her name is christine blasey ford. >> the woman's name is christine blasey ford. >> christine blasey rd... >> narrator: mcconnell wouldn't back down from the coming fight. >> i think he was furious. you know, this was the torpedo that he dreaded.la >> christiney ford described kavanaugh as stumbling drunk... >> narrator: he was worried about losing the senate in the upcoming midterms.va he had to get ugh confirmed fast. l, "you will rue theds of day," back in the bork fight?pl those equally d to him if he lost the kavanaugh fight, because the democrats, if they controlled the senate after this election, he would r the day of what he'd done in garland. >> majority leader is recognized. >> narrator: mcconnell launchedn a rattack. >> senate democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations... >> narrator: bork. thomas. now kavanaugh. the fight for the court hadbe me personal. mcconnell blamed the democrats. >> democrats wouldt let a few inconvenient things get between them and a good smear. it despicable. >> he

but then a woman by the name of christine blasey ford came forward. >> i told mcconnell and others iake. >> brett kavanaugh, he acted as if i think i would have acted had i felt that i had been unjustly accused. >> i'm here today to tell the truth. i've never sexually assaulted anyone. >> down the street at the white house, trump fired off a shot of his own. >> this is a big con job, and schumer and his buddies are all in there laughing, how they fooled you all. >> following a week long investigation that critics of kavanaugh thought was too brief -- >> charade. >> sham. >> bullies. >> we'll call the roll. >> kavanaugh was confirmed to the u.s. supreme court by a two-vote margin. >> the nomination of brett m. kavanaugh is confirmed. [ applause ] >> another victory for trump, another justice on the bench. while the supreme court confirmations grabbed headlines, something else was happening that largely went unnoticed by the public. >> district courts and the circuit courts, it's one of those quiet things that folks across america don't perhaps grasp the gravity of these courts all int