she claims he covered her mouth when she tried to scream and he thought he might kill her. judge kavanaugh calls the accusation completely false. we have live team coverage this afternoon. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. first, john roberts. john? shep, good afternoon to you. first of all, breaking news. sources tell fox news that judge kavanaugh did a murder board at the white house with his confirmation team yesterday in preparation for monday s scheduled hearing. sources tell fox news that kavanaugh did well in that prep session, that he was solid. there was no wavering at all in his story. now, on to whether or not there was going to be an fbi investigation. sources tell fox news there s no impetus from the white house for this to be turned over to the fbi for further investigation. as well, the leadership of the senate judiciary committee has not asked the president to look into christine blasey ford s allegations. law enforcement says the fbi
this entire mess were sufficient. we ll see of course if that changes today. kristen welker, we ve got another hour and 15 minutes before we re supposed to see sarah sanders, who i m sure this will be one of the first questions that gets asked of her, and will she try to walk this back, will she try to somehow parse the fact that he mouthed the word no, maybe he didn t hear the question clearly, i mean, again, a position that she s being put in to try to make something well, i don t want to put anything on her, but this is not yet again, not a good day for this white house, not a good day to be standing behind the podium behind you. reporter: and as you know, chris, having covered the white house, she is going to have a prep session. and you can just imagine what s happening right now in that prep session. everything that they were planning to say, everything that they were focused on, now gets a whole new dimension and they
and everything we ve learned since then is my goodness, he should have fired him earlier. yeah. isn t that the problem? that there have been multiple explanations he said in that interview he fired him because of russia. exactly. and that was the first time we had learned that that was obviously suspected, don. as you recall, before that, for 48 hours the white house maintained the reason the president fired him is because of a recommendation from the attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. watching giuliani there in that interview, i watched it live earlier, is like watching him coach the president ahead of a potential interview with robert mueller, teaching him what it would be like to say, we were watching a prep session essentially in realtime. you see giuliani sending a certain message, going out, defending the president, also sending certain messages to the president, even some about jeff sessions, himself, in relation to this suspected in
this was really the peak and the stretch of where she stood after access hollywood. and then he comes out with a parade of women, the past accusers of bill clinton, puts them on facebook live, this was david bossy and steve bannon, tries to seek them in the family section, right in her line of sight, the debate commission refuses, as i understand it, at the time, and they finally do get seated in the front row of the bleachers. how upsetting was all of that? i think that weekend encapsulated a lot of the horribleness of the race. that friday, as you said, the tape came out, everyone s jaw dropped. we had a prep session that night. and an hour after access hollywood, first wikileaks the e-mails. also not remembered a lot is that john podesta s e-mails started to leak and there is questions about no such thing as coincidence. but it was a very dramatic and
they can essentially refine their testimony as it comes to mind during the staff interviews but it s also good for the committee in the sense the staff tend to be more substantive, more prepared, better questionings. they ll get documentation so in some sense this allows this prep session the senators to get a briefing on what they re saying so that if they go to public hearing and if i were counsel to either of these guys i would try to avoid that very much, it allows for not look good when you do that, though? allows for more questioning by the snorsz. sorry? that doesn t look good when you do that, does it? my commentary is legal. they can figure out the political optics. in terms of the law of them testifying they have a right to refuse to testify, they can assert the fifth amendment, and my advice to them as a lawyer would be to not testify under oath in public until everything that they want to say is locked down and they know they re going to be able to maintain a co