doing it, senator. i'm sorry to interrupt. you're doing it. there is no conclusions reached. >> tucker: that was brett kavanaugh responding to senator dianne feinstein of california in today's hearing. we spoke with retired professor alan dershowitz ahead of today's hearing. now that it is over what did he think of the outcome? alan dershowitz also the author of "the case against impeaching trump." and he he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. you watched the hearing from beginning to end. what is your assessment? >> when i watched her, i thought she was extremely credible and i had grave doubts whether he could win the credibility contest. but he made a remarkable comeback and he really testified in a completely compelling manner. so i think in the end there is

a tie when it comes to personal credibility. so how do you break the tie? i think one way is to look for corroboration. and he has much more corroboration on his side. now the best way to make sureat that corroboration is accurate is for the committee to call the other witnesses. and let the f.b.i. continue its background check. and i think in the end, it will do him more good than harm. >> tucker: now when we spoke yesterday, you said that you were concerned about the choice of rachel mitchell from maricopa county sex crimes investigation office inel arizona to speak on behalf of republican senators if they question chrstine ford. your point -- well, we have a clip.. i'll show you your point. >> sure. >> i see the greatest engine of truth ever invented used effectively, cross examination. i worry we don't have the right people. the woman hired to conduct theef

cross examination probably rarely ever cross examined anybody. she is a prosecutor. i don't think she is the right person to question dr. ford. >> tucker: you know, you were right. >> i was criticized for making that point and i turned out to be 100% right. she was totally and completelyy incompetent in terms of asking cross examination questions. she has little experience. for example, the main issue now is whether or not she recognized kavanaugh correctly. she was never asked whether how well she knew him, how many times she encountered him before this.ma how close was their relationship? there was nothing that could raise questions about whether even if she believes she is telling the truth, she may have misidentified. so she just did a terrible job.

i think the republicans realized that and they canned her right in the middle. but it was a very bad choice. >> tucker: so can i -- those of us who ask questions for auc living sat and wondered what is the point of this. not that she is a bad person or stupid. you have been around congressional testimony before. you have testified. when you were asking questions of a witness, aren't you doing so in order to prove a point, tell a story, you're doing it for some reason, aren't you? >> you have to have a theory. every question has to be part of a tactic. you ask question "a" in order to lay a foundation for "b." she was just asking questions. it just didn't seem to go anywhere. she didn't have much of a point. and in the end, she accomplished nothing. >> tucker: brett kavanaugh defended himself. nobody else was. other than lindsey graham. thank you. professor, great to see you. i just wanted to let the viewers know what a prescientd

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♪ >> tucker: you don't have to search far to find fraudulent accusations of sexual assault. some of us have lived them. some of those are widely believed, but that does not make them true. what happens to those that are falsely accused in some cases? she represented nicole, afternd they made up a story of a fake gang rape that never took place. so the reason i was so interested in talking to you is we never follow up on the

stories. what happens to people who have been accused of some horrifying sex crime falsely, the smoke clears and nobody asked them any other questions, what happens to their lives? >> it's a big problem. when your name is dragged through the mud, the national press, like my clients was, clients are faced withen a choi. they put out a lot of money and spend on lawyers to litigate to clear their names.ng finding lawyers who are willing to take on their case on a contingency basis and try to clear their name. and the hurdles that you have to overcome in a defamation claim and the plaintiff are incredibly high. dena romo to her credit, she was brave and she brought those claims and she hired us to litigate it pretty fiercely and we vindicated her reputation. but not all people who are dragged through the mud have the means to do that. >> tucker: the duke lacrosse

who were called racist on cable news. >> and the prosecutor who lost his bar license. >> tucker: what about the kids in a fraternity that were accused of raping women? were they made hole? >> they had challenges, too. one group of students brought a lawsuit in the second circuit, in new york and it was dismissed.la it was bold know thrown out. they waited years to have their chance, and they went back, and rolling stone settled that case. it's a long process. >> tucker: it's unbelievable. 50 years ago that they would have been a liberal. thanks what you are doing. we really appreciate that. it's been an unbelievable day but it's not over. stay right here for continued coverage of brett kavanaugh and hearing that happened today, and we will be back tomorrow for the show that it's a sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we have a special guest tonight. the special guest is

sean hannity. [laughs] this commemorates eric wemple's appearance on our show. it's a picture, i want you to drink coffee out of that and toast to his good health. >> sean: like a football? [laughs] just breaking, bob corker tweeted out that he is a "yes"a for judge kavanaugh and jeff flake saying it's a tough decision and of course, we have susan collins and lisa murkowski, and we will be watching very closely. good show tonight. welcome to "hannity." we are broadcasting live in the swamp, washington, d.c., our nation's capital where the future of this very country in so many different ways is at stake tonight and the senate is now on the verge of what will be a historic vote and for all of you good, honest, hardworking taxpayers that do all the hard work every day, raise your kids and love