>> DIDN'T EVEN GO TO THE
HEARING.
JOINING US NOW IS DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESSMAN JIM CLYBURN OF
SOUTH CAROLINA, CLYBURN, THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US
AGAIN TONIGHT.
VERY EAGER TO GET YOUR REACTION
TO GET WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN IN
THESE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
THIS WEEK, AND PARTICULARLY,
THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM YOUR
STATE LINDSEY GRAHAM
COMPLAINING ABOUT JOE BIDEN NOT
CHOOSING A JUDGE FROM YOUR
STATE.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME.
HAVING ME.
JUDGE CHILD, THAT WASN'T A NAME
THAT I HAD IN MIND FROM YEARS
AGO, WHEN I READ --
[INAUDIBLE]
ALMOST 250 YEARS, YOU NEVER HAD
AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN ON
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS
TIME TO RECTIFY THAT.
WHEN I TALKED TO BRIGHTEN ABOUT
THE ISSUE, I DID NOT HAVE
ANYBODY IN MIND.
JUDGE HOUSES NAME, AND I SAW A
DOZEN OR SO NAMES OUT THERE, I
SAID I GOT THIS YOUNG LADY DOWN
HERE, IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THAT I
THINK IS JUST AS QUALIFIED AS
ALL THE OTHERS. AND SO WE PUT OUR NAME FORWARD.
AND SO WE PUT OUR NAME FORWARD.
OF COURSE, AS YOU HEARD, IT THE
FINAL THREE IN THIS INSTANCE.
I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT.
WHEN I SAW SOME OF THE
QUESTIONING, COMING FROM THE
SENATE.
I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED.
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON ISN'T
IMMINENTLY QUALIFIED PERSON FIT
FOR THE COURT.
THERE WERE.
OTHERS THAT WERE WELL
QUALIFIED.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
QUALIFICATIONS, THAT I HAD
HOPED THAT THE HEARING WOULD BE
A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
THEN IT TURNED OUT TO BE.
I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT IT
DEVOLVED TO THE POINT THAT IT
DID.
>> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF LINDSEY
GRAHAM IN THIS CONFIRMATION
HEARING, FOR THE NOMINEE CHOSEN
BY THE PRESIDENT.
ONE OF HIS ANGLES OF ATTACK IS,
YOU ARE NOT THE JUDGE FROM MY
STATE, WHO I WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED.
>> WELL, HE SUPPORTED KETANJI
BEFORE.
I REALLY THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD
BE VOTING FOR HER AGAIN.
HE DID NOT GET AN INKLING THAT
HE WOULD, NOT UNTIL I SAW HIS
QUESTIONING, ON YESTERDAY.
AND THE DAY BEFORE.
WHY HE GOT THERE, I DON'T KNOW.
I'D LIKE TO TALK TO HIM AND
FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS ON
HIS MIND.
HE DID SAY THAT HE THOUGHT SOME
OF THE [INAUDIBLE]
MADE AGAINST HER WERE UNFAIR.
I THINK THAT TOO.
A LOT OF THIS IS IN THE
BUSINESS OF UNFAIR.
I'VE BEEN IN THIS BUSINESS A
LONG TIME.
I'M GOING TO GET UP THERE AND
LOOK FOR [INAUDIBLE]
, I TRY TO LOOK TO SURVIVE
TODAY.
AND LIVE TO FIGHT AGAIN.
IT MAY HAVE BEEN UNFAIR, BUT
THAT DOESN'T BOTHER ME A WHOLE
LOT.
>> WHERE DID YOU LEARN ABOUT
JUDGE JACKSON THROUGH THIS
HEARING PROCESS?
>> I LEARNED THAT SHE IS
EVERYTHING THAT EVERYBODY EVER
SAID SHE WAS.
SHE HAS HANDLED HERSELF IN A
REMARKABLE WAY.
I DIDN'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT HER,
BACKGROUND, UNTIL THIS HEARING.
I FOUND OUT EVEN MORE ABOUT HER
BACKGROUND TODAY, AFTER THE