Political Quotes

“This report shows a staff of over 20 members of the Judiciary Committee literally working around the clock for weeks on all leads--any lead that came in on these serious allegations. These investigators have the authority of the law. When people speak to them, if people speak to them and lie, they commit perjury. They spoke to more than 35 individuals, pursuing any and all substantive leads. This is in addition to the FBI report. I want to commend Chairman Grassley for this serious and diligent work in this regard and the work of the Committee. It wasn't highlighted a lot, but it is very serious work. A lot of it is detailed here. Two important points stand out from this work. First, the Committee has not obtained or received any evidence that would corroborate the claims made by Dr. Ford. They talked to and tried to pursue leads in so many different areas. Dr. Ford's allegations were investigated respectfully and thoroughly by this Senate Judiciary staff and the FBI. As I mentioned, she certainly had courage in coming forward. Nevertheless, these allegations were not corroborated. Four people Dr. Ford claims were present had no knowledge or memory of any such event, and the others the FBI asked about the alleged incident had no knowledge either. One of them was a lifelong friend of Dr. Ford's. Leland Kaiser said she didn't even know Judge Kavanaugh. As you know, all these statements were made under the penalty of perjury.…”