believable or not. a testimonial document they only stipulate to the facts. okay. but that would get us further than we were. not everybody was spoken to. time frame, one week. the mueller probe, we re always saying these things take forever. one week i can tell you right now director wray is going to put the right people on top of this. whatever that squad needs, the fbi will open up a special inquiry which means fbi headquarters will have oversight and will bring folks in tdy, dispatch whatever resources to get it done. is one week enough time? if it s just to exonerate judge kavanaugh and they don t find any there there, yes. if it opens up something else, it could potentially take longer. that will be what we call the pickle in the last debate. if they come back and say we found something new. now there are two big things you
accuser s involved, because if they can t corroborate it, he deserves that disclosure. i think his sworn statement is through his lawyer. if that s true, it doesn t have the same value that others to in terms of if you re lying. if he ll talk to them under penalty of law and tell them what he knows and doesn t, i think that will go a long way but at the end of the day, if this comes back uncorroborated, are you okay with that and do you believe that would mean no more on this point and whatever you feel about the judge s jurisprudence is fair game? i think it s unlikely that it s going to come back with the fbi saying dr. ford was lying and brett kavanaugh was tell thing truth. i think we would have seen him willing to testify on behalf of his friend. instead we had this odd thing where he couldn t do speaking in public.
think would be relevant. the first is the yearbook, eyes roll on the republican side of the aisle. are you going to look at what he said high school? his character is an issue. you think they look at this? they would but here is where the devil gets into the details. typically an fbi background is for judicial nominees or new agents coming in or five-year reinvestigations for top-secret security clearances. the fbi goes back as far as 18. they look at you from your time as an adult forward. they may not have gone back that far. they ll talk to folks in the neighborhood, yes. they ll talk to folks he may have worked with while he was in high school but they typically don t go past the 18th birthday. how do we know if he ll do this or not? under these circumstances, chris, all hands on deck. i guarantee they will do an exhaustive and full investigation into this. you like the calendar, why? for a number of reasons.
forcefully, the other side, and accusations started going back and forth about what democrats were really trying to do, what republicans were really trying to do. how did flake take it? there were a couple of encouraging moments. you saw the result which was that he came out and stood firm. this really, frankly, is all hanging on his willingness. he voted to move forward with the committee process to show good faith with his caucus. at the end of the day what will keep this week a week is his willingness and several other undecided senators to be clear they re not going to vote for cloture or kavanaugh until we get the report back from the fbi. i want to get into the details of it. in terms of your time in there and, look, you ll work but you have a good reputation, you re someone you can work with.
rose from his chair. here s the scene. walked to the back of the room, i didn t know if they were going throughout to talk or throw down and then there was chit chat. something s happing, something s happing. soon flake returns and turned everything upside down. here s a moment. i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi to do an investigation limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there. we re going to get into what tuz that mean? what happened? but how it happened, that we can get straight from the source. democrat from delaware, senator chris coons. i know you wanted to see what they want in this situation. but when i talked to you last