you d have to ask him. he was said to have vomited in a car and passed out. let s bring in digital director zach wolf on that note. live in washington. good morning. 5:33 in the east. vomiting and passing out in a car 5:30. what in this fbi endeavor could change the minds of senators flake, collins, and murkowski? you know, we heard flake earlier this week saying it would be something definitively lying if he had misled the senate judiciary committee, that that might disqualify him. i think that we need to see how far flake will go. you know, is it lying about his drinking that would that would change flake s mind? is it more specifically lying about assault? i mean, those are very different things. there s brett kavanaugh s character. there s whether or not he lied about things to the committee. then there s the actual act of assaulting a woman. and will republicans be looking
senators are republican as much as they want to focus on the hocus-pocus of the democrats and all of this stuff, it s about the republicans who are on the fence. whether or not they can go home, flake is retiring but particularly collins and murkowski to a national campaign against and for his confirmation to their voters and defend the process. defend the fbi investigation. if it was just a routine background check and they didn t follow up on enough leads, we learned more about this, those two women are in the hot seat. it s not about the democrats writing letters and insinuating things about his drinking. you ve now seen democrats shift the goalposts, they re trying to talk about this idea that he perjured himself he said he threw up sometimes but he didn t blackout drink. they ve done this because some of the allegations have completely fallen apart. they were improbable to begin
account of the majority, nowhere referring to the past six fbi reports which the committee has reported on a bipartisan basis was there ever a whiff of any issue related in any way to inappropriate behavior or alcohol abuse. senator dick durbin said this tweet is not accurate, committee republicans must correct it. eight of the ten democrats have sent a letter saying you ve got to fix this. in the senate judiciary tweets back nothing in the tweet is inaccurate or misleading, the committee stands by its statement, more baseless innuendo and more false smears by senate democrats. it s very tempting for republicans and it s useful to focus on the democrats but they really need to get this whole thing across the finishing line with senators flake, murkowski, and collins who are republicans. they would love to get the votes of senators joe manchin and heidi heitkamp but those three
mcconnell could try to do the first vote before the fbi investigation is done and start the clock on the final vote. unless and until the senators flake, murkowski and collins are satisfied with what the fbi has produced, mcconnell doesn t have the votes to get kavanaugh confirmed. we re all waiting to see that fbi report. there s this question of political gamesmanship or brinksmanship on the typing of the vote to qualify. mcconnell wanted to see kavanaugh on the bench yesterday. he wants to get this done as soon as humanly possible. no doubt, i want to bring in peter alexander at the white house. you were the man yesterday who questioned the president about expanding this investigation. he seemed very open to it. but last night in tennessee, i don t know, i kind of felt like he was singing a different tune. i think that s important to note. the bottom line, when he s speaking to his base at that rally in tennessee, the president again defended kavanaugh fiercely. he accused democ
even if there is a full investigation, it s going to be hard to get at an objective truth. that s the way a lot of people felt. they felt it was unfortunate. that s how they felt. but there is now this other issue of just pure credibility. let s remember, there was a time you could not be a nominee and go and potentially lie before congress and then get voted into a supreme court seat and if people do believe that he is lying, not about the sexual misconduct at all, but about, quote/unquote, smaller things, like was he actually a binge drinker who blacked out? was that yearbook club really to honor this woman? then it will be interesting to see how, again, senators flake, collins, murkowski, vote on that and one other thing that s been interesting to see is that people are now, this is why the white house wants this to get done quickly, they did not want this long period, are coming out of the woodwork and saying, look, i know nothing about the sexual assault allegations, i m not a par