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Flake says Kavanaugh hearings are ‘tearing the country apart’
By Mark Moore
September 30, 2018 | 7:05pm | Updated
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake said being confronted by two sexual assault victims in a Capitol elevator and the testimony from the accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh combined to make him realize the confirmation process was “tearing the country apart.â€
“I don’t think anybody expected what happened on Friday to happen. And I can’t say that I did either,†the Arizona lawmaker told CBS’ “60 Minutes†in an interview that aired Sunday.
“I just knew that we couldn’t move forward, that I couldn’t move forward without hitting the pause button. Because, what I was seeing, experiencing, in an elevator and watching it in committee and just thinking, this is tearing the country apart,†he continued.
Flake and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, launched a bipartisan effort last Friday to delay a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh for a week so the FBI could investigate the sexual impropriety claims made against him by Christine Blasey Ford.
Coons said his phone was “blowing up†with people relating to him their accounts of being sexually attacked as Ford testified.
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