LOL, thank you for responding. I see this as a game of chess.  Moves and counter moves.  There is no way Trump could have known about the letter.  That was a move that feinstein played and for better or worse we need to adapt and make our counter move.  Grassley said it multiple times that the letter was a huge breach of the public trust.  Grahm even got his 15 minutes of fame rebuking the handling of the letter.  This will come back to haunt them.  I tend to think feinstein perceives herself to be invincible and untouchable.  I hope Trump is the president to put her to the test and bring her down. I wish that it was as cut and dry.  With every democrat in the hearing claiming that they could not, in good conscience vote for Justice Kavanaugh without an FBI investigation.  But even after this investigation is over and concluded in Justice Kavanaughs favor, do you want to bet any of them will vote for him.  I don't. This can work against them as well.  We will play sound bytes of them crying for an investigation.  We will have investigated, and they will still vote against us.  This will show the voting public that the democrats are feckless.  They are not satisfied no matter what we do, so why should we bother capitulating to them.  We shouldn't.  This way when ruth bader ginsburg is finally put in a coffin, we can say that there will be no negotiations.  There will be no delays.  The democrats have proven to be not trustworthy, and are not to be submitted to. This will work in our favor.  I like your thinking @Lincoln_Ford -- but would personally rather have the Justice seated so it's 5-4 and everything is finished in DAYS -- and that's not really enough time to dig into the sleazy, scummy lawyers and all the GoFundMe money CBF is getting. However, there is the strong possibility that letter constituted mail fraud . . . IF this was a set-up from the beginning.  Don't misunderstand.  I wanted this confirmation today as well.  I knew these hearings were a sham, and a stall tactic.  Trump is playing the hands he is dealt.  You will win some and you will lose some.  I am not advocating for a drawn out investigation into Justice Kavanaugh.  The FBI can do that in 3 days and really piss the democrats off.  I would like to see a more in depth investigation into the slander of Justice Kavanaugh.  The ruin of this mans reputation should not go unpunished. As an aside, I believe that the GoFundMe pages for ford are a money laundering scheme to pay her without easily tracing it back to a single donor.  Either that or it is the democrats way of getting their minions to fund their exploits.