and i am grateful beyond gratitude and then a woman in hollywood who wrote to fab girls maria gallagher ana mariailla they caroll jeff flake in an elevator with their voices and mess stories they urged him to stop cavanagh the magic of girl power now of course many one is impressed like this twenty one year old american man he said just like a harris today manipulated by a protester in the elevator. it was a young lady who's the top of an organization the george soros funds you can't make this up. and yes some really strong reactions to what these two women managed to do. thank you for that and i can't think of a better way to wrap up this show you all watching d.w. news from berlin we have more coming of the top of the hour with my colleague christine went to a do stay tuned for that in the meantime you can log on to the calls for around the clock news and information thank you for watching. we make up all but we want to have over three hundred thirty pipes. to several services. they want to show you the continents. are part of enjoying themselves as they share their stories their dreams and the

and the many expressions of gratitude that people have tweeted this man in germany said maria gallagher and ana mariailla the women who confronted jeff flake the only here is here they are representing everything that is good in this world their bravest hell and i am grateful beyond gratitude and then me here from this woman in hollywood who wrote to fab girls mary gallagher and ana maria killa they caroll jeff flake in an elevator with their voices on the. stories they urged him to stop cavanagh the magic of girl power and then there was a guy from washington d.c. who wrote i won't celebrate jeff flake for acting to delay the floor vote i'll celebrate the bravery of maria gallagher and anna maria killer for confronting senator flake with their own stories of assault and demond ing. and of course there were some people who impressed by what they did. there was a twenty one year old american man who saw it very differently he wrote jeff flake he got her wrist today and manipulated by a protester in the elevator this was no random protest this was a young lady who's at the top of an organization that g

>> reporter: ana maria archila and maria gallagher, both victims of sexual assault, imploring the senator to take a stand. >> look at me when i'm talking to you. you're telling me that my assault doesn't matter. what happens to me doesn't matter. and you're going to let people into power who do this. >> reporter: the protesters begging him to hold out for an fbi investigation of the sexual assault allegations against judge kavanaugh. >> why not wait for the investigation? >> i need to go to the hearing. >> reporter: when flake arrived in the committee room, it was clear, republicans were eager to move to a vote on kavanaugh. >> i found dr. ford's testimony credible, but i also found judge kavanaugh's testimony credible and sincere. >> reporter: but as flake looked on, democrats mounted an 11th hour appeal, calling for the fbi investigation president trump has resisted for weeks. >> where is the bravery in this room? what are you hiding? what would it hurt? judge kavanaugh could have easily said, "mr. president, for this to move forward, i want to at least clear my name, but mostly, i want

. >> those women, ana maria and maria gallagher, ready people who stood up. give them a round of applause for fighting for what they believed in until very bitter end. give them a round of applause. regular folks. just people. they put a personal face on the pain that so many people have been feeling watching this stuff, and that might have been the key to slowing this whole train down, and i'm so glad because i really believe we need applause. you know, emotions are running high on all sides and the stakes are just too high, not just for the future of the supreme court, but for the future of the whole country. you know, this week, judge kavanaugh and professor christine blasey ford both took oaths before the nation and then swore to an opposite set of facts, and the messy truth is, people are going to choose who to believe based on what they believe politically, and that's dangerous in a democracy. you know, after all, democrats are now saying #believewomen, but a few democrats embraced or supported bill clinton's accusers, and they were women. so that gives

. >> reporter: the sexual assault survivors, ana maria archila and maria gallagher, imploring the republicansenator from arizona to take a stand. >> i need to go to the hearing. i just issued a statement. i'll be saying more as well. >> reporter: after that drama played out on live tv, committee republicans were eager to get to business. >> there's simply no reason to deny judge kavanaugh a seat on the supreme court on the basis of evidence presented to us. >> reporter: as some democrats walked out in protest, others refused to back down on their calls for the fbi to investigate the sexual assault allegations against kavanaugh. >> i look at it this way, if we want to show dr. ford respect, we give her the respect of having her case heard and the evidence looked at. >> reporter: 30 minutes later another plea, this time from flake's close colleague, delaware democrat chris coons. >> this committee has failed. >> reporter: a short time la le. when they return two hours later, flake dropped a last-minute bipartisan bombshell. he says he'll vote yes on kavanaugh but only if the fbi is allowed to

then moments later at about 9:31, he was confronted by ana maria archila and maria gallagher as he was on his way to the panel's scheduled vote. after listening, visibly uncomfortable, as those two women poured their hearts out, senator flake demanded a one-week fbi investigation of the sexual assault allegations against judge kavanaugh. and now president trump has agreed. but all this is really -- it's far from over. there are real questions still to be addressed here, questions about judge kavanaugh's truthfulness, his truthfulness about teenage drinking. >> the drinking age as i noted was 18, so the seniors were legal. senior year in high school, people were legal to drink. >> the legal drinking age in maryland where brett kavanaugh went to high school increased to 21 at the end of his junior year while he was still 17. so when he says it was legal for him to drink, it's not true. and then there are questions about how much he drank during the summer that christine blasey ford says he assaulted her, and i want you to listen to this exchange. it's with senator sheldon whitehouse abou

maria gallagher and ana maria archilla put their bodies in front of the moving train that was the kavanaugh nomination this morning, and the miracle happened. the train stopped. jeff flake took his seat in the hearing room and we now know that he did something that senators in the middle of a partisan battle almost never do. you could work for years and years in the united states senate and never see this happen, but we saw jeff flake do it this morning. he listened. you never know when a senator is really listening because they're almost always pretending to listen. we didn't know jeff flake was really listening in that elevator, but the women looking into his eyes knew. and we didn't know jeff flake was listening in that hearing room, but we do now. and thanks to the experienced camera operators who knew jeff flake was the key vote, one camera stayed isolated on jeff flake when he was not speaking, and they never do that with the cameras, but they did today. when we watched this play out on live television, that was not the camera you saw. we were watching the normal shot of the camera on

elevator confrontation tweeted the afterward, maria gallagher on the left wrote in part, i feel relieved. jeff flake seems to have heard mine and ana maria archila's voices. she's 23 and never told anyone about her assault before today. the other one is from colombia. she now lives in new york. she works at the center for popular democracy, a nonprofit organization. >> that was really a powerful video there. >>> a man brett kavanaugh is hoping to replace returned to his hometown talking to kids about the constitution, but the confirmation battle was never far from anyone's mind, even if they were reluctant to discuss it. >> this is justice anthony m. kennedy. >> reporter: retired supreme court justice anthony m. kennedy was born and raised in sacramento and served. he served on the highest court from 1988 until this past summer. brett kavanaugh is one of his former clerks and is now seeking his mentor's seat on the court. getting him to comment is nearly impossible but he could have been referring to yesterday's tense day of confirmation hearings when he told the young people this. >> studying the constitution, talking about the importan

ana maria, i'm sorry, i had your name wrong in my prompter. that moment when you and maria gallagher friend and fellow activist confronted jeff flake in that elevator was so wrenching, it had the entire country stopped and watched with the two of you. we couldn't really hear what senator flake was saying back to you at the time. what was he saying? >> senator flake was simply saying thank you. i need to go. i want to go. all he wanted to do was that moment to end, that confrontation to end. maria and i had just met. maria was in the capitol for the first time. this was the first time she was telling her story, the first time she was speaking to an elected official. we had decided that if we had an opportunity to speak with him, we would make sure that he heard us. we would make sure that he felt the rage and the pain that women across the country are feeling in this moment watching the senate potentially put in the supreme court someone who is accused of violating women. >> "the washington post" piece on your story says that you actually had never told your parents about your sexual