SEN. TIM KAINE:

Yes, very good question, Judy.

And I guess there's probably three elements of strategy right now, but it's not really Democratic strategy. It's just what do we think that needs to be done to get to the bottom of the story.

There's got to be a special prosecutor. When you have the attorney general already having to recuse himself from this investigation, that tells you that the Justice Department, I do not think, can be trusted to credibly lead this investigation into Russian collusion that needs to be independent. So, there needs to be a special prosecutor.

You're right, the Democratic minority can't force it on our own. But we do believe, as these facts come out, we will find Republican colleagues who will join us in the request.

Second, we need to get the key witnesses up to testify before us. Senators Burr and Warner have invited Jim Comey to come back next week. He was scheduled to be here tomorrow to testify. We need to hear from him. We also need to hear from Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and especially Attorney General Sessions.

He recused himself from this matter, but then joined in the recommendation to fire Jim Comey. We view that as a violation of his recusal, and we want to know why.

And then the third thing is, every senator needs to make sure that we give the next FBI director nominee the most searching evaluation that we can to make sure that he's not going to be cowed or pushed around by the White House or anyone, and that he will get to the bottom of this story.