background information that senator flake s dramatic action made possible was a somewhat chaotic week where it was difficult for many folks who were trying to get information into the fbi to contact them. ms. ramirez s attorneys gave over a dozen names at least to the fbi who were not contacted or followed up on. that s my understanding or my recollection, and mr. steyer was one of them. yeah. and then several days later he reached out to me to say i am trying to be helpful here. i m trying to offer some testimony, and so i simply passed on his contact information to the director of the fbi. i got a confirmation from the fbi they had received it, but to the best of my knowledge they never questioned or even contacted him. do you know if senator chuck grassley received that letter? because he says he didn t. i know that the judiciary committee, his counsel according to my counsel, that s a fancy word for attorney, got it, but i expect we ll probably be debating that in the press
back to his college days at yale university. the previously unreported allegation is contained in a new book by two new york times reporters. in the book, the author said former yale student, max steyer, relayed his re-elections to senators during the confirmation process and later made clear his willing tonnness to share them the fbi, but refused to speak about them publicly. and yesterday, the times published an editor s note to its original adapted essay from the book, saying the woman declined to be interviewed and her friends told the authors she does not recall the incident. cnn is not reporting any details related to the allegation, because it has not been independently verified. steyer has declined to speak with us. the two new york times reporters who wrote the book said they corroborated a prior sexual assault claim from a woman named debora ramirez. the book s author says at least seven people told them they heard about the alleged yale
effect, i think is it true, did you write a letter to senator chuck grassley try to get him to investigate or look into this? i ve been told by chairman grassley, senator grassley was the chairman at the time of the judiciary committee to direct credible allegations to the fbi because that s who was investigating. mr. steyer had tried repeatedly to contact different folks who he knew he reached out to me late that week a second time and asked for my help. he was very concerned about not having this public because he runs a nonpartisan organization that does great work here in washington. so i sent a letter directly to the director of the fbi, but i copy ed that letter to both the majority and minority the republican and democrat leaders of the senate judiciary committee. as you well remember, alisyn that week of that additional
that s who initially claimed this attack, and frankly, we ve stood by the saudis for a long time even when their own conduct in terms of supporting very questionable actions has strained the limits of our relationship. so we should be treading carefully here, but i am concerned that iran is testing the limits of our resolve. senator, i want to move on to these new revelations about the investigation into judge brett kavanaugh. there s a third allegation that has come to light in this book. there s a new book about brett kavanaugh s background, and a third allegation, so not the one about christine blasey ford, not the one about debbie ramirez we had all heard about during his confirmation hearings. it sounds as if you knew about, a man well respected, a washington figure named max steyer, and he tried to bring to it sounds like congress and the fbi s attention that he witnessed something that happened in college. you wrote a letter to that is
of judgment that was being addressed, just to move on to give people the information they needed, but also to remind people that this is an adaptation of a much longer work that s forthcoming. do you know why max steyer refused to do interviews with you? my sense is that he feels as if he did his duty. he brought the information he had to senators and to the fbi. he made them all very aware that he had this experience that he had witnessed firsthand in a dorm room during his freshman year at yale. what they did with the information was up to them. it never materialized and became part of the process. brett kavanaugh was confirmed and he was done. he had done his part. he had no interest in revisiting it. in the article you say brett kavanaugh didn t agree to an interview because you couldn t agree to terms to the interview. what terms did he want?