[SHOUTING].
STUART: PRETTY RIVETING DAY.
ON CAPITOL HILL.
AS SOON AS THE HEARING RESUMES
IT WILL BE JUDGE KAVANAUGH'S
TURN TO MAKE HIS CASE.
I'M TRISH REGAN, WELCOME TO
"THE INTELLIGENCE REPORT."
AS WE WATCH DR. FORD, BEING
COMFORTED, CONSOLED BY MEMBERS
OF HER LEGAL TEAM.
WE HERD CHUCK GRASSLEY AT THE
END HE APPLAUDED HER FOR HER
BRAVERY COMING FORWARD AMOUNT
INTERESTING COMMENT I WOULD
SECOND FROM MISS RACHEL
MITCHELL, REPRESENTING
REPUBLICAN SENATOR, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS NOT HOW AN INTERVIEW
WITH A VICTIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
IS NORMALLY DONE, NOR HOW IT
SHOULD BE DONE IN FIVE-MINUTE
INCREMENTS.
JOINING ME TRIAL ATTORNEY MISTY
MARIS, RNC SPOKESPERSON,
KAYLEIGH McENANY, AND
DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, HOWARD
FRANKLIN.
MISS CITI, YOU'VE BEEN IN MANY
COURTROOMS, HOW THESE THINGS
UNFOLD, MISS MITCHELL IS MAKING
A VALID POINT.
YOU NEED TO HEAR HER STORY, SHE
NEEDS TO GET HER STORY OUT.
IT NEEDS TO BE LAID OUT IN FULL.
INSTEAD WE GOT GRANDSTANDING
FROM CORY BOOKER, KAMALA HARRIS,
DIANE NINE STEIN, WE HEARD FROM
THE BEGINNING I THINK ACTUALLY
TOOK AWAY FROM WHAT SHE AS A
VICTIM HAD TO SAY.
>> I AGREE WITH YOU, TRISH.
I THINK THAT THE FORMAT HERE,
THESE FIVE MINUTE INCREMENTS,
MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE
STORY TO COME ACROSS.
I WAS REALLY LEFT ALMOST WANTING
MORE.
THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS
THAT REMAINED UNANSWERED.
I THINK REBECCA MITCHELL DID AN
EXCELLENT JOB.
SHE TREATED THIS LIKE A
PROSECUTOR.
IN A COURTROOM THAT IS WHAT YOU
DO.
YOU BUILD ON THE QUESTIONS.
IT IS A SLOW BURN TO THE END,
WHEN YOU GET TO THE FINAL
QUESTIONS THAT GIVE YOU ANSWERS
THAT YOU NEED.
BUT WITH EVERY FIVE MINUTES
ENDING AND THEN THE DEMOCRATIC
SIDE AND QUITE FRANKLY NOT
ASKING ANY QUESTIONS.
TRISH: THIS IS OPPORTUNITY TO
BASH THE PRESIDENT.
TO BASH THE ADMINISTRATION.
THEY BASICALLY PLAYED INTO
EXACTLY WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION
HAS CONTENDED, KAYLEIGH, THIS IS
A POLITICAL STUNT.
>> YAY, IT WAS NOT A WISE MOVE
FOR KAMALA HARRIS AND CORY
BOOKER TO ENGAGE IN
GRANDSTANDING SPEECHES.
THIS WAS A MOMENT TO PROBE AND
QUESTION MISS FORD.
SOME OF THE SENATORS DID THAT.
OTHERS CHOSE TO TAKE THE MOMENT
TO GIVE A SPEECH, LIKE CORY
BOOKER AND KAMALA DID.
I THINK IT IS WORTH MENTIONING
HERE, WHAT YOU SAW JUST HAPPEN
WITH MISS FORD AND WHAT IS ABOUT
TO HAPPEN WITH MR. KAVANAUGH
TESTIFYING WAS ONLY MADE
POSSIBLE BECAUSE REPUBLICANS
LIKE SENATOR GRASSLEY, TREATED
THESE ALLEGATIONS WITH RESPECT,
SAID I WANT TRANSPARENCY AND
MADE THIS DAY POSSIBLE.
WITH DEMOCRATS WHO SAT ON THIS
FOR THREE MONTHS AND BROUGHT IT
OUT IN THE 11th HOUR, IT
WASN'T INVESTIGATED FULLY
BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATS.
I APPLAUD REPUBLICANS FOR
TREATING THIS THE WAY THEY HAVE.
TRISH: LET ME GO TO HOWARD
FRANKLIN, OUR DEMOCRATIC
STRATEGIST, ASK YOU, WHY DIDN'T
THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
EARLIER? WHY DIDN'T THIS
INFORMATION COME TO LIGHT?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
I THINK THERE WAS PLENTY OF
REPORTING THAT SAID THE SENATOR
FEINSTEIN WAS LOOKING TO RESPECT
THE PRIVACY REQUESTS THAT WERE
MADE BY DR. FORD BUT HERE
OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN
THIS FORUM BECAUSE OF FULL FBI
INVESTIGATION HASN'T BEEN
GRANTED BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
I WILL TAKE NO ISSUE WITH THE
CRITICISM OF MAYBE THE COMMENTS
THAT SENATORS HARRIS AND BOOKER
MADE BUT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THIS
FORUM HAD WE BEEN BROUGHT TO
THIS FORUM WITH SOME BACKGROUND,
WITH SOME INVESTIGATION, WITH
SOME FACTS FROM THE FBI.
THAT IS JUST SOMETHING THE
ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN
RELUCTANT TO PROVIDE.
TRISH: I WILL GET TO THAT IN A
SECOND.
I DO THINK HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN
MORE PROPERLY VETTED.
THEY SHOULD HAVE GONE BACK TO
THE COLLEGE YEARS AND FIGURED
OUT WHAT HIS EXISTENCE WAS LIKE
BACK THEN.
SEEMS AS THOUGH THERE ARE MANY
WITNESSES SAID HE HAD A HEAVY
PARTY BACKGROUND.
NOT THAT THAT SOMEHOW LEADS YOU
TO RAPE.
THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS,
SEXUAL ASSAULT.
YOU MAY, LIKE TO DRINK WITH YOUR
BUDDIES BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
HERE THESE ARE TWO VERY, VERY
DIFFERENT THINGS.
THIS OBVIOUSLY ACE DEVASTATING
ACCUSATION.
WHAT IS IT THAT JUDGE KAVANAUGH
NEEDS TO DO NOW, MISTY, MAKE
PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE
WITH HIM, I FIND HER CREDITABLE.
>> SHE WAS CREDIBLE AND JUDGE
KAVANAUGH NEEDS ELEMENT OF
EMOTION THE WAY HE RESPONDS.
THINK ABOUT A DAY YOU'RE ACCUSED
OF SOMETHING SO ABSOLUTELY
HEINOUS AND YOU DID NOT DO IT.
YOU WOULD BE ANGRY.
YOU WOULD ANGRY TO THE TO THE
POINT WHERE YOU'RE ATTACK, OF
COURSE NOT, NOT NECESSARILY
DEFENSIVE BUT YOU WOULD BE ANGRY
AND YOU WOULD BE JUST IN YOUR
CONVICTIONS.
I HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE
THAT.
I HAVE WHETHER OR NOT SOMEBODY
MAY HAVE RUN WITH A CROWD THAT
DRANK A LITTLE TOO MUCH IN HIGH
SCHOOL OR COLLEGE --
TRISH: HE ADMITTED THAT.
>> I THINK HE HAS TO.
BECAUSE AT A CERTAIN POINT IT IS
NOT BELIEVABLE IF YOU DON'T
CONCEDE HEY, YOU HAVE MADE
MISTAKES IN YOUR LIFE.
THAT IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN
COMMITTING A CRIME.
THAT IS TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO I THINK THAT HE NEED TO COME
ACROSS WITH THAT ELEMENT OF
SINCERITY.
SAME WAY THAT SHE DID.
TRISH: HOWARD, DO YOU THINK HE
AFRAID TO SAY THAT AFRAID TO SAY
MY BUDDIES LIKED TO DRINK A
LITTLE TOO MUCH, HE IS FEARFUL
ONE THING MIGHT LEAD TO THE THE
OTHER?
THE ASSUMPTION MAY BE YOU DON'T
REMEMBER ALL A THE BAD THINGS
YOU DID.