Ex-classmate talks

In a statement released Sunday, a Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee

Brett Kavanaugh said he is “deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale.”

Charles “Chad” Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, said that he was a friend of Kavanaugh’s at Yale and that Kavanaugh was “a frequent drinker and a heavy drinker.”

Ludington said he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s statements under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee. allegation.

The person familiar with Ramirez’s questioning, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she also provided investigators with the names of others who she said could corroborate her account.

But Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who alleges that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, has not been contacted by the FBI since Trump on Friday ordered the agency to take another look at the nominee’s background, according to a member of Ford’s team.

Kavanaugh has denied assaulting Ford.

Speaking to the issue of the scope of the FBI’S investigation, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said White House counsel Don Mcgahn, who is managing Kavanaugh’s nomination, “has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is.”