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Points of blacking out and i never sexually assaulted anyone. >> reporter: his former yale class mate telling cnn kavanaugh's mischaracterized his drinking at yale. >> wri've seen brett drunk to t point where he could be passed out. >> but you never saw him passed out? >> no. >> reporter: a man accused kavanaugh of throwing ice on him. the white house is blasting it as a desperate attack at a ridiculous story by a reporter who was previously criticized kavanaugh. >> they are so in favor of judge kavanaugh. you've never seen anything like it. i think it's like a rallying cry for the republicans...

Wait for it. that's a real swing. she can play. good morning. i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, october 2nd. 5:00 a.m. in the east. a shift for the white house. allowing the fbi wider latitude in the fbi probe. even if the fbi clears the supreme court nominee of sexual misconduct, some suggest the youthful drinking could prove damaging. several senators said lying to the committee would be disqualifying. the fbi has now reached out to one of kavanaugh's former yale classmates. chad ludington said kavanaugh was not truthful about his alcohol consumption. here are kavanaug...

Point of blacking out. >> he testified he did drink and and wasn't proud of everything. >> he did. he also downplayed to a brief degree that he could not know what was going on. >> you are saying there were omissions? >> there were certainly many times where he could not remember what was going on. >> ludington says he witnessed a 1985 bar fight started by the future supreme court nominee. the police report says the victim accused kavanaugh of throwing ice at him. the brawl ended with the man hit in the head with a glass. the police report does not say if anyone was arrested. two other friends...

Kavanaugh's former classmate at yale chad luddington spoke to bloomberg about that fight. yesterday he released a statement describing kavanaugh as, quote, belligerent and aggressive after drinking. here is what kavanaugh said to the committee about his drinking last week. >> i drank beer with my friends, almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers, but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. >> earlier this evening his former classmate offered a different assessment. >> i can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking and in dow...

About how much he liked beer. but he tried over and over again to down-play it that it was something teenagers do, not a problem and certainly not black outs. >> i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers, i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. we drank beer, my friends and i, boys and girls. yes, we drank beer. we liked beer. still like beer. >> headline, he likes beer. no mention of having as the president said, coat, a little bit of difficulty with alcohol. also we should point out, no mention of whether...