{"id":154387,"date":"2018-09-28T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154387"},"modified":"2018-09-28T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T21:25:50","slug":"trump-directs-fbi-to-launch-kavanaugh-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154387","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs FBI to launch Kavanaugh investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154284\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KavenaughBrett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is directing the FBI to launch a supplemental investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says in a statement Friday, that the updated investigation, which comes in response to sexual misconduct allegations, &#8220;must be limited in scope&#8221; and &#8220;completed in less than one week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a reversal for the administration, which had argued that Kavanaugh had already been vetted.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh has adamantly denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican leaders agreed Friday to delay a final vote on Kavanaugh to allow time for an investigation by the FBI at the request of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh says he&#8217;s done &#8220;everything&#8221; the Senate has asked of him and &#8220;will continue to cooperate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is directing the FBI to launch a supplemental investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump says in a statement Friday, that the updated investigation, which comes in response to sexual misconduct allegations, &#8220;must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154388,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387\/revisions\/154388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}