passed. now, democrats are suggesting that any confirmation vote move brett kavanagh into the supreme court should be trade until the fbi completes a probe into these allegations. republicans on the senate judiciary committee are pushing back. the chairman of that committee chuck grassley openly he questioning why senator feinstein had this information back in july from ford through an anonymous letter and can chose to hold it back until these later stages in the confirmation process. republican senator lindsey graham had a notable statement as well. he essentially said he sympathizes with republicans on the judiciary committee, but that he would like to hear from mrs. ford himself. in that statement he effectively invites her to testify before the committee, something that is unclear whether it will happen or not. we should point out that president trump has remained uncharacteristically silent on twitter. the president has tweeted multiple times sunday afternoon
cnn s boris sanchez has more from the white house. reporter: the white house not really saying anything new when it comes to these detailed allegations from christine blas erks y ford in the washington post in which she alleges judge brett kavanagh inappropriately sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. kavanagh has denied those accusations. last week through the white house, he put out a statement essentially saying that it never took place. today when i asked white house spokesperson raj shaw about these detailed allegations, ford coming forward with her name on the record, he pointed to that previous denial by brett kavanagh. the white house apparently feels that denial is sufficient to deal with some of these new claims that ford is making, including that she took a polygraph test administered by a former fbi agent back in august which she claimz that she passed. now democrats are suggesting that any confirmation vote move brett kavanagh into the supreme court