Protesters roamed the halls outside and yelled at senators, including Flake hours earlier as he tried to get into an elevator. As Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said, it was “not normal.”Then Flake, R-Ariz., made his move, signalling to Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., to come talk in a small private room off the hearing room dais. Inside the anteroom, Flake had met Coons and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee. According to one person in the room, Flake tried to reach FBI Director Christopher Wray on the telephone, but ended up talking to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. “We’ve got to make sure that we do due diligence.”The short delay would allow time for an FBI background investigation, Flake said.

Source: National Post September 29, 2018 06:22 UTC