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Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case. This is Worst Case scenario. I am your host,

Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor, and I am joined by Jim Clemente,

retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor, writer-producer of CVS, criminal

minds. So Jim, let's jump right back in where we left off on our last episode talking about

the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

And the hearing that we all witnessed and 20 million people watched across the United States.

That's right. Let's go. Everyone knows that Brett Kavanaugh denied the incident. He denied

having ever touched her in that way. He said he didn't know if he'd ever met her,

but he said he was certain that he didn't put his hand over her mouth and never engaged in the

conduct that she alleged. There's not really that much for us to unpack. We've talked about his

attitude. We've talked about his judicial temperament. What I'd like to do now is talk about what's

maybe a little more in our wheelhouse because that is what happened with the prosecutor and Dr. Ford.

Specifically speaking, the question is the prosecutor did ask, the question she didn't ask.

I thought it's been very interesting some of the play by play after and people indicating whether

they thought that Rachel Mitchell this season, the sex crimes prosecutor did a good job and had

a good job, a bad job or a terrible job. I think for me, one of the ways I think that she fell down

on what I thought her job was was that she told Dr. Ford almost from the very beginning of her

testimony that she was not going to ask her any questions about the incident itself. And that to

me was shocking because the whole reason for the hearing was the allegation that Dr. Ford was

making against Judge Kavanaugh. She claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh.

She gave some detail and then gave reasons why she didn't remember other detail. And so to me,

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