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The procedural legislation to allow the legislation to move forwa forward. rebecca, i want to play a clip for you. kavanaugh s roommate when he was a freshman at yale university said this on cnn s new day earlier today. he said he wanted to be questioned by the fbi and they never got in touch with him. i don t know very many people who didn t drink in college and i know a lot of people who drank in college to the point of blacking out or throwing up. it s not a proud thing but it s common. it was particularly common then. that wasn t the problem. the problem is does he tell the truth and does he tell the truth when it matters? does he lie easily or for good reasons or to protect embarrassment. what do you think? that gets at, wolf, one of the two key questions hanging over kavanaugh that the senators on the fence will be looking at. there s the credibility question ....
Will get on board and they can push him through, break that democratic filibuster tomorrow for that confirmation vote saturday but members reviewing this behind closed doors expect it to happen tonight ahead of the key vote tomorrow. manu raju in capitol hill. thank you. more breaking news tonight. cnn learned the fbi report sent to capitol hill includes 45 pages of interview summaries as well as 1600 extra pages of information that the fbi collected from its tipline. let s talk about the investigation. supersizery special agent josh campbell is joining us. josh, republicans say the report was comprehensive. democrats say it was a sham. is the fbi being used as a tool? with the absense of information that s a possibility. if you look at the way both sides have framed this issue they couldn t be farther from ....
we did not come up with a list of who if fbi should interview. it was a initial list of four provided to us by the senate. they were interviewed and leads were followed up on. as you see there, wolf, you have to senate saying we didn t provide a list of names, the white house saying they received four names, that makes things murkier. the question comes down to what did the white house direct the fbi to do? the fbi is not taking direction from the senate. they re taking it from the white house. not sure we will before the vote nomination but that s the key question the public is asking. what were the parameters? what were the constraints? josh campbell reporting. let s get more perspective from a veteran of high profile investigations. joining us, cnn s senior legal ....
Supreme court meanwhile sources close to the nomination process tell cnn republican leaders on capitol hill and white house officials are feeling increase. i optimistic about the prospects of brett kavanaugh but democrats are crying foul, arguing the supreme court nominee s background is being covered up. choosing his words carefully about his supreme court pick i think he s doing very well. the judge is doing well, right? reporter: president trump left it to gop leaders to all but declare victory in the battle other brett kavanaugh. i feel very good about where this nomination is right now. i don t say that from the standpoint of counting votes, i say that from the standpoint of the qualifications of this candidate. reporter: a big reason for the optism? two undecided republican senators sounded satisfied with the fbi s supplemental investigation into kavanaugh s background that appeared to fall short of concluded the judge ....