Ballast in it. We will talk to senator Lindsey Graham. Does the g. O. P. Have the votes to get him to Supreme Court . And sean hannity is here as his sources say the fbi report is done and across the republicans republicans across the country republicans are trending up. Brandnew fox ball to show you tonight. Fox Team Coverage as the cabin or drama is nearing about. Leland vittert has some insights go. But first, from capitol hill, where the action is tonight. Chad, the majority leader which mcconnell that first step, he went to the floor to move forward this confirmation vote, so what kind of timeline . The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell initiated a fourday process. Hes repeatedly said he wants to have the confirmation vote this week. So we had to initiate this process tonight before midnight and what he did here on capitol hill is filing an effort to limit debate. He filed that tonight buried by senate rule, that needs a day to lay over so tomorrow it lays dormant and that it
I got to say that im proud of my colleagues for standing up on this issue. We ought to all be standing up on these issues. We want competent federal judges that are not biassed, who basically will abide by the laws themselves. This man is one of those people. Hold up. Last question. The democrats say one thing after this report. You all say another. Will the public ever get my sort of a view or summary of what this report says . Well it was very clear to us in the memorandum of 2009 between obama and chairman leahy that theres one document, no copies made. And not released to the public. So we cant do that. Now theres some suggestion the white house can do it. But youre going to have to white house to get that answer to your question. Shepard Top Republicans giving just Brett Kavanaugh their full confidence and in a sometimes fiery News Conference on capitol hill. Im shepard smith. The big news this afternoon is this. Two key republican senators have signals they are satisfied with the
Supreme court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during which period the fbi has a week to investigate these allegations against kavanaugh. This came after the Senate Judiciary committee this morning voted to send kavanaughs nomination to the senate floor for a final vote among all 100 senators. But that came with a condition. Republican senator jeff flake said his vote came with strings attached. And those strings were the oneweek delay and the fbi investigation. Flakes move coming after he was confronted by Sexual Assault survivors minutes after he announced he would vote for kavanaugh this morning. Look at me when im talking to you youre telling me that my assault doesnt matter that what happened to me doesnt matter and that youre going to let people who do these things into power. Thats just an 11second excerpt of a nearly fiveminute passionate confrontation where senator flake looked, frankly, wrecked. Moments ago, President Trump, who said on wednesday night that if it had been up to him,
Tucker wow. Not your conventional interview. He was asked repeatedly about allegations against him and his wife sat by him as he denied all of them. Im not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process. We are looking for a fair process where i can be heard and defend my integrity and my lifelong record. Tucker nobody expected anything like this when that confirmation process started. We will have more from marthas interview and martha will join us on the set later on to tell us what it was like in that room. But we typically open this hour by talking to someone that we disagree with. We believe in straightforward debate on the show. Americans have been talking to their differences were more than 200 years and its worked pretty well. We feel that we have wiser decisions when both sides get to have their say. F but tonight, we will pause for a minute. We will invite guests on later in the hour but first, though, its worth it to consider what we have learned from Brett Kava
Donald trump you heard senator hirono separating children at the border. The more they make this seem this is antitrump, the more it will hurt their efforts to say kavanaugh has a serious credibility problem. They need to keep the issues separate, focus on kavanaugh or risk making it look incredibly partisan. Martha the horse is out of the barn on that. Senator hirono has said that she doesnt care what happened that night. She said what she cares about is based on his judicial decisions in the past, she thinks hes guilty. Senator koonce has said the burden is on him to prove he didnt do this. We go in with that as a backdrop. In the first confirmation hearing, Lindsey Graham pointed out that donald trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh july 9 at 9 00 p. M. By 10 18, an hour and 18 minutes later, six major democrats including top democrat in the senate, schumer, the top democrat in the house, pelosi, had already said they oppose his nomination. Theres people that was like verdict today, trial