white house. this nomination was a fierce fight from the start. the white house haskavanaugh wh first came to light. has anything changed? reporter: in a word, no. actually, what we ve heard from the white house in light of this new detailed allegation coming from christine bl ament mebl a the deputy secretary pointing out that the same statement that the white house issued on behalf brett kavanaugh earlier last week writing categorically and unequivocally continue this allegation, i didn t come this bathis do this back in high school or at anytime, the white house feeling that that denial is sufficient to cover some of these specific new allegations comingbl a.
and they are saying that during this high school episode, these are minors, there was a lot of drinking going on. i m sure there are a lot of fuzzy memories. and those same people from that very high school are now in very high ranking positions. what are they willing to say to the fbi if there is an investigation that will go beyond he said/she said. yeah, let s just remind our viewers that ford is alleges that there were four young men in the house that night, can have you gnaw okavanaugh and ma judge were in the room and two other young men as yet unnamed. professor, final question which is the million dollar question. do you think that this could ultimately prevent kavanaugh s confirmation? unfortunately, i don t have a crystal ball there, but if wills as the republicans are to follow the push to have this nominee, i think without those two female
that there are groups of people, a small group of people in the white house who have started to consider the possibility that they might have to change the nominee? in the white house i m not sure yet. but just in terms of the texts that i have gotten from republicans not directly involved, let me be clear, not directly involved, but around this issue and republicans who are singular focused on the november election, trying to keep control of the house and senate, there are definitely peripheral conversations going on. whether or not that is actually going on inside the senate majority leader s office or whether he is on the phone having those conversations, it is way too early to say that. all right. dana bash, thanks as always for your expertise. now, i want to bring in boris sanchez, he is joining us live from the north lawn of the
and, you know, the mantra that he has lived by personally when you get attacked or people accuse you of things particularly when it comes to sexual assault, sexual harassment, his m.o. is fight back and fight back harder. it is hard to imagine that he will not respond that way. but the person to watch as much as the president is mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader. he is the xwhi runniguy running he understands all of the different atmospherics surrounding this. because if we can play this out for a second and again nobody is saying that kavanaugh is going to be withdrawn right now, but if it gets to the point where even if delayed to let this investigation go forward, we re going closer to the midterms and that is not necessarily a great thing for republicans politically to have this be the
highest court, we got to be sure that we have dealing with someone of the utmost character. and it reminds me of the case of judge ginsburg who was a harvard professor, but it was said later that he had smoked marijuana when he was a law professor at harvard. and that ruined his nomination. and he withdrew. so this might be an instance in which although republicans want kavanaugh s confirmation, maybe kavanaugh himself should withdraw. what do you think how do you think the fbi is looking into this? what is going on right now behind the scenes? well, initially what i read was that the fbi rejected an investigation when senator feinstein requested it. but now there is so much public outcry around this that i think that the fbi probably will go forward and ask questions and follow up you. i mean we re talking about two decades later that they are investigating something. who are the witnesses?