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Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. We will get to the Supreme Court battle in a moment. First, we want to show you what is happening in indonesia right now. Aerial footage into cnn overnight of a devastating earthquake and tsunami and the effect. Its killed more than 800 people. Rescue workers are digging through the debris. Youre looking at pictures of a hotel right now and its just a pile of rubble now. Dozens of people are still thought to be trapped underneath. We will take you live to asia later this morning. We do want to start with the latest on the battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the Sexual Assault allegations against him. A new fbi Background Investigation happening now, President Trump says nothing will be off limits. There has never been anybody that has been looked at like judge kavanaugh. I think that its going to work out very well. But the fbi, i believe, is doing a really great job. They h
We have our eyes at this moment because well hear the First Response from Senate Democrats after we assume they have viewed the report, been briefed on it. We will all see together. Well bring that to you when they come out. They should be walking out any moment. It will be senator Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats coming out to give their assessment of the state of play. Right now, we already know that some republicans are speaking out. Manu raju is on capitol hill. Hes following all this right now. What are you hearing right now . Well, republicans are making it very clear that they have not seen anything in this report that corroborates the allegations made against Brett Kavanaugh. Chuck grassley, the Judiciary Committee chairman made that clear after he got his own staff briefing and as he headed into a larger republicanonly briefing thats happening right now behind closed doors. That briefing absolutely critical because the key senators who will determine whether or not kav
Agenda. The only thing moderate about her approach to kavanaugh was her timing. Collins was not the first republican to support him. He was effectively the last and announced her vote after another republican senator, Lisa Murkowski broke ranks to say that after all we have learned in her view, kavanaugh is not the man for the job right now. I did not come to a decision on this until walking into the floor this morning. I believe that Brett Kavanaugh is a good man. I believe he is a good man. It just may be that in my view hes not the right man for the court at this time. Not the right man for the court. Meanwhile here colleague, senator collins offering a 50minute speech defending kavanaugh and arguing to deny him this promotion would be effectively to presume people guilty. This is not a criminal trial. The allegations failed to meet the more likely than not standard. Therefore i do not believe that these charges can fairly prevent judge kavanaugh from serving on the court. Moments a
Dishonesty or their profound cruelty nor did they accept defeat. They never do accept defeat. Why . Because when politics is your religion, acknowledging reality looks like sin and so it continues. Over the weekend the New York Times revived the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh. The newspaper ran a story excerpt from a book written by two of its reporters that claimed that while in college more than 30 years ago, kavanaugh exposed himself in effect to another student while drunk at a party. It was the flimsiest kind of charge. Where did it come from . It came second hand from a single classmate of kavanaughs, a man who worked as a left wing activist, later worked for the clintons, in fact. 20 years ago, no Credible News Organization would have run a story like that on the basis of that sourcing. The times didnt hesitate and it was picked up everywhere. Of course instantly and nbcs cable channel for example they immediately denounced Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist. I have never heard of a g