When McConnell knows he has the votes, he'll call the vote any time after this Thursday.
Agreed. This is all about maneuvering Flake, Murkowski and Collins into a position where it becomes very difficult to say no.
“You wanted to go the extra mile-and-a-half, we went the extra mile-and-a-half. The guy has come up clean seven times in FBI investigations. What else do you want?”
That might even swing Manchin and Heitkamp if they care at all about remaining in the Senate.
“All the President said is that he would not interfere with the scope of the investigation (an excellent move).”
I can’t find his comments but if I remember correctly he was saying there are no limitations on the investigation and FBI could basically do what it wanted. It sounded pretty open ended and there are reports that the RATS have a list of 24 additional people they want interviewed. This is an excellent move only if you want this investigation to go on forever and the nomination to die a slow death.