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Is this moving the goal posts? >> i think any reasonable person would say, if you are going to reopen the investigation and they are giving you corroborating witnesses, that the fbi would interview all of those people. they have a week. so, i don't think it's moving the goal post. i think this is what -- i'm pretty sure this is what flake would have expected to happen. >> i understand the public may think that, but does it make sense that the fbi interview -- they already have her, they know the people she's offering up as potential supporting witnesses. >> you would think they would. i think ...

On now. there are quite a few people that are arguing that everything is connected. his honesty, his past behavior in college involving alcohol and, of course, sexual misconduct. >> matthew? what do you think we're debating? >> i think what really matters is what flake, collins and murkowski think we're debate, and then in a second group, manchin and heitkamp. those are the five senators that i'm focused, like a laser, on, and the truth is, we don't know, chuck, what's going through their head. like we said, we ran the clip of flake today, well, we can't have that type of partisanship on the c...

Believe it. they know, as well as you and i know, we don't have the votes. we're in the minority. the only thing that brought this hearing together last thursday was the demand of jeff flake, a republican, supported by the democrats, of course. but his demand led to that hearing. the only thing that led to the fbi investigation was the demand of jeff flake, together with senators murkowski and collins, for an fbi investigation. we don't have the votes to make it happen. we have not delayed this. it has been a common effort by some republicans and democrats to get to the bottom of a critically ...

People. >> senator flake was asked if that moment affected him. >> i think everything that i have seen and viewed and experienced in the last couple of weeks has had an impact, it's been everything. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell has no obligation, of course, to honor this commitment but was forced to oblige as other republicans joined senator flake's positions. senators murkowski, collins, mansion and heitkamp endorsed the move to have the fbi further investigate and all of them are seen as pivotal undecided votes when it comes to judge ka kavanaugh's nomination. here's what senator murko...

Diligence here, and i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. >> to paraphrase russell crowe, the actor we owe this fbi to one bloke. jeff flake is one of 100 u.s. senators and today he took the rae ra reins in the confirmation of judge kavanaugh. he has received support from democratic senator joe mansion of west virginia, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine. president trump was forced to bow to a man he called a nonfactor in the u.s. senate.