about whether the fbi in investigated whether she should testify, stand-ins for arguments about who people believe, which themselves stand for broader commitments have for the world view they share. it s interesting, though, that republicans and kind of defenders of judge kavanaugh don t actually want to have that argument about are these issues are these accusations credible? they either want to have this process argument, or an argument about whether things that you do in high school are relevant to your reputation in midlife. because they really don t want her sitting there before the judiciary committee telling her story to the american people. the grand irony here, they do not want her to show up on monday and they sort of have created conditions in which it doesn t seem likely to happen. i should note, the full letter that grassley wrote he did offer a private hearing for for staffers to fly out to her. i want to make clear that is on the record, in the offing, it has not j