…nothing.
That’s according to The White House, which revealed the findings of the FBI investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh early Thursday.
The FBI report found “no corroboration” from any witnesses regarding the accusations against Kavanaugh and the findings contain little new information for the Senate, a White House statement Wednesday said.
In other words, the Senate is at exactly the same place it was last week after Kavanaugh’s explosive hearings rocked Washington, D.C. That may surprise some Democratic voters, but not Republicans.
The first vote to confirm Kavanaugh will be held Friday. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said “there will be plenty of time for members to review and be briefed on the supplemental material” before the vote.
A final roll call on confirmation seems likely to happen over the weekend. It is uncertain if the report, which is confidential, will ever be made available to the public.
“With this additional information, the White House is fully confident the Senate will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” White House spokesman Raj Shah said late Wednesday.
The report arrived at a Capitol palpably tense over the political stakes of the nomination fight and from aggressive anti-Kavanaugh protesters who have rattled and harassed senators, The Associated Press reported. Feeding the anxiety was an unusually beefy presence of the U.S. Capitol Police, who were keeping demonstrators and frequently reporters at arm’s length by forming wedges around lawmakers walking through corridors.
Amid complaints that some lawmakers were being confronted outside their homes, McConnell claimed on the Senate floor that the protesters were “part of the organized effort” to derail Kavanaugh’s nomination.
“There is no chance in the world that they’re going to scare us out of doing our duty,” he said.
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