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Against judge brett kavanaugh have polarized our nation weeks before the mid-term elections which will decide who controls the congress. we have team fox coverage of breaking news this afternoon. the chief white house correspondent, john roberts is live on the north lawn. first to mike emanuel live on capitol hill. mike? >> shep, good afternoon. a democrat up for re-election in a conservative state, heidi heitkamp of north dakota came out and said she is a no saying "in addition to the concerns ...

A.m. it takes 30 minutes to have that roll call vote. they close it at 11:30 and count 30 hours passed that. that would get to 5:00, 6:00 saturday night if the democrats burn all 30 hours. you can make the sunrise in the west if you got unanimous concert. they can move it up or back if all 100 senators agree. what is unknown if the democrats will use their time once its put in motion sometime tomorrow, shep. >> shepard: these demonstrations not unexpected i guess. >> right, this is a big nominat...

Tonight when he has a political rally at 6:30 local time in rochester, minnesota. the white house not even trying to convince or change the minds of the 46 now 47 with senator heitkamp who said they will vote no on kavanaugh. the president tweeting out earlier today, this is the seventh time the fbi has investigated judge kavanaugh. if we made it 100, wouldnt be good enough for the obstructionist democrats. the white house is mustering its efforts to republican flake, collins and murkowski to vo...

What we will likely hear from democrats is this report wasnt a report at all. it was too limited. is that a fair assessment? >> reporter: because judge kavanaugh and dr. ford were not interviewed by the fbi, that means that this investigation is not credible, and i think youre going to hear more and more democrats making that argument, but of course i think the question is how do senators flake, murkowski and collins feel? do they feel this was a credible investigation. do they feel that the pub...

Is a no. joe tester said hell vote against kavanaugh siting not only allegations but views on the patriot act and quote, thousands of e-mails and calls from montanaens. meanwhile, joe mansion of west virginia has publicly remained undecided but put out a statement backing senator flakes calls for investigation. and democratic senator heidi told reporters at a campaign stop this weekend quote there are a lot of lawyers in america that can sit on the court. i think this idea that there is only one...

For collins or flake to take that where the fbi is stopped by a brick wall where they want to go on. i dont think that would serve the purpose republicans hope to accomplish, which is get collins, flake, murkowski to say yes. the fbi got this lead. wanted to call the next person on the original list and they were stopped. >> want to jump in? >> there has been a lot of misunderstanding about what the fbi does in this process. i used to do this daily and when we -- when the senate sends the fbi ba...

Calls for an fbi probe. but with flake backed bylaws murkows murkowski, republican leaders had no choice. what happens if the fbi is not done with this background investigation within a week? >> one, you can have the fbi, cia and the foreign legion and they wont tell you anything more than you know now. that is my view. but well see what happens. he said he will -- a week is enough for him or maybe less. so were not playing this game of opening this up and it goes on forever. what he said was th...

Murkows murkowski, undecided about brett kavanaughs confirmation and vote to confirm him, they truly do want to hear from the woman in, you know, whatever setting she chooses. so the real -- the major question that will determine the path forward for all this right now is if she does end up talking to the senate judiciary committee. >> phil rucker, im struck by how low the bar is. i talkeded to ed tto a couple ae president, they said wasnt the president restrained? i said a normal person would b...

Come up in her lower court hearing. so i dont think that strategy would help with collins and murkows murkowski. >> and this sound is reminding everyone how the president has been, you know, so committed to dismantle willing roe v. wade. here you go. >> do you want to see the court overturn roe v. wade? >> if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that is really what will happen. >> will you you appoint, are you looking to appoint a justice who wants to overturn roe v. wade? >> heres w...

Senator in order to flip someones vote, whether yours or murkows murkowskis or mccains, the president seems to be threatening to cut off funding for the health care plans that members of congress receive. would that kind of pressure change your vote? >> no. but you know, the ball is really in our court right now. there are serious problems with the aca. were seeing collapsing markets in some areas of the country where even though people have subsidies theyre not going to be able to buy an insura...