CNN White House correspondent explains how Kavanaugh killed his own credibility by refusing to answer simple questions

CNN's White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said during a panel discussion Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would be a lot more believable if he didn't lie about everything.

"I don't think people have a problem with him pushing back," she explained. "If you were wrongly accused, which Brett Kavanaugh thinks he is, no people have a problem. No one should. If he's wrongly accused, he should push back."

But when it came to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Collins explained that there's a problem with Kavanaugh answering the simplest of questions. Leahy asked Kavanaugh to confirm whether he was the character Bart O'Kavanaugh in Mark Judge's book on drinking in high school and college. Kavanaugh snapped at the senator and refused to answer.

"He said you would have to ask him," she said, meaning Judge. "He was getting aggressive with him. Most people concluded they believed that was based on someone like Brett Kavanaugh, Bart O'Kavanaugh. He's not honest."

She noted that he should have answered that it's a nickname or that it's named after him but not real and a fictional account. Instead, snapping at the senator made him look like he was lying.

"When you don't tell the truth about small things that gives Democrats so much more realm to say you're lying about the bigger things," she explained.

Watch the full discussion below: