His testimony was stopped briefly when Watkins, growing increasingly tearful, swore at Carruth.
According to the officers' 1987 grand jury testimony, they stopped the two men on March 12 because they thought that they matched the description of a black man and a white man who had robbed a woman six days earlier.
"If one reads the first 15 pages of Lindy Paull's testimony and stops, one would have to conclude that dynamic scoring was a bad idea," said Al Davis, the chief economist for the Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee.
Mrs. Jackson also frequently complained about the questioning by the defense, saying "I already answered that question" several times and, when asked about gifts she received from Jackson, countered, "What does this have to do with the death of my son?" At one point on Friday, when she began her testimony, she stopped answering questions and instead stared straight ahead.
The bellicose testimony, which stopped short of calls for military action, was only the most colorful in a hearing in which lawmakers bandied about phrases such as "an act of war" and "red lines" that had been crossed.
The girls delivered up their own reports with difficulty, falling into testimony-stopping trances, yelping that Burroughs bit them.
During the testimony itself, they stopped reading the newspapers and watching TV.
Late in the evening, Mrs. Clinton had a coughing fit that stopped testimony for two minutes.
Asked about the president offering a pardon in an effort to change or stop testimony, Barr replied that such a move would be a crime.
When Mr. Stanton and Mr. Hardy then began debating the relevance of that argument to this phase of the trial, which is supposed to determine the liability of the defendants, not the damages that might be due Mr. Pagones, Justice Hickman stopped testimony early to consider the matter.
Blasey's testimony might not stop Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the Supreme Court.
