MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show October 2, 2018
On friday, at the moment that the Senate Judiciary committee was expected to vote quickly along party lines to advance kavanaughs nomination, the process was suddenly thrown into disarray when republican senator jeff flake made an unexpected lastminute deal with the Committee Democrats to secure a oneweek delay in the full senate vote during which the fbi would look into dr. Fords allegations and possibly into other allegations too. It was not really clear at the time. Later that day, we learned that the white house had indeed ordered the fbi to reopen kavanaughs background investigation. But ...