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Want that and apparently these negotiations having started and then republicans essentially not following through on these discussions, them saying they want all her information, but not necessarily to talk to her. i mean, the question about what's going to happen to her story and whether it will be investigated at all is absolutely completely up in the air and they've already scheduled a vote on his nomination for the end of the week. >> what i heard attorney john klune tell you about the way the republican staff of the judiciary committee was dealing with him as the representative of a poten...

She -- he didn't even bring it up, it was leaked to the media so she wanted an fbi investigation, she did not bring it up a sincere these allegations, alluding to the clarence thomas hearing, joe biden, who was chairman of the committee at that time immediately referred that to the white house so the fbi could investigate it, the committee is in a position to investigate this, we have reached out to doctor ford and brett kavanaugh to do routine background calls. so far the ranking member's staff would typically join the majority staff on those calls and they have refused to participate. >> you...

Our majority staff has been proceeding, and we called the hearing. to answer your question again, it's the best answer i can give, poppy. it's because it is the truth. i don't have enough information to answer your question about whether we should go further. i think we ought to have a hearing, and i think there's a reasonable possibility, given her past behavior, that dr. ford will change her mind again. >> uh-huh. i just have to -- if you're -- again, i don't want to take too much of your time. >> i got all day. >> all right. >> if your fundamental complaint or shortcoming is you don't have ...

The minority staff under senator feinstein refused to cooperate, so our majority staff went forward. we didn't hear back from dr. ford's lawyers. so yesterday we met and said, okay, maybe she is concerned. "she" meaning dr. ford, about a public hearing. so we agreed to make the offer that, well, if you would rather do it privately, that's your call. i would prefer to do it publically because i think the american people have a right to hear both from dr. ford and judge brett kavanaugh. if she wants to do it privately, but you have got to start somewhere. can i make one other point? >> i really ...

Justice department, that's a horrible precedent. it's been done i think once before. it was a mistake then. it's a worse mistake now simply because i think the intent is to turn this information over to the trump legal team. chairman nunes, one of the gang of eight. >> he's the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> that's right. i think was working hand in glove with the white house during the entire russia investigation. >> what are you alleging? what is he going to do? >> i think what he's done all along. he went along with the white house gag order. >> do you share mike's concern...