the other key voice on the committee during the break, walked up to professor ford and shook her hand and said thank you for coming. does shelly walk into the meeting they will have and this is mostly the committee meetings, does she walk in and -- >> they are having a republican lunch as we speak. he had a math issue this morning. he was trying to keep susan collins from being a party of one. if she gets two, that's a problem. the conversations inside the white house and among republi n republicans on capitol hill is that this so far has been a horrible day for us. >> senator whitehouse made an interesting point. he raised the prospect of a sitting supreme court justice being under an ongoing investigation if the democrats were to take over one of the house.