INTERVIEW – SUSAN FERRECHIO – Chief congressional correspondent for the Washington Examiner – discussed the latest on the Kavanaugh drama in the Senate, Friday vote and FBI report.

• McConnell sets vote Friday to move Kavanaugh confirmation forward. Senate Majority Leader McConnell files cloture to continue Senate confirmation process for Judge Kavanaugh, setting up debate, followed by weekend voting on the nomination.  If Friday’s vote passes, there will be up to 30 hours of debate followed by a final confirmation vote on Kavanaugh, perhaps as early as Saturday.
• Kavanaugh file signed, sealed and delivered to Senate committee; will be reviewed early Thursday.
• The White House announced early Thursday it has received the FBI’s investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and is ‘fully confident’ he will be confirmed to the nation’s highest court
• Senate receives FBI background check of Kavanaugh, with procedural vote on the nomination expected Friday (Washington Post) — The rapid completion of the bureau’s work comes as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), anticipating the FBI report arriving on the Hill, teed up a key procedural vote advancing Kavanaugh’s nomination for Friday. The bureau’s probe appears to have been extremely narrow, focused mostly on an allegation by a California professor, Christine Blasey Ford, who says Kavanaugh assaulted her decades ago at a party in Maryland, when both were high school students.