MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Ari Melber paid a Friday visit to The View, where the entire table ridiculed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's claims about his "drinking games" as well as his scripted outbursts at his hearing, which Melber called "a tantrum".
It was co-host Joy Behar's birthday, and Melber said that besides a cake, his gift to her was a briefing on Senate procedures.
"Why don't you two just come home with me," Behar laughed. "I thought that's called a Devil's Triangle."
"That's a 'drinking game'," laughed Hayes, referring to Kavanaugh's failed effort to obscure the fact that the term refers to a sex act.
"Hold on," laughed Melber. "If we do a Devil's Triangle it's just us having whiskey together."
"It's like quarters," Hayes added.
"I would say you're being inappropriate, but you're actually just reading from the testimony of a Supreme Court nominee," Melber chuckled. "Perfectly appropriate."
Getting serious for a moment, Hostin noted Kavanaugh's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he argued that his belligerence shouldn't undermine his history as "an independent, impartial judge".
"Nominees rarely do that. I don't think I've ever seen that," she said. "What did you think?"
"There's a term in the law, it's called a 'tantie'," said Melber. "It's something that three and four-year-olds do, but it's also what Brett Kavanaugh did. He threw a full tantie."
Melber noted that Kavanaugh never apologized for misleading the Senate, saying it bordered on perjury. He also noted that that the nominee "hasn't taken responsibility for much of what he's done in his youth as described by other credible witnesses."
But, Melber added laughing, "he clearly wanted to take back the tantie."
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