CNN's Cuomo Praises Flake: 'You Could Almost See Teddy and John Smiling Down on Their Colleagues and Their Consternation'

During Friday night's edition of Cuomo Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo closed his show by praising Senator Jeff Flake's decision to demand an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, which would delay the Senate vote on his confirmation for about a week: "Just as it seemed our Senators could feed nothing but their own base political instincts and that a SCOTUS member, a swing vote no less, would be made as a rush to judgment with so much hanging in the air and over the head of the nominee. And then the sunshine of compromise and common ground. You could almost see Teddy (Kennedy) and John (McCain) smiling down on their colleagues and their consternation.”  It actually seems more likely that Teddy is smiling about the fact that Senate Democrats have taken a page out of his playbook when it comes to smearing and slandering Republican judicial nominees.  Cuomo continued: "All of the sudden, you hear Senators Coons and Flake, from different parties, very different pages when it comes to Kavanaugh's fitness, but they both saw this process as what it was lacking. So then something happened. Atypical, without being forced, not because there was a quid pro quo, Flake used his all important vote to do something just because he thought it was right. To be fair to the allegations, to the accusers, and to the judge, let's remove this specter of unknown about the allegations and have the FBI investigate. Amen!"