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Have a problem delaying sentencing because flynn has been assisting the special counsel's investigation. flynn's team says their client is eager to proceed with sentencing in order to bring an end to the process. both sides are required to provide an update on possible sentencing dates or delay by late august. and house majority whip steve scalise is defending congressman jim jordan amid accusations that jordan knew about alleged sexual abuse while he was an ohio state wrestling coach but did nothing about it. in a statement to cnn, congressman scalise says, i have always known jim jordan to...

>> stand by, we're going to go to capitol hill. the judiciary chairman chuck grassley is meeting right now with supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> i'm just going to make a short statement. i'm not going to take any questions. obviously our nominee will not take any questions. but i've just had a pleasant conversation with judge kavanaugh. he and i have not interacted a lot in our lifetimes. so meeting with him is very important. he's a respected jurist with outstanding opinions that i think are going to be -- [ inaudible ]. we're going to have a thorough process. hopefully we can get it...

Their families. the others, the government says, is just not going to be possible to do today. that will be discussed in court. but the bigger issue that will be discussed in court, what about the thousands of kids over 5 that need to be reunited with their parents? the judge in california going to basically work out a process because the trump administration doesn't have one for how that is going to happen. lawyers for the aclu that brought this suit want a truncated process, two, three days with existing documents, fingerprints, maybe if necessary dna tests. the trump administration says, no...

It really has -- it all proceeds president trump. i think president trump has given that up and said, help me decide this, and i don't think he cares that much about it as long as it pleases the people who voted for him, which it does. >> that's so true. this is a very labor-intensive, long game plan among conservative lawyers and conservative groups. i mean, decades, a generation plus. it's bearing fruit right now. that's no small thing. >> and also, i think it's worth noting that kavanaugh is a guy who gets this process. this is someone who had a first career as a political operative. i thou...

This would explain why some of our colleagues found eager to turn judicial confirmations into something like political elections. >> as for the handful of key senators whose votes will make or break the nomination, we're we're hearing a lot of them say they're going to keep an open mind. cnn's phil mattingly joins me now from the hill. phil, you've been talking to senators and their aides. wh what have you been hearing, anything surprising, or is it standard partisan fare? >> reporter: a little more of the latter. maybe equal parts how this process has devolved. obviously real and significant ...