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Critical moment of drama. >> the white house is trying to get votes for judge kavanaugh. here was sarah sanders this morning on fox news. >> has anyone on the white house staff been in kwarkt with senators flake and murkowski? >> were continuing to stay in close contact with a number of senators. >> would you name any one of those three? >> the white house is continuing to stay in close contact with the senate. >> what about democratic senators? >> well continue talking with those individuals as...

Us a short time ago shes read all the interviews and obviously is going to be making a decision very soon. but, no announcement tonight. flake noted earlier there is no additional corroborating information in the fbi report. and murkowski is hard to read at this point, saying she has made no decision. earlier the senate majority leader emphasize this point. >> what we know for sure is an fbi report did not corroborate any of the allegations against judge kavanaugh. >> democratic leaders are not ...

S press secretary raj shah who has really shepherded brett kavanaugh through this entire process, which has probably been more of a roller coaster than you ever thought it would be. how are you feeling about this tonight? when you hear that susan collins is leaving after reading the documents and saying, -- not quite ready to as a how its going to go. >> martha, thanks for having me on. we were confident this morning, weve been cautiously optimistic throughout the day and we liked the reaction f...

Times today reyou radioing t ru the report. so they are got there yet and the senators still have to make up their minds. >> they will make the final decision. do you expect the three key republican senators flake, collins, murkowski to vote as a bloc? >> this is a really important point. ive been talking to aides about this the last two week. and they are not a monolithic group. they have different issues and if you want to talk about one in peculiar, senator lisa murkowski while obviously heal...

Comments from last night. i thought that they were wrong, and extraordinarily unfortunate. >> all right, so big questions remain at this hour. did the president make it more difficult for senators flake and collins and murkowski to get to yes? did he make other republicans think twice about their vote? and the biggest unknown -- what is actually in that fbi report? will it contain some truths about brett kavanaugh or will it be an unfinished document hampered by a constrained investigation leavi...

Not dr. ford should be believed. >> weve done the best we could under these circumstances were chuck grassleys words. >> the best they could is not good enough if the fbi didnt interview dr. ford, didnt interview kavanaugh, didnt interview dozens of people who have come forward and told the media, i reached out to the fbi, i have information one way or another, the fbi never got back to me. this was set up to try to provide cover for senators flake, murkowski and collins to vote for kavanaugh. >...

I learned some information from reading the report, but its certainly incomplete. theres a lot more questions that i would like to have answered, and it goes to the process. this investigation report should have been done before the hearing involving dr. ford. we also should have had, under oath, the witnesses that were there, that dr. ford claimed were there, in other words, mr. judge should have testified in open court -- in open session before the judiciary committee. not having that, it rais...

There have been huge protests outside her senate office. she has been spending most of her time in her hideaway office and a place where the press cant reach her and why you see all of these cameras lined up outside this hearing room. we all know that senator collins is the chairwoman of this committee. there will be a hearing at 9:30. everybody is lined up hoping to grab her and ask her questions when she walks in this room in just about 30 minutes. she is going to be asked about where she stan...

Between how judge kavanaugh testified and what people who knew him in both high school and college say about his behavior while he was drinking. >> yeah, i mean, there are reports tonight that the fbis work could be wrapped up tonight. is that your understanding? or even tomorrow. >> i hear those kind of rumors. and what i would be concerned about is really how complete their investigation has been. because if its just a peripheral or kind of a whitewash kind of an investigation, i dont know if ...

Professor ford? should they interview judge kavanaugh? >> they definitely need to interview judge kavanaugh, because they havent interviewed him on these particular reports. and for dr. ford, i dont know, because im told that sometimes they will interview the principles, principle witnesses, after they have gone through the other people that theyre interviewing. but frankly, i do not know how extensive the fbi investigation is. we would like it to be complete. i would like to know whether there ...