John Avlon & Patti Solis Doyle on the Kavanaugh Hearings

PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Yes, well, I think this – I do agree with Judge Kavanaugh that this has been a circus. And I have to go back to the lack of an FBI investigation. Without an independent body looking into all of these accusations, politics takes over. It has to, so you have Republicans versus Democrats fighting it out on national television for all to see. I personally think that today’s hearing however was a real teaching moment and I tweeted today that I wish every high school in America have sort of dumped the curriculum for the day and made this mandatory viewing for all of our high school boys and girls in this country because it is about – yes, it is about the #MeToo Movement, it is about our civic discourse, it is about the way we treat each other and it is about these young people who are growing up in a different world than 27 years ago with Anita Hill and the choices that they have to make every day when they get in a car, they go to a party and I just – it has a been a circus, but it’s also a teaching moment for all of us, I think.

AMANPOUR: And John …

JOHN AVLON, FORMER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF “THE DAILY BEAST: Yes.

AMANPOUR: Yes, your final word. Go ahead, you have the final word.

AVLON: It is certainly a teachable moment, but there is nothing murkier than adolescence and alcohol and the distance of time and add on to this, the fire storm of tribalism and hyper partisanship and you get something quite ugly and foreboding, and there may be some cosmic irony at work that Brett Kavanaugh worked on the Starr commission which was an early time when a President was attempted to be embarrassed out of office because of sexual – real indiscretions that occurred in the Oval Office and Kavanaugh was involved. But now this is all – these themes keep getting dredged up and the court – the Supreme Court is traditionally in the American supposed to be above partisan politics. It is no longer. The latest insult to it was the non- vote on Merrick Garland and maybe it will take some kind of rebalancing in the wake of Garland. But this is going to get uglier. This is ugly. There is a teachable moment here, but the politics and personal destruction are unfortunately alive and well and they are likely to escalate further in this way.