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Your position, and you appear to be, why aren't you also asking the fbi to investigate these claims? >> senator, i'll do whatever the committee wants. the committee investigates. it's not for me to say how to do it. just so you know, the fbi doesn't reach a conclusion. >> if there is no truth to her charges, the fbi investigation will show that. are you afraid they will not. >> the fbi does not reach -- you know that's a phony question because the fbi doesn't reach conclusions. >> calling for an fbi investigation for one week to clear or confirm some of these allegations. >> when you say a wee...

The fbi or could the fbi play in all of this catherine. >> trace, the fbi does two types of investigation, one is a criminal investigation and the other is a background check. under this scenario, they would have to get a request from the agency that puts the nomination forward so the white house or the president or the general counsel directing the fbi to reengage and conduct additional interviews with known witnesses in this particular case. the second kind of investigation is a criminal investigation based on the fact pattern here. there just isn't grounds for the fbi to get involved becaus...

Charges, the fbi investigation will show that. are you afraid they might not? >> come on. you know that's a phony question, because the fbi doesn't reach conclusions. >> judge kavanagh, will you support an fbi investigation right now? >> i will do whatever the committee wants. >> personally do you think that's the best thing for us to do? you won't answer? >> look, senator, i -- i've said i wanted a hearing and i said i would welcome anything. i'm innocent. >> kavanaugh also got into it with several senators who questioned his beer drinking in high school. here's senator sheldon whitehouse ref...

But surely if this was a case she was considering prosecuting, she would have tried to get some kind of statement, some kind of evidence out of mark judge. >> yeah, absolutely. and you know one really telling moment i thought that concerned me was when judge kavanaugh was asked, are you going to ask for an fbi investigation. you say you want to clear your name, here's your opportunity. and he said something that he has to know is inaccurate when he said the fbi doesn't reach conclusions. that -- that is not what we're asking the fbi to do. the fbi would not be asked to reach conclusions. the f...

Hearing, of all the members and the questioner could have had a fuller record to ask questions from. >> and barbel ru, apparently, rachel mitchell met with all the republican senators tonight and told them that she could not have prosecuted a case like this based on the information that she had in that hearing today. but surely if this was a case she was considering prosecuting, she would have tried to get some kind of statement, some kind of evidence out of mark judge. >> yeah, absolutely. and you know one really telling moment i thought that concerned me was when judge kavanaugh was asked, a...