the process and how seriously should it be take then and how should it affect the hearing and the vote schedule ed d by the t committee already scheduled for friday? >> andrea, i just read it, and it is horrifying. it is important to note that it is an affidavit and she has sign signed it under perjury or law. so people don't do this randomly. it needs to be investigated, absolutely. but let me step back for a minute and are remind e everybody that what we do as a senate today and how we react to the allegation, and what message we send by how we deal with them is critically important. if the senate were to switch this aside and dismiss mrs. ford and do what the president said, and start to call the allegations of she was drunk, we will send a message to young girls once again as we did in 1991 to be quiet, sit down and don't talk. and what is that message to