Below you'll find a contemporaneous set of takeaways that I think are worth taking note of as I watch the hearings live. Ford is credibleThis strikes me as the first question that anyone watching the hearing had to wonder. Not in watching Ford's testimony. Then, suddenly, Mitchell is interrupted by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who tells her that the allotted five minutes is up. The question is whether Senate Republicans -- first those on the Judiciary Committee and then the broader GOP conference -- is convinced by Kavanaugh's anger.

Source: CNN September 27, 2018 16:54 UTC