Seeking to push back against the liberal media’s rush to convict Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh of being a serial, sexually violent criminal, Kavanaugh attorney Beth Wilkinson spent Wednesday on a media tour across broadcast and cable news, but none were as tense as her battle with MSNBC’s Katy Tur.

As usual, Tur only brought the proverbial knife to a gun fight when it comes to the facts and presumption of innocence with Wilkinson emerging as the real adult.

Tur started off with an introductory question about whether Kavanaugh is “100 percent confident he's never met Ms. Swetnick.” But when Wilkinson pointed out that “this is a frightening allegation” and somehow went unreported by scores of supposed witnesses for decades, Tur smugly asked: “Are you calling her a liar?”

Wilkinson replied that she’s not but observed how Avenatti has “waved this on some of your programs since last weekend and said he knew about and he never went to the police” even though, if she were him, she would have gone to the police.

The tension began building with this question that Avenatti could have concocted himself (click “expand”):

So Ms. Swetnick, Dr. Ford, and Ms. Ramirez — all the women who have accused your client of misconduct all have one similar thing in common. They all say that he drank to excess. There are other folks out there from Kavanaugh’s high school years and from his college years who say the same thing, that he drank to excess. Your client also admits he did at some times have a few too many beers. If that is the case and if there's a potential out there for him being black out drunk or very drunk, how is he confident of his memories?

Kavanaugh’s lawyer pointed out that, by Tur’s reckless implication, “almost every high school and college student could be accused of the same thing or have done that, had drinks, had too many drinks” which isn’t “the same as being black out drunk and — and not remembering this.”

Wilkinson wondered how, if this was such a well-known occurrence, “why is it that none of those people have come forward?”

Tur then showed she doesn’t understand how America operates, assuming that it’s on the accused to demand law enforcement investigate them to prove their innocence. That’s like asking the TSA to give you a pat-down and, last I checked, most people don’t walk into airports wanting that to happen.

Wilkinson shot back that Kavanaugh didn’t know about the claims by Julie Swetnick “until it came out today” even though “Mr. Avenatti has had this information for weeks, months, I don’t know how long he’s had it.”

The fight then escalated to where Wilkinson tore into Tur for her rampant bias against Kavanaugh, leaving Tur incensed (click “expand”):

TUR: Is he now demanding an FBI investigation? WILKINSON: He knows he didn't do it. It’s not his job. If the committee wants to demand an investigation, what I don’t understand — TUR: Why doesn't he want an FBI investigation, though, if he knows he’s innocent and there's multiple people who can go on the record or go under oath or be interviewed by the FBI under threat of perjury, why would he not want the FBI to get involved? WILKINSON: Thankfully our system doesn't work the way you're suggesting, that the burden gets put on somebody when there’s an accusation. There’s nothing — TUR: This is a job interview. It's two different things. WILKINSON: No, no. It's out here in the public opinion and what you're doing right now is a perfect example. You're claiming because he was drinking, he must have done it and it makes it more likely. This is a public — TUR: No I asked you — I asked you can he be confident in his memories. Don't put words in my mouth. WILKINSON: This is a public forum. TUR: I asked you if he was confident in his memories That's all I asked.

In perhaps the single best dismantling of the media’s rush to tar and feather Kavanaugh, Wilkinson noted:

Yeah, but I heard your last session and you guys were saying oh, there's so much detail. There's no detail in here. There's no place. There's one or two years generally. There's no other people. There's no dates. There's no times. There's no information here other than there are multiple people supposedly involved with years — for years, not just her, by the way.

Later and out of the blue, Tur twice asked Wilkinson (who, we should mention to be transparent, is married to David Gregory) if Kavanaugh “believe[s]” the women who have accused the President of unwanted sexual contact.

While that was random, Wilkinson’s absolutely puzzled reaction wasn’t. She firmly blew to smithereens the notion that this was relevant to Kavanaugh: “I don't know what that has to do with this. I've never discussed that with him. We're talking about what's happening here and I came today to be on your program to tell you what he believes and what we know. That's it.”

Tur closed by asking if Kavanaugh thinks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is a liar and, clearly perturbed, Wilkinson stated that “he doesn’t believe anyone is lying or not lying” but instead that “[h]e did not do this” and “never engaged in that kind of behavior.”

To see the relevant transcript from September 26's MSNBC Live with Katy Tur, click “expand.”