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Tarnish the republican brand more than it is. but the fact he opened up in such a partisan way, we have to remind ourselves the purpose of 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 ass...

And thanks to the experienced camera operators who knew jeff flake was the key vote, one camera stayed isolated on jeff flake when he was not speaking, and they never do that with the cameras, but they did today. when we watched this play out on live television, that was not the camera you saw. we were watching the normal shot of the camera on the person who was speaking. but we have the video now of jeff flake listening when senator chris coons was speaking, and so we can now watch something that we know was real. we can watch senator jeff flake listening. and now we know that jeff flake list...

Say it seems like it's locked in, it seems like it's done, and it never felt right. it always seemed there was much 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...

Not matter, collectively we can make a difference. and i think that's what republicans are afraid of come november. >> adam, senate staff veterans like lisa and mow and me, are never quite as cynical as people might think we are, because we all know about the power of one, and we all know at any moment a senator might stand up and stop the moving train, and every once in a decade or so we something like that happen. >> yeah, and it's been an amazing week, because it was exactly one week ago that mitch mcconnell went to a conservative gathering in kentucky and declared that brett kavanaugh was ...

Disappear with chris coons. for 15 minutes we watched while chuck grassly and orrin hatch and lindsey graham looked increasingly grim after sounding overwhelmingly confident just minutes ago. 15 minutes went by after -- after chuck grassly said they were going to vote, and there was no vote. jeff flake needed someone to talk to on the democratic side of the committee this morning, and luckily chris coons is very, very good at the senate's oldest and sometimes most important skill -- bipartisan friendship. chris coons and jeff flake have spent time together on senate trips that allows them to s...