Judge Brett Kavanaugh - Dr Christine Ford U.S. Senate Hearing

Daily Mail: 'My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed': Furious and tearful Brett Kavanaugh calls nomination process a 'national disgrace' - after his accuser Christine Ford says she KNOWS he tried to rape her

* Blockbuster Senate hearing put Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his sexual-assault accused Christine Ford on a globally watched hot-seat
* Kavanaugh, who arrived hand-in-hand with his wife, gave a furious defense to claims he groped and tried to disrobe Ford during a high school party in 1982
* 'My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed,' he said
* Earlier today, Ford gave an emotional testimony, where she said: 'I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified'
* She told the hearing that it was 'absolutely not' possible she mistook another teenage attacker for Kavanaugh
* Ford said she could remember the assault clearly because those memories 'have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult'
* Trump will be watching the hearing to see whether his Supreme Court nominee's performance is confident enough to match his stern written denials

Brett Kavanaugh nearly broke down in tears multiple times in a 45-minute emotional opening statement to senators on Thursday, as he angrily described the effect of the allegations against him on his family and his daughters - saying his youngest even wanted to pray for Christine Blasey Ford.

Visibly angry, he repeatedly stopped to blow his nose and drink water as he unleashed against the Democrats on the committee, accusing them of making him the victim of a smear campaign saying: 'My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed.'

And he said he believed it was an attack not just on Donald Trump who nominated him, but in revenge for 'the Clintons', a reference to his work on Kenneth Starr's investigation into Bill Clinton.

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Update #1: READ: Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Statement For Senate Hearing (NPR)
Update #2: READ: Brett Kavanaugh's Opening Statement For Senate Hearing (NPR)

WNU Editor: Was anything new revealed in today's testimony/hearing .... I listened to the entire Dr. Christine Ford testimony and about half of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony, and I would have to say no. Will this change anyone's opinion .... again I will say no. As to what is my take .... this is a classic she said/he said story. The only ones who know the truth are those two and God. On a side note .... being someone who lives in Canada ....I found it interesting how the Canadian press covered today's story when compared to how they covered allegations a few months ago that Canadian PM Trudeau groped/assaulted a woman when he was in his twenties .... 'Groping Allegations' Continue To Dodge Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau (July 6, 2018). The Canadian press first ignored the story and then gave Prime Minister Trudeau a pass when the story finally broke out and then buried it, but today .... they certainly did not give a pass on Judge Kavanaugh. Double standard ..... you betcha.