do you know what a traveshamockery is?ou'll know when i decode all the non-answers from judge kavanaugh. this matters. he has said and written things about issues that might come up. and has issued none of them. why are some senators okay with that? we have one of them here tonight, and we'll ask him. come on, let's get after it. >>> the president is out to get whomever wrote that op-ed. his appointees are making these grand public proclamations of innocence, including the vice president of the united states, that trump is reportedly reviewing him, his new paul, rand paul, the senator is calling for lie detector tests to find the leaker. rand paul. isn't he the self-styled libertarian who didn't want to be patted down before getting on a plane? now he wants lie detector tests for an op-ed? the president says this is all meant to coincide with the hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, though i bet kavanaugh welcomes the distraction to take attention away from his serial non-answers to senators. now, we have on

. >>> the kavanaugh confirmation hearing, it is a traveshamockery, a travesty that is a sham and a mockeryit's a great word that comes from a beer commercial like most great things. it is all about this job doing his damnest to avoid saying anything that might indicate something about what he thinks about what he may be judging. kavanaugh is not the first. let's be fair. he's just the latest contestant in this game show. the problem is he's also a longtime political on rative and that makes him unusual. he said lots of things that matter in his nominated position, and he won't answer anything that might cause controversy on the same. he won't own his own words. so the result is that we are all being bathed in this non-speak that i will decode right now. here is the first weapon. hypothetical, okay? the hype of the hypothetical. listen. >> i can't give you an answer on that hypothetical question. a hypothetical question that i can't begin to answer. i'm not going to answer hypothetical questions. senator, that sounds like a hypothetical. >> hypothetical. anything that actually matters that