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Terrified. i'm here because i believe it is my civic duty. it is my hope that my colleagues, those who have not yet decided to declare their decision will allow the request for the fbi to do its important work and this committee to allow itself the time to get to the bottom of the remaining allegations. given the vote this morning i know that is highly unlikely. >> no one in that room knew what jeff flake had just been through on that elevator, and chris coons is not the most dynamic speaker in the united states senate. it's easy for most senators to ignore him. but that's not what happened to...

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 kavanaugh to the united...

Stopped or even slowed down. that announcement came as a blow to flake's closest friend on the judiciary committee who learned it from a news reporter. saying that reporters broke the news to senator chris coons about jeff flake's vote in the hallway as senator coons walked into the hearing. coons said, oh, f, then choked up. we each make choices for our own reason, i'm struggling, sorry. he was choked up. so delaware senator chris coons entered the hearing room choked up and struggling and sorry that his friends decision made the confirmation decision a done deal. but chris coons did not know...

More uncertainty there than mcconnell was letting on. his comments were to deflate the energy and activism like the two young women, but democracy had its way today. >> and lisa, we have reporting tonight that at a certain point the senators in the back room there, which included john cornyn and at one point senator tillis, because those situations only involve those people who think they can influence a senator, which it was interesting to watch senator grassly give up and orrin hatch and lindsey graham give up and have nothing to do with it. but in that negotiation there was a certain point ...

When someone's really listening. the professionals in the senate always keep an eye or both eyes on the reaction of the undecided senators or an undecided senator, if there is one, a wavering senator. so let's now watch what happened in the committee this morning, the way the professionals do. this is not the way you've ever watched this before. let's watch today's history in the senate being made in jeff flake's mind as he listens and thinks about and is moved by what his friend, chris coons, is actually saying. >> i know since the day that my democratic colleagues and i learned of these alle...