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Senator corker one of the possible swing votes, republican retiring said he would support kavanagh. it seems to be moving toward kavanagh, but a lot of votes still in the air. >> we hear this reporting, bob, those on the fence, the collins, murkowski, flake may vote. >> in both the democratic party and the republican party, all of the senators, the red state senators, moderate republicans, that group within the chamber, they are really looking to each other. no one really wants to be out there as the isolated person taking a political stand that's very dramatic, perhaps lone vote in a way that...

Revealing. it was revealing about the republican party. what a split screen. senator graham versus senator flake. senator graham just like judge kavanagh, taking the advice of president trump, following the model of president trump, defiant, fight, total political war in this charged america that we're all living through and covering. and then there's retiring republican jeff flake of arizona, reluctant to embrace that kind of turn in the republican party, that kind of war mentality when it comes to american politics, unsure of how he's going to vote. it's just a split republican party in how ...

Important votes we don't yet know about. as we mentioned, senators flake, murkowski, collins, joe manchin met in private tonight after the hearing, after their meeting flake told reporters he is facing a tough choice. >> it's a close call. you leave with doubts whichever way. that's the nature of this. there's no way you can leave certain you're completely right, he's right, she's wrong, she's right, he's wrong. i mean, you're never certain. you just do the best we can. that's what we're trying to do. >> back with us, robert costa, cynthia oxney, mimi rocca, steve schmidt. robert, not since th...

The testimony compelling. he thought kavanagh, the federal judge needed to come through with his testimony. he urged kavanagh in a phone call to make sure he was defiant in his testimony and by end of day the president decided to stand by the nominee and thought he did a strong job in his testimony and really pushing back against the democrats. but it's still tbd in the u.s. not. where are senator collins, senator murkowski, they have decisions to make. senator corker one of the possible swing votes, republican retiring said he would support kavanagh. it seems to be moving toward kavanagh, but...

Come forward. he has issued another affidavit to the judiciary committee over the past hour where he denied julie swetnick's allegation that he and brett kavanaugh were part of a group of men that spiked the drinks of girls to try to facilitate their gang rapes. i think the fbi will want to press him on one if not both of those incidents, and, of course, if there are inconsistencies between their interview and other interviews. >> if the fbi in the investigation over the next week doesn't come up with new information, does it, a, guarantee judge kavanaugh will be confirmed by the u.s. senate a...