the allegations in that letter concern an incident when bret kavanagh was in high school. did not do this in high school or tnt. a class might was also mentioned in the letter. he's been tracked down. the classmate denies the allegations. the letter containing the allegations was sent to senator feinstein. the fbi says it since has received it from feinstein and added the letter containing these allegations to kavanagh's background file in the white house, that means the white house and 100 u.s. nerts now have access to the letter in person if they want to see it. although the woman's name, the accuser's name is redacted. chuck grassley says he has not read the letter even though he has access to it. this thing really is down to the wire now. the judiciary committee is scheduled to vote on the confirmation in less than a week. if they vote him out of party lines it would go to the chamber. if democrats voted no they would still need two republicans to vote no. one of the two republicans, the democrats have been trying to persuade is senator clips of maine. after that hour-

she said she talked to bret kavanagh on the phone today. they spoke for about an hour.l they talked about but oh, boy, what a day to schedule this phone call. today is the day we got this report from the new yorker detailing the nature of the complaint contained in the letter that was forwarded to the fbi about bret kavanagh from senator dianne feinstein that concerns an incident when bret kavanagh was in high school. he told the new yorker i categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. i did not do this in high school or tnt. a classmate of kavanagh's have been tracked down. he also dense the allegations. the letter containing the allegations was sent to senator finestein. they added the letter containing these allegations to kavanagh's background final at the white house. that means both the white house and 100 u.s. senators now have access to the letter. in person if they want to see it, although the accusers name, the woman's name in the letter is itself redacted. nbc news reports that the chair chuck grassley says he has not read the letter even though he

. >> seems like the bret kavanagh score is going to still be with us next week and after that. the scheduled vote in the judiciary committee that there's still time after that before the vote on the senate floor, so we don't know what damage is going to be done to bret kavanagh or to the republicans in the next week with that story. >> look at it this way. if you're not part of the basi basie-est base, it's either chaos, unhin jds tweets, or you know, you've got the bret kavanagh story which may or may not explode on the basis of these allegations that in and of itself only appeals to his evangelical base. you were in the middle. a lot of voters voted for trump with like i'm going to roll the dice a little bit. i don't like hillary, he's kind of wild, let me see what he does, those people are not rushing to embrace the republican party. it doesn't even exists exist anymore. no consistent philosophy except tax cuts for the rich. evan, you are saddled with this but this election is going to be a referendum. the republicans, one is jerry plannedered districts and voter suppression

bret kavanagh as the supreme court nominee. nominee.earfrom him later. we will maybe hearfrom him later. we'll keep an eye on that when it gets started. gets started. it is just gathering at the moment. at the moment. there is something called a medicane brewing. there is this area of cloud which looks like a hurricane. looks like a hurricane. it has similar characteristics. similar characteristics. plus hurricane, we are calling it a medic in. —— a medicane. last of the summer sun could get heavy rainfall. tricky sees as well. holiday to greece at this time of year. year. not that uncommon, we get one or two year. or two year. summer sun it does not look like that at the weekend. that at the weekend. weekend can you look forward to if you are staying at home? it is a lot cooler. cooler. we have seen a good deal of sunshine already. sunshine already. this photo here from norfolk earlier. from norfolk earlier. a good deal of blue sky. blue sky. afternoon we have got further sunshine across england and wales. sunshine across england and w

judge bret kavanagh has been nominated and will likely have a vote this month, and the one thing you should know is the supreme court matters to everything we talked about today. whether it is being safe from violence at school, at work, access to health care, including the broad range of pretucktive healthcare, including sexual health, all of those things the supreme court touch always of to the thises toso my call to action is this is one of those fights of our generation, and there is still time to make your voice heard by calling your senator and being clear about who you want on the supreme court, and what values are critical. so, again, this month, the supreme court and from the national women's center perspective, judge brett cav new would not be good for the issues we are talk us about today. >> andrea. >> the first thing i say is believe survivors and seems very sim but we live in a world that tells us to do the opposite. no such thing as a perfect survivor. she can be indigenous latina and queer. trans, there's no such thing as the ideal perfect survivor and unfortunately b

every phase of judge kavanagh's life those who know him best have stepped forward to say that the allegation being leveled against him is false and we are proud to stand with bret. or us deputy attorney general rod rosenstein meanwhile has denied a newspaper report alleging that he discussed ousting president donald trump a new york times report says that he suggested secretly recording trump early last year after he fired the f.b.i. director james comey to expose the chaos in the white house is also said to have suggested recruiting cabinet members to remove trump under the twenty fifth amendment rosenstein new oversees the federal investigation into russia's role in the twenty sixteen election as dismissed the report says factually incorrect let's get more now from john hendren in washington d.c. and yet more explosive allegations and headlines emerging around the white house what has been the reaction there to this report. that's right mary and this is just the latest blockbuster bit of news here as you mentioned rosenstein has denied that this is an accurate portrayal however the department of justice has issued a statement saying he did suggest taping dona

every phase of judge kavanagh's life those who know him best have stepped forward to say that the allegation being leveled against him is false and we are proud to stand with bret. well in another key development u.s. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has denied a newspaper reporter alleging that he disgusted that he discussed ousting president donald trump the new york times says he suggested secretly recording trump early last year off the fide f.b.i. director james comey to expose chaos in the white house is also said to have suggested recruiting cabinet members to remove him under the twenty fifth amendment rosenstein who oversees the federal investigation into russia's role in the two thousand and sixteen election has dismissed the report as factually incorrect let's beat our white house correspondent can really help it a great deal to get through kimberly let's start with rosenstein we know that he has had a difficult relationship with president trump what's been the reaction to this report in the new york times. well certainly is an explosive allegation and i can tell you that this is certainly when it comes to the perspective of supporters going to