questions, can really -- and bring to bear information that they have accumulated from other witnesses in asking those questions. and get the full story from these people in a way that senators asking questions before a national television audience and some of them grandstanding or trying to put forward a point of view can't do. you know, lisa is absolutely right about the truthfulness being the important thing here. this was -- the senator that i worked for, senator russ finegold published a piece that said when he was evaluating nominees, truthfulness was a nonnegotiable quality. brett kavanagh's truthfulness has been called into question by the hearing so far and now we have an issue where he has categorically denied allegations and again, it's a question of whether he is telling the truth. that's something that i think the senate has a duty to determine. all senators who are going to vote on this nomination need to know the facts of this