As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took the floor to announce a cloture vote, CNN's Chris Cuomo called the investigation into Brett Kavanaugh a fraud.
There was a lot of confusion from the FBI about the scope of what they were allowed to do. They were given a list of four people they could question. The White House blamed the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, and the president said he wanted the FBI to interview whoever was needed. The FBI never saw that instruction in writing until days into the investigation.
Once the FBI got instructions about expanding the scope, sources said the scope wasn't all that larger from the initial four.
The Senate committee members are planning to review the FBI documents Thursday morning, but Cuomo said that it's become apparent they were never interested in finding the truth.
"The time, tactics, the tenor of the whole process," Cuomo began in his final statement Wednesday evening. "This has never been a truth campaign about getting to the bottom of the allegations. It's about getting Kavanaugh through at any cost. It always has been."
He noted the investigation into Kavanaugh was not long enough to have gathered enough information. He said Republicans would say that Anita Hill got three days, but he explained that was a different case including one person.
"Democrats are going to be dissatisfied, but they made a deal, and they don't have the votes to make a difference," Cuomo said. "This is about the GOP and whether they lose any of their own. So, will they? It's a hard bargain."
Meanwhile, Democrats allude to possible past allegations that turned up in previous FBI background checks.
Watch his argument below:
