Jeff Flake‘s public call for a one-week delay on the Brett Kavanaugh final vote was ordered by President Donald Trump yesterday, and now he and one of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will be on 60 Minutes to talk about the behind-the-scenes negotiations.

Flake and Chris Coons will be sitting down with Scott Pelley, the show announced this afternoon, to discuss the “last minute-compromise.”

How did the Senate Judiciary Committee arrive at its last-minute compromise to continue the Supreme Court confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh? Senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons tell the inside story tomorrow on 60 Minutes. pic.twitter.com/aewV9v91m1

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 29, 2018

Flake told The Atlantic last night that he spoke with Coons before making his decision:

And then there was [Democratic Senator] Chris Coons making an impassioned plea for a one-week extension to have an FBI investigation. And you know, if it was anybody else I wouldn’t have taken it as seriously. But I know Chris. We’ve traveled together a lot. We’ve sat down with Robert Mugabe. We’ve been chased by elephants, literally, in Mozambique. We trust each other. And I thought, if we could actually get something like what he was asking for—an investigation limited in time, limited in scope—we could maybe bring a little unity…

Just these last couple of days—the hearing itself, the aftermath of the hearing, watching pundits talk about it on cable TV, seeing the protesters outside, encountering them in the hall. I told Chris, “Our country’s coming apart on this—and it can’t.” And he felt the same.

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