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Kavanaughs former classmate at yale spoke to bloomberg about that fight. yesterday he released a statement describing kavanaugh as, quote, belligerent and aggressive after drinking. here is what kavanaugh said to the committee about his drinking last week. >> i drank beer with my friends, almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers, but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. >> earlier this evening his former classmate offered a different assessment. >> i can say that in deny...

Beer make you pass out? there was a lot of options at that time. >> and the difference of passing out, that goes to passing out. but im sure roger knows theres a medical-term, a medical association description of an alcoholic blackout. and that means you keep walking, talking, drinking. you can have sex, you can drive a car. you just dont remember it. the camera function in the brain just stops recording. >> and the testified --

One of kavanaughs former yale classmates. chad ludington said kavanaugh was not truthful. here are kavanaugh last week and ludington last night. >> i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. >> he testified he did drink and and wasnt proud of everything. >> he did. he also downplayed to a brief degree the possibility he could not know what was goin...

Almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers, but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. >> earlier this evening his former classmate offered a different assessment. >> i can say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking and in down playing the degree and frequency of the drinking, brett has not told the truth. i felt it was my civic duty to tell of my experience while drinking with brett. >> he went on to say he has been in touch with the fbi abou...

Was not truthful about his alcohol consumption. here are kavanaugh last week and ludington last night. >> i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. >> he testified he did drink and and wasnt proud of everything. >> he did. he also downplayed to a brief degree the possibility he could ever not know what was going on. >> you are saying there were om...

What i feel the senate wants. the senate is making this decision. and im instructing them as per what the senate is looking for. >> reporter: it is a stark reversal from his initial order, strictly limiting the scope of the fbis new investigation. the president also repeatedly pressed about judge kavanaughs drinking. >> i drank beer with my friends, almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of...

Goal posts about kavanaughs behavior have unfairly shifted from sexual assault to drinking too much, as republicans are saying, or if you think there is additional cause for concern over whether kavanaugh has been honest about his drinking as a young man, this is now topic "a" in washington, d.c., with at least one key republican senator saying if the fbi probe proves kavanaugh was not honest about this, it would be the end of his nomination. now, cnns kaitlan collins earlier today asked preside...

Drinking? >> well, passed out would be, no. but ive gone to sleep. but ive never blacked out. thats the -- thats the allegation. and thats wrong. >> reporter: in addition to speaking to classmates who say kavanaugh did drink to excess, cnn has spoken to a half dozen college and high school classmates of kavanaugh who say they never saw kavanaugh drink to the point of blacking out, and never aggressive. that was contradicted this weekend by chad ludington, the yale classmate who released this sta...

But the president adds, just make it snappy. >> i want them to do that. i want it to be comprehensive. i actually think its a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think its actually a good thing. not a bad thing. i think its a good thing. now, with that being said, id like it to go quickly. the one thing i want is speed. >> reporter: unlike another investigation, like the russia probe, that the president could do without. >> we dont want to go on a witch hunt. >> i do. >> reporter: mr. trump appear...

Classmates who told cnn they never saw brett kavanaugh drinking to the point of blacking out, never aggressive. that too was contradicted this weekend by former yale classmate chad ludington who released a statement saying in part brett was a frequent drinking and a heavy drinker. i know because especially in our first two years of college i often drank with him. he he goes on to write, when brett got drunk he was often belligerent and aggressive. the yale roommates of debbie ramirez say they al...