even after one of grassley s own staffers had to resign last week after old sexual harassment allegations against him emerged. this has been a huge sticking point for democrats, ever since dr. ford s allegation came to light. and today they got senator flake on board with that plan. and two more republican senator, senator susan collins of maine and senator lisa murkowski of alaska who as of yet remain undecided on whether they will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh have come out in full support of senator flake s call for an fbi investigation. so has senator joe manchin, whose office insists that he is still undecided as well. so this is a huge thing. the other thing that s huge here is that a full senate floor vote that had originally been scheduled for as early as tomorrow has now been postponed, probably for at least a week to make time for the fbi to do its investigation.
for kavanaugh, he thought that that would be enough for republicans, but then he felt that the process was completely broken. and so he reached out to senator chris coons and said, look, the american people do not have a good feeling about this. they do not like where the senate. they don t like how this is unfolding. so even if we have a partisan vote, he told chris coons, he said let s try to get a bipartisan process. and he realized that so far the process has been completely broken. no one had trust in it. and so that was really his motivation. he has been talking for months ever since he announced his retirement about the degradation of the senate. and so this has been a mission of his. and so trying to bring some comity to the process, collegiality. so he started huddling with chris coons. other democrats got involved and started talking to him, and he said he wanted the democrats to agree publicly that one week was going to be enough and that they would accept an fbi investigati
every woman who actually knows brett kavanaugh has come forward to say he is not that kind of guy. he has been at the highest level of public service under tremendous scrutiny, six fbi investigations, and we missed the sophomore junior gang rapist. we didn t miss it. it s a bunch of garbage. there s lindsey graham talking about every woman who actually knows brett kavanaugh has come forward to say he s not that kind of guy. he forgot about the woman who came before him yesterday in that hearing room and said that brett kavanaugh and his friend tried to rape her, the two of them together. a bunch of garbage, says lindsey graham. dr. christine blasey ford said that brett kavanaugh and his friend mark judge tried to rape her. it was an attempted rape according to dr. ford by two
aisle, you know me. you know i try to be fair to nominees that come before us, and i respect this process and humanity of those, even with those whom i passionately disagree. if i were convinced this was nothing more than a partisan hit job to take down a good man past the election i would not stand for it. an investigation would be helpful because dr. ford s recollection shared with us so powerfully yesterday of her assault were searing but incomplete. dr. ford testified credibly about painful memories she s carried with her to this day. the feeling of her hand clasped over her hand and her not being able to breathe, the sound of laughter while she was pinned on a bed, the weight of a body on top of hers groping her and the feeling of relief fleeing the house. dr. ford testified with 100% certainty that the person who assaulted her was brett
investigate this matter thoroughly, but there have been two other allegations that have been made that should be investigated. they should not just be left out there. and so there are three women who have come forward, and their stories should be investigated. they should be listened to. they should not just be brushed aside, diminished or degraded. and so i m hoping that the fbi will do a thorough job for a background check. if someone was applying for a job and had this much i don t care what the job is, if you re applying for a federal job of some import, the fbi does background checks. they would not leave such serious allegations of misconduct uninvestigated, and they should explore and investigate those other two allegations as well. and lastly, this is speculative, but let s say either way, whether judge kavanaugh is confirmed or not, he still sits on the federal bench. if democrats control the united states senate and control the congress next year, do you anticipate that d