Bromwich using this opportunity to note that Grassley's staff rejected calling the polygraphy report. Klobuchar: Thank you for allowing this reporting, but that is the reason you don't have underlying evidence.
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Grassley stops the clock while Ford's attorneys find the proper paperwork.
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Grassley again asks to stop the clock while she consults with her lawyers, and tries to accurately answer the question. Any bets that he treats Kavanaugh differently?
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Mitchell asks if she spoke ot her parents. Ford said absolutely not. The admits interviewing lawyers from parking lot of store in Rehobeth.
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Grassley again interjects to defend himself. That's like 5 or 6 times.
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Blumenthal preps to read Lindsey statement from being a trial lawyer prosecuting rape cases. Graham, looking REALLY uncomfortable, "I'm not under oath." Blumenthal reads Graham talking abt courage from deep and hidden place it takes to testify. Ford looks like she's weeping
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Blumenthal: would you like Mark Judge to be interviewed. Ford: That would be my preference. Blumenthal: It's not up to you. It's up to the President. HIs decision not to amounts to a coverup.
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Mitchell: Were you advised to take a lie detector test? Bromwich: You are asking questions that may go to advice from counsel. [After some delay] Ford: Based on advice from counsel I thought it would be helpful. I endured it.
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Mitchell Did anyone advise him on that choice. Ford: he was the person who came to do the test. I had left my grandmother's funeral that day. Mitchell: SO he administered a poly on the day of your grandmother's funeral.
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Mitchell: Did you ever have advice from someone on taking a poly. Ford: Never. Mitchell: Did you pay for the poly yourself. Ford: I don't think so.
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Mitchell really walked into with those insinuations about Ford being coached on the poly, bc when Kavanaugh gets asked if he'd take a poly he's going to look like an asshole. Ford: I remember the machine being hooked up to my body. I remember crying a lot.
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Looks like Ford would have preferred to keep going. Republicans want a half hour to research what Mitchell has elicited so far, I bet.
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It's going to be hard to discredit Dr. Ford. She's precise and answers questions truthfully to the best of her knowledge.
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If they have to resort to "But she didn't tell any Republicans! Political witch-hunt!" then we know they have nothing. Mitchell is embarrassing herself in front of the whole world. Her bosses and fellow citizens in Maricopa County need to be questioning her ability to serve.
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Mitchell is a professional and a Republican, but she's also a woman who might have some empathy for Dr. Ford. Might she not be performing at her best for her employers for that reason?
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Possible.
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Translated: No, and why the fuck would I given how you've all been acting this whole time?
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I’m waiting for the Rachel Mitchell doppelgänger theory.
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Rachel Mitchell is not going there. She's attacking the Democrats and their process, not Christine Blasey Ford. Mitchell is exposing the advantage that lawyered-up people have -- and the pitfalls of dealing with government.
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You may be the only person thinks that, Mitchell included.
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And thank heaven for that, or it might not have seen the light of day.
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