This. This is the most incredible thing in human history. Hello, again, everyone, thank you for joining me. Im Fredricka Whitfield in washington, d. C. Today the fbi begins its latest investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. His confirmation vote is now delayed another week as investigators look into Sexual Assault allegation against him by multiple women. The investgation was sparked by a lastminute change of heart from key republican senator jeff flake. The same senator cornered in an elevator just hours earlier by emotional protesters. I have two children. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl. What are you doing, sir . After hours of heartbreaking testimony from his accuser, Christine Blasey ford, and kavanaugh vehemently denying the accusations, senators could not ignore the deep divide beginning to swell over kavanaughs confirmation. We are hearing those folks who have come forward
Lied to congress, and to me that would not be acceptable. I dont want to do anything to interrupt whats happening with judge kavanaugh. And i think the process i must say i think, hopefully as mitch said, theyll have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote. I say that its a very scary time for young men in america when you can be builty of somethi guilty of something you may not be guilty of. This is a very difficult time. Whats happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You could be somebody that was perfect your entire life, and somebody could accuse you of something. Doesnt necessarily have to be a woman, as everybody is saying, but somebody could accuse you of something and youre automatically guilty. In this realm, you are truly guilty until proven innocent. Lets talk about all that we just heard there. With me, david cattanese. And april ryan. David, you first. On the bit about what trump said, i d
Whoever they want. The fbi is doing pretty much as the senate wants. And we want to know everything. We like the idea of the fbi looking for the seventh time. This is number seven, by the way, the seventh time they will have looked. We think that hes going to be in great shape, and hopefully in the very near future, theyll take a final vote. Investigators have already talked to the yale classmate who claimed kavanaugh exposed himself to her. They have talked to three High School Classmates about Christine Blasey fords allegations, and now theres word of a bar fight back in 1985. Cnns abby phillip has the latest from the white house. We heard from the president there in the rally that he was at last night. He seems still confident in his nominee. What are you hearing from the white house today . Hi, kate. Well, the white house is waiting for this fbi investigation to wrap up. But theyre also playing defense, as were hearing more and more from the classmates of Brett Kavanaugh, both from
The senate in the election and keeping this Supreme Court seat vacant until 2021. Every democratic member of the Committee Said they opposed judge kavanaugh before a single thing started and not only that, this allegation, the Ranking Member of this committee had nit writing on july 309, and if that had been reported to the committee chairman, this committee has a process to investigate it and a process to investigate that is confidential and the fbi could have participated investigating starting back on july 30th that we could have had a hearing that is closed, and that is not dragging either of these individuals through the mud. That is the way this process should have worked. The testimony yesterday from dr. Ford is that the only people who had copieses of the letter were herself, her lawyers and represent e shoo eshoo and the members of the committee. And so that makes it possible that the letter was leaked by either the two democratic members of congress or their staff or to someo
On friday, at the moment that the Senate Judiciary committee was expected to vote quickly along party lines to advance kavanaughs nomination, the process was suddenly thrown into disarray when republican senator jeff flake made an unexpected lastminute deal with the Committee Democrats to secure a oneweek delay in the full senate vote during which the fbi would look into dr. Fords allegations and possibly into other allegations too. It was not really clear at the time. Later that day, we learned that the white house had indeed ordered the fbi to reopen kavanaughs background investigation. But on saturday, nbc news was first to report that the white house had sharply limited the scope of the fbis investigation, telling the fbi it could investigate Christine Blasey fords claims and those of Deborah Ramirez, who has publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh of shoving his genitalia in her face at a party when they were both College Students at yale, but not the claims from Julie Swetnick, who has