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Welcome back. judge brett kavanaugh is on a bri brief pause. how will this impact the nomination? joining me chief counsel and policy director for the judicial crisis network. so let's start here with this. do you agree with with majority leader, mitch mcconnell who reportedly told collins and murkowski that this time will not make it easier to vote for junl kavanaugh? >> i didn't see mcconnell's comments but i think for them they feel this will give them an added level of confidence.

We stand behind junl kavanaugh 100%, that's the message tonight from white house deputy chief of staff for communications bill shine and president trump, though, refusing to say if he supports a delay for monday's hearing. this after christine blasey ford's attorney said that she is willing to testify about her sexual assault allegations against kavanaugh, but not on monday. jeff zeleny is out front live at the white house. president trump has said that blasey ford deserves to tell her story. why not be open to something if it is a brief delay? what are you hearing? >> reporter: that's a good ...

What's at issue is whether or not this woman comes forward. i don't know -- the denial that junl kavanaugh put out is kind of broad. it didn't show that he knew who this person might have been about. he didn't say i don't even know -- i never was at a party with a woman in a room. he could have been a little more specific but that would have recognized that maybe something happened. i think we're in the context of the #me too movement where they shrug this off either. and she was concerned that this allegation stems back to the judge's high school days. >> all right. thank you so mup. always g...

A different situation because you had sekwengsal trials, basically from the same probe. so if he gets a break in sentencing, that helps him too. i have to ask about this decades old assault against kavanaugh. does a letter sent to dianne feinstein accusing him of assaulting her in high school in the 1980s he says i categorically and unequivocally deny this alligations. i did not do this back in high school or at eany time." but comes lobby at a critical juncture of his battle. what do you make of the timing? >> it clearly is tied to the conformation battle. it had been bubbling around for a sh...