will confirm him, and through this process that we've gone through it will ideally in their mind sort of lift at least some of this cloud over kavanaugh. if they can say, look, we have genuinely done this investigation, we've done what the democrats were asking for, the fbi investigated and at this point, you know, we're backing kavanaugh. >> kelsey, there is also, as a democratic operative reminded me tonight, there's a trap in here potentially. >> oh, sure. i mean it is very difficult because on the one hand if it comes back that the fbi is not able to find anything new here, it could give a lot of political cover for these republicans who haven't made up their minds yet to say, i waited, i requested this investigation along with senator flake and i now have a space to say, this has been confirmed, we have done our jobs, i've done everything i can to ensure that this is the nominee that i thought it was and now i can vote yes. the other problem here though is