joining us timothy o'brien, and executive editor for bloomberg opinion. michaelthis? and the encounter we saw there, with the elevator with those two women the republicans thought they had basically this done. it was going to be in the hands of mcconnell. today on it, and the president was very confident about it. they were moving forward in that direction, but it was flay, as we know, who put the brakes on the entire thing. he was standing in this hallway. the republicans saying to him, you shouldn't do this. the democrats saying, like, like you want this process to have some credible, so you said allot this to go forward to clear his name. you write that they squeezed into an oversigh phone booth, and he gave them a sense, probably got to give this thing a week. a high le contentious issues the and they couldn't get him on the phone, so they ended up speaking to rosenstein. because of length of the testimony, but at the same time it could take about a week to look into this. flates believe this would give process to a cover to some of the republicans to vote fo