Some undecided senators on Kavanaugh call FBI report 'reassuring' and 'thorough'
NBC "News" ^ | October 4, 2018 | by Rebecca Shabad and Frank Thorp
Posted on 10/4/2018, 1:00:10 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
Two key senators who have remained undecided on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday praised a new FBI report detailing the agency's latest background investigation — comments that seemed to suggest the odds of confirmation might be moving in his direction.
Their comments came as Senate Republicans on Thursday claimed that the FBI probe into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh had vindicated him by failing to uncover new evidence of wrongdoing, while Democrats blasted the speedy probe as "limited" and "incomplete."
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was still absorbing the new report, but sounded satisfied with its scope, based on a GOP morning briefing. “It appears to be a very thorough investigation," she said, adding that she still planned to "go back to personally read the interviews.”
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., another potential swing vote, left the same briefing saying he plans to go back and read more of the report, but said he saw “no additional corroborating information” to back up misconduct allegations, calling the report “reassuring.”
Democrats and attorneys for women who have accused Kavanaugh of misconduct have been critical of the depth of the investigation and of some of the limits the White House, which had initially dismissed the need for a new probe, had placed on it.
Top Democratic senators, meanwhile, expressed outrage Thursday that the FBI probe was limited in scope and incomplete.
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