obstruct, and resist. the senate must vote. now, listen to the president s tone this afternoon with the president of chile, talking about the very same hearing. he called professor ford a fine woman and went on to say this. of judge kavanaugh s testimony, and of professor ford. it was incredible. it was an incredible moment, i think, in the history of our country. but certainly she was a very credible witness. she was very good in many respects, and i think that i don t know if this is going to continue onward or are we going to get a vote. but, again, i m here, so i m not out there watching because i can t be. i have great respect, although maybe we ll go watch together, okay? we ll watch together. but i think it will work out very well for the country. i just want it to work out well for the country. if that happens, i m happy. so the president went from con job to credible witness, and i just want it to work out well for the country. now, the president wasn t the
investigation here. but, again, the idea that it s been put up and i think accepted by a broad number of people that we need an fbi investigation in spite of what joe biden said years ago and what other people have said and what judge kavanaugh and others have said about these are not dispositive investigations as to looking for any kind of criminality or any kind of conclusions, the reality is the perception is out there, and it s not good for judge kavanaugh. i m actually hopeful that this is done, it s done well, that it is made available to people to show that it was done well. and then we can move on. senator, if it s good for judge kavanaugh, how come judge kavanaugh refused to actually say he would like an fbi investigation? exactly. and it was professor ford saying she as someone who was in the republican leadership and has dealt with these types of things, when democrats are demanding in fact, democrats who are never going to vote for anything you want are demandin
women were i mean, that capitol was full of people, full of people. it wasn t just that elevator. and the power of women s voices broke the power of donald trump to control this process, and i think that power is only going to grow. senator, do you agree with van s kind of assessment that it s the power of women on this? i don t think any question that dr. ford gave very compelling testimony, that, you know, raised a lot of concerns in people. obviously senator collins, senator murkowski, but i think others. i actually think this has actually worked out very well for republicans. i know that people say, oh, mcconnell is upset and i can tell you, as someone who sat in that caucus and was a solid would have been a solid vote for judge kavanaugh, i actually feel pretty good that we re doing this investigation because i think it just serves judge kavanaugh better. i mean, to have this cloud of looking like his nomination got pushed through by a bunch of folks who at least it s be