senate judiciary committee, and that committee has other issues. there's recent revelations about a grassley staffer who had a sexual harassment charge against him he's denied and some involvement of a pr firm that's been involved in the dirty tricks this past week we've seen with kavanaugh's friend ed wh whalen. they have a duty to ask the questions in their own name and their own voices and have the american people see that. i was the chief counsel for nominations from 2002 through the beginning of of 2005, so i didn't work on the supreme court but i worked extensively on brett kavanaugh's nomination when he was nominated for the d.c. circuit. >> so you're familiar with him and his case at this moment. >> yes. >> should they be allowed to have representation to ask questions of dr. ford? >> you know, they definitely have an optics problem and a