We're covering the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings today and we're doing it in two parts.

There's already an episode in your feed about Christine Blasey Ford's testimony and this one's all about Brett Kavanaugh's.

Thanks.

Mr. Chairman, ranking member Feinstein, members of the committee.

Thank you for allowing me to make my statement.

Dylan Scott, your report on politics and policy here at Vox. We heard from Christine Blasey Ford this morning in the afternoon.

We heard from Brett Kavanaugh. Tell us about his opening statements.

Kavanaugh is mad.

My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations.

When this allegation first arose, I welcomed any kind of investigation.

Senate, FBI or otherwise.

The committee now has conducted a thorough investigation and I've cooperated fully.

I know that any kind of investigation, Senate, FBI, Montgomery County police, whatever, will clear me.

Nearly from the moment he opened his mouth, he was very aggressive.

It was a stark contrast to the interview he gave to Fox News a couple of days ago.

We heard that President Trump was not particularly enamored with his performance on Fox News.

He was too contrived to appear too remorseful, just soft, which we know President Trump doesn't really like.

And so Kavanaugh really came out of the gate at the Senate hearing today, very aggressively defending his name, casting these as spurious allegations that had been brought on by the Democrats.

This whole two week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit.

Filled with apparent pen-up anger about President Trump in the 2016 election.

And he spoke for nearly 50 minutes in a sort of at times rambling, at times hard to follow, defensive, not only denying that he had done what Dr. Ford said he had, but going through his resume, talking about all these women he know, all these women he supported.

And really trying to give I think his comprehensive and aggressive as possible a defense of himself and his nomination.

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