Yale classmate accuses Kavanaugh of ‘blatant mischaracterization’ of his drinking at college

“My White House will do whatever the senators want”, Trump said.

Questions about the scope of the FBI investigation emerged over the weekend amid reports that Senate Republicans were working with the White House to contain the number of witnesses and the allegations to be investigated.

In Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he told senators that, while he did occasionally drink “too many” beers in his youth, he did not ever “drink to the point of blacking out”, which was how he knew he had never sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. He has vehemently denied all allegations.

On Monday, the US President said Mr Kavanaugh was a good man who had been treated unfairly, and said he believed Mr Kavanaugh did not lie about his drinking.

Now that the FBI is investigating sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, politicians need to stay out of it while the agency does its work, U.S. Sen.

President Donald Trump ordered the FBI to reopen Kavanaugh’s background investigation Friday after several women accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), John Kennedy (R-La.), and Sen. “There were a lot of emails and a lot of texts flying around about how he was lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today”.

“The time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close”, McConnell declared.

Independent voters, who supported Kavanaugh by 45 percent to 39 percent in the September 10 poll, now oppose his confirmation by 49 percent to 39 percent.

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Should he oppose Trump in 2020, Flake is unlikely to win much support from New Hampshire Republicans, said Republican strategist Joel Maiola.

“The Supreme Court is one of the last bastions of trust. The Senate is having issues as well”, Flake said.

“I was, principally, concerned about helping my friend listen to his doubts and his conscience”, Coons said of Flake.

The new guidance, described to The Associated Press by a person familiar with it, was issued to the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the weekend in response to Democratic and news media pushback that the scope of the probe was too narrow.

Flagg said the polygraph that Ford said she took will not be admissible.

Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans and Trump all got bad grades for handling the accusations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. But Ludington said he “cringed” when he watched Kavanaugh describe his drinking on a Fox News TV interview and in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I know, because, especially in our first two years of college, I often drank with him.

Swetnick alleged the two drugged the “punch” and participated in “gang rapes” and “train rapes”.

Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed his penis to her during a drunken party at a Yale University dormitory, when they were undergraduates.

Mitchell said Ford did not identify Kavanaugh as her attacker in sessions with therapists, and she was unable to remember “key details of the night in question”, including how she left the party and how she got home. But he denies any such behavior and said he never blacked out because of alcohol.