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Into some prolonged fishing expedition as you put it for his part, this is the seventh background probe for judge kavanaugh, still the president says, look, i want the bureau to do its job. but, quickly. >> i want them to too to do a y comprehensive investigation. whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. i want them to do that. i want it to be comprehensive. i actually think it's a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think it's actually a good thing. not a bad thing. i think it's a good thing. now with that being said, i would like it to go q...

Understand when an investigator gets into a room with someone they're interviewing, that's supposed to be organic questioning. we don't know what the subjects are going to say. if today the white house says you can only interview these four people and one of those four people mentions someone else or a supermarket or drinking, the door has to be opened. so it's impossible to say that the scope is going to be the scope for tomorrow, for the scope until sunday. and i have to say that if i am brett kavanaugh, i probably would be weighing whether i would pull myself out of this. this is going to g...

Energizes the gop, it also energized democrats to go out and vote. the president sent a tweet where he basically argues democrats in congress are already raising questions about the time and the scope of this fbi kavanaugh investigation. what is the democratic game plan if this new background probe on kavanaugh doesn't come up with anything of substance or significance? >> well, amon, what's going to happen is they will proceed to vote. most of the democrats were already united against kavanaugh. there's just two outstanding democrats, most notely, these red state democrats of heitkamp and joe...

Let's go to a former fbi assistant director. chris, welcome back. >> thank you. >> it is unclear what professor ford is asking for, a background probe or criminal probe. can you talk to me about the difference? >> yeah, there is a big difference. the fbi has no independent jurisdiction to open up a stand alone investigation of rape allegations or assault allegations that may have taken 36 years ago. that is a local crime. unless it involves a federal official or on federal land or has some federal nexus, there jurisdiction to do it. but they can reopen the background investigation to round out...