requested a meeting from the white house, and it never happened. why was that? i don t know. i don t have an answer. we just never had the meeting, and i was waiting to have that meeting but ultimately i should have said this at the beginning, and i decided to vote against brett kavanaugh before any of the sexual assault allegations before last week s hearing based upon my view of what kind of judge he will make, and i don t think he s the right guy for the supreme court no, i remember, and we talked to you about that and you laid out why he was not the right before all this happened, but do you have an idea of the way susan collins is leaning? no, it s a hard decision. i don t try to lobby her. she has to make her own decision. she knows, as i do, that this is a career-defining decision. this is a 30-year decision, and
did they follow the leads? did they examine brett kavanaugh s calendar, for example, and try to track down judge s schedule at safeway? i think in some ways this vote may hinge upon the credibility of what the fbi did. last weekend, though, the white house i am not sure it was the president, but the president tweeted last night i want the unfettered investigation, and my understanding is the officials in the white house, don mcgahn, the white house council was restricting some areas, and we are not going to know anything until we see what they produce on friday. it s going to be important. it may be a wash. it may show no particular evidence one way or the other, but to my first question, it s
capitol hill. laura jarrett, you cover the justice department. amidst all of this, all of a sudden think eight democrats on the senate judiciary committee are raising a very significant new, potential threat to the confirmation. they re saying that in the previous six background checks by the fbi of judge kavanaugh, there may have been some disturbing information about sexual misconduct or alcohol abuse, although they re saying they can t discuss this because it is confidential. it makes you wonder why are we hearing about in just now when they ve had him on the hill repeatedly and it appears this all steps from some sort of tweeting match between senator durbin and senator grassley. obviously we ll have to learn more about, you know, exactly what is at the bottom of this and to the extent that we see those additional background checks that happened in the past, they may shed light on this. but, you know, at the end of the day this will come down to three senators, flake, collins a
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i don t know, i don t know. i don t know! i don t know! what neighborhood was it in? i don t know. where s the house? i don t know. upstairs, downstairs, where was it? i don t know, but i had one beer. that s the only thing i remember. and a man s life is in tatters. a man s life is shattered. reporter: the white house response, to deny reality and try to convince the public the president was only stating facts. isn t there something wrong with the president of the united states mocking somebody who says she was sexually assaulted? it seemed to me he was stating facts, that dr. ford herself laid out in her testimony. once again, every single word that judge kavanaugh has said has been looked at, examined, picked apart by most of you in this room. reporter: one big problem with the president s performance? he had just praised ford as credible less than a week ago. what did you think of dr. ford s testimony? i thought her testimony was