democrat from west virginia running for election carried by 42 political percentage points init the presidential cycle. frankly, you could have a situation where if judge kavanaugh is cleared, you have folks like manchin voting for him. if he's not cleared, i think it falls apart. it truly is -- we'll have to wait and see what the fbi says. >> absolutely. let me play for you what senator chris coons told my colleagues yesterday. let's lis in. >> jeff flake is the real hero of what happened. he needed reassurance to listen to his own conscience and recognize that the very real doubts he had atth the end of d ford's testimony and which a number of other colleagues had were worth taking a pause and investigating. jeff's first comments in the ante room said this is tearing americas apart. a number of people e-mailed us