. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was day 617 of the trump administration, and it appears that in the last 24 hours three women may have changed the course of history. they are dr. christine blasey ford, anna maria archeza and maria gallagher. dr. ford gave that emotional testimony yesterday, and those last two women s names, they are the women who stopped a u.s. senator in an elevator today. they stopped jeff flake and held that door open because he had just announced he was going to vote yes on judge kavanaugh. they didn t want that to happen until he had heard them out and looked into their eyes, and what they said in that elevator door appears to have led a u.s. senator to change his mind and force a delay and call in the fbi. their words have now reverberated around this
testimony likewise was really something that i haven t seen before. it was incredible. this is what the president put out later today, quote, i ve ordered the fbi to conduct a supplemental investigation to update judge kavanaugh s file. as the senate has requested this update must be limit instead scope and completed in less than one week. then a few hours ago he said this, just started tonight our seventh fbi investigation of judge brett kavanaugh. he will someday be recognized as a truly great justice of the united states supreme court. it turns out that senator flake came around with the help of his close friend in the senate, chris coops, democrat of delaware who got emotional when talking about flake and his brave decision. i think he showed courage and determination today. senator flake is a genuine conservative. he s written a book about the conscience of a conservative. he and i do not share a lot of
veteran agent. let me ask you about a polygraph test for kavanaugh. is he under any obligation, and if he passes, if he says no, i don t want to take one, does that get noted somewhere? absolutely it will be offered, and i ve seen it done. i have personally been involved in derogatory allegations against nominees where a polygraph was taken and, in fact, in those cases it s cleared the nominee. so dr. ford took a polygraph exam. judge kavanaugh will be offered one, and if he refuses, it will be noted, and i m going to tell you something. with the number of people believing that dr. judge kavanaugh lied somewhere in the nomination process or yesterday regarding some small things and/or some big things, he may have a problem taking a polygraph exam. i would be surprised if he agrees to take one. wow, and barbara, what is what s their ability to compel
remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? you re asking about blackout. i don t know, have you? could you answer the question, judge? that s not happened. is that your answer? yeah, and i m curious if you have. i have no drinking problem. the swetnick thing is a joke. that is a farce. would you like to say more about it? no. did the word ralph you used i already said answered the question. did it relate to alcohol? i like beer. i like beer. i don t know if you do. do you like beer senator, or not? what do you like to drink? the next one is senator what do you like to drink? i welcohatever the committee wants to do. i want to know what you want to do. i m innocent. i m innocent of this charge. then you re prepared for an fbi investigation. they don t reach conclusions. you reach the conclusions, senator. but they do investigate questions.
the day before and not at him. he also called the attacks on brett kavanaugh a con job by the democrats and wondered aloud if george washington had ever faced any me, too, allegations of sexual misconduct. thursday, just yesterday was, in fact, and for all time one for the history books because of that split screen, dr. christine blasey ford told her story in testimony that was raw and measured. the tears and the anger actually came instead from the federal judge. brett kavanaugh called the whole thing a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled by anger at his president and revenge for the clinton s. and today kavanaugh s nomination made it out of committee where it then came to a halt as we all as we said must now wait for the fbi to do its job. that s our look at the week that was, and that is our broadcast on a friday night and for this week, thank you so very much for being here with us. have a good weekend and good