emmy award winning singer rachel platten.ent but first let's catch up. congratulations, you look amazing, and i've been following you on social media as i always do. >> thanks. >> you've been very open about your pregnancy and all the struggles that come with it. did that come easy for you to share so much? >> i think that i just do that anyway. i have a hard time not being really real about what i'm feeling. my songs are really honest. it's just the way i am. i'm an open book and i just felt like this thing that could have been private i wanted to make public because there was a lot around it that i hadn't heard talked about before that i felt like i wish i had known. >> body image issues and how you're feeling, how you're looking, all of that so we thank you for doing that and sharing that with everyone. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> how is your husband kevin doing? >> my husband is overwhelmed. he opened a restaurant two months ago, sorry, how long ago? two months ago. i'm killing it. >> baby brain. baby brain. i got it. >

. >> love hearing rachel platten song.g the fight those volunteers are hard at work, making care packages'll let you know how you can lend hand and more ont effort. everybody little bit helps when you go through sthething like . >> we're going to roll up our sleeves, as well. >> we are. let's get to your news at 8:00. the fbi has staed interviewing witnesses as part of its investigation of misconduct allegations againco supreme t nominee brett kavanaugh. but there's some confusion this morning about how farig inveors are going to be allowed to go. erc national correspondent p alexander is at the white house for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. this rlly has become an explosive conflict. that fbi background investigation into brett kavanaugh is now under wa investigators have spoken to kavanaugh's second accuser, a woman named deborah ramirez, a classmate from yale. mostible sources tell nbc news, e white house isimiting the probe. one senior official telling us that tse white h has been handcuffed. the white houses disputing that. but some are warning those could turn t