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Want people to know that as joyce said when you are doing a suitability inquiry, you are not focused on the criminality, but whether or not this person has the capacity, the character and the sbintegrity and the reputatn to do his job well. so all of this is fair game. i hear people saying, well, we only had to focus on the allegations of sexual assault, and that is not true. i have done hundreds if not thousands of background investigations or supervised them in my career, and you are absolutely -- you absolutely ask questions like does the candidate abuse alcohol. does he have a temperament ...

Article today in the "wall street journal," or editorial, because he understands that people of good conscience are looking at the way he performed. you have a former supreme court justice today, they rarely -- he actually was a supporter of kavanau kavanaugh's. different political judicial philosophies. but this is something you rarely have ever seen. a former supreme court justice coming out and not on judicial philosophy, not on the allegation, the credible allegation from dr. ford, but just on the temperament issue alone said he shouldn't be on the bench. the "washington post," and granted...

Had seen it except i believe it was a clerk of his. these were his words. those were not off the cuff remarks, those were something he had thought out and planned. is it now disingenuous for him to kind of be taking a step back from that? >> well, one, that's true what he says about how closely held these remarks were and he wrote them himself, and they were very personal. i think it was a practical political matter. if he hadn't come out very strongly and passionate, he would be dead. we all know how we felt after dr. ford's testimony and how he changed it. the judicial temperament issue, we ...

Confirmed. the controversy will continue to follow him and after the hearing, there were questions about temperament and candor and things like that. it hasn't really been proving or disproving the allegation that seemed to be what is sticking in these people's decisions well ahead of time. >> with respect to most of the people who made up their mines before he testified, many democrats certainly. >> 95%. >> they are movinging on thi on. >> flake mentioned the issue after last week's testimony. he it you wilactually made it cs not going to decide the vote if he thought kavanaugh was too heated...

Demand would accept a result like this in response to his demand. >> well, it really makes you wonder because last week i and others were applauding him for saying we needed to have this follow-up investigation and yet his remarks today indicate that he found this investigation to be thorough even though it plainly is not. i would be surprised if jeff flake is willing to go along with approving brett kavanaugh and letting there be basically an asterisk of ilegitimacy. >> and ron, "the wall street journal" op-ed tonight under brett kavanaugh's name is going straight at the temperament issue. th...