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Steve schmidt, the bush white house, mccain presidential campaign and others. robert costa, you are among the best connected reporters that we know. take a minute. tell us how the day played out and what are you hearing importantly tonight? >> it played out in two fronts politically within the republican party holding the majorities of congress and the white house. president trump disappointed in how this process played out with dr. fords testimony. people inside of the white house, brian, tell ...

Republicans close to the confirmation process over the course of the day and the consensus i sense especially since flake made this announcement in the judiciary committee people expect this fbi investigation to move forward. i havent spoken to anyone that thinks mcconnell will try to play hardball and force a vote given the current state of play where we have flake and murkowski indicating they want an investigation to happen. it looks like this investigation will proceeds the way that flake wa...

It will be close. three key republican votes will likely decide this, senators collins, murkowski and flake are undecided, 47 republicans. a democrat to watch joe manchin appears to lean towards yes, that could be a huge factor. donald trump was glued to the hearings and standing behind his nominee, brett kavanaugh showed america why i nominated him come his testimony was powerful, honest and limiting. this process has been a total sham in an effort to delay, obstruct and resist, the senate must...

Decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined. god bless him. short time after grahams comments, senator orrin hatch of utah echoed some of brett kavanaghs testimony. >> this is a national disgrace the way youre being treated. and in the middle of it all we have judge kavanagh, a man who until two weeks ago, was a pillar of the legal community. theres been no whisper of misconduct by him in the time hes been a judge. what we have are uncorroborated, unsubstantiated cla...

Senator corker one of the possible swing votes, republican retiring said he would support kavanagh. it seems to be moving toward kavanagh, but a lot of votes still in the air. >> we hear this reporting, bob, those on the fence, the collins, murkowski, flake may vote. >> in both the democratic party and the republican party, all of the senators, the red state senators, moderate republicans, that group within the chamber, they are really looking to each other. no one really wants to be out there a...

Comments. they dont have any place in the supreme court nomination process. so i was shocked actually by that and i feel that alone is disqua disqualifying. >> republican senators including susan collins and lisa murkowski are meeting with senator mitch mcconnell in his office right now. the news we have is lisa murkowski has joined with jeff flake in asking for the one-week delay in the vote, the floor vote, the full senate vote to confirm brett kavanaugh while an fbi investigation is undertake...

Important votes we dont yet know about. as we mentioned, senators flake, murkowski, collins, joe manchin met in private tonight after the hearing, after their meeting flake told reporters he is facing a tough choice. >> its a close call. you leave with doubts whichever way. thats the nature of this. theres no way you can leave certain youre completely right, hes right, shes wrong, shes right, hes wrong. i mean, youre never certain. you just do the best we can. thats what were trying to do. >> ba...

The testimony compelling. he thought kavanagh, the federal judge needed to come through with his testimony. he urged kavanagh in a phone call to make sure he was defiant in his testimony and by end of day the president decided to stand by the nominee and thought he did a strong job in his testimony and really pushing back against the democrats. but its still tbd in the u.s. not. where are senator collins, senator murkowski, they have decisions to make. senator corker one of the possible swing vo...

Facts by the fbi. very strong words. do we know where we are on a vote right now, manu? >> reporter: its anyones guess at the moment. we caught up with all of the senators. flake of arizona, murkowski and bill manchin of west virginia. all were uncertain or would not comment. jeff flake made it clear. the four members all met after the hearing and said, we dont know how its going to come down tomorrow. if all democrats vote no, the republicans cannot lose more than one vote. right now, its anybo...

Other key votes, senator flake and murkowski also nervous and expressing reservations about the new allegations. john and alisyn, i talked to a committee source and asked about the mood and the course said we are all just holding our breath. >> joining us now is cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, laura cotts, and david callen and john avalon. john avalon and john berman, i want to start with you, and i remember how anita hill testified and we were all riveted. look, this is all of ...