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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      TONIGHT ENDED ON AN ODD NOTE: Kamala Harris And Brett Kavanaugh Had A Very Weird Exchange At His Confirmation Hearing About The Mueller Investigation https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/kamala-harris-and-brett-kavanaugh-had-a-very-weird-exchange …pic.twitter.com/owuvcDvP7O

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      A Harris aide tells me "it was notable the nominee could not provide a simple yes or no" to Harris's question about whether he talked w/ anyone at the Kasowitz firm about Mueller's investigation. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/kamala-harris-and-brett-kavanaugh-had-a-very-weird-exchange …pic.twitter.com/6AMepacNiC

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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      From my story: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/kamala-harris-and-brett-kavanaugh-had-a-very-weird-exchange … —>pic.twitter.com/28ihoLXI9q

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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      tl;dr: We don't know what Harris knows, if she knows more than she was willing to say tonight, because her staff isn't saying. It was a weird, incomplete exchange from her end — but Kavanaugh could have easily answered in a way that wouldn't have looked as weird as it did.

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Like, he's a sitting DC Circuit judge — where appeals that relate to the Mueller investigation are already pending. How many conversations about Mueller's investigation has he had with lawyers?

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          And that was the point from her end. She was saying, it doesn't matter how many lawyers work at Kasowitz's firm unless you've like, had a bunch of conversations about Mueller's investigation with random lawyers who you don't really know. Otherwise, the answer could easily be no.

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          And if he has, I think the response is more like "I've had conversations at CLEs and events, so, possibly one of them worked at the firm, but no substantive, private discussions," or the like.

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          From his end, his point was, and Lee's objection was: It's not a small firm, lawyers move around, maybe he doesn't know — and he doesn't want to say an inadvertent misstatement under oath. And Harris was either playing hide the ball or she doesn't really know if there is a ball.

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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Or, as the Dem aide said, they "have reason to believe" there is a ball, but might not have a specific name.

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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Anyway, I think the exchange was weird on both ends — I expected more follow-through from her if she was going to bring something up like that — but his odd, uncomfortable non-answer was also weird, given how relatively clean most of his MANY other non-answers were all day.

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        2. Nixon Richard‏ @RichardMilhousN Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          I think the question is, does he know the past and present employer of all the lawyers he's spoken with at the water cooler over the past two years?

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        3. Nixon Richard‏ @RichardMilhousN Sep 5
          Replying to @RichardMilhousN @chrisgeidner

          Harris is a lawyer . . . she deliberately omitted "knowingly" or "that you were aware" from the question, which was phrased in a way that would never fly in a courtroom.

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5
          Replying to @RichardMilhousN

          But so is he! He easily could have accounted for that! I gave an example later in the thread of it.

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        5. Nixon Richard‏ @RichardMilhousN Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Didn't he, though? He said "it would surprise me if I did" which is a similar yes/no dodge to the (albeit more eloquent) one you mention in the later comment.

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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5
          Replying to @RichardMilhousN

          Yes, that is *part of* that ridiculous “your question was and/or” sentence that leads her to scale it down. (And, in any event, that’s more than 7 minutes in.)

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        7. Erin Conroy #WaveCastOR‏ @chargrille Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @RichardMilhousN

          1. Why is he speaking to *any* lawyers about ongoing Mueller investigation when he is a federal judge sitting on a court which could hear matters pertaining to it? 2. Why is he speaking to *so many* lawyers that he can't remember if one worked for POTUS' lawyer's firm?

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        8. Erin Conroy #WaveCastOR‏ @chargrille Sep 5
          Replying to @chargrille @chrisgeidner @RichardMilhousN

          3. Being such a blabbermouth is particularly egregious since he was part of Starr's investigation's legal team. 4. It casts even further doubt on his judgment. See also Leahy's line of questions about Kavanaugh taking/using Leahy's stolen info.

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        9. Nixon Richard‏ @RichardMilhousN Sep 5
          Replying to @chargrille @chrisgeidner

          I don't think it suggests he's a blabber mouth, it suggest he thought she had some (unknown) incident in mind. I'm pretty sure I've never been at a bar with Evel Knievel, but you put me under oath and ask me that oddly specific question, and you're gonna get a squirmy response.

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        2. Kelly Enn‏ @kelly_enn Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          If I recall correctly, she directed him to think carefully about his answer at one point. That rattled him. She may know something, she may know nothing. Regardless, he revealed much more than he ever intended. #HookLineSinker

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        1. Sean Hecht‏ @seanhecht Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Exactly. There’s no reason he should be discussing the investigation - and every reason he shouldn’t - besides maybe judicial colleagues, family, close friends. Not so many lawyers that he’d have to have a list to refresh his memory whether he had a conversation about it. Weird.

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        2. Bent Krockman‏ @mynameisurban Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          2 parts of the exchange. She asks if he has spoken to *anyone* about the investigation, he says judges and doesn't name anyone else. Then she asks if he has spoken to anyone at the firm, and he can't say. if you only talk to judges, the firm answer should be an easy no.

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        1. Patti‏ @Patti1120 Sep 6
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          That’s what’s astonishing that he can’t remember who he spoke to. This makes me think, he talked to LOTS and LOTS of people about this. Including Kasowitz Benson & Torres

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        1. Kevin Lussier‏ @KevinKlussier Sep 5
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Exactly. The answer should have been “No.” But he evidently can’t say that. Troubling.

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