Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Hirono Push Conspiracy Theory that Kavanaugh Yearbook Referenced Salacious Sex Act

MITCHELL: “Let me ask you that. Other people would say, 'Well, it’s a high school yearbook,' but here he is as a Supreme Court nominee and he is repeatedly asked by Senator Whitehouse what does this mean, what does that mean? And he — you know, he said that they were drinking games or whatever. And to anybody with a dictionary, knows that that’s not the case. Should that be disqualifying, though?”
HIRONO: “I think there’s a pattern of him not being candid with the committee, it goes back to his nomination hearings in 2006. And also the fact that in the research that I did, in reviewing his dissent is that he will misstate facts and one case that I’m particularly familiar with, dealing with a case from Hawaii, not only did he misstate the holding of the case as being a 14 or 15th Amendment decision, which is not true, then he misapplies the case. So this is a pattern where he very much is outcome-driven. And the outcomes he wants would be that he does not support reproductive choice for women, and of course he has a very expansive view of the protections to be given to a sitting president for any kind of legal proceedings, criminal or civil. And I’m sure this president really liked that about this nominee.”