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Martha: all right. let's go to this story which got a lot of attention over the weekend. syracuse university firing long-time basketball assistant coach bernie fine amid new child sex abuse allegations. fbi agent searching fine's home this weekend. the decision to fire him came on the same day that espn released an explosive audio recording of the accuser, bobby davis, talking to fine's wife back in 2002. the syracuse chancellor says, quote, the taped call, the phone call that espn revealed today was not provided to the university by mr. davis during the 2005 investigation by our legal counsel...

Her allegation under oath and judge kavanaugh will be able to respond. but the smear campaign didn't stop there. that was just act one. just act one. according to the reporter of this second allegation, the accuser, quote, came forward because senate democrats began looking and now they're calling for even further delays and further obstruction over a second decades' old allegation that is so thin and so unsupported that "the new york times" refused to even run a story about it. this claim is so dubious that "the new york times" passed on the story entirely after looking into it. here's why "t...

Republican senators, including two moderate republicans, lisa murkowski and susan collins, whose votes on the senator floor will be critical to determining whether he gets that lifetime spot. cnn caught up with senator susan collins as she returned from maine and this is what she said. >> should the committee vote coming up here this week? >> i'm going to be talking with my colleagues but i really don't have anything to add at this point. as said. i did read the letter and asked the judge about it and he was very emphatic in his denial. >> do you believe the accuser? >> i don't know enough to ...

Let's put aside this last-minute, unsubstantiated smear. let's return to the facts. let's have a fair hearing on thursday. here are the facts that we do have. hundreds of men and women who have known brett kavanaugh across his life have written or spoken out that he is a man of strong character and tremendous integrity. numerous witnesses testified before the judiciary committee that he's a trusted mentor, a loyal friend and a life-long champion of women. more than 75 women gathered last week to share their decades' old knowledge of judge kavanaugh as, quote, a guy who treats us with kindness ...

Every day. does that suggest that they're accumulating more and more evidence in relation to this case? >> reporter: that's certainly what it sounded like though they didn't get into what that evidence is. they're trying to make an argument to the judge you have to give us more time with him into jail. we have a solid case but they didn't want to go into detail of what they have tipping their hand to the defense. and so, yes, the prosecution made it very clear, we have a strong case, we're getting more and more forensic evidence every day and they said in court today, the d.a. did, that the fo...