To say its been a busy week is an understatement. Before we go, a quick programming note. Msnbc is teaming up with the Global Citizen festival to help bring an end to extreme poverty. The Global Citizen festival is tomorrow. There will be performances by janet jackson, Janelle Monet and john legend. Catch it all here starting at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on msnbc. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Breaking news this afternoon on the Supreme Court nomination fight that has gripped the nation. Republican senator jeff flake dropping a bombshell on his Senate Judiciary Committee Colleagues saying he would only vote yes on Passing Kavanaugh Out Of Committee if the fbi investigates dr. Christine blasey fords allegations of Sexual Assault before any final Confirmation Vote on the floor. Flake will not support final confirmation until the fbi concludes its limited investigation. Here was that announcement. Weve had
shouldn t in any way muddle the two together. i think you re on record. i think you said on this show that you had some concerns about his testimony. i don t want to put words in your mouth, or that some of the things he said were unfortunate or not believable. am i wrong in saying that? do you have a problem with anything he testified to, especially about the yearbook and so on? no, i don t believe i said that. that wasn t you? sorry. that s why i said i didn t want to put words in your mouth. sure. let me ask you the question. what if he s not being completely honest about what he said under oath about these terms and so forth? and by the way, let before you answer that, let s put up i want to just play again what he said about bart, about being called bart by his friend in the book. watch this. and there are like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven fs in front of the fourth of july. what does that signify if anything? one of our friends, squee, when he said the
the new york times, the future judge describes himself and his friends as, quote, loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. that is not the image kavanaugh tried to project in his senate testimony. of note, kavanaugh signed the letter bart. you may remember a book written by kavanaugh s former classmate, mark judge, features a character named bart o kavanaugh. the nominee refused to answer last week when he was ask if he was bart o kavanaugh. are you the bart o kavanaugh he s referring to? yes or no? you d have to ask him. how does this affect his confirmation vote? well, senators jeff flake and lisa murkowski are waiting to see what the fbi reports before making up their minds. majority leader mitch mcconnell insists the fbi report will not be used as another reason to delay a vote which he claims will take place this week. minority leader chuck schumer
was not bart, because he knew there were dozens of witnesses from his high school who can testify that, oh, yeah, he was bart when he was in high school. and some of those witnesses have told that to the new york times now, and the new york times has bart s signature in writing. and so brett kavanaugh was alert enough to not perjure himself when answering the question, were you bart. he just refused to answer it. something he could never get away with in a courtroom, but something he could get away with again and again in that hearing room because the hearing room is not a courtroom. it does not use the rules of a courtroom. but now republicans want to use the standard of a criminal courtroom to decide the nomination of a supreme court justice. they want to say that if you cannot prosecute a criminal case of rape against brett kavanaugh, then he should be a supreme court justice, even if there are very strong credible accusations that brett kavanaugh did commit the attempted rape o
i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. and there s more, kavanaugh signed that letter bart. hmm. where have i heard that before? oh, yeah. he references a bart o kavanaugh. vomiting in someone s car during beach week and then passing out. is that you? bart is a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem. now, as part of his therapy, or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fiction naturalized book and an account. i think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close to what for characters in the book. so.