Kamala Harris’ viral grilling of Kavanaugh ends with a thud
Joe Garofoli and John Wildermuth Sep. 6, 2018 Updated: Sep. 6, 2018 9:22 p.m.
The biggest cliff-hanger question of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing was answered Thursday in a most anticlimactic way.
The two-day drama started near the end of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s session Wednesday when California Sen. Kamala Harris asked whether Kavanaugh had been talking with someone with a law firm linked to President Trump about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign. The founder of the firm, Marc Kasowitz, briefly helped represent Trump in the probe and is still the president’s attorney in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former contestant on his reality TV show, “The Apprentice.â€
Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney, zeroed in on the biggest witness of her career — a person nominated for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. “Be sure about your answer, sir,†she told Kavanaugh, a hint that perhaps she had something more to say, depending on his reply.
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