senate votes on whether to approve him for the bench and it's looking likely to keep the senate as enda caitiff their support the vote will cap off it to move to a few months since trot nominated him in july this year at first it appeared kavanagh's confirmation was a short but then several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct one alleged victim christine blassie ford was question by the senate committee about the night she says was the worst of her life an f.b.i. inquiry was ordered the republican said it found no evidence the democrat slammed it as a whitewash but despite that as well as weeks of public outrage the vote is set to go ahead and we're covering this story both inside capitol hill and outside the supreme court where there are protests happening right now we'll be speaking to gabriel elizondo in just a moment but first we go to mike hanna on capitol hill for us so mike it looks like cavanagh is going to be confirmed talk us through the process how soon until there's a vote. well at ten thirty yesterday morning there was a cloture vote that essentially sets a time p