New Yorker’s Mayer Defends Lack of Corroborating Details: One Guy Said He Heard About It

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MAYER: "What happened is that 35 years ago, when this incident took place, people talked about it and people in that Yale class have been talking about it since then. And there is — I mean, everybody here has been talking this morning about how there’s no corroboration. There’s a very sober background source who was not part of the party, was not drunk, heard about it either that night, he thinks, or the next day. When I asked him myself does he remember this and is he sure that Kavanaugh was the person he heard about in this, he said to me, 'I am 100 percent sure.' He’s told — he’s mentioned it to other people in grad school over the years, his classmates were talking about it in July before Christine Blasey Ford came forward. We have looked at the e-mails, they’re chattering about it saying, 'Boy, if the FBI investigates him, there are going to be some stories here that are going to put an end to his nomination.'”