the questioning. >> to your point, it's a great point. it's a valid point. why don't the men get out of the way here? however, richard blumenthal is a former state attorney general. he thinks he's perfectly qualified. cory booker is a potential presidential candidate. he wants to use this platform. i don't want to make it about politics. everybody knows into that room or they're in the room now, that hearing starts in seven minutes. everybody has a position and everybody has a plan. but the unpredictability is this woman we have never heard or seen. we don't really know what she looks like, what she sounds like. she goes first. if she's credible, if she is compelling, then when there's a pause, the republicans have their strategy for brett kavanaugh, the democrats have their strategy for brett kavanaugh. all could go out the window depending on what happens with the first wince and the questions from this woman that republicans have smartly brought in because they have 11 white men, most in their 70s and 80s, and they remember the anita hill