Here's @RonanFarrow and @JaneMayerNYer on the other big story today: The sexual misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, which he denies.https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-sexual-misconduct-allegation-against-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-stirs-tension-among-democrats-in-congress …
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JUST IN: Senate Judiciary Committee spokesperson Taylor Foy: "The committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination will proceed as scheduled, next Thursday."
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Here’s How That Letter From 65 Women Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Came Together So Quickly: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-women-letter-chuck-grassley … w/
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Regarding the letter from 65 women supporting Kavanaugh that was released this morning —>https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1040674729533665280 …
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NYT: Sen. "Collins spent an hour on the phone with Mr. Kavanaugh on Friday, shortly after details of the letter were first published. The call had been scheduled for days."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/kavanaugh-assault-allegation-letter.html …
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Not quite sure what to read into this, but it's certainly another question-raising moment about Feinstein's handling of this. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/kavanaugh-assault-allegation-letter.html …pic.twitter.com/hwzf9eO7Vl
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The Weekly Standard's
@McCormackJohn talks with the other male classmate named in the letter received by Feinstein, asked him, DC writer Mark Judge, whether he recalled any "rough-housing with a female student." https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/kavanaugh-classmate-named-in-letter-strongly-denies-allegations-of-misconduct …pic.twitter.com/JDnulupKWz
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Important additional info here —>https://twitter.com/mccormackjohn/status/1040710213291200513?s=21 …
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Strange how Grassley had 65 women already lined up to provide cover. Grassley knew about this allegation or there are others they are hiding and this one got through.
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. UpDate: 9-17-2018 63 out of 65 WOMEN, Who Originally added their Signatures to a Letter which Vouch For Kavanaugh with-drew their Support, after Dr. Christine Ford came Forward, with Evidence (Including but NOT Limited to a Lie Detector Test given to her, by an FBI agent) .pic.twitter.com/ZnQh5HqID1
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Cough* Cough* Genuinely curious how much that letter cost to write.
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LOL this is ridiculous. The whole
@GOP knew that Kavanaugh was a high school rapist, still supports him. I guess being card-carrying Neo-Nazis and a Kremlin propagandists isn't enough for the@HouseGOP and the@SenateGOPThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The fact that they had this ready to go shows that the knew about this wayyyy ahead of time. So messed ups
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How handy they just had that layin' around...
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Chris, do you have background on how this letter came to be? I'm skeptical that Grassley managed to find this many signatories in 24 hours?
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Wow they found 65 women in 10 minutes!? Impressive.

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He went to an all male school, how did he know 65 women?
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Following up on this For those who went to American HS’s, look at this
NONE OF THE 65 WOMEN WHO SIGNED THIS LETTER WENT TO HS W/#KAVANAUGH He went to all-boys Catholic HS (which imo would breed the kind of repressed idiocy Ford describes) I can comment pretty ... 1pic.twitter.com/F4fXwmGFMy
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authoratively on the character of kids I went to HS w/, even at a great remove of time I saw em every day for 4 years, sat in good & bad classes w/em, went to football games & dances w/them, participated in extracurriculars w/them I knew em pretty well I know almost nothing 2
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abt kids who went to neighboring HS’s tho I’d see em once in a while, not every day Never saw em under pressure much Never saw em sick, or bullied, or screwed over by a teacher or coach, etc I could not vouch for character of someone who went to a neighbor HS like this 3/fin
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