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Investigation, limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there. and limit in time to no more than one week. and i will vote to advance the bill to the floor with that understanding. >> and so tonight the train has stopped and the fbi is investigating brett kavanaugh again. after jeff flake and the rest of the republicans on the committee voted to send brett kavanaugh's nomination to the senate floor, jeff flake created a mini republican stampede for an fbi investigation. senator susan collins and lisa murkowski quickly tweeted they too wanted an fbi investigation. and then ...

Embraced a philosophy that changing -- having a revolution in someone's heart can change 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 stand...

>> he and i do not share a lot of political views, but we share a deep concern -- sorry -- senator flake and i share a deep concern for the health of this institution and what it means to the rest of the world and to our country if we were unable to conduct ourselves respectfully and in a way that hears each other. >> they heard each other. a republican senator heard what a democratic senator was asking for and the republican senator decided that the democratic senator was right. and so in a place that d disappoints everyone much more than it pleases someone, the united states senate in that p...

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 and the reporters in the hearing room did not know that five ...

>> i want to go back to lindsey graham's attitude because he exemplified the rest of the republicans before they knew there was a problem, before they knew jeff flake was wavering. linda graham made for him compared to yesterday a calm statement. but it was filled with lindsey graham bitterness, and he threatened the democrats on the committee about how he would treat them when he eventually becomes chairman of that committee. that's something i've never seen anyone do on the senate committee. but he talked about dr. ford, and let's listen to what he says when he actually uses her name and spe...