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What i feel the senate wants. the senate is making this decision. and i'm instructing them as per what the senate is looking for. >> reporter: it is a stark reversal from his initial order, strictly limiting the scope of the fbi's new investigation. the president also repeatedly pressed about judge kavanaugh's drinking. >> i drank beer with my friends, almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. but i did not drink beer to the point of blacking out and i never sexually assaulted anyone. >> reporter: christine blasey ford alleges k...

Goal posts about kavanaugh's behavior have unfairly shifted from sexual assault to drinking too much, as republicans are saying, or if you think there is additional cause for concern over whether kavanaugh has been honest about his drinking as a young man, this is now topic "a" in washington, d.c., with at least one key republican senator saying if the fbi probe proves kavanaugh was not honest about this, it would be the end of his nomination. now, cnn's kaitlan collins earlier today asked president trump if he was concerned about kavanaugh's honesty before congress on these issues. >> i reall...

Drinking? >> well, passed out would be, no. but i've gone to sleep. but i've never blacked out. that's the -- that's the allegation. and that's wrong. >> reporter: in addition to speaking to classmates who say kavanaugh did drink to excess, cnn has spoken to a half dozen college and high school classmates of kavanaugh who say they never saw kavanaugh drink to the point of blacking out, and never aggressive. that was contradicted this weekend by chad ludington, the yale classmate who released this statement. at yale, he writes, brett was a frequent drinker and a heavy drinker. i know, he says, ...

But the president adds, just make it snappy. >> i want them to do that. i want it to be comprehensive. i actually think it's a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think it's actually a good thing. not a bad thing. i think it's a good thing. now, with that being said, i'd like it to go quickly. the one thing i want is speed. >> reporter: unlike another investigation, like the russia probe, that the president could do without. >> we don't want to go on a witch hunt. >> i do. >> reporter: mr. trump appeared to concede, kavanaugh has not always been judicious in his consumption of alcohol. >> i dran...

Classmates who told cnn they never saw brett kavanaugh drinking to the point of blacking out, never aggressive. that too was contradicted this weekend by former yale classmate chad ludington who released a statement saying in part brett was a frequent drinking and a heavy drinker. i know because especially in our first two years of college i often drank with him. he he goes on to write, when brett got drunk he was often belligerent and aggressive. the yale roommates of debbie ramirez say they also saw brett kavanaugh drink heavily in college. >> he was a sloppy drunk. he was more interested in...