the fbi came up with over the last six days. steve: last night it was dramatic mitch mcconnell on the floor of the senate filed a petition. tomorrow there will be a cloture vote. they need at least 50 votes. unclear whether or not they have that if things go in motion, they could have a vote as early as saturday night. now, brian, you mentioned that the white house has seen it and they have handed it over to the senate judiciary committee. according to the wall street journal, they spoke to people at the white house, and here s a little snippet from an article they ran last night. the white house has found no corroboration of the allegations of sexual misconduct against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh after examining interview reports from the fbi s latest probe into the judge s background according to people familiar with the matter. ainsley: okay. so that report now will be kept in a secure room it is a paper report. we ll don t know if it s one copy or lots of copies in a se
who allegedly doxxed a handful of senators. it s the resistance movement. it s the scorched earth. how far is this one going to fly? yankees slugging their way to victory in the al wild card game. rocking in the u.s.a. rocking in the u.s.a. steve: live from new york city, it is thursday, october 4th. come on, in folks. pour yourself a cup of coffee. sit a spell. we have news. ainsley: it s thursday. end of the week. steve: end of the week? ainsley: end of the week and we have so much news to talk about. he could actually get confirmed or the vote could come down on saturday. why is that? brian: cloture last night. the fbi report handed in. and now we understand the white house got it. handed it over to the senators. and now they go into the chamber to look one by one, maybe with a staff at what
reporter: deputy white house spokesman tweeting the statement saying the white house received the fbi supplemental background investigation into brett kavanaugh and being transmitted to the senate. the white house is confident the senate will vote to confirm brett kavanaugh to the supreme court and wall street journal reports the white house found no corroboration of sexual misconduct as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell files cloture last night. plenty of time for members to review and be briefed on supplemental material before a friday cloture vote. i filed a cloture on the nomination this evening. as i indicated earlier this week. ending debate on brett cavanagh allowing democrats 30 hours of pod time and the opportunity for all 100 senators to the fbi report into brett
deciding vote for brett kavanaugh. they will be in addition to or be part of the failure. collins and murkowski indicate either way? no. did flake yesterday seem hedging? yes. now, there is nothing that changed. this is the investigation they called for. this should make the democrats on the surface as happy as those teetering republicans. steve: right. brian: i don t know how lindsey graham can sit there and say that unless he says i talked to collins, murkowski and flake. you can t say i think is he qualified. it all comes down to those three. steve: it does. for lindsey graham to say on television is he confident he is going to get it he obviously knows something. he has talked to them it all comes down to politics. in a minute, we will talk a little bit about the kavanaugh effect on the polls. the president last night sent out a tweet and he said wow, such enthusiasm and energy for brett kavanaugh. look at the energy. look at the polls. something very big is happening. he is a fine
intellect. the country is with him all the way. what we are talking about right there is a brand new fox news poll that came out last night, looked at number of battle ground states, five of them. and it looks as if the republicans in that state are more energized and they are suggesting it could be over the kavanaugh nomination. ainsley: elections are just a few weeks away. look at this board we have for you. this wall. it s 2% up. more republicans are interested in the elections. plus, 2% in arizona. plus 9% in indiana. plus 8% in missouri. plus 8% in north dakota. and plus 11% in tennessee. north dakota, that s heitkamp. she is not. steve: she is in trouble. ainsley: she is not doing so well there this is a state for president trump. clearly more interest from republicans. so the question is, will she vote to confirm kavanaugh? brian: i think the one thing is manchin feels comfortable. heidi heitkamp doesn t.