At 3 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we are learning more about the list of witnesses to be interviewed by the fbi in the probe of Brett Kavanaugh. Apparently neither judge kavanaugh nor his accuser Christine Blasey ford are on that list. The president continues to insist, though, the fbi has free reign to speak to whomever they choose while conducting this oneweek limited probe. But sources tell cnn the white House Counsel is working with the Senate Republicans behind the scenes to keep the investigation narrow and to keep it focused. All this comes as a former Yale University class made is claiming that kavanaugh has not told the truth about his drinking, saying in part, this, quote, at yale, kavanaugh and i i can speak to other times. Brett was a frequent drinker and a heavy drinker. I know because especially in our first two classes of college i often drank with him. He goes on to say, when brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive, end quote. His overall drinking history is not part of the probe, but of course it is a question that many are raising. More now on this investigation from our Boris Sanchez. Reporter the ranking democrat on the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Dianne feinstein sending out a statement on sunday afternoon, requesting the exact directive coming from the white house to the fbi outlining the exact parameters of the fbi probe into accusations made against President Trumps pick to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Dianne feinstein saying the stakes are simply too high and that senators on that committee should know exactly what the white house is telling the fbi to do. Two sources familiar with the investigation have told cnn that the white house is sort of outlining the exact steps that the fbi should take, maintaining that specific questions about Brett Kavanaughs drinking in high school are off limits and outlining there would only be a handful of interviews conducted during this probe. Now, even before Dianne Feinstein sent out this statement, President Trump was already weighing in saying that democrats would be unhappy regardless of the scope of the investigation. He wrote on twitter, quote, wow, just starting to hear the democrats who are only thinking obstruct and delay are starting to put out the word that the time and scope of fbi looking into judge kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello. For them, it will never be enough. Stay tuned and watch. Of course, this news coming from sources just days after President Trump said that the fbi would have free rain over this investigation. That is not sitting well with a number of democrats including senator Amy Klobuchar who spoke to jake tapper on state of the union sunday morning. The hard working men and women of the fbi should be able to do their jobs. And on that i agree. But what we are hearing are reports that they are somehow trying to limit this to a few witnesses or tell them what they should do. And while the white house decides who to nominate and then that person is submitted to a background check, ive never heard that the white house either under this president or other president s is saying, well, you cant interview this person, you cant look at this time period. You can only look at these people from one side of the street from when they were growing up. Press secretary Sarah Sanders was also on the sunday morning talk shows saying that the white house does not want to micro manage the fbi, though she admitted she didnt know whether white House Counsel don mcgahn had told the fbi who they could or couldnt interview and what questions they could or could not ask. Boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. Boris, thank you. The fbi investigation that is now underway came about after republic scan senator jeff flake had a change of heart. He would only vote to send kavanaughs nomination to the senate floor only with a oneweek delay for investigation. Not long before that, he found himself in this situation. It was a moment that played out on live television. This when two women who say they are Sexual Assault survivors, they confronted jeff flake in an elevator at the Senate Office building. They asked him what kind of message he was sending to women by letting kavanaugh vote kavanaughs vote proceed without a probe. Shortly after that encounter, flake told his democratic colleagues senator chris coons that he had to chat, and it worked out a compromise that led to this investigation of one week. Both senators spoke to cbs about what they thought of kavanaughs testimony. I was really struck that i thought his anger got the best of him and he made a partisan argument that would have been best left to be made for his advocates and defenders on the committee. Made you wonder about his suitability . In my case, yes, it made me wonder about his suitability to sit on the bench. But, senator flake, you identified with it, you understood . The part that he mentioned about the clintons, i didnt like either. It seemed partisan, but boy, i have to put myself in that spot. I think you give a little leeway there. Lets talk more about this with Steven Erlinger from brussels, belgium. Always a pleasure. Thanks, george. Given from what weve heard from senators flake and cools, does this put pressure, new pressure on this extended investigation from your point of view . Well, it does. Its not off be in my life i feel sorry for the fbi, but theyre really being put in an incredibly difficult position, not just with this, but, of course, with the whole mueller investigation, which has trump obsessed. Trump is right to some degree. The democrats would like to prolong this because if they can win control of the senate or reduce republican control in midterms, which are not far away, then kavanaughs nomination is probably doomed anyway. So, the republicans are pushing really hard to get this done before those elections. And jeff flake, you know, is one of these hand wringing republicans who keeps saying, he hates trump and hes against trump, and then falls into line. This is one of those real incidents where, okay, he just couldnt bear it in i more, so he decided to, you know, let the democrats have one more week. But he also said even before all this that he would vote for Brett Kavanaugh. So, i think there is still a lot to play for. And i think the white house is being careful. I dont think trump has decided whether to keep pushing kavanaugh or even to withdraw him. I think thats still an option. So you say the president may have some time to decide on this. And what about democrats, those red state democrats who may be on the fence and moderate republicans who are watching this, does more time on the clock make it harder to get to a yes or harder to get to a no . Well, im not sure. A lot will depend what the fbi comes out with. But, of course, a lot depends on public opinion, you know, because we get reports from people who knew judge kavanaugh when he was a kid or when he was a freshman at yale and how much did he drink and how much didnt he drink. And it sounds, you know, if hes saying he wasnt much of a drinker and all his friends say that he was, that will create doubt. You heard the two senators raising questions about his temperament. I think thats another question that has nothing to do with what he did in high school. It has to do with the kind of person that he is and the way he reacts to stress. So, i mean, these are all issues that i think come to bear on public opinion. Lets talk about the scope of this investigation, steven. There are questions about whether the white house is somehow pulling strings to limit the investigation. And there is a limited amount of time, of course, for agents to do their work. Can this investigation be construed as thorough, can it be construed as impartial . Well, i think you can construe it i mean, the fbi will do it i believe impartially. Thats not the question. Well, even with limitations time well, you know, we dont actually know what all the restrictions are. Thats the problem, you know. We hear it back and forth. Even your well informed Boris Sanchez isnt quite sure yet. So we would like to know that. But at the same time, you know, as a journalist, you know, you can do a lot of work in a week. You can talk to a lot of people. So im not concerned about the time limit so much as i might be concerned about whether there really are restrictions on the people that the fbi could speak to and who puts those restrictions on the fbi. Okay. Heres an even bigger question. Look, this narrow investigation will proceed into the week. If you thought you saw drama last week, there might be more to come. Well have to wait and see. But if more allegations come forward and if those allegations are left unchecked, could that further cloud the path for kavanaugh . Oh, i think so. I mean, i think you have some senators who are really wai waivering. Senators are partisan. Their job is to protect and defend the constitution of the United States. Their advise and consent function over nominations to the Supreme Court is very serious. And i think, you know, senators take it very seriously, so i think there are a lot of questions. We hope the fbi can answer some of them. But in the end, it comes down to the political consciousness and conscience of these senators to decide what to do. Thats what we have elected them to do. Steven erlanger live for us in brussels, belgium. We appreciate your time and perspective. Well keep in touch. Thanks, george. The United States and canada signed off on a new version of the north American Free trade agreement, nafta, as you may better know it, with less than two hours to spare before midnight deadline canada agreed to allow the United States greater access to its dairy market and concerns about possible u. S. Tariffs on Canadian Auto exports were addressed. My colleague cyril vanier spoke with paula newton about details around this agreement. Listen. They will be calling us the u. S. mexico canada agreement. Donald trump wanted a branding change and he got it and in many ways, cyril n terms of what substantially has gone on here, definitely the Trump Administration is saying that, look, we have been able to negotiate a much more level Playing Field when it comes to things like automobiles. And obviously donald trump has been saying in many rallies the last few weeks they wanted access to that allimportant canadian dairy market. So important to u. S. Farmers, but whats to be understood here is that its very important to american politicians who want to make sure that they can tout this deal as being better for u. S. Farmers. In canada, it came away with a lot as well. Word for word from the old agreement called chapter 19. What does that mean . It means canada can go to an independent referee when it has a dispute, trade dispute with the United States and does not have to subject itself to any kind of u. S. Ruling that remains intact from the old deal. All in all, it is not a wholesale change of the agreement that was already on the table. But enough Officials Say for donald trump to claim that hes basically had another victory on yet another campaign promise. So and you referred to this. Donald trump during his entire Campaign Said 1 2 that was one of the worst deals the u. S. Ever signed. It was terrible for the United States. Essentially what the u. S. Gets out of one year of renegotiation is access to the canadian dairy market . This is the big win . Reporter exactly. And it has to be said that whatever they are getting closely mirrors what europe and the Pacific Trading partners through what was called the tpp have already negotiated, something that canada was already willing to do preparing the dairy industry saying, yes, we have to do this, we have to open up our markets. Having said that, on automobiles something donald trump also said during the campaign was very important to him, it is about that level Playing Field, to make sure that u. S. Workers are not undercut in their own backyard and that their jobs will not go principally to mexico. It didnt really seem canada was much of a threat in that way. But, no, you caught that right, cyril. This is a win really for canada in that regard, in terms of what they got out of the deal. And certainly canadian officials are characterizing it that way. All right. Still ahead, we are following the situation in indonesia. The scenes of devastation and great despair. So much damage there days after an earthquake and tsunami demolished thousands of homes. Survivors desperate for food, for water and for shelter. Well have the latest. Welcome back to cnn newsroom. Im George Howell. Its been almost three days now since a powerful earthquake and tsunami ripped through one of indonesias biggest islands. The full scale of the damage, the destruction, its still not clear. But at this point heres what we do know. At least 844 people now are confirmed dead, and that number is likely to rise over the coming days, weeks and months. Volunteers have started burying bodies in a mass grave that has space for more than a thousand people. In the meantime, rescue workers are struggling to find survivors who may still be buried, trapped in the collapsed buildings there. Cnns matt rivers is in the region and filed this report. Reporter a body is pulled from the rubble of a hotel where 50 people are thought to be trapped. A desperate search for survivors continues after a 7. 5 magnitude earthquake hit the indonesian island of sulawesi triggering a tsunami. This cell phone captured waves as high as 10 feet coming onto shore. It swoops through the streets carrying anything and anyone in its way. In its aftermath, destruction, wrecked cars show just how violently the waves hit. In a hospital in the coastal city of palu, survivors are attended to amid the power cuts. They are the lucky ones. Translator we are expecting a rise in the number of dead victims, though we hope the data remains as it is. However, looking at the conditions there, there are still bodies unidentified as well as victims buried under ruins. There are also remote areas yet to be reached by joint s. A. R. Teams. Reporter indonesias president visited palu sunday and ordered rescuers to workday and night in search for the missing. A state of emergency has been called in Central Sulawesi as crews work to restore communication and repair damage on the roads and bridges. But in palu, people say they dont have enough basic food and medicines and have been allowed by the authorities to take away supplies from super markets. Translator theres been no aid. We need to eat. We dont have any other choice. We must get food. Reporter indonesias Disaster Management agency estimates that 2. 4 Million People were affected by fridays earthquake. And as they await help, residents combed through the debris of what was once their homes. Matt rivers, cnn, sulawesi, indonesia. Matt rivers in the region with a report again. Now alexandra field live in hong kong following the details. Alexandra, look, with the infrastructure so badly damaged, airports down at this point, how difficult is it for these crews to get into these hardhit areas . It is ee nor lusly difficult, george. We are learning from official more about what kind of need exists at the moment. It exists on a massive skam. We just heard an update from officials in indonesia. They are saying 48,000 people are displaced, out of their homes. We know that thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed between the earthquake and the tsunami. These are people who are now seeking shelter outside largely thousands of them going to outdoor shelters. Youve got a number of people also who have homes that havent been fully destroyed, but are too fearful to go back indoors because of the possibilities of aftershocks. The rescue crews are working feverishly to try to get to the areas where there is the greatest need. You point out the fact there is destruction of infrastructure. There are downed bridges, there are land slides that have blocked roads. That makes it hard for the crews to get in there to do the work of sifting through the debris to try and find survivors. Add to that the part that they are having difficulty bringing in heavy machinery and enough fuel. There is an urgent need, george, for resources to work on the rescue and recovery efforts. But also for the survivors. We are told that they need food, medicine, clean water. You heard in that report from matt rivers that the indonesian president toured the devastation. Hes made it very clear that he has four priorities. The evacuation of more survivors, the clearing of debris, sanitation measures, and also working to fix those modes of transportation that will certainly speed the process in terms of getting more desperately needed supplies in there. And in terms of getting those supplies in, even though there are so many hurdles to confront, george, the indonesian president is saying that more help is needed and hes called on the international community, saying that indonesia will accept offers of aid and those offers are certainly starting to come in now, george. Alexandra, so important that you remind our viewers of the aftershocks. Thats got to be so terrifying for people who have gone through what theyve already experienced, left with this damage, and then they continue to feel the rumbling, the shaking of the ground and the search for survivors continuing. Tell us more, if you could, about, you know, the process of burying th