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Party can do to jeff flake if he does not vote the way they want him to on this. again, this is a little bit of tea leaf reading, but bear with me, the fact that flake last friday was a yes on brett kavanaugh until he asked for this investigation, the fact he came out yesterday and said he was reasonably satisfied with the thoroughness of the fbi report and the fact he has not gotten to a full yes yet sits oddly with me. if he was comfortable before, he was comfortable with what the fbi has done, why is he not a full yes yet? that would make me if i was brett kavanaugh sitting at home watching...

So he didn't have anything new to go on. which led us all to believe they were going to be yes votes. i will just say, their procedural vote confirms that fact. so i think we will be in such a dramatic surprise moment if either one of them at this point, and again, anything could happen, would reverse their vote. what we see now is sort of fitting the pattern that the tea leaf reading beginning yesterday allowed us to head up. >> what we don't know is, a, if they finally made up their mind, and what are their sort of outstanding questions they have. who are they talking to? obviously, we saw b...

Camaraderie, or lack thereof, was anyone looking stern? that's not a fair question, sometimes you get clues. >> it's all sort of tea leaf reading. it was an attentive jury. several members of the jury appeared to take careful notes. we know that they had a pretty good rapport. we saw them in the hallways together on breaks. on one occasion they celebrated one juror's birthday with a birthday cake. and there was at least one juror who appeared to be very skeptical about rick gates whose testimony is important, although the prosecution seemed to walk away from him a bit in closing arguments. he'...

>> it's also questionable whether you would do a subpoena before the election. >> correct. >> that timing -- your point is exactly right. as we get closer to the election, everything goes into a holding pattern, a frozen situation. >> correct. >> so does that benefit the white house maybe in the short-term? if the whole subpoena question carries over and this whole thing carries over into another year and then we're past the 2018 cycle and into the 2020 cycle, dear lord. >> i think two things. number one, not everybody on trump's legal team agrees there will be a subpoena filed. to be clear, t...

Last couple of paragraphs from rosenstein, sort of flexing muscles and making a plea to patriotism, which is an implicit charge of nonpatriotism on the part of trump and company. definitely coming out of the box with more confidence, and it's tea leaf reading, but certainly today's indictment would bear out -- or yesterday that one of the things he may be thinking of, there's a lot to come here now, and it's time for the department to go on the offensive in court and in the public relations campaign against the defamation of the fbi. >> i take it the 30,000 feet about paul manafort can connect...