ramirez, that college student at yale with kavanaugh, before the new yorker story broke. democrats and republicans. what reporting do you have on that front? >> well, republicans are denying having any knowledge whatsoever, including chuck grassley's staff and senator dianne feinstein, the top democrat of the committee, her staff also said they did not know the details of the report before it was published. we do know that the colorado senator michael bennett who is not part of the committee but whose constituents is debbie ramirez, the woman making the allegation, his office had been in touch with her, put her in touch with an attorney in colorado after a staffer on the democratic side of the aisle on the judiciary committee referred her case to michael bennett's office. so that's where we get a sense of where things were. but there's no real sense there was a full-fledged investigation internally happening on the committee, but still, allegations that members were hearing about over the last several days here. >> okay. thank you, manu. let's talk about all this.