Sen. Lee to Kavanaugh: ‘You Have No Authority to Call for’ an FBI Probe, But My Democratic Colleagues Do

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LEE: “I have colleagues today who have repeatedly asked for an FBI investigation, and there are some ironies in this, ironies that — at least two levels. In the first place, at least one of my colleagues, at least one of them, had access to this information many, many weeks before anyone else did, had the ability and I believe the moral duty and obligation to report those facts to the FBI at which point they could have and would have been investigated by the FBI. And that could have been handled in such a way that didn’t turn this into a circus, one that has turned your life upside down and that of your family and that of Dr. Ford and her family upside down. I consider this most unfortunate, given that this was entirely within the control of at least one of my democratic colleagues to do this. The second level of irony here is that while calling repeatedly for an investigation by the FBI, an investigation over which you have no ability to control, by the way, an investigation you have no authority to call for, while calling for an investigation, we’re in the middle of a conversation that involves questions to you. So I ask my Democratic colleagues, if you have questions for Judge Kavanaugh, ask him. He’s right here. If that’s really what you want is the truth, ask him questions right now. If you have questions of other witnesses, then for the love of all that is sacred and holy, participate in the Committee investigations that have been going on as you have not been participating."