What Exactly Does Kamala Harris Have On Brett Kavanaugh?

[kpete]

Harris didn’t confront him with a document, so whatever this is, her sources for this conversation are outside of the paltry email dump the committee got. She continues to press him on whether or not he’s spoken with anyone at Kasowitz about the Mueller investigation and he keeps asking her to identify who she’s thinking of. She delivers a remarkably cold: “I think you’re thinking of someone and you don’t want to tell us.”

What in the hell was all that?!? Was Kavanaugh covertly counseling Kasowitz on Trump’s defense? It would seem as though she could have dropped the hammer and gotten more specific. Not for nothing, but my immediate reaction was this may have had nothing to do with Mueller at all. Harris seemed less interested in building a case for recusal than making sure Kavanaugh knew that she knew that he knew someone at Kasowitz and that she could introduce that fact into the record at any given moment between now and the final vote on the floor.
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At this point, it’s up to our imaginations what that could mean, but a seasoned prosecutor leaning on someone based on their acquaintances doesn’t generally bode well for the witness. Certainly felt like the prosecutorial equivalent of “nice little nomination you got here — shame if anything happened to it” that defendants hear all the time. Except instead of getting him to flip, she’s giving him a chance to walk away unscathed by whatever she thinks she has.

Could she be bluffing? Looks like we’ll get a chance to find out. This mystery is going to be far, far more exciting than anything else we’re likely to see on Day 3 when a cavalcade of witnesses will praise and condemn him in entirely predictable ways.

Unless someone from Kasowitz makes a surprise apperance on the witness list.


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https://splinternews.com/kamala-harris-seems-to-know-something-brett-kavanaugh-d-1828847276

[Pachamama]

1. I remember watching this moment and watching Kavanaugh get very nervous and uncomfortable

And Kamala Harris keeping her cool and almost looking like the cat who caught the mouse....

She does know something. And so does Kavanaugh. And this moment marks something very important.

And the fact that it may tie into Mueller and to Trump is very very important.

[Phoenix61]

42. Yep!

I thought she looked happier and happier the more he feigned innocent confusion. I think she has some evidence but wasn't sure it was worth pursuing until he started acting stupid.

[Lee-Lee]

2. I don't know why she didn't just come out and say whatever she has

What’s the point of being cryptic like that?

[rickford66]

4. Perjury trap ?

[Hortensis]

15. Thinking this would be more like waving at the trapdoor and

inviting him to step forward if he chooses.

[Nitram]

20. I think she is giving Kavanaugh a chance to resign before she drops the hammer.

[Hortensis]

26. Maybe, but wouldn't that be taking professional courtesy

way too far? The implication is apparently that Kavanaugh may have used this law firm to relay his willingness to serve Trump to Trump before being selected. Maybe prosecuting, or yammering from others to prosecute, Kavanaugh isn't a distraction our leadership would want at this time?

[Nitram]

30. Not professional courtesy. It would avoid a very messy process and all-out fight if he doesn't

resign.

[Hortensis]

38. The second guess then. I can see that if he had to

withdraw his wildfire would then be contained so that resources could be shifted to the others raging.

[Calista241]

6. The document / email she was probably referring to is labeled committee confidential.

So she can’t ask him about that document specifically, which is why she was asking about ancillary details.

[Hortensis]

16. Another analysis suggested whatever source she

has is probably not among the meager documents provided to senate Democrats. Of those, only some are labeled that way.

My guess, though, is that nothing this incriminating or disabling (requiring recusal from all Trump issues) would have been provided to the Democrats.

Go, Senator Harris! Any proof of lying, or at least prevaricating, in this hearing would make a nice underline to Kavanaugh's record of lying under oath a number of times before.

But, of course, if she has the means to prove he spoke with someone before the nomination who was in position to be a back channel for relaying Kavanaugh's feelings to Trump...!

[ewagner]

22. I think you're right...

Kavanaugh was baiting her to reveal classified information when he challenged her to come up with a name...she didn't take the bait.

[FakeNoose]

11. She's backing him into a corner

...where he'll have to agree to recuse himself on all decisions regarding Trump and Russia. He knows he has to but he's trying to weasel out of it. We'll see if Kamala will challenge him directly now.

[EffieBlack]

21. It's probably in the files the GOP marked "Committee Confidential"

She can't at this point reveal them, but she warned the GOP and Kavanaugh that she knows. If he lies, the Dems will go all out to release the docs.

[George II]

25. Based on the interchange between Leahy and Grassley yesterday....

... I think a lot of "committee confidential" documents are going to be made public in the next few days.

[EffieBlack]

32. Yep

[Achilleaze]

3. "entirely predictable ways" for Day 3 ?

I don't think so. Keeping my seat belt fastened.

[Achilleaze]

39. Wow - not predictable at all. Booker releases doc dirt

[madaboutharry]

5. Sen. Harris was the Attorney General of California.

She is an experienced prosecutor. She would not ask a question she didn’t already know the answer to.

She caught Kavanaugh in a very serious lie.

[Calista241]

9. Kavanaugh is a smart dude, and he qualified his answers enough to protect himself.

He’s still an asshole that shouldn’t even be on the court of appeals, much less the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, i didn’t see any damage inflicted that would prevent republicans from voting for him.

[mitch96]

7. Maybe to give him a chance to step down??

That would be an easy out for him if she DOES have someting on him. I hope I hope I hope...
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[MontanaMama]

8. Will she show her hand

in time to stop this? You just know that there was a flurry to get stories straight last night.

[Nitram]

18. Sounds like Harris has a plan. Timing is everything.

[DownriverDem]

10. What we know

We all know that kavanaugh would be a horrible choice. However, we also know that the repubs have the votes.

[dlk]

12. Kavanaugh is So Obviously Shady, the Last Place He Belongs is on the Supreme Court

[djacq]

13. Oh Snap!

This is Kamala’s House!... Don’t bring that mess up in here!

[hlthe2b]

14. Is it in reference to:

Link to tweet

[Nitram]

17. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Wow!

[EffieBlack]

19. "Committee Confidential" documents

[Honeycombe8]

23. What he's thinking while trying not to answer....

How does she know that? DOES she know something, or is she guessing?

Is the guy I talked to going to talk? Did he talk about it? Is there a tape of it? A memo? Is there any way for others to know? No, he's not going to talk about it.

There's a chance he's trying to protect himself, in case he did talk to someone but didn't know the guy worked there. But I don't think so, because the appropriate, good faith, honest answer to that would be, "Not to my knowledge."

But that opens up the question...WHO all have you spoken with about the Mueller investigation? What did you say? And he doesn't want to answer that.

He's a slippery eel. THE FIX IS IN. He has let it be known that he won't RECUSE himself (you can bet Trump asked him that, given how angry he is about Sessions recusing himself) AND his beliefs are that he can't be indicted while in office AND the investigation went beyond the scope allowed by law. Boom. Trump goes on until 2020.

1. Kavanaugh is confirmed.
2. The W.H. files a lawsuit to stop the Mueller investigation by claiming a number of legal theories: Beyond the scope allowed by law; a witch hunt; taking too long; interfering with the running of the government, etc.
3. If the W.H. loses, it's immediately appealed to the S.Ct., where the 5 Repubs, with the sure-thing plants (Kavanaugh & Gorsuch), decide in favor of the W.H.

[calimary]

24. Proud of you, Senator Harris! Glad I voted for you!

[orangecrush]

27. Thank you, Ms. Harris!

[CentralMass]

28. It was great but I suspect that these republicans would and could get Atila The Hun through the

nomination process.

[Dirty Socialist]

37. I agree completely

The only thing we can do is vote and hope the machines aren't rigged and hope not too many voters aren't disenfranchised by the voter ID laws.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. I think it means she has some evidence he's talked with multiple people there

and he's trying to limit it to the one she will name, which she won't. It will really unsettle him. He knows that she knows but he can't admit, or doesn't want to admit, and knows the bombshell will break, and it distracts him from other questions which will make him glib, which will create more damage.

[lagomorph777]

35. Damn she's scary!

[bucolic_frolic]

40. Former prosecutors should be!

The Democratic Party has selected well ... more than a token number of military veterans and federal prosecutors in their ranks ... what more can we do to assert the rule of law? This is a better slate than GOP offerings of corrupt businessmen and preachers

[ananda]

31. Clearly she knows who he talked to.

And so does Kavanaugh.

[Cracklin Charlie]

33. Yeah, she seems to have something on him.

Her sly half smile seemed to make him squirm.

Let’s go, Sen. Harris!

[lagomorph777]

34. Wow, I would not want to face Kamala in court!

[barbtries]

36. something.

she's got something, and he does NOT want it made public. ha

CALL 202 224 3121 even if your senators (like mine) don't care what you say and come November VOTE

[argyl]

41. His confirmation hearing became a cross examination.

Senator Harris really has him rattled. She's quite impressive.

[Brother Buzz]

43. A smart lawyer never asks a question that they don't already know the answer to ...

Kamala Harris is one smart cookie

[book_worm]

44. He even looks like a weasel.