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Like mitch mcconnell wanted to do this, or that donald trump wanted to do this. they did even this investigation only because lisa murkowski and jeff flake said that they would not vote to confirm kavanaugh on the floor without it. and thus they still have that leverage. if there are indications that this is not on the level, then they are -- it is certainly reasonable to ask them whether they will accept a process that is unfairly constricted. and part of the problem here is their respective at...

Him. i just want to see this be conducted in a fair and independent way, which senator flake has asked for. the people who have real leverage on this thing are the three republican senators who are still undecided. they have to make sure this is a credible investigation from beginning to end. >> you used to be a prosecutor, as you know. as of now, with the evidence that we have, which is no corroborating evidence, no one who was at the marty being able to back this story, which is not a refutati...

Stories and their claims investigated. and so many people, including senator grassley, the chairman, during the hearing said they respected dr. ford and talked about how brave she was. what i said at the hearing was if you truly respect her, then you cant just say it. you have to follow up on the evidence. she actually said that she ran into mark judge, the other person she said was in the room, at a safeway but she doesnt know the time period that he worked there and that was one thing that she...

Me. >> jeff flake then huddled with some of the democrats on the judiciary committee, and when he came back to his seat he paused to whisper something to chairman grassley who then gave him the floor. thats when flake called for a pause for an investigation. >> and i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue -- to do an investigation, limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there. >> it turns out t...

Are by this one-week delay. as a surprise. it seems like we were ready to move forward and that the senate would be voting on the judges nomination early next week. they didnt vote on the nomination did report him to the senate floor but with this condition that driven by senator flake. its a reminder of how much an individual senator can control the rhythm of things here in congress especially when the senate is so closely divided. they have a huge amount of leverage. they had spoken close to t...

Have investigated about six times before, and it seems they dont do that. >> welcome back to am joy. apparently they do that. after ruling out investigation into his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh just last week, donald trump has been forced to do just that. republican senator jeff flake and a handful of other undecided senators used their leverage on friday in a surprise turn of events to force a one-week fbi investigation before a final confirmation vote can be taken. they delayed a vot...

Doesnt matter what happened to me. >> jeff flake then huddled with some of the democrats on the judiciary committee, and when he came back to his seat he paused to whisper something to chairman grassley who then gave him the floor. thats when flake called for a pause for an investigation. >> and i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue -- to do an investigation, limited in time and scope to the current allegations th...

Where were going to be in any given day in a week. but certainly the last couple of days showed us that we just were in for kind of a wild ride. it was all the way back on monday that we thought rod rosenstein was going to be the fired. mike: right. >> that seems like it was a month ago in some ways. so while this fbi probe is happening, what the senate is doing the though is theyre going to take the care of some business that needs to be taken care of. theyre going to consider a short-term reau...

We were just sitting shoulder to shoulder 24 hours ago having this conversation and it was like what a horrible day. somebody is not telling the truth when you listen to the two people in their testimony and theres very little interest in figuring out who that is. have you ever had anything like this happen before on something so divisive that in the critical moment when the side with the leverage was about to win it was their side who said im not going to win at all costs. im going to do this o...

Visa, for example, then we will withdraw the money from your campus, that begins to be, of course, thats how china plays. >> i think its excellent that the trump administration is going after them. it needs -- they need to be called out on that. >> i think, what we are seeing trump-operating technique which is to find an opponents weakness, thats what he is doing with iranians, he believes their economy cannot hold out under this kind of pressure. hes doing the same thing to canada incidentally ...