very stoic. you know you saw the result which is he came out and stood firm. this really frankly is all hanging on his willingness. he vote ood to move forward and show good faith with his caucus. but at the end of the day what will keep this week a week is his willingness and several undecided senators to say they re not going to vote until they hear what happened back with the fbi. in terms of your time there and you re known as a bridge builder and the senate s supposed to be about that but you have a good reputation of you re someone you can work with. did you ever imagine that in this, this conected a scene we were just sitting shoulder to shoulder 24 hours ago having this conversation and it was like what a horrible day.
everybody says anita hill it was a limited scope of people they could talk to. here you could slice this a lot of different ways. let s put up a statement about what this is being called, this supplemental fbi background investigation. it s not a criminal investigation. current credible allegations. which are those and whom do they reach out to? what do you know? well, chris, as you know the fbi does not take direction from me, they take direction from the fbi director and from the white house. it s an executive branch agency. so i can talk about what i hope they will do, what i think would be reasonable for them to do but i m not able to direct them in any way. if they take up a supplemental background investigation they would question some of the folks who have already come forward in the public and made statements
bible. it s from thomas fuller. and the fbi is not starting a criminal investigation or anything like it. a in truth, we re not exactly sure what they ll be looking at. at this point, we know more about what it is not not a new criminal look into the guilt or innocence. it s not going to be about veracity. they re not going to say who s lying. but we do know it s limited in scope, whatever that means, and certainly limited in duration. the last may be the most troubling. a name we ve not heard much in this process now just became a big deal. christopher wray, the head of the fbi. now, the president, the white house, they can make suggestions to him. but technically he decides what he does and how long it takes. it s really his call. and if he says, i can t do it in this time, or if they come back in a week and say, you know, we found some stuff we need to dig into a little bit more, well then what? the supplemental fbi background
compromise and common ground. you could almost see teddy and john smiling down on their colleagues and their consternation. all of the sudden, you hears senators coons and flake, from different parties, very different pages when it comes to kavanaugh s fitness, but they both saw this process as what it was lacking. so then something happened. atypical, without being forced, not because there was a quid pro quo, flake used his all-important vote to do something just because he thought it was right. to be fair to the allegations, to the accusers, and to the judg judge, let s remove this specter of unknown about the allegations and have the fbi investigate. amen. but just like the darkest before dawn quote, this is not as true as it seems. it is not darkest before dawn. it s darkest around midnight. and the quote is not from the
on for a long time. really two men know exactly how this went down. and one of them is hear tonight. democrat from del water and if the fbi looked into the alligations at any depth, his partying may be relevant. did he lie under oath? we have someone who can help answer that question from first-hand experience. friday night. let s get after it. one week, that s what the fbi is being told they have to contukt a supplemental investigation into the shocking algaglegation against judge kavanaugh. critical vote that could have set the stage for kavanaugh s swift conformation. not now. so it seems it was all set in motion after republican senator, jeff flake, seen as a swing vote