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Assault. but that's very different from saying that it didn't take place at all. but certainly if you are a senator looking for reasons to vote "yes" the way susan collins appears to have been looking for reasons to vote "yes," those three witnesses might be enough for you and you're not interested in drinking and you're not interested in blackouts or not blackouts. so, again, it depends on what perspective you have going into the process, what conclusions you reach. >> you know, if the fbi is asking these questions of these three people who were there at that party and they say, we don't have...

Will go down that path, but it could come up in the course of the interviews by the open-ended way they will ask questions. remember that drinking is actually one of the nine criteria that the fbi asks about in the course of normal fbi investigations. i should point out probably in judge kavanaugh's earliest investigation, it was around the time he joined the star team, they would have interviewed people close to college and that would have been a question they asked, and to your point, john, the drinking issue is both by itself a candor issue in terms of his answers to the court, but they are...

Investigators are also questioning debra ramirez, the second kavanaugh accuser. as you can tell, a lot to get to tonight. jim acosta is out front live at the rally where president trump will be going shortly. we know this question of how much kavanaugh has drank is on top of the president's mind as well. >> that's right. you heard the president say earlier today at the news conference, he went as far as to say that brett kavanaugh has had difficulty with alcohol over the years, and contrasted that with his own drinking history, which he says he doesn't have a drinking history. and went on to i...

About it, the person wasn't experiencing tense emotions or it was not an especially unusual event, they may not remember it, especially if they're drinking to some degree. >> the drinking issue came up a lot yesterday. to what degree does drinking impair memory? >> well, this is most dramatic when someone has a complete blackout and they're still able to act, to behave and yet they have no memory whatsoever of the event. from what i understood from his testimony, he's never experienced blackouts before. he was simply, according to the testimony of dr. ford, drunk. but not so drunk that it woul...

>> i think we're on to something this time, uh-huh. i'm sorry, margaret. ♪ >> the routines are ridiculously brilliant. it was endless riffing. and i'm going whose brain can do that? >> the united nations now recognizes the delegate. >> to be as genius as jonathan winters, you have to think differently than normal people. he is working within his mind at a very high level, a very fast level. by thinking that way and being that untethered to the rest of us, you can lose your mind more easily. >> jonathan was a profoundly troubled guy that had drinking issue, that had depression