. >> lfert, -- all right, that's it. thank you, thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> i'm just going to make a short statement. obviously our nominee will not take any questions. but i just had a pleasant conversation with judge kavanaugh. mr. grassley: he and i have not interacted a lot in our lifetime. so getting acquainted with him again. is very posh. -- important. he

. >> lfert, -- all right, that's it. thank you, thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> i'm just going to make a short statement. obviously our nominee will not take any questions. but i just had a pleasant conversation with judge kavanaugh. mr. grassley: he and i have not interacted a lot in our lifetime. so getting acquainted with him again. is very posh. -- important. he's a respected jurist and the court he sits on, outstanding opinions that i think are going to be gone through by every lawyer at least on our committee. going to have an approval process, hopefully we get it done quickly. but it's going to be thorough and going to be done right. and do what we can to accommodate everybody's interests. in the end, i think the record speaks for itself. the most outstanding thing that affords this person a chance for confirmation in the united states senate. to be on the vacanc