WE DON'T HAVE JOSH HAWLEY.
BUT I'M GOING TO READ FROM IT.
HE CAME REALLY THE HARDEST I
THINK OF ANYONE THUS FAR TODAY
IN THE QUESTIONING.
AT ONE POINT, HE SAYS, JUDGE,
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I'LL BE
DIRECT WITH YOU.
I AM QUESTIONING YOUR JUDGMENT.
THAT IS WHAT I'M DOING.
I'M QUESTIONING NOT YOUR
EXCELLENCE AS A JUDGE, BUT YOU
HAD DISCRETION.
AND HE ARGUED SHE USED IT
WRONGLY IN THE VERY TOUGH CASES
REGARDING BASICALLY THE ABUSE OF
CHILDREN IN PHOTOGRAPHY, USED AS
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
WALK US THROUGH THAT.
FOR VIEWERS WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN
WATCHING THAT, WHO SAID WHERE IS
THIS COMING FROM?
LET'S HAVE YOUR ANALYSIS.
>> FOR ANYBODY TO SUGGEST THAT
JUDGE JACKSON WOULD CONDONE OR
BE SOFT ON THOSE WHO ABUSE
CHILDREN IS JUST UTTERLY
RIDICULOUS, OKAY?
NO ONE KNOWS JUDGE JACKSON'S
CASE FILE BETTER THAN HER.
FOR HAWLEY TO SUGGEST THAT ALL
SHE NEEDS IS A SENTENCING
GUIDELINE IS MISINFORMED.
AND JUDGE JACKSON THREW IT BACK
TO CONGRESS AND SAID, YOU LAID
OUT FACTORS FOR JUDGES TO
CONSIDER.
IT DOESN'T STOP AT SENTENCING
GUIDELINES.
WE HAVE ACTUALLY FACTOR IN THE
CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE NATURE OF
EACH CASE.
YOU CAN'T TREAT CASES AS A ONE
SIZE FITS ALL.
AND JUDGE JACKSON SAID, THIS
ISN'T A NUMBERS GAME.
BUT LET'S JUST TAKE THIS ALL
BACK, ARI.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE IS
A COALITION, THE NATIONAL
COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE.
THE NATION'S LEADING VOICE
AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE, THEY
ENDORSED JUDGE JACKSON.
THERE'S NO ARGUMENT THEY.
THEY NEED TO MOVE ON.
>> YOU MENTION THAT, AS WELL AS
THE POLICE CRED SHE HAS.
SHE PERRYARRIED A LOT OF THAT WE
AND I GO TO THE POLITICS OF IT,
WHICH WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE
WITH SENATORS BRINGING IT IN.
WHAT DID YOU THINK OF WHAT THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS DOING
TODAY, AND DID THEY LAND THEIR
GOALS, EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T MOVE
ANY VOTES AGAINST HER?
>> NO, I THOUGHT IT WAS A
TERRIBLE MESSAGING FAIL ON THE
PART OF THE GOP.
THE QUESTIONS WERE ALL OVER THE
PLACE.
AND I THINK THEIR INITIAL
STRATEGY, WHICH WAS BASICALLY TO
LINK CRT TO JUDGE JACKSON.
E.J. SAID, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE
WAS A BLACK WOMAN, IF SHE WOULD
GET ALL THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT
CRT.
CONCLUSIVELY, THIS IS ABOUT HER
BEING A BLACK WOMAN, AND CALLING
HER, BASICALLY CASTING HER AS A
RADICAL.
AS A BLACK RADICAL WHO IS OUT TO
GET WHITE PEOPLE.
THAT IS SPECIFICALLY WHAT
THEY'RE TRYING TO DO, WHAT THE
CRT ATTACKS ARE TRYING TO DO.
THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD ON WHAT
GLEN YOUNGKIN DID IN VIRGINIA
LAST NOVEMBER.
AND REALLY LINKING THAT TO JUDGE
JACKSON.
SO THE RNC JUST TWEETED OUT THIS
LITTLE MEME SAYING, KBJ SHOULD
BE CRT.
THAT'S SPECIFICALLY THE
STRATEGY.
THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN, ONLY
MARSHA BLACKBURN AND TED CRUZ
REALLY SEEM TO HAVE GOTTEN THE
MEMO AND ARE STAYING ON THIS
POINT.
THE REST OF THE SENATORS APPEAR
TO BE DEPARTING FROM THE TALKING
POINTS FOR REALLY GOOD REASONS.
IT'S REALLY UGLY.
IT LOOKED LIKE I SAW TED CRUZ
COMMIT A HATE CRIME, IT WAS
McCARTHYISM AT ITS WORST.
INSINUATING THAT BECAUSE SHE WAS
ON THIS GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL
BOARD, THAT SHE'S RESPONSIBLE
FOR EVERY LITTLE THING IN EVERY
BOOK THAT IS BEING WRITTEN
THERE.
SPOILER ALERT, JUDGE JACKSON IS
NOT GOING TO THE SUPREME COURT
TO CALL BABIES RACIST.
BUT TED CRUZ WANTS TO GIN UP
WHITE GRIEVANCE AHEAD OF THE
MIDTERM.
AND IT WAS DISGUSTING AND UGLY
TO WATCH.
>> THAT'S YOUR STRONG TAKE ON
IT.
AND THE ENTIRE OBSESSION WITH
WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY A GRADUATE
EDUCATION PEDAGOGY, A SOMEWHAT
OBSCURE PART OF ACADEMICS,
THROWN AT HER AS IF IT WAS
RELEVANT.
AND IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH
THE RACE OF THE NOMINEE, WHICH
SHOULD BE OUT OF BOUNDS.
AND SHE'S A SITTING JUDGE.
IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT CIVIL
RIGHTS LAW, OR AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION, SOME OF THOSE ISSUES, IT
WOULD BE MORE SUBSTANTIVE.
BUT THAT'S NOT HOW SENATOR CRUZ
DID IT.
THAT'S WHY IT SEEMED McCARTHYIST
TO SAY, BECAUSE YOU WERE
AFFILIATED WITH A SCHOOL THAT
HAD THIS BOOK.
DID YOU EVER GET INVOLVED IN
THESE CHILDREN'S BOOKS?
AND YOU SAY, WHAT DECADE IS IT?
>> YOU NOTICED THAT JUDGE
JACKSON HAD TO PAUSE, TAKE A
DEEP BREATH, AND ALWAYS ADDRESS
ADDRESSED EACH SENATOR BY
SAYING, RESPECTFULLY.
UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN
OVERQUALIFIED CANDIDATE, WHO HAD
TO REMAIN CALLM, COOL, COLLECTED
PROFESSIONAL, IN THE FACE OF
UNDERQUALIFIED MEN WHO WERE
THROWING IRRELEVANT AND
UNINFORMED ATTACKS ON EVERYTHING
BUT WHAT SHE WAS THERE TO DO.
SHE DID A GREAT JOB BY SAYING,
LISTEN, NONE OF THAT HAS
ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHY I'M
HERE, WITH MY JOB AS A JUDGE.
THIS WAS A DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY
THESE REPUBLICANS WHO KNEW THAT
THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
JUDGE JACKSON IS BASICALLY
UNIMPEACHABLE.
SHE'S HAD OVER 500 DECISIONS
THAT SHE'S MADE, HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF RULINGS.
SHE WANTED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND
WHY SHE MADE THE DECISIONS SHE
DID.
NONE OF THE SENATORS, YOU COULD
TELL, READ THE DECISIONS.
THEY WERE MISINFORMED AND TRYING
TO MISINFORM THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, RATHER THAN RALLYING
BEHIND HER.
INSTEAD, POLITICAL POSTURING IS
WHAT YOU GOT.
>> WE'RE WATCHING THE COMMITTEE
ROOM HERE.
FOLKS MAY RECALL, THE CHAIRMAN
WILL BRING BACK THE COMMITTEE
INTO SESSION AFTER THEIR VOTE.
WE'LL CUT IN, THE MOMENT THAT
HAPPENS.
WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT THE
REPUBLICANS ARE DOING.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE BIDEN
WHITE HOUSE IS GETTING OUT OF
THIS, THUS FAR?
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING, GIVEN
THAT YOU'VE WORKED WITH SOME OF
THOSE FOLKS?
>> I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A
TREMENDOUS WIN FOR JOE BIDEN.
QUITE FRANKLY, HE REALLY NEEDS
IT.
IT'S BEEN A TOUGH COUPLE OF MOPT
MONTHS FOR JOE BIDEN AND THE
BIDEN WHITE HOUSE.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING NOMINEE,
SHOWING POISE AND GRACE.
AND SHE'S A GREAT FACE FOR THE
KINDS OF PEOPLE THAT JOE BIDEN
AND THE WHITE HOUSE WANT TO
BRING INTO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
AND WHAT A CONTRAST IT IS FROM,
SAY, BRETT KAVANAUGH.
THAT WAS A GREAT POINT ABOUT HER
POISE.
SHE COULD NOT DO WHAT BRETT
KAVANAUGH DID.
SHE IS NOT ALLOWED AS A BLACK
WOMAN TO DO THAT.
I FELT A TREMENDOUS ANGER AT TED
CRUZ'S QUESTIONS, BUT SHE SHOWED
A LOT OF CALM, A GREAT DEMEANOR.
AND TED CRUZ WANTED THE BRETT
KAVANAUGH MOMENT.
HE WANTED TO HAVE THAT, SO HE
COULD USE THAT TO LEVERAGE THAT,
TO TRY TO HELP SINK THIS
NOMINATION.
SHE DIDN'T GIVE THAT TO HIM.
AND CREDIT TO HER AND CREDIT TO
THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE FOR PUTTING FORTH A GREAT NOMINEE.
PUTTING FORTH A GREAT NOMINEE.
>> I WILL HAVE TO JUMP IN IF THE
SENATOR STARTS TO SPEAK.
BUT GO AHEAD.
>> THE BLACK WOMAN TROPE IS
SOMETHING THAT JUDGE JACKSON HAS
TO TREAD LIGHTLY ON.
AND SHE'S DONE A REMARKABLE JOB
SO FAR.
>> WE'RE WATCHING THE CHAIRMAN.
HE'S REFUELING AND IT IS A LONG
DAY.
I SEE SOME WHAT APPEAR TO BE
MIXED NUTS AND SOME WATER.
THAT'S PART OF THE REPORTING.
AGAIN, IN THE MOMENT UNTIL WE
START, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE
LONG PAUSE?
ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MANY PEOPLE
TALKED ABOUT IT, RECOGNIZING THE PAUSE AND THE WAY SHE 23E89HAD T
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CONDUCT HERSELF.
>> THE MICROAGGRESSION THAT WE
ALWAYS HAVE TO RECOGNIZE AND BE
VERY CHEERFUL.
BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONES TO BLAME,
AND NOT THE ACTUAL AGGRESSORS.
SO SHE BASICALLY LET OUT A SIGH,
AND WE CAN ALL RELATE.
THAT WAS A MOMENT WE ALL
DESERVED.
A BREATHER, TO COLLECT
OURSELVES, AND THINK TO OURSELF,
HOW DO I ADDRESS THIS