Brett M. Kavanaugh looked bewildered. Sen. Kamala Harris looked perturbed but determined. It was hour ten of the then-Supreme Court nominee's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee early last month, and the California Democrat seemed to have him backed into a corner.
Harris, a former prosecutor, was very much back in a courtroom. She was trying to get her witness, Kavanaugh, to reveal the name — or names — of anyone at the Washington law firm of Trump's personal attorney with whom she alleged he had discussed special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his ongoing Russia election meddling investigation the president almost daily refers to as a “witch hunt.”
But what started as a high-stakes chess match fizzled over ten meandering minutes into a draw. Harris was unable to get a name from her witness. She never offered one. Nor did she offer any anecdotal evidence that Democratic staffers might have unearthed while vetting the then-federal judge and former George W. Bush White House aide.
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