their popularity ratings taking somewhat of a dip. >> thank you very much. thanks very much for watching opinion i'm wolf blitzer. erin burnett outfront starts right now. >> outfront next, kavanaugh's college friend says the supreme court nominee is not telling the truth when it comes to alcohol. this as the president weighs in on kavanaugh's drinking. is this where the fbi investigation is headed? republican leaders vowing to go through with a vote on kavanaugh by the end of the week? is that now wishful thinking. president trump lashes out at female reporters, two of them. what happened? let's go out front. >> good evening, everyone. out front tonight, brett has not told the truth, those were the powerful words of brett kavanau

kavanaugh's college classmate about the supreme court nominee. luding ton speaking out moments ago about the brett kavanaugh he knew at yale. >> i can say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking and in downplaying the degree and frequency of his drinking, brett has not told the truth. i felt it was my civic duty to tell of my experience while drinking with brett. >> his own roommate said he never saw him black out. he was with him when he got home at night and saw him when he woke up. >> i unfortunately believe that my -- probably now ex-friend is lying. >> luding ton says he has spoken with the fbi, this as the president jumps back into the fray while raising new questions. listen. >> there are now concerns that he may have lied or mischaracterized his drinking while testifying. if they find that he did, do you think that bars him from being

your supreme court nominee? >> i watched him, i was surprised at how vocal he was about the fact that he likes beer. and he's had a little bit of difficulty. i mean, he talked about things that happened when he drank. >> during kavanaugh's forceful testimony, you'll remember he repeatedly talked about his love for beer. but was adamant that he did not have a drinking problem. >> you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened? >> you're asking about a blackout, i don't know, have you? >> i have no drinking problem, judge. >> nor do i. >> signs tonight that the fbi is moving quickly in its new investigation. conducting new interviews with some of the key players. kavanaugh's friend mark judge. patrick or p.j. smith or leyland kaiser. all three were at the party where she claims she was sexually assaulted by kavanaugh.

investigators are also questioning debra ramirez, the second kavanaugh accuser. as you can tell, a lot to get to tonight. jim acosta is out front live at the rally where president trump will be going shortly. we know this question of how much kavanaugh has drank is on top of the president's mind as well. >> that's right. you heard the president say earlier today at the news conference, he went as far as to say that brett kavanaugh has had difficulty with alcohol over the years, and contrasted that with his own drinking history, which he says he doesn't have a drinking history. and went on to issue a warning to washington that he knows of at least one democratic lawmaker who he says has a drinking issue. but putting all that to the side, kate. the thing that jumps out to me, the president treading ever so carefully when it comes to this issue of judge kavanaugh ordering the fbi to go ahead and tell its agents to follow the

leads wherever they take them. if they have leads to follow that they should go ahead and follow those leads. and that is a directive that came from the white house. after some complaining from both parties, senators from both parties were calling the white house and saying this probe needs to be opened up. you heard the president saying he wants this investigation over by the end of the week, it's essentially where republican senators are on the committee. that's not where democratic senators are in that regard. but kate, i will tell you that this is something the president talked about over the weekend at a rally that he had in west virginia, we expect him to do it again here tonight, complaining that this process has been unfair to a supreme court nominee, i will tell you, speaking about all this in the political context, i talked to a number of gop sources close to the white house today who feel like this issue, whether brett kavanaugh rises or falls. this issue of his fight over the supreme court, the fate of the supreme court is something that is a winning issue for this white house. i talked to one gop source close

to the white house who said, this may be waking up a sleeping giant in what has been at times a depressed conservative base. the fight over the future of the supreme court feels really -- they feel really energized the base at a critical time just weeks before the midterm elections. >> fascinating, they win at western, lose or draw. great to see you, jim. thanks so much. dana bash, cnn chief political correspondent. josh campbell a former fbi supervisory agent. dana, did the president make this week harder for his supreme court pick and republicans with his comments today? i know you have new reporting? >> with his comments, i'm not so sure, he certainly -- no question gave the judge some heartburn in saying publicly he wants the investigation to go where it leads, but it's not so much the president. because he isn't holding the

cards, it is the three senators, republican senators who have been very strong and very sort of cohesive, which is another interesting thing here, when you look at the raw math an the numbers. the republicans and the president can only afford to lose two republicans, essentially, and/or two senators on the republican side. and if these three senators stick together as they have so far. and as i am told they intend to as long as they can, they have enormous power. they have the power to determine what happens. so that really matters more than anything, and i am told that they individually made calls to the white house over the past 24 hours saying, if there's any confusion about what we wanted in this fbi investigation, there shouldn't be. we want it to be very -- broad enough so it can get to the

bottom of any outstanding questions, it shouldn't be limited to four individual witnesses whom i'm told mitch mcconnell had relayed to the white house, into, it should be more than that. wherever it goes. >> wherever it goes. to dana's point, the president today coming out and saying, he does not want to see the investigation limited. listen to this -- >> i want them to do a comprehensive investigation. whatever that means according to the senators and the republicans and the republican majority. i want them to do that. >> i want to play for you two of the president's top aids from over the weekend. listen. >> well, it's not meant to be a fishing expedition. >> this can't become a fishing expedition like the democrats would like it to be. >> what do they do with these two pieces of information right now? where is the space in between

comprehensive and fishing economy decision. >> if you're trying to determine what is our mandate here, are we allowed to do whatever we want. or do we have to fall within these constraints that the white house has said up, i don't think we have the answer to that question. look at this remarkable press conference we saw today, there were a lot of caveats the president had. i want him to do whatever they want to do within reason. what the senate says they can do, it's always caveat. the white house is saying, we're broadening the scope, the fbi can go where the facts take them. there's a part of that that requires the fbi to go back to the white house and request permission before they continue to expand their vision. i don't think this changes anything. we see a spin machine that's in overdrive. this doesn't look good for us, it's not a good look for us to look like we're micro managing it. but the fact that the bureau has to go back and ask, mother may i. >> the president speaking of

spinning into confusion, the president said many things, but especially this that caught my ear about the investigation. listen. >> i actually think it's a good thing for judge kavanaugh. i think it's a good thing, not a bad thing, i think it's a good thing. >> this is the point i've heard from democrats, not republicans, that more investigation is a good thing nor kavanaugh for the process, but to get to the fact that it would be good for kavanaugh to have more investigation. do you agree? >> it depends on what they find. it may not be good if they find something substantial that calls his credibility into question. the idea of why process and due process is important. you want both sides to be able to feel they had a meaningful opportunity to be heard. it's not a he said she said opportunity to bolster or undermine the other side's credibility. a full investigation provides that vehicle. the part of the question here is that it's lard to tell at times what specifically is on trial. is it the active sexual assault?

is it his credibility, his drinking? is it the political operative notion going on? unless the fbi has clarity on that issue, which seems to be really fractured in the president's mind and his spokespeople, what is to be investigated if we're to be told and believed what mitch mcconnell has to say, it's limited to the crossing of the t's and dotting of the i's. they don't take direction on the parameters and scope. they're supposed to follow the leads as they come. and follow it to exhaustion. we don't have that here because of that confusion. >> that's a really important point that laura made about whether or not -- what the scope of the investigation is, or more importantly, what matters and what doesn't. and that is by definition in this political environment, not a legal environment, going to be up to the senators who have to make that judgment at the end of the day, and my reporting is

that they're not so sure, at least these key senators, what the answer to that is yet, they probably won't know how they feel about that judgment call as they see all of the facts as they bear out. not just with the sexual assault, but the heavy drinking, because they are potentially related and have to do with the correct of judge kavanaugh. >> let's figure unite what we're investigating, but who's running the show. let me play for you, josh, i want to play one other meese of sound of what the former friend i think we should call him now, and former classmate as well. what he said today. listen to this. >> what specifically did he testify to that you believe is a lie? >> i have seen brett drunk do the point he could easily be passed out. >> but you never saw him passed out? >> i never saw him passed out. but i saw him quite drunk, he saw me quite drunk. >> he testified that he did

drink and wasn't proud of everything. >> he did. >> but he also downplayed to a great degree the possibility that he could never not know what was going on. >> you're saying there were omissions? >> there were omissions, there were times where he could not remember what was going on. >> what do you do with that? >> this statement we saw from mr. luding ton is a prime example why i think the guardrails are potentially hindering an investigation. his name isn't on that original list that went to the fbi to investigate. if he's going to provide information that may question the veracity of statements to the american people. will that be incorporated? does he have names of additional people? >> i think it should. again, at the end of the day, this isn't a legal investigation, not a criminal case, this comes down to, is this person suitable to sit on the supreme court. a very powerful office, this is someone -- we talked about earlier today, average life

expectancy in the united states. over two decades, he's going to spend in a powerful office. to look at the fbi and say, you have a week. you can only investigate x, y, z, i don't think is the right way to handle the supreme court. >> in response to basically -- not necessarily chad, but this idea of investigating the blackout question. the white house has put out two statements from college friends who say they never once saw kavanaugh black out. republican leaders have made clear that his drinking, they don't think should be part of the investigation. why do you think this is becoming a point of contention. i know we're not sure what they're investigating, but what do you think? >> even in a court of law, and you're talking to people in your every day terms, the idea that someone would lie about a benign and inconsequential detail calls into question whether they lied about far more consequential things. part of the jury instructions that are given in trials in courts of law, are about your

ability to call into question the credibility of a witness who lies about even minor things and to be able to take that lack of credibility there and apply it to the entire testimony. if you have that as your guidelines here, it's not odd that senators, many of whom have previously been attorneys or prosecutors or themselves would say, if he lies about this minor point, what is the third rail he's not touching. that's important. >> and unanswered right now. >> great to see you guys, thanks so much. president trump telling the fbi to follow the leads wherever they may go. but will he accept their findings after repeatedly slamming that very agency? plus, president trump tells a female reporter, you're not thinking, you never do. sexist comment or something else. the sex crimes prosecutor who questioned christine blasey ford says she would not be able to bring charges against kavanaugh from what she heard.

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correspondent for the nation. first to you, mark, the president says he's going to take the senate's lead. the senate is apparently leaving it to the fbi. do you have a sense of who is running the show right now. >> the senate sets the parameters but the request has to come from the white house. i believe the reality is, there's a handful of senators. i think the parameters ultimately will be decided where their comfort level is. very seriously. it's a mystery for everyone right now. the fact that there is so much confusion three days later in terms of who's in charge.

mark seems to know. when it comes to this. are you in charge? are you in charge. what does that say about how quickly this is going to move? >> we've been hearing all day that some people are trying to get in touch with the fbi. and they go to one office. go to local. your local has a tip line, they leave a message. it's crazy, and i don't understand i appreciate that mark thinks he knows, hopes he knows, i don't think anyone knows, it shouldn't be like this. it sounds like it should be unacceptable to senator flake, but we'll see what he does in the next day or so. >> more unknowns than knowns at this point. the president has a complicated

relationship. >> if you look at what was going on at the top of the fbi. it's a disgrace and everyone in this room understands it. the top people in the fbi headed by comey, were crooked. >> with all that in mind, how confident are you that the president ago go to trust what the fbi produces, especially if it's not good for kavanaugh. i think the president has said many times, he's had problems with those who did try to politicize the fbi. there's ways they tried to undermine his campaign. efforts to try to stop the president. i think some of that has been exposed. and again, i think where we are in the situation, we can all agree that this is a debacle.

had senator feinstein handed this over in july, we wouldn't be in this situation. >> we all know why that didn't happen. why are we still talking about that? when the victim doesn't want to comfort. i wish there had been some way for her to come forward. but it's not -- to keep blaming senator feinstein is really unfortunate, it's not her fault, it's not her doing. >> i think it is her doing, i think it is her fault, there are plenty of ways she could have handled this, she could have worked with chairman grassley as well. instead, the senate decided to leak the letter to the press. >> we don't know who leaks the letter. >> there's only one person who had receipt of the letter. >> accommodations to say, we can't move forward until we hear her testimony, until there's an fbi investigation. i haven't heard one democrat say, hey, in light of doing

this, i'll reconsider my investigation. not one has come in order and said, hey, i'll actually reconsider. >> they have not said what they're going to do. senator margin has said -- >> there's not one that said i will reconsider in light of this. >> because of how this has played out, it's messy, and -- brett kavanaugh and others get to come back for a hearing. in terms of what this has done, it blew past an arbitrary deadline. so no matter how it pans out, if we're at this moment when it comes to getting to the truth, isn't it just time to get there? >> i think ultimately, as we said, there's a landful of senators that control that determination, what the realtime line is. if they feel they've reached a perspective on friday, that they have comfort, they trust what testimonies brett kavanaugh gave, i think we move forward.

if they're not forward yet, it's hard to see it moving forward quickly. >> i'm being cynical, do you think in the end anyone's going to believe the outcome. there's going to be general con sensitive around the outcome of this reporting? i am skeptical? >> i hope. there won't be consensus. >> we're all -- >> i'm not pushing the fbi. >> we're all grown-ups, so there won't be consensus, there could be more coming together. it really depends on what the fbi finds and how transparent the process is, that's whey think all of us, let's be fair to mark, mark may feel this way too. all of us wonder, how are they going to let us know what they find. how is it going to move forward? who is going to tell whom, and what will we know in the end. will it be some secret process where these senators are given some information and we don't know. it's hard to know what's going to bring us, what if anything will bring us together.

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reporting tonight that brett kavanaugh was questioned by police after a bar fight back in 1985. kavanaugh was an undergraduate student at yale at the time. according to this police report, the 21-year-old victim accused kavanaugh for throwing ice on him for some unknown reason. another one of kavanaugh's friends hit the man in the ear with a glass. the victim was treated at the hospital. kavanaugh was not arrested and he has not responded to this report this evening. with me this evening, democratic congressman from california. thanks for coming in. >> good evening, kate, thanks for having me back. >> you have another story coming out tonight about kavanaugh and drinking. what do you think this does to his nomination? >> typically this would not be

disqualifying. however, it is disqualifying, because he painted himself as a choir boy, and all the evidence seems to go the other way. we have to ask ourselves, if he's willing to lie about something so small like that, would he also be willing to lie about these larger allegations, that's what's so concerning? >> do you think -- and this is still coming out in the source of the new york times, do you think something like this, something like a bar fight is something that the fbi should be include iing in its new investigation. >> as it relates to his truthfulness before the senate confirmation hearing, yes. he has put his character on the line, and i think up for being tested or corroborated. right now, there's not anyone who's willing to comfort and say that brett kavanaugh is the person that brett kavanaugh has

told everyone he was in college. >> the white house has put out a couple friends who are defending him. i want to get to that in a second. on this police report that was filed. this account is back in 1985 again. it sounds similar to an incident that chad luding ton, who is speaking out, that he talked about in a statement. and let me read that statement to you. in part it says, on one of the last occasions, i purposely socialized with brett, he said he witnessed him semiin a -- in a semihostile remark by throwing his beer in the man's face. could be the same thing, could be different. this is all just coming out. if this is a pattern, what does it mean? >> the arrows point in the same direction. this was a person who presented himself in an aggressive way when he was drinking.

as he went back and forth with many of the senators, the standards should not be, can he be criminally charged, this is a job interview. and i don't think he should be hired. if they want to raise the standard to a criminal standard, i would put in this jury instruction that every jury in america is told. a single witness can prove any fact. america believed for good aren't account of dr. forward. she herself was credible, anything else that corroborates who he was or what she's saying, adds more reasons not to hire him. >> the white house put out a statement, statements from two college friends of kavanaughs who say from their perspective, they never once saw him black out. if you're going to believe accounts of one front. do you have to take into account the accounts of other friends who say this is not the kavanaugh they know. >> yeah, kate, as you know, i

think most people know, there's no cater light that goes on when you're walking around when you're blacked out. and that doesn't mean that you're passed out. people all the time go beyond their drinking capabilities and do things that they regret the next day. i don't really buy that, i do buy the stories that i've seen in the new yorker, it's hard to get people in this boys club to talk. or to go on the record out of fear of retribution because of the close knit circle that existed at georgetown prep and yale college. >> let me ask you this, congressman. the reason this fbi investigation is taking place is because of republican senator jeff flake, he insisted on it. i want to play for you what he told 60 minutes last night about his decision. >> you announced you're not running for re-election, and i wonder could you have done this if you were running for re-election? >> no, not a chance. >> not a chance?

>> because politics has become too sharp, too partisan? >> there's no value to reaching across the aisle. there's no currency for that any more. there's no incentive. >> can you acknowledge you've had to make decisions like that? >> no. i'm grateful jeff flake did what he did. i'll relate back to the russia investigation, i heard so many republicans say that if donald trump tweets at me he wins. i started to realize what they were saying is, their job would be at stake if they spoke out. >> you're not saying the democrats are immune from that amount of pressure? >> no, no. >> especially in the house, the moment you get elected you're running again and fund-raising again. >> i would hope that members of congress are employable elsewhere and this is not the oath job i can hold. i know how upset i am by not

seeing the republicans stand up to the president. i hate how i feel about what they're doing. it's awful that no republican can come forward other than jeff flake to say this is wrong. >> we'll hoelgd you to that standard as well. thank you. >> i hope you did. >> thanks so much. out front next, president trump takes a dig at two female reporters today. is it about gender or not? >> the battle for control of the senate could come down to a key race in nevada, and for voters, it's personal. >> yes, yes, it's life or death for me. here we go. discover. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees.

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president. >> i know you're not thinking, you never do. >> excuse me. >> you heard that, right? the words of a president toward a reporter today. here's how he reacted when kaitlyn collins tried to ask her questions. >> now that you've answered several questions on trade, i'd like to ask -- >> don't do that. do you have a question on trade. >> don't do that, that's not nice. >> besides that, somebody is before you. don't do that. do you have a question on trade? >> my question is on judge kavanaugh. >> please, yes. >> you said the fbi should interview whoever they believe is appropriate, does that include julie swetnick. >> give me your question, please. >> can you promise to release the findings -- >> can you promise to -- >> you've really had enough. thank you. >> out front now, april ryan, white house correspondent for

american urban radio networks, reporting from the front lines of the trump white house. >> this what it looked like today, the president telling female reporters to sit down? >>y, it was. this president was disrespecting journalists number one, regardless of gender, and two, good reporters, excellent reporters who are asking real questions, not questions to pacify the president or this administration. or questions that are from a party affiliation, these are reporters that are asking good questions and he didn't want to hear it. >> you saw this today play out. and you thought what? >> i thought that he has a real animous toward women. we know of 25 women that have

come forward that he's aware of, alleging sexual assault. many of them about him. he's demeaned and dismissed the women, now that he's under attack on the kavanaugh front, he engaged in these gratuitous insults. against these two women reporters, something that just isn't done. i'm sorry, it just -- i can't remember a bullying of reporters like this, ever. but he's almost itching to have a fight, and he's so surprised, because his numbers are dropping so rapidly there's one report out on a poll of republican women. and there's a sharp drop among women with regard to the kavanaugh -- independent women are down over 15 points, on -- against kavanaugh. and the overall among women is now -- it's 7 or 8, 9 points

down. i just -- i'm so stunned, i have to believe he's carrying around a lot of anger and bitterness about what's been happening, and he lashed out a couple times, as a result. >> i guess you hit on it right off the top. forget gender, the president has a fraught relationship with nearly every journalist that covers him. what was it, because it struck me as something different today. what was so striking about this today? >> these are two great journalists who asked questions again that this administration doesn't like, and this president doesn't like. they have asked the president questions in the oval office or other places that really catch this administration and make headlines, and i think back, there are three instances in history, and david can probably attest to this. i remember helen thomas, even though presidents may not have liked her, they acted like they did, and also, if she threw a tough question, they would kind of make a joke about it, and go into the answer.

i think about anne compton, veteran who -- from abc, who was working for abc news. i remember the day when she used to talk about the women who would sit in the front row to ask a question, and i remember barack obama, the former president of the united states, when he had that historic all female question-and-answer session in the briefing room, eight women, just eight women he called on to question him, and i was the last one, i was number eight. for this president to demean the press corps and to demean the women in the press corps who are there to do a job, it does not bode well for him, this is -- against freedom of the press, and it doesn't look good for him when it comes to women. david said it so succinctly, we're going into the midterms and his numbers are dropping. >> one of the numbers you're alluding to it shows a big gender gap now. women opposing the kavanaugh

nomination by 18 points. i mean. they may say they don't care, but should the white house be worried about this number? >> yes, this is not a gender gap, daze a gender canyon, and it's deep and forbidding, it really is -- this is not just about trump's approval or disapproval, it's about what kind of country we've become or are becoming. whether our leaders are going to be healers and people who respect each other, and move us toward civility, or whether they're going to continue to drop these bombs on our civility and make us all angry with one another. >> in the end, i don't think we need nice, we just need respect. >> i agree. >> the thing i was impressed with is the level of respect from the reporters to the president, they didn't respond, they just kept asking their questions. >> thank you. president trump with a surprising admission about the fight for control of the senate.

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tonight president trump offering up fresh predictions ahead of the midterms, watch? >> there were senators that were not in play, they were not even -- and you know exactly what i'm talking about. numerous of them. they were not in let's not go here. now they are like even races. in one case they're up two points. >> win of tone of the states th house is watching, nevada. democrat jacky rosen is neck and neck with dean heller. >> reporter: the battle for control of the senate reverberating loudly through-and-a-half mthrough nevada. jacky rosen energized speaking

about her message to preserve health care. the first term congresswoman goal, unseat incumbent. >> this isn't a trump state. senator heller is up for election. >> reporter: this is hel will recollect -- heller in 2017. >> i cannot support a piece of legislation that takes interest away if tens of millions of americans and hundreds and thousands of nevadans. >> reporter: one month later, public pressure from president trump. >> he wants to remain senator. >> reporter: he reversed course and voted to repeal. >> welcome to las vegas. >> reporter: he is now campaigning with the president. >> we started off slow but we

ended up strong. i've had no better friend in congress than dean heller. >> reporter: shifting stances. >> they call him senator spineless. >> reporter: becoming fodder in democratic political ads. >> he doesn't have the character to stand up. he thinks people aren't paying attention. we are. >> reporter: the ads are attacking rosen for being all talk and thin on record. >> jacky rosen has done nothing to fix health care. nothing, zero. >> it's very personal for you. >> yes. yes. it's life or death for me. >> reporter: a type two diabetic and on medicare joined anti-trump protesters. in heller they see a political villa villain. >> he sold out every single neva nevadan. >> reporter: the held wind swirl even among trump supporters. >> what do you think of senator

heller. >> i'm iffy. >> what questions do you have? >> he voted against the health care bill. he needs to back the president 100%. >> the democrats are saying the exact same thing. >> correct. >> is that a problem for the senator? >> i think so. >> reporter: cnn made multiple requests to speak to senator heller. the campaign declined. today is the one year anniversary of the las vegas shooting. that massacre that killed 58 fe people. a poll does show among young voters, 18-34, they find the gun issue as number one. among all register voters, it's health care that's number one. >> see that so many times all over the country still. thank you. next, the reaction from lawmakers getting the "snl"

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kavanaugh hearing gets the snl treatment. >> reporter: judge kavanaugh sniffed. matt damon sniffed. damon flipped the pages with more fury than the real kavanaugh. at least the real kavanaugh managed to keep his water in his mouth. >> judge kavanaugh, are you saying. >> reporter: sometimes snl barely had to change the words. >> yes. we drank beaer. i like beer. >> drank beer. >> reporter: we may never know what judge kavanaugh thought of snl's opening sketch. >> i am usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy. >> reporter: we know what senator amy klobuchar thought of her portrayal. >> did you ever drink too many beers? >> you mean was i cool? yeah.

>> reporter: senator klobuchar tweeted you played a good me. you are so good that you even got my daughter to text me on a saturday night. a first. who needs oo impersonation with an actual snl cast member. >> you want to humiliate me in front of my wife and my parents and alyssa freaking milano. >> reporter: she tweeted a phrase frame. she stayed impassivmpassive. sdp you're asking about black out, have you? >> reporter: expressive slip up. the real kavanaugh, matt damon and mckinnon all talked about their calendars. though the supreme dance routine was to die for. ginsberg chuckled. >> it's funny. >> remind you of yourself?

>> not one bit. >> reporter: exaggerated, sure. there's nothing canned about the laughter. cnn, new york. >> thank you so mump for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. another person has come forward saying that brett kavanaugh wasn't telling the truth when he said about his drinking habits. the backdrop is the clock that's ticking down on whether kavanaugh will be on the supreme court for life. cnn learned that see republican senators have called the white house over the past 24 hours to let it be known they expect a real investigation. the fbi agents are not limited in their expanded background investigation. that