Jeff Flake, Chris Coons Set to Appear on 60 Minutes to Talk 'Last-Minute Compromise' on Kavanaugh

[DonViejo]

Jeff Flake‘s public call for a one-week delay on the Brett Kavanaugh final vote was ordered by President Donald Trump yesterday, and now he and one of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will be on 60 Minutes to talk about the behind-the-scenes negotiations.

Flake and Chris Coons will be sitting down with Scott Pelley, the show announced this afternoon, to discuss the “last minute-compromise.”

Link to tweet

Flake told The Atlantic last night that he spoke with Coons before making his decision:

And then there was [Democratic Senator] Chris Coons making an impassioned plea for a one-week extension to have an FBI investigation. And you know, if it was anybody else I wouldn’t have taken it as seriously. But I know Chris. We’ve traveled together a lot. We’ve sat down with Robert Mugabe. We’ve been chased by elephants, literally, in Mozambique. We trust each other. And I thought, if we could actually get something like what he was asking for—an investigation limited in time, limited in scope—we could maybe bring a little unity…

Just these last couple of days—the hearing itself, the aftermath of the hearing, watching pundits talk about it on cable TV, seeing the protesters outside, encountering them in the hall. I told Chris, “Our country’s coming apart on this—and it can’t.” And he felt the same.

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[Iliyah]

1. I believe Chris Coons helped and supported Flake's

decision. Kudos to both!

[marylandblue]

2. That doesn't sound very promising at all

Mark Judge will say he doesn't remember, and Flake will say- ohh they investigated and that's that. Meanwhile, the country will still be divided and there will be more mistrust of the Senate, the courts and the FBI either way.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The country many be united Kavanaugh does not have the character to be in the high court.

[marylandblue]

6. The right wing is not seeing it that way

They are making excuses for his behavior. And it disturbs me that Flake does not see the painfully obvious, but just wants some mythical bridge over the political divide because his friend Coons asked him to.

And we are supposed to impressed that they met with an African dictator and looked at elephants together? Did they also sing Kumbaya on the savannah?

[Gothmog]

3. I may have to watch this show

[Lucinda]

5. This is how our congress members should be behaving...treating each other

as peers and friends, and working through their differences to move us forward. Hopefully we will see more of this.

[marylandblue]

7. We will see less of it, because Flake is chickening out of the Senate

And he had prior opportunities to do more than give speeches, but he chose not to.