During a strange and unprecedented twist in the Kavanaugh nomination process, a pained-looking Jeff Flake said he supported a one-week break so the FBI can investigate the charges — but Flake also voted yes on moving the vote to the Senate floor. Even senators on the committee seemed confused as to what they were voting on and/or agreeing to. But ultimately, Jeff Flake is suggesting that he will not vote to confirm Kavanaugh without an FBI investigation, albeit one that is limited in time and scope. Lisa Murkowski later said she agreed with that plan, and the GOP senate leadership appears to be on board. The fevered debate that we’ve seen over the past 24 hours is going to continue for up to another week. Maybe. Here’s the latest on the process.

+ After indicating he would support the nomination, Jeff Flake may have been swayed when he was confronted in an elevator by sexual assault survivors.

+ Trump responded to the last-minute changes in a weirdly measured way.

+ Bar Hopping: While it appears that Thursday’s hearings only changed one mind (and that one only part of the way) on the Judiciary Committee, minds outside of the room were changed fully and dramatically. Both Kavanaugh and Lindsay Graham spoke/screamed of the judge’s support from the American Bar Association. The American Bar Association is calling for a delay in the proceedings and a full investigation. Kavanaugh repeatedly touted his Yale bonafides. The Dean of the Yale Law School has called for a delay. The simple truth is that the investigations being considered today should have taken place before the hearings. Perhaps then, the hearings, that left an already torn American political landscape in tatters, could have been avoided. I’ve never gotten so drunk that I blacked out and lost my short term memory. But after watching our government at work this week, I’m gonna try like hell to pull it off.

+ WaPo: “The subject was supposed to be the selection of a new justice on the Supreme Court. Instead Thursday’s showdown on Capitol Hill was a raw, scorched-earth confrontation across the nation’s most emotionally wrenching divides. This was men against women, right against left, a cascade of recriminations, explosions of anger, hours of tears and sobs.”

+ If you need a break from the seriousness of this situation, someone mashed up Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony with the hamburger scene from Pulp Fiction.