that they don t plan to reopen kavanaugh s fbi background check for now. republicans relenting and scheduling a public hearing after a dramatic day on capitol hill. the democrats have spent weeks and weeks searching for any possible reason that the nomination should be delayed. for too long women have made serious allegations of abuse and have been ignored or dragged through the mud. reporter: judge kavanaugh can only afford to lose two republican votes if all democrats vote against his nomination and a number of key republican senators have been calling for additional information before voting on his confirmation. if judge kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. i would have voted no. this week absent her being able to tell her story. reporter: president trump strongly defending his supreme court nominee, but choosing not
democrats have already said they are willing to do is to vote for reopening the government at funding levels that the republicans have established and that the democrats don t like. essentially what happened here is democrats are saying they are prepared to pass a republican budget for two months while negotiations continue. we just can t have other extraneous staff. an acknowledgement belated earlier talks on the 2011 debt ceiling got the party nowhere. as david plouffe told the wall street journal looking back we did too much accommodating to them. the only way this is going to be resolved, both the shut dound and the debt ceiling is republicans relenting. talk to republicans and they are sure it is the white house that will relent. asked last week whether he believed president obama s steadfast vows not to negotiate over the debt ceiling paul ryan