Jimmy Kimmel lists things that last longer than the FBI's Kavanaugh probe. The Late Show takes the Ken Burns approach.
Thursday was "a day of passion and protest here in the not-so-United States," Jimmy Kimmel said on Thursday's Kimmel Live. "Many Americans are angry that Brett Kavanaugh is still a nominee for the Supreme Court. The FBI report that was supposed to be limited to one week somehow got whittled down to five days, it's done, and when all was said and finished, the White House said they found no corroborating evidence of sexual assault. It's amazing how much you won't find when you don't look for it, it really is."
Kimmel ran through some of the things the FBI did not investigate and the potential witnesses they didn't interview. "It's nuts," he said. "They do a more thorough investigation of the contestants on The Bachelor than they did for the Supreme Court. I've interviewed more people this week than the FBI has." But despite the lingering questions and evidence that Kavanaugh lied under oath, Senate Republicans are plowing ahead and Kavanaugh could be a Supreme Court justice by Saturday. "This process is moving faster than Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande — I figured I'd throw something in there to get the teenagers interested," he joked. Then he read a list of "things that last or lasted longer than this FBI investigation."
The Late Show did it's own sort of documentary investigation, or, more precisely, gave the Ken Burns treatment to Kavanaugh's "loud, obnoxious drunks" Beach Week letter. Watch below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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