has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. compounding matters, kavanaugh may have committed a few unforced errors himself. we don t know that yet but has allowed the white house to servacy his political war room. probably not a good look. in addition to denying the allegations of sexual assault he has also denied being at the social gathering where ford alleges the assault took place. moments ago one of the alleged witnesses put out a statement through his lawyer saying he has, quote, no memory of this alleged incident and he doesn t want to speak publicly about it. if evidence surfaces between now monday merely contradicting kavanaugh s denial about being at the social gathering, does that mean he can t recover from that? let s bring in tonight s panel, nbc news court reporter. cornell belcher and shane harris, correspondent at the