it has been no secret that the democratic and republican members of the judiciary committee have been part of an implosion over the course of the last couple of weeks as relates to the investigation. we ve seen letters going back and forth. we ve seen what appears to be opposition research going back and forth throughout the course of people reviewing these allegations. that clearly not only continuing, but kind of reaching a new level and it raises another issue. wolf, what the committee is expecting to get back, what the senate is expecting to get back from the fbi is a supplemental background investigation. what that entails is what they re similarly going back and forth cryptically now. it is information that can only be reviewed by 100 senators and eight declared staff members. that means because it can t be released publicly and my understanding is there will be no release, no summary, nothing public related to what they get back, related to the fbi s recent inquiry into judge
or reached out to the fbi themselves only not to hear back. the fbi is not counting on any of this, wolf, but i can tell you based on the people i talked to, they either called or tried to talk to the fbi or talked to the fbi, it seems the fbi is very interested in what happened in dr. ford s allegations, not so much what is taking place at yale in those days. thank you for that report, drew. we are getting some more breaking news on the fbi investigation of brett kavanaugh. let s go right to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. he s up on capitol hill. phil, democrats on the senate judiciary committee just sent a new letter. tell us about that? reporter: yeah, just to give you a sense of how heated things have gotten on capitol hill and really the divide between republicans and democrats, at least eight democrats on the judiciary committee seizing on a tweet from the republican staff of the judiciary committee that said in the tweet that in previous background checks
of sexual impropriety or alcohol allegations. woo the democrats said in a response in a letter to chairman chuck grassley said was this. each of us has reviewed the confidential background investigation of judge kavanaugh before the hearing. while we are limited in what we can say about this background investigation in a public setting, we are compelled to state for the record that there is information in the second post that is not accurate. the second post being the tweet about no whiff of allegations. we urge you to ensure these twitter posts are promptly corrected. now, it is cryptic and they re not going to go further into details because background investigations material is not for public release. it can only be read by senators and a small number of staff in camera. what do they mean by that? that we don t know. senator grassley s staff responded a short minute ago on twitter saying, nothing in the tweet is inaccurate or misleading. the committee stands by its statement which i
the party, and the person that was interviewed by the fbi, and she talked about the room layout and the location of the bathroom, where she had to go, the amount of time, she talked about all those things but it doesn t fit into the convenient narrative that this is a hit job on an otherwise wonderful person according to the president of the united states. it s hard to cherry-pick aspects of her testimony. when christine blasey ford s story came forward, kellyanne conway, the president s counselor said this woman will not be ignored or insulted, and people breathed a sigh of relief that there would be a different tone and tact taken, and last night that was thrown out the window. what do you think when you hear donald trump mocking christine blasey ford? i think kavanaugh s chances
and society. i guess back to the politics, will it have an impact on susan collins and lisa murkowski. i think what we have witnessed in the last week is the trumpification of brett kavanaugh. he s a creature of the gop elite. in being accused of sexual assault by these women, he has now been embraced by both the conservative elites and grass roots who see him as a victim. that s one reason why trump decided to go no hold s bars. noncollege educated white people are the people who are now believing brett kavanaugh, rallying behind him, thinking he s unfairly accused and that may be a ticket to a senate majority. but is it a ticket to convincing collins, murkowski and flake. to me this is like ground hog s day because this is the way he spoke of the women who accused