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He took a very aggressive stance. he never blacked out. never did anything like this. never remembers anything of the sort. so since he was so aggressive, you could imagine potentially the fbi finding something that contradicted him on a small point. i think that's -- in terms of his career and being on the united states supreme court, that's the biggest problem for him. in black and white in an fbi report, there's a statement that contradicts something he said to congress, i don't know whether that would ever be prosecuted. it could be, but the bigger issue is i think that could potentially g...

Taken statements from all of the people of the fbi the statements were made under penalty of felony. it's unlikely that we will uncover anything new. they give those wavering senators a little bit more security and doing what they think they were inclined to do anyway. >> seen how nasty this confirmation process has been. does it make you worried that this is gonna be the standard for going forward. it has been a jagged line but it has been constantly going down words from the 80s. and even lower courts are getting a giller and more personal by the year the parties are getting more polar ice. ...

What is your read on what happened today? >> what happened today was finally a senator who was so disturbed by the process and the prospect of someone with this ppnd of cloud being sent to the supreme court decided that he needed to do something about it, and along with chris coons who is a good friend of his who reached out to jeff, we were able to come up with a process that's going to result in an fbi investigation, which the democrats on the committee have been calling for for what seems like months. but, of course, the fbi investigation has to be complete. it can't be some sort of cursory...

Ordered. it's going to happen over the next week. but as of this afternoon, he says he has not even considered that a little bit. wolf? >> jim acosta at the white house, thank you. joining us now, democratic senator, mazie hirono of hawaii, a key member of the judiciary committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be here once again. >> what should the scope of this new fbi investigation look like? >> well, certainly should cover the three credible reports that have come forward. and it has to be complete. we can't have some kind of a r perfunctory investigation just to give c...

Blumenthal in a second. we're hearing more and more this morning about the pressure campaign that has gone on over the last few days here to try to get some of these wavering senators on board, including phone calls over last week. excuse me, senator blumenthal, senator, can we grab you really quickly here? we're live on ms if you want to talk quickly. what do you expect to see in the markup in the actual vote we're going to see here in the committee? do you think it's possible that jeff flake will join you and your democratic colleagues in voting against a favorable recommendation for judge k...