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  • WHAT WILL HE DO ABOUT THIS ONE?

  • BRIAN: DISAPPOINTED IN THE MLS

  • ON THAT.

  • ONE YEAR SINCE JUSTICE BRET

  • COUGH VIEW NOMINATION WAS ROCKED

  • BY CONTROVERSY.

  • YOU.

  • >> I BELIEVE IT IS MY CIVIC DUTY

  • TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

  • MY MOTIVATION COMING FORWARD WAS

  • TO BE HELPFUL AND TO PROVIDE

  • FACTS ABOUT HOW MR. KAVANAUGH

  • ACTIONS DAMAGED MY LIFE SO THAT

  • YOU COULD TAKE INTO A SERIOUS

  • CONSIDERATION AS YOU MAKE YOUR

  • DECISION.

  • AINSLEY: NOW, NEWLY UNCOVERED

  • VIDEO OF HER LAWYER IS RAISING

  • SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT

  • TESTIMONY.

  • >> YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN

  • ASTERISK NEXT TO HIS NAME.

  • WHEN HE TAKES A SCALPEL TO

  • ROE V. WADE, WE WILL KNOW WHO HE

  • IS, WE WILL KNOW HIS CHARACTER

  • WE KNOW WHAT MOTIVATES HIM.

  • THAT IS IMPORTANT.

  • IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW,

  • THAT WAS PART OF WHAT MOTIVATED

  • CHRISTINE.

  • AINSLEY: OUR NEXT GUEST WAS THE

  • FIRST TO REPORT ON THAT.

  • IT IS ALL IN HIS NEW BOOK,

  • SEARCH AND DESTROY, INSIDE THE

  • CAMPAIGN AGAINST

  • BRETT KAVANAUGH.

  • STEVE: JOINING US RIGHT NOW,

  • REPORTER FOR AMERICAN LAWYER

  • MAGAZINE, AUTHOR, RYAN LOVELACE.

  • HE JOINS US FROM D.C.

  • >> GOOD MORNING.

  • STEVE: I KNOW YOU HAVE NOT

  • SPOKEN TO CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD

  • BUT YOU FOUND THE VIDEO ON A

  • WEBSITE FOR THE LAST FIVE MONTHS

  • WHERE IT I CAN TALKS, DEBRA

  • KATZ, HER LAWYER TALKS ABOUT

  • MOTIVATION.

  • YOU'RE CONNECTING DOTS.

  • WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

  • >> WELL I'M LOOKING AT THIS IN

  • REPORTING "SEARCH AND DESTROY"

  • OUT, I LOOKED AT DEBRA KATZ,

  • GOING TO HER TALKS, WATCHING

  • WHAT HE DOES, TALKING TO PEOPLE

  • THAT ARE ADVERSARIES, HEARING

  • HER SAY CLIENT WAS MOTIVATED BY

  • ROE V. WADE, TAINTING ANYTHING

  • JUSTICE KAVANAUGH MIGHT DO ABOUT

  • IT, IT RAISES TWO THINGS.

  • AS CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD'S

  • LAWYER THAT CHRISTINE BLASEY

  • FORD WAS AMBIVALENT ABOUT ALL

  • THIS.

  • SHE SAID IT WAS ABOUT HER CIVIC

  • DUTY.

  • RAISES A LOT OF QUESTIONS WHAT

  • WAS THE ACTUAL MOTIVATION.

  • IF SHE WAS IN FACT MOTIVATED

  • TRYING TO TAINT JUSTICE

  • KAVANAUGH, FOR WHAT PURPOSE WAS

  • THAT?

  • SECONDLY AS YOU MENTIONED THIS

  • VIDEO HAS BEEN AVAILABLE

  • PUBLICLY FOR SOME TIME, NO ONE

  • IN THE PRESS HAS PAID ATTENTION

  • TO IT.

  • I REALLY THINK IT STARTS TO SHOW

  • SOME OF THE NEGLIGENCE THAT WENT

  • ON IN TERMS OF THE COVERAGE OF

  • THIS STORY, REALLY

  • INVESTIGATING, GETTING TO THE

  • BOTTOM OF ALL THE INTENT AN

  • MOTIVATION WHAT HAPPENED.

  • STEVE: RYAN, HAD PEOPLE KNOWN

  • ABOUT THIS MOTIVATION COMMENT,

  • PERHAPS THE SENATORS WOULD HAVE

  • DIRECTED THEIR QUESTIONS

  • DIFFERENTLY?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY I THINK THEY

  • WOULD.

  • I THINK WHEN WE WERE WATCHING

  • THE HEARINGS AT THIS TIME LAST

  • YEAR, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE

  • SAW WAS RACHEL MITCHELL, THE

  • QUESTIONER FOR REPUBLICANS

  • ASKING SYMPATHETIC PROBING

  • QUESTIONS BUT NOT ADVERSARIAL.

  • PERHAPS IF THEY KNEW THAT THE

  • MOTIVATION AS DESCRIBED BY DEBRA

  • KATZ DIFFERED FROM WHAT

  • CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD SAID, IF

  • THEY KNEW ABOUT THE THINGS THAT

  • AFTER THE HEARING HAPPENED THERE

  • WOULD BE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.

  • BRIAN: WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST

  • QUESTION?

  • >> THERE IS A FEW FRANKLY.

  • WHAT CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD SAID

  • HAPPENED ONLY CORROBORATED BY

  • HER.

  • WHEN IT HAPPENED, WHERE IT

  • HAPPENED, SHE CAN'T QUITE SAY.

  • WE HAVE TO GET TO, WHY DID THIS

  • HAPPEN?

  • WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HER

  • DIRECTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED.

  • WHETHER OR NOT DEBRA KATZ IS

  • CORRECT IN SAYING THIS.

  • DEBRA KATZ IN TALKING ABOUT HER

  • STRATEGY SAID YOU NEED A

  • LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY, YOU NEED A

  • PRESS STRATEGY, YOU HAVE TO HAVE

  • ORGANIZED FORCES, WORK WITH

  • NON-PROFITS REST OF THAT IT BEGS

  • THE QUESTION, WAS CHRISTINE

  • BLASEY FORD WORKING WITH ALL

  • THOSE ORGANIZED FORCES THAT

  • DEBRA KATZ MENTIONED THAT HAD

  • BEEN TRYING TO CANCEL

  • KAVANAUGH'S NOMINATION FROM THE

  • VERY BEGINNING EVEN BEFORE HE

  • GOT PICKED.

  • >> TELL US ABOUT YOUR BOOK.

  • "SEARCH AND DESTROY"?

  • >> I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS

  • SEVERAL MONTHS A YEAR ON FROM

  • THE HEARINGS.

  • WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO WALK

  • READERS THROUGH STEP BY STEP THE

  • ORGANIZED FORCES THAT WERE OUT

  • THERE, EVEN BEFORE KAVANAUGH'S

  • NOMINATION THAT ROSE UP AND

  • TRIED TO CANCEL THIS NOMINATION.

  • THERE IS A LOT OF ATTACKS ON

  • LEGITIMACY AND AUTHORITY OF THE

  • COURT.

  • THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WERE WILLING

  • TO SPEAK TO ME BECAUSE PEOPLE ON

  • THE LEFT HAVE SAID THAT JUSTICE

  • GORSUCH SITS IN STOLEN SEAT THAT

  • BELONGED TO MERRICK GARLAND

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NOMINEE.

  • NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT AS

  • TERRIFIC NEXT TO JUSTICE

  • KAVANAUGH'S NAME.

  • PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND

  • PRECISELY WHAT THAT MEANS.

  • THE ATTACKS ON LEGITIMACY AND

  • AUTHORITY OF THE COURT AT THAT

  • ENTAILS.

  • BRIAN: WONDERING TOO, IF THE

  • REPUBLICAN PARTY WASN'T ABLE TO

  • COME TOGETHER ON THIS, IF IT

  • WOULD HAVE FALLEN APART BECAUSE

  • KAVANAUGH HAS ROOTS WITH THE

  • BUSH ADMINISTRATION, WHO WAS

  • PICKED BY THE TRUMP

  • ADMINISTRATION.

  • IT GAL VANNIZED ANY ANTI-TRUMP

  • FORCE BECAUSE HE HAD MORE

  • TRADITIONAL REPUBLICAN

  • BACKGROUND.

  • DO YOU THINK THAT PLAYED A ROLE?

  • >> I THINK IT DID.

  • TALKING TO FOLKS YOU HEAR THIS

  • IS ONE OF THE MOST THINGS,

  • SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS ARE

  • GAL VAN NICING UNITED MOMENT FOR

  • CON IRV TIFFS AND REPUBLICANS

  • WRIT LARGE.

  • WHEN WE SAW MICHAEL AVENATTI

  • STEP FORWARD, THAT WAS MOMENT

  • WHICH REPUBLICANS AND

  • CONSERVATIVES GOT THEIR SPINE

  • BACK, REALLY STEPPED UP, CAME

  • TOGETHER AND HAD THAT NOT

  • HAPPENED, WE WOULD BE IN A MUCH

  • DIFFERENT PLACE RIGHT NOW I

  • THINK.

WHAT WILL HE DO ABOUT THIS ONE?

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