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Or forgetting things, and thats why this letter is potentially significant here. its just one more piece of the overall puzzle of who is brett kavanaugh, who was brett kavanaugh back in high school, and you rightfully point out one of the other significant points of this letter, the fact that he signs it "bart" and that is significant because his friend back in high school, mark judge at the center of a lot of these allegations, he wrote a book, and in that book, its said to be fictional, he ide...

Im told officials in the fbi occasionally write memos about their conversations. >> ive heard that. >> thats the point here. were going to find out what that directive was. people who are saying, no, the fbi has free rein, were going to get the answer to that question because all of this will fall under the free dom of information act. we will know what the white house told the fbi. >> abby, youve been at the white house covering this. you had it in your piece just there, i was surprised when pr...

Question, judge? just so -- thats not happened, is that your answer? >> yeah, and im curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> nor do i. >> okay. thank you. >> reporter: after a break, judge kavanaugh apologized. today, the president was asked about his testimony. >> there are now concerns that he may have lied or mischaracterized his drinking while testifying. if they find that he did, do you think that bars him from being your supreme court nominee? >> well, i watched him, ...

He lived with brett kavanaugh and he was his suite mate at yale, and he never saw brett kavanaugh, even though he was the one who came home with him at the end of the night, that he never saw him come home so drunk that he wouldnt be able to misremember something. theyre saying we know him better, and we actually know that this is not the way he drank. this isnt how we would characterize it. although they did say he did drink, theyre saying they didnt drink as much as being characterized now. of...

There about president bushs drinking. kavanaugh has said hes never had a drinking problem but this is all kind of coming full circle. >> i think this is one of the most fascinating threads because we do know that president trump feels very strongly and personally about this issue. in our town hall during the election when he was with his children, they were talking about how their father over and over again said no drugs, no alcohol and they really internalized this as a really important message...

Employees at the cia, spousal or child abuse, a lot of issues with people who were shoplifters, drug abuse, academic fraud, none of that will be the subject of this investigation. you will go in and say what do you remember about specific incidents that happened 35 years ago. on the drinking issue i personally dont care and i dont think the fbi is investigating whether the judge was a belligerent drunk in high school or college. i dont care. but if someone says, look, i was at those parties and ...

But ive gone to sleep. ive never blacked out. thats the allegation. thats -- thats wrong. >> so youre saying theres never been a case where you drank so much that you didnt remember what happened the night before? >> blackout thats -- did you? >> could you answer the question? thats not happened? is that your answer? >> yeah, and im curious if you have. >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> several of kavanaughs classmates do support his testimony, including dan murphy, who once lived in kava...

Defender. and even though brett kavanaugh insists that he did not have a drinking problem in high school or college, donald trump doesnt believe brett kavanaugh. doesnt believe he was telling it truth when he said that. donald trump believes that brett kavanaugh did have a drinking problem because nobody has said anything bad about his behavior in the last 20 years. and 20 years is a very interesting time bracket to pick because it was exactly 20 years ago when brett kavanaugh was working in the...

Said that alcohol was -- that he was perfect with respect to alcohol. >> so the interesting thing about that is brett kavanaugh didnt say he had difficulty with alcohol. if he had acknowledged that at any point along the way, whether in his first round of testimony, his fox news interview, his multiple statements, his testimony last week, we might not be having this conversation. remember with senator klobuchar, he asked her a question, and she said, i dont have a drinking problem, and he said, ...

Question, so our katelyn collins tried again. >> you didnt answer my question, mr. president. so if he did lie about his drinking -- >> i dont think he did. >> still didnt answer the question. now many people who knew brett kavanaugh publicly indicating he did just that. it is after all a possibility if youre blackout drunk you cant remember all or part of what you did, thats the significance of it. senator amy globe char tried to get at that at last weeks hearing. >> youre saying theres never b...