The White House said early Thursday that it had received the FBI’s report on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and that it is “fully confident” that the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nominee to the nation’s top court. 
 
 Raj Shah, deputy White House press secretary, said the report, which Democrats have denounced as hasty and incomplete, marked “the last addition to the most comprehensive review of a Supreme Court nominee in history, which includes extensive hearings, multiple committee interviews, over 1,200 questions for the record and over a half-million pages of documents.” 
 
 In three tweets, the first published at 2:24 a.m. Thursday, Shah said lawmakers will have had “ample time” to review the results of the latest investigation by the time they vote Friday on whether to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination, according to a schedule set into motion Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Senators will be able to review the report at a secure facility at the Capitol beginning Thursday. 
 
 [Senators prepare to review FBI report on Kavanaugh after early-morning arrival] 
 
 The efforts by Senate leadership, in concert with the White House, to move swiftly on a confirmation vote came as Democrats raised fresh objections about how Kavanaugh, who stands accused of sexual misconduct by several women, has been vetted. He denies the allegations. 
 
 
 
 Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27. (Win McNamee/Reuters) 
 
 In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), eight of the committee’s 10 Democrats contested the claim of Republican staff members that prior investigations had demonstrated a clean record. They said past background checks had turned up evidence of inappropriate behavior but had left out specifics. 
 
 Even as the White House claimed to give the FBI permission to broaden its examination, it continued to hold the bureau to a strict timeline. Moreover, the inquiry focused mainly on the account of Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist and professor who alleges that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high school students in the Washington suburbs. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the White House had quietly restricted the FBI from scrutinizing the nominee’s drinking habits, as well as possible disparities between his alcohol consumption as a young man and his account before Congress. 
 
 Democrats, along with attorneys and other advocates for Kavanaugh’s accusers, cried foul, saying the investigation was not designed to ferret out the facts but rather to give Republicans cover to force the nomination through. Republicans countered that Democrats were interested only in delaying the process. 
 
 New statement tonight from Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers: 'Those directing the FBI investigation were not interested in seeking the truth.' pic.twitter.com/IpKjbypNYZ — Mike Scarcella (@MikeScarcella) October 4, 2018 
 
 The early-morning tweets from Shah appeared to confirm a Wall Street Journal article posted several hours earlier indicating that the White House had found no evidence in the FBI report corroborating accusations of sexual misconduct against the nominee. 
 
 The White House’s verdict is not necessarily surprising, given the president’s repeated affirmations of his confidence in his nominee. On Tuesday, at a rally in Southaven, Miss., Trump mocked Ford. Ford testified last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, putting pressure on Republicans to submit to a further investigation of Kavanaugh. 
 
 The White House’s position is hardly decisive, as it is the Senate — and most likely a cluster of centrist lawmakers — that will decide Kavanaugh’s fate. Still, the declaration means that dissenting Republican senators could have to publicly oppose the conclusions of their party’s president. 
 
 With Leader McConnell’s cloture filing, Senators have been given ample time to review this seventh background investigation. This is the last addition to the most comprehensive review of a Supreme Court nominee in history, which includes extensive hearings, multiple (2/3) — Raj Shah (@RajShah45) October 4, 2018 
 
 committee interviews, over 1,200 questions for the record and over a half million pages of documents. 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 (3/3) — Raj Shah (@RajShah45) October 4, 2018 
 
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 The F.B.I. apparently did not explore allegations by a third accuser, Julie Swetnick, who is represented by Michael Avenatti, a lawyer who also works for Stephanie Clifford, the former pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels who was paid hush money to keep her from discussing what she said was an extramarital affair with Mr. Trump before the 2016 presidential election. Senate Democrats have not focused as much on Ms. Swetnick’s assertions as on those of Dr. Blasey and Ms. Ramirez. 
 
 The official briefed on the review said the bureau focused on the incidents described by Dr. Blasey and Ms. Ramirez but did not go out of its way to pursue broader questions about Judge Kavanaugh’s drinking during high school and college. Judge Kavanaugh told the committee last week that while he sometimes drank too much beer, he never blacked out. Former classmates have since come forward to say he misled the committee about the extent of his drinking. 
 
 The official said the bureau contacted one person who said he had heard about the incident involving Ms. Ramirez at Yale University at the time, but that person did not witness it or talk with Ms. Ramirez. He identified the person he said had told him about the episode, but that person told the F.B.I. that he did not recall it, the official said. 
 
 Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, warned before the interviews were received that they might be worthless because the investigation did not include interviews with Judge Kavanaugh, Dr. Blasey, or witnesses identified as corroborators by Ms. Ramirez. Those restrictions, she wrote, raise “serious concerns that this is not a credible investigation and begs the question: What other restrictions has the White House placed on the F.B.I.?”
– A big overnight development in the Brett Kavanaugh saga: The White House said it has received the FBI's new report about the Supreme Court nominee and sent it on to the Senate, reports the Washington Post. The move puts the Senate on track for a final confirmation vote as early as Saturday, and the White House says it's confident that nothing in the new report will kill the nomination. "This is the last addition to the most comprehensive review of a Supreme Court nominee in history," added Raj Shah, a White House spokesman. Senators will now start reviewing the report, but with restrictions. Only one copy will be available for reading, likely in a secure Senate office, and senators will get 30 minutes apiece of allotted time, reports the Hill. The parties will take turns reading the document, or senators also can choose to be briefed instead. "Ridiculous," said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of the Judiciary Committee, of the restrictions. The New York Times reports that the FBI interviewed nine people about Kavanaugh and appears to have limited its inquiry to the allegations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, and not those by Julie Swetnick. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already has initiated the procedural moves that would move toward a full confirmation vote, expected Saturday. The outcome hinges on key GOP senators such as Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski. All have criticized President Trump's disparaging comments about Ford, but that won't necessarily affect their final votes on the nomination.