indicating that he will look at brett kavanaugh s adult life and career and his outstanding reputation instead of his adolescence when weighing this. i think he is likely a yes vote and i think senator collins murkowski are 3 for 3 or 2 for 3. we ll see a justice kavanaugh saturday. shepard: there s a complaint about process from democrats now, which is a bit rich. background investigations of this kind, which come from the white house, have always been conducted in this way. the white house sets up what you re supposed to do, sets up the rules of the game and the fbi it s as if its like you re at home and you re hiring a contractor. you tell the contractor what to do. that s this relationship. client and those that get it done. it was done by the book from everything we can see. right. the democrats were always going to say that this is not a search for the truth. it was an effort to rush it
hour. then senate democrats will come in for an hour. they ll rotate until everybody has an opportunity to read the report or be briefed on the report. the bottom line is the same as it has been for the last couple of weeks. this comes down to whether five senators, three republicans and two democrats who remain undecided on this issue, see what they need to see in that report to either vote yes or vote no. i know chris predicted just a little while ago that the votes are there. i can tell you right now that the majority leader does not have commitments from any of those five senators. now, a number of them have been leaning yes or have said they want to get to yes. jeff flake voted yes in the committee, but i can t overstate enough how important this background investigation will be. multiple senators, multiple of those five senators, don, have said what they see in this investigation will go a long way to deciding whether or not they can get to yes. that makes tomorrow an enormous da
was subject to background investigations. i think it s important that members of the judiciary be heard on this issue, and i have not joined many letters because i am trying to work an aisle across the issue. and jamie roche, who is a yale roommate of brett kavanaugh came on tv last night and said he knows that judge kavanaugh lied under oath to the u.s. senate when he testified about terms that he used back when he was in high school and college and when he testified about whether or not he blacked out. jamie roche says he is 100% sure brett kavanaugh lied, and is that important and something that should have been investigated by the fbi? i heard from a number of classmates from judge kavanaugh s that tried repeatedly to reach the fbi and tried by reaching out to the white house or the fbi and committee members to be questioned and were not and are very disappointed in that and
three key republican senators highly critical of president trump mocking dr. ford. some of them highly critical of president trump on a good day. their condemnation of the president comes as their votes are necessary to confirm his supreme court pick. and as that vote draws closer, members of the committee are publicly quibbling about whether they had previous concerns about kavanaugh s past. the gop-run senate judiciary twitter account posted that nowhere in the previous six fbi background investigations was there ever a whiff of any issue at all related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse. that prompted this rebuke from the democrats, we are compelled to state for the record that there is information in the second post that is not accurate. joining us tonight, former u.s. senator, former secretary of state, former 2004 democratic presidential nominee john kerry, who also happens to be the author of a brand new book. it is called, as you can see
respected dr. ford s request for privacy and gotten to the bottom of this as we have attempted to do now with 20 million people watching on television. a vote against judge kavanaugh tomorrow will be a vote for abusing the confirmation process and a good person, and it will be a vote for the shameful intimidation tactics that have been employed as part of an orchestrated smear campaign. i agree that the fbi investigation now they ve talked to a total of 150 different people through the seven background investigations that judge kavanaugh has been through sin 1993. no corroboration. no confirmation with any outrageous accusations that have been made against him. unfortunately, this could have all been avoided, most of the