strange, right? i mean, there will be in that hearing room, we expect, democratic senators asking questions of brett kavanagh and christine blasey ford. and then when it's the republican senators' time, they will not say anything and instead they will defer to this pinch hitter, this outside counsel who has come in. that does not happen in confirmation hearings. we think that it hasn't happened in decades, if at all, in modern times. that announcement that they were going to do that over the objections of one of the two witnesses at the hearing, and then the announcement that they had hired somebody but we're not allowed to know who it is, it's all so weird. >> you know, i'm ready to stand corrected by a senate historian, but i believe there has never been, never been outside counsel asking questions in a confirmation hearing. only in the major and unusual and special investigation hearings like watergate have they done that. so it's beyond unusual. i believe in confirmation hearings.