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The committee, which he could do. That would be one way to do it. Instead announcing the shirg hiring of a woman lawyer for this job. Republicans assert she is an experiences sex crimes prosecut prosecutor, which may be true. I would love to tell you how we fact checked that. But the republicans have made that impossible for us to do. Because theyre not even, and this is weird, releasing her name. So theres no way to publicly examine the questioners record for those of us in the newsroom. Theres also no way, and this could be important, to prepare witnesses for how that person will approach qu...

Vote. He is set to speak. He is accusing democrats of moving the goalposts. Also this morning, the first lady landing in africa, her first major solo trip abroad. We are with her in ghana. We are set up and ready to go this morning. We are going to start with with new details about the fbis reopened background check on Brett Kavanaugh. We know four people have been interviewed so far, at least. Two High School Friends of kavanaughs, including mark judge. A friend of Christine Blasey ford and the second woman who accused kavanaugh of misconduct, deborah ramirez. The post says the fbi will not c...

Notably not interviewed, Christine Blasey ford, whose allegation prompted the investigation, nor did they talk to judge kavanaugh. There was one notable profile in courage today. I must say, north dakota democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp, whos locked in a very tough reelection battle out there, announced her decision to vote against kavanaugh. The process has been bad, but at the end of the day, you have to make a decision. And ive made that decision. And that decision will be what, senator . I will be voting no on judge kavanaugh. Well, in a statement, heitkamp noted she voted for justice nei...

And i got to say that im proud of my colleagues for standing up on this issue and we ought to all be standing up on these issues. We want competent federal judges who are not biased who basically will who will abide by the laws themselves. Hold up, hold up. Last question. Reporter the democrats say one thing and you all say another. Will the public ever get any sort of review or any sort of a summary of what has it was very clear to us in the memorandum of 2009 between obama and chairman leahy that theres one document, no copies made and not released to the public. So we cant do that. Now, the...

Procedural measure. Susan collins and jeff flake and democrat, joe manchin, any whom can vote the other way when it comes to the actual vote. Another hold out on your screen is republican senator Lisa Murkowski who voted no and is expected to stay that way for the final vote. Senator collins told reporters that she wont announce her final vote on the nomination until 3 00 eastern today. I will be voting yes on proceeding to the final confirmation vote and i will announce my exceptions on how to vote later today. Have you made your mind up, senator, on your final vote . Is it conceivable your v...