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Making news at the forum. and ali, the protests are continuing, and are they discouraged by jeff flake signalling that he is going to likely vote for judge kavanaugh which means between now and 3:00 is the last moment that they will have to have an impact on susan collins and what is the de decisive vote. >> andrea, what we have heard from the folks here is that immediately after susan collins a made the vote, and cheers for lisa murkowski and people coming up to us to say that they were disappo...

You look at their political goals being to build support around hitting a longer pause button or expanding the scope of the investigation, they had raised questions about his -- whether he was telling the truth in his testimony. if you look at where we were a week ago, there were questions about whether he committed -- whether he told the truth when he testified. >> and there still are. >> undeniably powerful and credible account from professor ford. its remarkable that six days, seven days late...

Scope, and its a combination of things, the republican majority in the senate sends something to the white house counsel and sends it to the fbi. i know from public statements that senators murkowski and collins and flake were expressing their hope that this would be a broader investigation that was followed by president trump making repeated public statements that the fbi would be allowed to do what they do and pursue leads, and in the end if this is eight, nine or ten, as we just discussed, th...

Who ultimately put his foot down to demand this investigation explaining a little bit of why he did so. what he was worried about for the country. take a listen. >> i dont think anybody expected, you know, what happened on friday to happen, and i cant say that i did either. i just knew that we couldnt move forward. that i couldnt move forward without hitting the pause button because what i was seeing and experiencing in an elevator and watching it in committee and just thinking this is ripping o...

Move forward, that i couldnt move forward without hitting the pause button, because what i was seeing and experiencing in an elevator and watching it in committee and just thinking, this is ripping our country apart. >> in the end senator flake agreed to send the nomination out of committee, but would not support it on the full senate floor without that additional fbi investigation. now, if the investigation shows that kavanaugh lied to congress, flake says the nomination is over. joining us onc...

Suitability. >> senator flake, i identified and understood. >> the part he mentioned the clintons and what not i didnt like, either. it seemed partisan but boy, i have to put myself in that spot. i think you give a little lee way there. >> sandra: lets bring in john sununu. thank you for coming on this morning. the moment everything changed. jeff flake said i knew we couldnt move forward without hitting the pause button and here we are. how did we get here today? >> well, its just a continuation...

Brett kavanaugh repeats he said he denies all of the allegations. >> yeah. then it gets to what republicans want this probe to be and democrats want the probe to be. they have a week to do this. senator graham said he wants to find out who the leak was. its worth noting that senator feinstein said she was not the leak and the reporter who broke the story neither she or the staff was the cause. president trump at his rally called out feinstein. then is it a leak investigation or kavanaugh and the...

Facebook confesses it was hacked again. >> and what you can do to protect your security. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. im natalie allen. >> and im george how wiellhowe. "newsroom" starts right now. and we begin with the stunning development in the confirmation battle over supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> republicans hit the pause button even though that really wasnt part of their plan originally. now the white house and senate the republica...

Him because of some of the harsh words he said on the senate floor multiple times about our own president, moderate republican, not up for reelection, what is his role in all of this? >> well, right now his role is pretty consequential because hes injecting something into this process that brett kavanaugh was very opposed to, which is time. you heard brett kavanaugh yesterday say i was ready to come in here and testify the next day i wanted to have a hearing because he understood the more time h...

You know, he might be a great scholar. he might be a great jurist, but he also has multiple allegations of sexual assault against him. and now that we are going to have an fbi investigation that im so happy were going have, senator mcconnell needs to hit the pause button and allow the fbi to talk to all victims, all witnesses, and then come back and talk to judge kavanaugh. i just think its highly inappropriate. what about the women who have spoken out? and i just highly commend the woman who ha...