senators, that it will be very difficult. but if there is a way for the republicans to get him through, they will. all right. well, it will be a huge week in washington with the senate judiciary committee. professor gloria brown marshall, thank you very much. thank you. well, tropical depression florence now continues to cause problems across the carolinas. where are the flooding concerns today and the rest of the week? we ll delve into that next. ( ) it s the details
dan in dana, what have you learned since this broke? well, it is too early to say whether or not this is a game changer. but are arianna is right, at this moment again this just broke within the last few hours, republicans are saying that they are standing firm, that they are going to move forward on this committee vote on thursday despite what we were jus ariann saying we can t just hold this vote on thursday, we have to conduct a thorough investigation. those conversations are going to be going on until we hear from a couple of important players. two republican female senators. lisa murkowski of alaska, susan collins of maine, they are the pivotal votes everyone separate frseparate even separate from these allegations in determines whether brett kavanaugh will be
but you re right about dianne feinstein. republicans have been frustrated because she received these allegations all the way back in sdwrul. that july, before the hearing, bhe they went into closed sessions. and she only every are ereferre fbi after the hearing and just before this big vote. but now she has herself released a statement saand she says i support mrs. ford s decision to share her story and now it is in the hands of the fbi to conduct an investigation. this should happen before the senate moves forward on this nominee. remember, already they had been fighting about documents. they had wanted documents to be produced and senator grassley had said not. and now the democrats as you see feinstein is asking for this to be investigated. so we ll have to see how grassley handles this coming up on monday. we will indeed.
this is a supreme court nominee now with a serious credibility issue. so how do you see this playing out? i see it playing out with the republicans based on what they have said so far still backing this nominee. when senator orrin hatch said within three hours of the controversy around the missing 100,000 documents that calf you gnaw oig was going to be confirmed anyway instead of a stage in which they will draw the line and they are going to say no matter what happens, we will push him forward. but just like in the situation with clarence thomas when he was before the committee with allegations against him by anita hill, the idea of this person will be confirmed anyway but then the case will follow them well into their years on the bench as it has justice clarence thomas. yeah, you can t help but think about that episode with
a supreme court justice or not. now throw in these allegations, it will be a very big open question whether or not they are going to say the same thing that the democrats are saying. perhaps there needs to be more of an investigation before there is a vote. now, these two senators i just mentioned are not on the judiciary committee, but they certainly have a lot of sway given the fact that they hold the cards as to whether or nott justice. i m in colorado right now starting do a story on kind of a key suburban district that will help determine whether republicans keep control of the house or not. what is the big vote being bloc some suburban women. and i ve already heard from republicans as they were getting this washington post story on their phones saying, whoa, this could be a big, big problem.