'This Is What They Said About You': Lindsey Graham Grills Judicial Nominee About Alleged Past Ties

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) questioned Karla M. Campbell, nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, about her past work.

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00:00Okay, Ms. Campbell, are you familiar with the Tennessee Immigration and Refugees

00:07Rights Coalition? Yes, Senator. You might want to push the button. Did you give

00:15them advice regarding their manifesto? Senator... You need to push the button, I'm sorry.

00:23I have pushed it. Maybe we'll move closer. I'm sorry. I apologize. Okay. Did you? I have

00:29never represented that organization. That wasn't my question. They say the platform

00:35would not have been possible without you and others' expertise. Did you advise them? No,

00:40Senator. I'm not familiar with the manifesto. You don't even know who they are. Why would

00:43they say that? I do know who they are. I'm not familiar... Well, did you help in any

00:47way? Did you give them any advice? Did you talk to anybody at this coalition about anything?

00:57You're under oath. Senator, yes, I am... This is what they said about you. Without

01:04Campbell and others' expertise, this manifesto would not be possible. So, what's your answer?

01:14I'm not familiar with the manifesto, and so I did not help them. Do you know why they

01:18would say that? No, Senator. So, they call for Nashville officials to refuse to cooperate

01:26with ICE to deport illegal immigrants. Do you agree with that? I do not agree with

01:30that position. Did you represent the alphabet Google Workers Union? Yes, Senator. Okay.

01:38Are you aware that they called on Google and Amazon to cut their contacts with Israel?

01:44I'm not aware of that, Senator. Are you aware that the people you represented accused Israel

01:49of apartheid? Senator, I represented them in organizing drives. Did you know what they

01:56were saying? No, Senator. You represented them, but you didn't know what they were saying.

02:00They called on Google to ban Trump from YouTube so the website can no longer be used for fascist

02:06recruitment. Were you familiar with that? No, Senator. Okay. Did you donate money to

02:14Ms. Odessa Kelly running for the House? I believe that I did, Senator. Yeah, I think

02:21$1,500. Did you know that four days before your donation, she tweeted that me, Blackburn

02:29Cruz, Cotton, and Holly are obviously aligned with the devil? I was not aware of that. I

02:35don't have Twitter. Might be. I don't know. Just two months before, she referred to me

02:42and 51 other senators, including Manchin and Sinema, who voted to preserve the filibuster

02:49as Jim Crow senators. Did you know about that? No, Senator. Four days before the nomination,

02:56she said that me and Senator Cruz were two of the most immoral people on the earth.

03:03Did you know about that? No, Senator. Why did you give her money?

03:13Okay, thank you.

03:16Ms. Lopez, is that right? Lopez, I'm sorry. Okay.

'This Is What They Said About You': Lindsey Graham Grills Judicial Nominee About Alleged Past Ties

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