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So what, if anything, will or can democrats do to press pause? joining me now to weigh in congressman eric swalwell from california. thank you for tracking over to the set to talk with us. nice to see you in person. lets start there with brett kavanaugh here. senator mcconnell has accused democrats of moving the goal posts. here is what dianne feinstein from your state had to say about this. >> senator, would a vote on friday on the floor be too soon? >> well, i believe it is. i believe its too ...

Christine blasey ford through the mill and make sure -- >> have you ever done a federal background investigation? just asking. >> ive tried cases inn federal court. >> i have. i have. see i did this so you dont know how this works and what youre saying is that the fbi does criminal investigations and background. they dont. they get history backgrounds. they dont do criminal investigations into areas they have no purview on. this is not what the fbi does. you making this sound like they are going...

Oversight. what the consequences of that would be is hypothetical, and dont think that anyone is prepared to go down that particular road. >> okay. okay. mitch mcconnell says -- said yesterday and said again this morning that democrats are moving the goalposts when it comes to brett kavanaugh. first, it was delays over documents. now delays over christine blasey fords allegation, and it includes did he tell the truth about his drinking in high school and college. make the case that is not moving...

Bludgeoning. the media, they are the accomplishments. we have the evidence tonight. theyre using every dirty trick in the book to ride out the clock on judge kavanaughs nomination. last week they got their wish. the fbi performing a background check into allegations against judge kavanaugh, his seventh background check. already they have moved the goalposts, almost f instantaneously. they want more investigations. longer investigations and guess what? there are now testing out a brand-new accusa...

Allegationsfo investigated for a week and now the goalposts are so far down the field we cant see them. should we feel like we have been lied to? >> i think the least convincing part of the democratic case is that this was not being manipulated in terms of its timing. i think most people believe that these allegations were held to the last minute. right before the vote. i think there is a legitimate criticism for that. also i think you want to anticipate that one week is not going to satisfy man...

Questioned about at the time? >> its certainly not proof either of itself that either kavanaugh did anything wrong at the time or he was drunk. but it certainly fits with the pattern of what several witnesses are saying is that he was someone around alcohol a lot when he was an under graduate. that doesnt mean he lied in his testimony before the judiciary committee. but it also suggests that a thorough investigation of whether he lied would take some time. and there are going to be people you ar...

To take me on. judge kavanaugh has a stellar record on the bench. he is a long distinguished history of public service and he has undergone a six background checks, six background checks. somehow the fbi is supposed to turn up new information in just a few days and satisfy all the democrats. as senators we agreed to have a limited investigation by the fbi and the current credible allegations and we dont say there are none but to humor the them, to give them a few days we started moving the goalp...

They worked late into the night. the only caveat is that he wants the probe done quickly as the senate promised it would be done by this friday. mitch mcconnell followed that up by saying he fears that democrats are trying to move the goal posts. up or down by the end of this week you, shannon. >> shannon: s thank you very much for the update. in yet another sign of the turned out this confirmation is battle is taking, judge kavanaugh has withdrawn from teaching at harvard law this winter as sig...

Vote. he is set to speak. he is accusing democrats of moving the goalposts. also this morning, the first lady landing in africa, her first major solo trip abroad. we are with her in ghana. we are set up and ready to go this morning. we are going to start with with new details about the fbis reopened background check on brett kavanaugh. we know four people have been interviewed so far, at least. two high school friends of kavanaughs, including mark judge. a friend of christine blasey ford and the...

Violent drunk, the white house releasing two statements saying that is grossly untrue. mitch mcconnell charges that they are trying to move the goalposts of so they can keep investigating kavanaugh. democrat richard blumenthal suggested he should go on longer, he falsely charged with the right house is micromanaging the investigation. the president said that is not true. he said he will do with the senate wants and he ripped into blumenthal by noting, he lied about his service in vietnam. >> sea...