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The Al Franken Podcast

Author Jackie Calmes Did the Investigation on Brett Kavanaugh the FBI Should Have Done

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The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The FBI sent the tips from the Kavanaugh Tip Line to White House Counsel Don McGahn, who tossed them in the waste basket. Calmes tracked them down. Not pretty!

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0:00.0

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0:13.5

Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change on the Supreme Court, you know,

0:20.6

for a change more specifically on the pernicious role of the Federalist Society, you know,

0:28.2

for a change with the focus on a book about Brett Kavanaugh for a change written by Jackie

0:34.8

Combs, the Los Angeles Times White House correspondent for the first time. Jackie's book Descent

0:42.3

does the work that the Judiciary Committee and the FBI were supposed to do looking at Brett Kavanaugh's

0:48.0

personal history. The FBI was supposed to lead investigation on Kavanaugh and the accusations

0:54.6

against him. It turns out, of course, the tips from the tip line they set up went right to Don McGann,

1:02.2

Trump's White House Council, and then into his waste basket. Combs does the work the FBI was

1:10.1

supposed to do doing extensive interviews with those who contacted the FBI, including Kavanaugh's

1:17.1

undergraduate classmates at Yale and law school classmates there. And what emerges is

1:22.9

not a pretty picture. You will recall his response to Amy Klobuchar's question, have you ever

1:30.2

had so much to drink that you've blacked out? No, have you? If you suspected that the no have you

1:39.0

was a tell that he actually had routinely drunk so much that he passed out and that had been

1:48.0

witnessed by countless friends and classmates and dorm mates and folks who witnessed his behavior

1:54.5

after he has started his career. Well then, your suspicions are confirmed by Jackie Combs who had

2:02.0

felt the need to do the work that the FBI had failed to do. All this, as we are now into the

2:09.0

Supreme Court's new term with the court on the defensive Justice Amy Coney Barrett feeling the

2:15.8

need to deny that the six three Supreme Court is driven by partisan bias. This at the McConnell

2:24.0

Center speech he gave at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville with Mitch McConnell

2:31.4

sitting not five feet away. She's not stupid and McConnell's not stupid to me. It was a way

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