>> oh, yes. >> joining me now, cnn white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. two people have come forward to counter claims about the heavy drinking. >> reporter: two people who are also classmates at yale. that's what the other man who did say he saw judge kavanaugh drink so much, he believe he would have experienced memory losses. he said he lived with brett kavanaugh and he was his suite mate. he never saw him so drunk that he wouldn't have been able to remember something. they are saying these people who are saying they do believe he mislead congress when he testified under oath that he never blacked out or never drank that mump, they'ch, they're say know him better. they are openly admitting that. they are saying they didn't drunk drink as much. you saw the president saying brett kavanaugh described a drinking problem. that's not likely what brett kavanaugh took away from the testimony when he tried to down play and say he was doing what every one else in college was doing as well. >> do we know if the white house sees it as a real potential problem with

. >>> let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlin collins. kaitlin, the president seems to be taking a tougher response on the khashoggie killer, with the administration delivering mixed messages. >> reporter: the treasury secretary cancelled a meeting in saudi arabia. but it turns out that today the saudis have informed us via this photo on twitter that mnuchin did so meet with the saudi crown prince. and he didn't post a photo meeting with nbs today. we only found out about this because the saudi government posted this photo. we have asked if he discussed the killing of jamal khashoggie with the crown prince and they haven't immediately responded. but what it's showing is that even as president trump is growing frustrated with the saudi denials and the saudi claims, some members of his administration are still maintaining close ties with the saudis. president trump skeptical tonight over shifting saudi accounts about what happened to jamal khashoggie, the man who walked into the turkisaudi cons and never walked out. president trump said he h

this is from kaitlin collins over at the white house. it's possible, i don't know if it's the white house or the hill should get the results or the findings from the fbi investigation as early as today. your read on that. >> this is very interesting. what is at issue here is whether the fbi review into judge kavanaugh's background is going. there have been a number of allegations that have surfaced. the fbi continues to be in receive mode. they're getting tips that they're having to vet. remember this entire investigation is very limited in scope and being dictated by the white house. what will be interesting to determine is whether the white house can run down these leads or whether they're going to send a report that was dictated to them in a limited fashion. with the clock ticking, will they be able to complete this by the time the judge is voted for conformatioirmatio confirmation. >> we're hearing from the white house counsel that they've interview a bunch of people but the two they have not interviewed are these two central people,

. >> let's go to cnn senior correspondent richard report and white house correspondent kaitlin collins. richard, just to you first, why now? >> well, i'm sure she has a plan but many people speculate about her government aspirations. we don't know yet. we'll know in a few years. there a host of reasons possibly and why now. i just got to tell you by the way the french ambassador said nikki haley was one of the most talented and authentic officials i've ever met. they may not have liked the u.s. policy, but they really liked nikki haley here. they called her a friend. even the bolivian ambassador said we may be a dysfunctional family, he had a chance to rip her considering what he said about donald trump but he passed on it. there are other reasons why others have left but still surprising. nobody thought she was going to last four years here under a trump administration. she would want to do something else. >> kaitlin, was the white house totally blindsided about this or did they totally know? >> it was one of the best kept secrets in the west wing. nikki haley did go to president trum

cate ly kaitlin collins, still a lot going on there. >> i said to our elected leaders that you're our leaders, we turn to you. you're the models for our country. when you speak words of hate, when you speak ill of the other candidate, any words of hate, americans listen to you. they get their instructions from you. when you speak words of hate, you say to them this is okay, you can do it as well. so i turn to all of our elected leaders because hate doesn't know a political party. hate is not blue. hate is no red. hate is not purple. hate is in all. i turn to them to say tone down the hate, speak words of love, speak words of decency and of respect. when that message comes loud and clear, americans will hear that and we can begin to change the tenor of our country. >> reporter: i want to focus on the important things happening on the ground. joining me is a psychologist who has been helping family and synagogue members, figuring out what services can be available to survivors. jordan, first of all, just in terms of what the needs of the survivors, of the community are, how are you tryi

kaitlin collins is our cnn white house correspondent. got nothing. >> brooke, they are said it could take about 30 or seconds ago before everybody gets this alert. >> here we go. it's going off right now, right here. >> the whole newsroom. >> it's a test of the national wireless emergency alert system. no action is needed. >> that was wild. i just heard a whole cacophony of alerts going off in the newsroom. everyone is buzzing. what is this we're getting? >> it's a test of this wireless emergency alert system where essentially at the direction of the president, these alerts can go out to everyone who has a cell phone and you cannot turn these alerts off. they're not just for any impulsive message at the president's whim. it's for a terrorist attack, pandemic, any natural disaster to alert the country. today is to test the readiness so they can make improvements to this, something that has been years in the works. it goes off on cell phones first. they're hoping they can reach about 75% of the country, which is quite a large number. tvs a

let's bring in our kaitlin collins, who is outfront for us live right outside the white house tonight. the president is not backing down on this claim to end birthright citizenship and is now lashing out to the republican leader as he kicks off this campaign rally tour. will we hear more of the same tonight? >> reporter: probably so, pamela. that's exactly what the president's has been for the last few days. some people in washington think the president is taking this throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at the midterms trying to save this for republicans. that's why the president is kicking off this campaign swing starting in florida tonight, ending in missouri on monday. but the question is, is he actually helping republicans with the comments he's been making lately? not only is he getting into a feud with the house speaker paul ryan, he's threatening to send up to 15,000 troops to the border, even though he's already deployed over 5,000. that's raising questions from skeptics as well. but also he's trying to justify his claim that he believes, and he's quoting legal schol