Democrat Senator — Women Should Be Believed Over Men

Hirono said that if they cared about due process, they would be concerned that there is no FBI investigation being ordered by the President in the case of Kavanaugh. “For the Wall Street Journal to come out and talk to us about, talk to me about due process or all the women out there that I’m hearing about who never came forward, it is really important, not only for these survivors to be heard, but if their stories are credible as Dr. Ford’s story is, they need to be believed.”

Hirono had not answered the question and Tapper repeated. “Doesn’t Kavanaugh have the same presumption of innocence as anyone else in America?”

“I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases,” Hirono said, once again without a yes, then continues with an implied “no”.

“His credibility is already very questionable in my mind and the minds of a lot of my fellow judiciary committee members, the Democrats,” she said. “He has an ideological agenda, that’s very outcome driven, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplifies his, in my view, inability to be fair in the cases that come before him.”