you have a woman coming forward in christine blasey ford making an allegation from 36 years ago and then three and four that follow after that. how would you have handled it better than it's been handled. >> first off, it was an enormous mistake not to re-open the fbi background investigation. there's precedent for this. it's not anita hill so much as it is john tower particularly on the instances of drinking. late in the confirmation process allegations were made about senator tower. it was immediately referred back to fbi. the fbi re-opened the investigation and came back a couple of days later. joe biden was absolutely correct that the fbi report doesn't reach a conclusion but it does provide information that is able to be determinative with regard to the candor and veracity of the claims. >> the tower case, the nominee for secretary of defense at the beginning of the first bush