and i have conveyed to my friends and colleagues that i had wished we would take a one-week pause. one week only. not to spread this out past the next election, not to pursue some partisan goal, but to allow a professional fbi interview with everyone who may have relevant information. >> i have proposed and talked to some of my colleagues, and i know others have as well as a finite period for an fbi investigation, maybe a week. if we want to show dr. ford respect, we give her the respect of having her case heard and the evidence looked at. i look at it as what are you hiding? what would it hurt? if judge kavanaugh is so sure that he has this corroborating evidence and what this calendar means and what these things mean, then what is he afraid of if we just spend one week looking at the evidence? >> democrats at the committee meeting to vote on moving judge kavanaugh's name out of