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Their destiny, can change our country. and i think we witnessed the power of dialogue and the power of changing someone's heart today. and the second thing is i have been holding out hope that senator flake would do the right thing. i worked with him some when i was lobbying the side on the aclu, and he took brave action then. he was punish bide his party for doing so, and i believe in my heart that he still had the ability in his heart the ability to take courageous action. i think he's wrong on the standard of proof for brett kavanaugh, but today he took the right action and i applaud that w...

Serving on the highest court is that you are working onto that seat making sure you have equal opportunity for every single american. and what he was able to demonstrate is he was not fit because he was not going to provide people with actual due process to make sure we're doing right by the laws that govern our nation. >> adam, all of the republicans other than jeff flake was echoing this lindsey graham line, which was i believe dr. ford was definitely assaulted, period. and then the next line, i believe she's a complete outright liar and perjure about brett kavanaugh. but they don't quite sa...

P.m. today it was clear the vote was in trouble. chuck grassly did not know what jeff flake was going to do. when a strong tough senator wants something in a committee and has the deciding vote in that committee, that senator usually with holds his or her vote until he or she gets exactly what they want. but that's not jeff flake. and so jeff flake decided to do this his way. >> i have been speaking with a number of people on the other side, had conversations ongoing for a while with regard to making sure that we do do diligence here, and i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for ...

Friendship and trust. and that deal was undone by citizenship. citizenship lived to its fullest today by the people who took their demands to the halls of the senate and made their voices heard and moved the unmovable mountain that is the united states senate. they forced the president of the united states to do something he was never going to do, order a new fbi investigation of brett kavanaugh. the deal on the kavanaugh nomination was done, all done this morning when jeff flake became the final republican on the judiciary committee to publicly announce his decision to vote to confirm brett k...

Cnn reporter squeezed in a question about this vote on the elevator, two women who had just learned of jeff flake's decision to vote for brett kavanaugh kept that elevator open and they made sure that their voices were heard. >> on monday i stood in front of your office and i told the story of my sexual assault. i told it because i recognized -- >> need to go to the hearing. >> -- she's telling the truth. what you're doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit in the supreme court. this is not tolerable. you have children in your family. think about them. i have two children...