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Viewers in the United States and around the world. Breaking news this hour. The votes have been pledged, the decisions defended, and now all that is left is to make it official. Just about 30 minutes from now, the senate is expected to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court. The final chapter after a weeks long wrenching political battle that divided congress and the country. Protesters outside the Supreme Court, and the capitol, as we speak. And in the end, it was two previously undeclared, undecided senators, republican Susan Collins of maine, and democrat...

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Senate gallery. i was in there listening to jeff cornyn giving his floor speech. and senators are starting to file in to the chamber now. what we have been told is every senator has been asked to be at their desk. in other words, this is going to be a formal role call. we saw it yesterday morning with the procedural vote. but dana, you know as welt as anybody, it is pretty rare that we have this where each senator sits at their desk and stands when their name is called and cast their vote. we expect the vote to last 20 to 30 minutes, at which point brett kavanaugh will be confirmed. i think a ...

At the va. >> jeff cornyn is calling for the fbi to investigate. will the fbi get involved? >> i think it is possible. i just don't know what the evidence is going to show. clearly things happened here that shouldn't have happened. the question for the justice department was is it criminal activity. there has to be signs of criminal intent, not just stupid decisions, not just mismanageme mismanagement. but an attempt to cover something up for financial gain, could that be a crime, that kind of thing. >> pete williams, thank you. >> you bet. >> until the president outlines a plan, today's annou...

surprised. but this is one of those rare occasions where probably the majority of the people sitting in that briefing room now are quite surprised. there had been some discussion about jay carney thinking about leaving the white house, but those discussions never went beyond sort of the thee hethe t level. he's been the press secretary for a good several years, a about chunk of the first term. he'll be replaced by josh earnest, president obama described him as a straight shooter, based on my interactions with josh earnest, that has been the case. of course, the job of press secretary...