p.m. eastern on c-span. is also online at c-span.org, four listen on the free radio app. more congressional election coverage tonight from montana as incumbent democratic senator jon tester meets his republican challenger matt rosen dale for a debate. c-span will have live coverage at 90 5 p.m. eastern, and that's also on her website and radio app. radio app.ite and >> alex, recount for us what happened in the senate committee meeting just briefly. >> it seemed to be had in towards a normal confirmation vote, which would have sent brett kavanaugh to the floor for confirmation on tuesday. but then everything changed when jeff flake -- he disappeared and was gone. he did not speak as other

republican senators did in support of kavanaugh even though he's issued a statement supporting kavanaugh. as the vote was approaching there was whispering going on behind the deus. it was clear something was afoot. that is when word started to leak that in fact flake was having second thoughts and he wanted -- he was willing to vote no if the chairman, chuck grassley, did not agree to postpone the ultimate floor vote and support a request for supplemental fbi investigations into some of these allegations that the committee members heard in riveting detail thursday when christine glossy forward talked ordut -- christine blasey f talked about a sexual assault attempt by kavanaugh when they were in high school and capital's angry not --

kavanaugh's angry denials. >> there was talk of a possible weekend session to move forward with the nomination. they are not going to be meeting until monday. what happened? >> the ultimate vote will be postponed beyond next week. what they have asked for and agreed to is a supplemental fbi investigation supplemental to the background check and have already done. the investigation would talk to ford saysses that were present at this high school party 36 years ago. the soonest capital will come to the floor is the following week. there really was no reason for mcconnell to russia through. yes, he did on friday evening proceednsensus to to the calendar. democrats were fine with agreeing to that because we are

now looking at a tuesday vote. we are looking at a vote on the following tuesday depending on what the fbi comes up with. >> senator jeff flake asking for the investigation. they could take no more than a week. there were questions as to have president trump would call for the investigation, whether the senate or a senator could call for that. in the end president trump said yes. how did that come about? >> grassley was very adamant congress does not have power to direct the fbi in what to do. he>> argued these background checks are courtesy that the white house provides to the nominee. help vet the it is up to the white house. trump requested the supplemental investigation. it is only a week. it will not push the nominee beyond the election if the fbi

comes back and find there is nothing to report. also, when the fbi looked into india hill's halep -- anita theys allegations in 1991, could not any corroboration for the charges. in retrospect people wondered how hard it looked, like an fbi investigation could potentially help the nominee. the bottom line is it was clear to everyone that without an additional investigation that flick in the other swing republicans, lisa murkowski and susan collins, they would vote no. he had to agree to it. since it is only a week long extension of the background check it was not such a huge concession. >> he talked about senate procedure. what happens from here on out in terms of getting to that confirmation vote? >> as leader mcconnell

announced, all 51 republican senators support of motion to proceed to the executive calendar. that has to happen before there is a cloture vote, which is about two and debate on the nominee and the final debate to confirm the nominee. it is a very preliminary hurdle. every republican agreed to it as part of this deal. the democrats were fine with going along with it because they don't want to comment -- com e in on saturdays either. >> we will look for your updates. thanks a lot. >> things for having me. 's highlights from this week's senate judiciary committee on the nomination of capital air tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. eastern time on c-span. all of his confirmation hearings are also on c-span.org, and

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