capitol hill. laura jarrett, you cover the justice department. amidst all of this, all of a sudden think eight democrats on the senate judiciary committee are raising a very significant new, potential threat to the confirmation. they re saying that in the previous six background checks by the fbi of judge kavanaugh, there may have been some disturbing information about sexual misconduct or alcohol abuse, although they re saying they can t discuss this because it is confidential. it makes you wonder why are we hearing about in just now when they ve had him on the hill repeatedly and it appears this all steps from some sort of tweeting match between senator durbin and senator grassley. obviously we ll have to learn more about, you know, exactly what is at the bottom of this and to the extent that we see those additional background checks that happened in the past, they may shed light on this. but, you know, at the end of the day this will come down to three senators, flake, collins a