you know, yeah, it s great that they re going to do the fbi investigation now. i give i did notice that mr. flake was did seem moved by her testimony. so i think this is a positive development, but it s still been a very broken process. you saw what happened to him on the elevator today, right? i did. what did you think? mm-hmm. yeah. you know, the pain in that woman s voice is is being echoed around the country by a lot of people. during this whole ordeal, i got texts. i talked to people yesterday who were getting texts from people all over the country who were watching her testimony and crying and having to deal with their own experiences of sexual violence. it was just horrific.
nobody believed me. i didn t tell anyone, and you re telling all women that they don t matter, that they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happened to them, you re going to ignore them. that s what happened to me, and that s what you re telling all women in america, that they don t matter. they should just keep it to themselves because if they have told the truth, they re just going to help that man to power anyway. that s what you re telling all of these women. that s what you re telling me right now. look at me when i m talking to you. you re telling me that my assault doesn t matter, that what happened to me doesn t matter and that you re going to let people who do these things into power. that s what you re telling me when you vote for him. don t look away from me. look at me and tell me that it doesn t matter what happened to me, that you ll let people like that go into the highest court of the land and tell everyone what they can do to their bodies. do you ha
that. that probably refers to throwing up. i m known to have a weak stomach. did the word you used i already answered the question. if you re does it relate to alcohol? i like beer. i don t know if you do. do you like beer, senator? i don t know if it s boob f that s refers to flat ulens. devil s triangle? drinking game. three glasses in a triangle. and have you ever played quarters? no. okay. it s a quarter game. i don t believe that devil ace triangle is a drinking game, and wobble call you a girl s alum neas is being a girl s friend. what do you believe? alex, i don t know.
those numbers will only grow. noel, jeff flake calling for the investigation. could that ultimately be what sinks kavanaugh s nomination? and do republicans feel this was a betrayal? no, not at all. i think everybody understand what flake was feeling. when you looked at him when he came out of the committee, you is a saw he was conflicted. he s not a man that hides what he feels. and i think that, you know, like i said before, nobody is upset with flake for doing this for his conscience, for doing what he thinking is right for people to move on. let s be frank here. we didn t have the votes. lindsey graham even said, look, i m a practical man, i m a practical man, we don t have the votes. if this is what republicans that are on the fence need and maybe even democrats, i don t know, but if this is what somebody
there. what he said sounds like he saw what we all saw. he saw a credible woman there, a woman who risked abuse and ridicule, a woman whose own safety and that of her family is at stake all because she had the courage to tell her story, to answer every question put to her, questions about a devastating and intensely personal experience. we heard her voice. we heard the voices of the women who confronted senator flake, and we ve heard the voices of women across the country demanding an investigation, demanding the truth, voices of courage. and like i said, courage is contagious. i really want that to be true. we ve got a lot to talk about. john avlon is here, margaret hoover as well, philip mudd. they re all here with me, and we ll get into all of it when we come right back. my name is jeff sheldon,