Feinstein On Grassley Interruptions: 'You Get To Expect Those Things Here'
By Allegra Kirkland
September 27, 2018 1:32 pm
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said Thursday that she was unbothered that her GOP colleague Chuck Grassley (R-IA) repeatedly interrupted her at a high-stakes hearing on sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
“You get to expect those things here,” Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told TPM.
“The message here is much bigger: you see what this kind of thing does to a woman,” Feinstein continued, referring to the alleged assault. “And I think that’s very important. And how hard this must be.”
Christine Blasey Ford testified Thursday that Kavanaugh assaulted her at a small house party in the summer of 1982. At the top of the hearing, Grassley interrupted Feinstein as she was introducing Ford to the audience, saying he’d intended to make the introduction. He also cut into the questioning of other Democratic lawmakers at various points during the proceeding.
Asked about the lines of questioning laid out by the Republicans’ outside counsel, Feinstein declined to comment.
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