nominee brett kavanaugh, according to a letter obtained by nbc news. and according to multiple people familiar with the process. according to an anonymous complaint sent to republican senator corey gardner of colorado, brett kavanaugh physically assaulted a woman he socialized with in the d.c. area in 1998 while he was intoxicated. the complaint described an evening involving her own daughter, brett kavanaugh, and several friends in 1998. when they left the bar under the influence of alcohol, they were all shocked when brett kavanaugh shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually, and there were at least four witnesses, including my daughter. now, importantly, the writer of the letter provides no names, but says the alleged victim was still traumatized and had recently spoken about the incident to somebody else who knew about it and had decided to remain anonymous herself. nbc further reports republican senate investigators asked
and i think it s more urgent than ever, given this latest accusation that there be a full fbi investigation before we come to any sort of a final vote on judge kavanaugh. as new allegations have come forward, and, again, nbc news tonight is reporting on a letter that was received through senator corey gardner s office, which makes another anonymous l allegation against judge kavanaugh that dates to 1998. as these allegations f s come forward, they all have different levels of corroboration, if any, any sign that the white house or the republican leadership on the committee is budging at all on this issue of whether the fbi should look into these allegations? no, rachel. to the best of my knowledge, senator grassley, who is the chairman of the committee, is driving forward. majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that he intends to have judge kavanaugh seated on the court by next week. and i frankly have not heard any
judge kavanaugh, on september 22 of this year, senator corey gardner received an anonymous letter sent from denver, alleging that you engaged in certain conduct in 1998. have you had an opportunity to review that letter? judge kavanaugh, i did look at that, i believe, yeah. redacted republican staffer s name again, says okay, i m going to read from it. the letter states, i will remain anonymous but i feel obligated to inform you of this 1998 incident involving brett kavanaugh. and then the punctuation gets weird here. this republican staffer said he or she is just going to read from the letter, but the staffer stops quoting apparently, and in any case, this is how it goes in the transcript. it says i will remain anonymous, but i feel obligated to inform you of this 1998 incident involving brett kavanaugh. then there s a closed quote, and then the staffer continues. when you were the author of the starr report, the author s
bipartisan oversight legislation along with senator gardner to provide the sort of support and guidance of this diplomat iblg effort needs and assign it to the american people. goal that is you laid out before this committee are incorporated. let me raise one deep issue that arose this week. despite the ability to stop this ridiculous notion, the state department is about to allow internet posting of do-it-yourself 3-d printable firearm blueprints. why on earth would the trump administration make it easier for terrorists and gunman to produce undetectable plastic guns? i remain deeply concerned by the administration s incoherent and contradictory views. we need comprehensive strategies across the world because the result of the lack thereof is chaos and confusion or even worse. i recognize the president considers himself to be a
vladimir putin. 60 spies 213 sanctions. let me also ask you about an additional question on helsinki. when i was a member of congress, i tried to get president obama to do one of those things and unsuccessful. the president bragged about how he fired james comey at his press conference with putin. president trump called special counselor mueller s investigation a disaster for the country. can you tell us what president trump discussed about the investigation during his private meeting with president putin? i m not going to talk about private were you tasked with anything in that respect? when i m talked about something about american foreign policy, this committee would know. you weren t tasked when i m tasked with something by the president relating to foreign policy, this committee will be made aware of it. thank you. senator gardner.