into some prolonged fishing expedition as you put it for his part, this is the seventh background probe for judge kavanaugh, still the president says, look, i want the bureau to do its job. but, quickly. i want them to too to do a y comprehensive investigation. whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. i want them to do that. i want it to be comprehensive. i actually think it s a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think it s actually a good thing. not a bad thing. i think it s a good thing. now with that being said, i would like it to go quickly. i think the fbi should interview anybody that they want within reason. anybody they want within reason. now, there have been the three allegations that we know of misconduct. all of which have been denied by judge kavanaugh. but democrats, as can you imagine, are beginning to hope to expand the pool of possible interview subjects.
understand when an investigator gets into a room with someone they re interviewing, that s supposed to be organic questioning. we don t know what the subjects are going to say. if today the white house says you can only interview these four people and one of those four people mentions someone else or a supermarket or drinking, the door has to be opened. so it s impossible to say that the scope is going to be the scope for tomorrow, for the scope until sunday. and i have to say that if i am brett kavanaugh, i probably would be weighing whether i would pull myself out of this. this is going to go in a lot of different directions and it s impossible to control it by limiting the scope today to the scope tomorrow. this is something you and i have talked about in the past and this was coming up a lot at the time that the president was attacking the fbi and people s willingness to speak to the fbi and whether or not it damages their credibility. you got the former fbi director james comey
energizes the gop, it also energized democrats to go out and vote. the president sent a tweet where he basically argues democrats in congress are already raising questions about the time and the scope of this fbi kavanaugh investigation. what is the democratic game plan if this new background probe on kavanaugh doesn t come up with anything of substance or significance? well, amon, what s going to happen is they will proceed to vote. most of the democrats were already united against kavanaugh. there s just two outstanding democrats, most notely, these red state democrats of heitkamp and joe mansichin. they are from states who like trump the most. democrats are united against kavanaugh, most republicans are united behind kavanaugh. so there s just, you know, a few senators who are still left out
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let s go to a former fbi assistant director. chris, welcome back. thank you. it is unclear what professor ford is asking for, a background probe or criminal probe. can you talk to me about the difference? yeah, there is a big difference. the fbi has no independent jurisdiction to open up a stand alone investigation of rape allegations or assault allegations that may have taken 36 years ago. that is a local crime. unless it involves a federal official or on federal land or has some federal nexus, there jurisdiction to do it. but they can reopen the background investigation to round out facts to have a decision making authority hire somebody or not hire somebody.