as we heard jamal khashoggi is a contributing writer for the washington post let's bring in gabriel elizondo in washington now for us any reaction at all to the case of this missing saudi journalist from the u.s. state department. as soon as we heard these reports late saturday that these reports that he could have been killed at the hands of the saudis this is the reports we immediately reached out to the state department and done so several times both late saturday and into early sunday as well if the state department or the u.s. government knows anything they're not telling us they're keeping very close to lips on and we asked them specifically to respond and they said quote we are not in a position to confirm these reports but we are closely following the situation in quote that is all the reaction we're getting from the state department so far but make no mistake that the saudi government the u.s. government have very close relations right now so there is nothing preventing the different security apparatuses or governments from talking to each other that's for sure and he was very well

offices of arrested fifty six year old says our sale can florida charging him on five counts gabriel elizondo has more now from new york. after an intense nationwide manhunt the arrest of a florida man who authorities believe is connected to numerous mail bombs sent to high profile people the past few days these are not hoax devices the suspect caesar say och appeared to be a supporter of president donald trump on the site of a van connected to him that authorities confiscated were stickers praising the president and other stickers of opposing wall makers through the scope of a gun on friday before the suspect was arrested mail bombs were directed at democratic senator cory booker and the former director of national intelligence james clapper previous day's mail bombs have been sent to former presidents bill clinton and barack obama as well as prominent trump critics such as george soros actor robert de niro and john brennan the former head of the cia all the devices looked like this but none detonated early friday trump seemed to cast doubt on the seriousness of the bomb threat saying the ne

officers have arrested fifty six year old says our sales in florida charging him on five counts gabriel elizondo has more from new york. after an intense nationwide manhunt the arrest of a florida man who authorities believe is connected to numerous mail bombs sent to high profile people the past few days these are not hoax devices the suspect cesar say och appeared to be a supporter of president donald trump on the site of a van connected to him that authorities confiscated were stickers praising the president and other stickers of opposing watchmakers through the scope of a gun on friday before the suspect was arrested mail bombs were directed at democratic senator cory booker and the former director of national intelligence james clapper previous day's mail bombs have been sent to former presidents bill clinton and barack obama as well as prominent trump critics such as george soros actor robert de niro and john brennan the former head of the cia all the devices looked like this but none detonated early friday trump seemed to cast doubt on the seriousness of the bomb threat saying the news co

the right marionette thank you very much now mike hanna there at capitol hill let's head to gabriel elizondoho is outside the supreme court and in the run up to this crucial vote we saw hundreds of protesters descending on the capital despite the fact that the outcome was a foregone conclusion what are they saying now that cavanagh has been confirmed. well it's was hundreds of protesters this morning and it's now thousand. without a doubt we're in front of the supreme court building and just in the last thirty seconds ago someone on the speaker one of the speakers back there at the anti kavanaugh protest said that he fishel he was nominated informed the crowd and they started chanting shame shame shame that he was confirmed i'm sorry they're searching shame shame shame a lot of people very upset here and i want to speak to someone that's with me here to get her reaction really step on in alexandria heard your twenty five year old law student here in washington brett kavanaugh is now going to be a supreme court justice he's confirmed what is your initial reaction to it well honestly i wish i

are protests happening right now several people have been arrested in fact will be speaking to gabriel elizondo in just a few minutes but first to my kana who's inside capitol hill for us bring us up to speed with the process mike when will we when will they actually be a vote on brett kavanaugh sconce image. what we expecting the vote to come in less than two hours time essentially what happened ten thirty yesterday the cloture vote was held that provides a time period of thirty hours within which the final confirmation vote has to be taken it doesn't have to be exactly thirty hours it can be at any stage that the senators feel that they've had this a on the steeply divisive issue we are told that the vote is probably going to be taking place at three thirty local time and a divisive issue it has been but it does appear at this stage that the vote will be carried of looks like a margin a very narrow margin fifty one to forty nine votes this is coming about because a number of senators have stated very clearly what their preferences are which way they are going to go to vote the vote largely al

outside the supreme court where there are protests happening right now we'll be speaking to gabriel elizondon 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 sits a time period of thirty hours within which.

be ongoing for months possibly years to come thank you very much mike hanna on capitol hill gabriel elizondo is in among the anti cavanagh protesters outside the supreme court we've been speaking about have bitterly divided senate but of course we have seen public protests over this supremum court confirmation is brett cavanagh's admission to the supremes court should that go ahead likely to exacerbate these divisions. absolutely without a doubt i mean we've seen protests here in washington d.c. for a long time now against brett kavanaugh and even though it appears that it's a foregone conclusion that he will go to the supreme court there are more than a thousand protesters here right now outside of the supreme court wanting their voices heard and one of those i want to introduce you to right now step in for me this is a culp twenty seven year old from west virginia you came to ours this morning just to be here why i just feel like i have to let my voice the heard i have to know that someone is hearing how frustrated we are are about this whole situation you do not want brett kavanaugh on th

also a resident of the united states they speak to our correspondent in washington now gaber elizondo gabriel any reaction from the trump administration to this case. not from the trumpet ministration absolutely nothing from the white house at all we have reached out to the state department several times and the only response we're getting from them is quote we are not in a position to confirm these reports but we are closely following this situation in quote that's all we're there we're getting from the state department so if the u.s. government knows more about this they're certainly not prepared to say anything at this juncture but as you mentioned yesterday was a resident of the united states spoke at many conferences here also is very well known in the think tank community and also his very prominent column for the washington post most important newspapers in the entire united states so he is very well known by important people in this city chris murphy a senator from the state of connecticut said this he said if this is true that the saudis lou are a u.s. resident into their consulate a

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 period of thirty hours within which the formal confirmation vote has to take place knol senators offering that time making various statements they send through the night in the senate making statements on this whole issue but before that thirty hour period then the vote has to be taken we understand from the the office of mitch mcconnell the senate republican leader that the vote could be around three thirty local time that's in a few hours but certainly this is an issue that has divided the nation the confirmation of great cavanagh is something that has heightened the already partisan nature of the senate in particular now we do know that there was a number of senators who were wavering for in fact they have made