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You know, the record scratched in the afternoon and senator jeff flake said hang on, let's go ahead and give it another week. what's the harm. here is that moment from last friday. >> i can only say that i would be comfortable moving forward to the floor. i'll move it out of committee but only comfortable on the floor until the f.b.i. has done more investigation than they had already. >> in the key line he said up to a week. tomorrow is one week. what does flake do? what do the others do? does kavanaugh get confirmed? >> i was encouraged that he voted it out of committee and i would anticipate...

Credibility into question. i think this had the exact opposite effect. there is more detail, and it is very consistent with what comey has said in the past. and so what we're seeing this morning and last night especially is that republicans are starting to try to spin this a little bit, trying to say, nothing in these memos accuses the president of obstruction and that nothing says he was threatened, but i don't know that comey would have put that in these memos. this was very early on. he didn't know what was going on. he just knew it was very odd what the president was doing and so he felt h...

And they sort of hope naturally that it will just go away. on the other hand, they also recognize that the president's actions to try to make it go away, ironically, have the exact opposite effect and exacerbate it. so, you know, there's a general sort of frustration and, frankly, if they are not directly involved in it, if they are not one of the staffers who has had to hire a personal lawyer, they want nothing to do with it. you know, anything where you even mention russia, they will just say "not my portfolio" and kick it to the lawyer. so they're trying to steer clear while feeling sort of...

Problematic for them. and they sort of hope naturally that it will just go away. on the other hand, they also recognize that the president's actions to try to make it go away, ironically, have the exact opposite effect and exacerbate it. so, you know, there's a general sort of frustration and, frankly, if they are not directly involved in it, if they are not one of the staffers who has had to hire a personal lawyer, they want nothing to do with it. you know, anything where you even mention russia, they will just say "not my portfolio" and kick it to the lawyer. so they're trying to steer clear...

Actions to try to make it go away, ironically, have the exact opposite effect and exacerbate it. so, you know, there's a general sort of frustration and, frankly, if they are not directly involved in it, if they are not one of the staffers who has had to hire a personal lawyer, they want nothing to do with it. you know, anything where you even mention russia, they will just say "not my portfolio" and kick it to the lawyer. so they're trying to steer clear while feeling a constant state of being under siege. >> we are much obliged to our leadoff guests on this night after the state of the union...