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Woman's letter with the accusation in judge kavanaugh's background file, but all 10 democrats on the judiciary committee on the nomination and they say they want an fbi investigation before the panel even moves forward. we are waiting to hear more from the fbi, but typically they don't comment on investigations even if there was one here. >> thanks for the update. the white house meanwhile is defending brett kavanaugh and officials tell cnn president trump is upset and annoyed. our senior correspondent is here and jeff, we know judge kavanaugh made a trip to the white house earlier in the day....

Report from join mayer and ronan farrow at the "new yorker," detailing the nature of the complaint contained in the letter that was forwarded to the fbi about brett kavanaugh from senator feinstein this week. the allegations in that letter concern an incident when brett kavanaugh was in high school. brett kavanaugh has denied the allegations, telling the "new yorker," quote, i categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. i did not do this back in high school or at any time. i classmate of kavanaugh's was also mentioned in the letter. he has today been tracked down by news outlets. tha...

Phone call. today we got this report from the new yorker detailing the nature of the complaint contained in the letter that was forwarded to the fbi about bret kavanagh from senator dianne feinstein this week. the allegations in that letter concern an incident when bret kavanagh was in high school. he's denied the allegations saying i did not do this in high school or tnt. a class might was also mentioned in the letter. he's been tracked down. the classmate denies the allegations. the letter containing the allegations was sent to senator feinstein. the fbi says it since has received it from fe...

The fbi has since received it from feinstein and added the letter containing these allegations to kavanaugh's background file at the white house house. that means the white house and 100 u.s. senators now have access to the letter, in person if they want to see it. although the accuser's name, the woman's name in the letter is itself redacted. chuck grassly says he has not read the letter even though he's one of the ones that has access to it. if they vote him out on party lines that would mean he gets voted out of committee and it gets sent to the full chamber. one of the two democrats -- one...

She says kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom and along with another male, kavanaugh locked the door, played loud music which the accuser says precluded her from being heard when she yelled for help. she says both men were drunk and says kavanaugh allegedly tried to take off her clothes and allegedly had his hand over her mouth. at one point because of this, the accuser said she feared for her life but was finally able to leave the room and eventually left the party. there's no indication the woman ever reported the incident to law enforcement. she says, however, that in the years since she rec...