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Senator Joseph Biden-"Thank you...Judge, let me make sure I understand one thing. Do you believe that interest groups went out and got Professor Hill to make up a story or do you believe Professor Hill had a story...?" Clarence Thomas-"Senator, I believe that someone, some interest group, I don't care who it is, in combination came up with this story and used this process to destroy me" Biden-"Got Professor Hill to say, to make up a story?" Thomas-"I believe that in combination this story was developed or concocted to destroy me" Biden-"With Professor Hill? I mean it is a critical question. Are you saying with Professor Hill that a group went out" Thomas-"That's just my view, Senator" Biden-" I know, I am trying to make sure I understand it" Thomas-"There are no details to it or anything else. The story developed. I do not believe - the story is not true. The allegations are false and my view is that others put it together and developed this." Biden-" And put it in Professor Hill's mouth?" Thomas-"I don't know... All I know is the story is here and I think it was concocted." Biden-"Well, Judge, I know you believe that and I am not here to be able to or attempt to, at this moment, refute that. There has been an assertion that has just been made and I want to know whether you would agree with it, that-it is important for us to keep our eye on the ball here-either Professor Hill had a story that she told someone and it was taken advantage of by being leaked. That is one thing. She says that. And the other story that seems to be being painted now, not by you, I am asking what you believe, is that a group sat down, decided to make up a story and found a willing vessel in Professor Hill and got her to say it. Now, they are fundamentally different things in terms of culpability." Thomas-"Senator, those distinctions are irrelevant to me. The story is false. And the story is here and the story was developed to harm me" Biden-"Thank you" Thomas-"And it did harm me"