context is key. and this is, again, what we re likely not going to have when the next report comes to congress, because it s not going to be publicly released but before i get there, laura, this christine blasey ford came forward with her allegation, there wasn t any talk in his about problems in his background like this. who s going to clear this up for everyone now? well, that s the problem with innuendo, when you don t have clarity, it s ambiguous, and you have people who are essentially tarred and feathered in the public square without any opportunity to defend themselves or to bolster their own statements, and so you had this problem that s brewing here, and i have to say, i disagree a little bit with what phil had to say and ann about this notion that it should be hands off. this is somebody who is being vetted for an office with a lifetime position. i agree that innuendo should not stand, but i also think that his entire life is fair game because he s venturing for a lifet
we saw the hearing where they are lobbing grenades on either sides and somewhere in the middle you have witnesses the american people want to hear from. that s much different than a witness sitting in front of a pair of fbi agents and going through a thoughtful interview, gathering information, asking follow-up questions. again, it shows the distinction between politics and law enforcement. i think the rest of the country is sitting there waiting for the review and information to come to light. again, we have the artificial one-week deadline placed on the fbi to conduct this investigation, and with so many new questions coming up, so many new potential witnesses we don t know if the fbi will get through that, through the thorough review or if they will be limited to what the white house initially set as far as the parameters they can look at. josh campbell, thank you very much. just ahead, we will have more on the fbi investigation of brett kavanaugh, what s in it, when will senators
fbi does not investigate brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford as part of that investigation. regardless of when this hit, it s very clear that mitch mcconnell, as soon as it does, he will take procedural steps to proceed to a vote this week. thanks so much. so, outfront with me now, former new jersey attorney general ann milgram, former fbi senior intelligence adviser and former federal prosecutor laura coates. there s a lot that s happening tonight that we need to get to. phil, what do you make of this and this being what s coming out from democrats about past background checks? i got a couple things to say on this. first of all, shame. shame on them. look, this is a private citizen who s understood going a background check. he does not surrender privacy just because he s a supreme court nominee. do not discuss what you read about his background when the u.s. government brings tremendous investigative
to south america. did the idea for a global muscle-flex come from the commander in chief? . we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news on the investigation of u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a source tells cnn that the white house expects the fbi to turn over its notes on the probe soon. then the information will be sent to capitol hill. the report is key to the timing and outcome of the senate vote on whether to confirm kavanaugh. at this pivotal moment, the white house is brazenly trying to deny that president trump mocked kavanaugh s accuser, professor christine blasey ford, at a political rally overnight. but the three undecided gop senators who will make or break kavanaugh s nomination aren t
information. i hope they will interview them. so there are witnesses, potential witnesses out there at large who have made serious, from your perspective and i know you can t discuss it publicly. serious allegations of sexual impropriety or alcohol abuse in earlier background checks? there are witnesses who can corroborate and possibly substantiate those kinds of allegations that still have not been interviewed, and they need to be. are you going to let s say the fbi investigation comes back as early as tonight or tomorrow morning, you ll read it in confidence, you and your colleagues and some staff members will be allowed to read it as well. will you accept it as definitive? it depends on whether it has interviewed all of those witnesses that we think are essential. if it neglects to interview, for example, dr. blasey ford and judge kavanaugh, then it will be incomplete. in my view we have told the fbi and the white house from the very start they are two