This may be the most uncomfortable moment in the entire Jack Smith hearing.
It's when Sen. Kennedy confronted him about an accusation that Smith had actually asked Garland for the job of Special Counsel.
Hoo boy. Watch Smith squirm as he tries to answer the question.
KENNEDY: You asked General Garland to appoint you special counsel, didn't you?
SMITH (looks down and scribbles): I don't think that's accurate. He made the decision to appoint me.
KENNEDY: In fact, you had people call General Garland to lobby him to appoint you, didn't you?
SMITH (looks down and scribbles some more): I don't recall anything like that.
KENNEDY: You really wanted to be special counsel, didn't you?
SMITH: I accepted the position as special counsel because I had spent 30 years as a nonpartisan prosecutor. I had investigated every sort of criminal case you could possibly imagine, and I thought I was qualified to do the job.
I knew that I would do it independently, and I would conduct it the same way whether it were Republican or a Democrat.
if Smith wanted to be Special Counsel and had lobbied for that position, it throws all of his partisan activities in a whole new light.
As it stands, this looks horrible.