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A replacement for judge kavanaugh? >> not even a little bit. not even a little bit. >> president trump is firmly standing behind his supreme court selection even as he authorizes an fbi investigation into brett kavanaugh's past. we've just learned in the last few minutes that investigation is up and running. it was, as we said, arizona republican senator jeff flake who may have changed the course of history today after huddling with democrats, he was allowed to announce the delay for the investigation. no one saw it coming. politico is reporting it this way. senate republican leaders were ratt...

Decision to kind of throw a wrench in this and delay it for a week. what we're hearing from the white house right now is they are in this waiting game along with us. they are hoping that, number one, the fbi investigation doesn't turn up any new allegations, any evidence that would lend credence to dr. ford's story, and they're also very much hoping that in this week, which we know is such a long time in washington these days that there's not a new allegation, a new credible allegation. you know, we've seen these multiple allegations popping up by the day. in the course of a week who knows wha...

Gathered putting it down in front of kavanaugh. if i'm in charge of this, i'm putting two female agents in that room to ask him the questions and present everything that's been found at the end of the week and see if he can hole up or whether he blows up as he did against senator klobuchar. >> i just need a moment to catch my breath. barbara, it sounds to this layperson like the fbi has done this before. what are the blanks from yesterday's testimony you would like filled in if you were appointed special counsel investigating this case? >> i think the place that i would start is with mark judg...

>> maya, what do you think eight justices sitting on the court right now thought of those exchanges, and did those exchanges roll around in some republican heads in the senate do you think overnight? >> i certainly hope so because as an attorney -- and i imagine what supreme court justices saw was the same thing is that was abhorrent. that was unacceptable to sit there and treat a sitting senator -- you don't have to agree. in fact, that's what judges have to do all day every day is listen to people they may not like, hear things they may not agree with, and what they have to do, sometimes und...

This country. >> jill colvin, what do you think is really going on in the white house west wing tonight and this weekend? >> the white house has really been forced here to play this waiting game along with the rest of us. this is something that the white house and the president did not want to happen. we know that the president now for more than a week has been deeply frustrated by the slow pace of this investigation. you know, the white house watched along with all of us yesterday, the president watching first on air force one and then in the white house yesterday as these testimonies unfolde...