Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C., pictured above) clashed with CBS anchor John Dickerman during a “Face the Nation” interview over whether the FBI should investigate Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a nominee for the Supreme Court, from over 35 years ago.

Early on in the Sunday morning interview, Dickerson said to Gowdy, “This hearing that’s going to happen this week [on Thursday] in the Senate Judiciary Committee — you’ve chaired some pretty high-profile, politically charged hearings. What are the risks involved?”

Gowdy replied, “There’s a risk to either side — that’s not perceived as being fair. I’ve [worked on] sex assault cases, but not since I’ve been in Congress. You have got to be fair to the witness. You have got to give the witness an opportunity to fully answer the question. You need to eschew these five-minute increments that we so often use in Congress.”

He added, “Five minutes is not long enough for anyone to appropriately question either Dr. Ford or Judge Kavanaugh. I am confident the judge — that Sen. [Chuck] Grassley, Chairman Grassley — will run this in a respectful way, but the American people, regardless of whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, expect these witnesses to be treated fairly, and I’m confident that they will be.”

Dickerson then said, “One of the questions that Christine Blasey Ford has said is that she would have liked the FBI to do a kind of neutral fact-finding on this. What do you think about that?”

Gowdy said that even though he’s a “big fan of the FBI,” the agency doesn’t “investigate sex assault cases.”

As a result, the “first question would be, the FBI to investigate what? There’s no crime scene to process, there’s no forensics to evaluate,” said Gowdy.

He went on to explain why the FBI’s attempts would be futile.

The agency has already interviewed Kavanaugh — and even if it does interview Ford, the accuser would still have to testify.

“The only role I can see the bureau playing is identifying other witnesses that may have knowledge — some of that’s already been done by Dr. Ford. Judge Kavanaugh’s defense is that he wasn’t there, so you wouldn’t expect him to produce witnesses,” argued Gowdy.

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“I don’t know what people expect the FBI to do,” said Gowdy. “They’re not human polygraphs. So they can’t tell us who is telling the truth.”

Dickerson argued back that even if the FBI doesn’t normally investigate sexual assault cases, President Donald Trump could order it and get an “accurate record.”

He argued that the FBI could be a “neutral fact-finder.”

Trey Gowdy responded, “I have no issues with the FBI taking a second, third, eighth look — if that’s what it takes to find out what happened and to fully air all the facts. I just want people to have realistic expectations.”

He went on to argue that even if the FBI interviews both Ford and Kavanaugh, the FBI “can’t then come in and repeat back what either of those witnesses say. You can’t determine credibility unless you actually hear from the witness herself, and himself.”

This all took place, of course, before The New Yorker came out with a highly controversial story Sunday night that a second accuser was alleging sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

And then there is Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, who is also now making outrageous allegations and accusations.

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