President Donald Trump said Friday that he had ordered the FBI to conduct a "supplemental investigation" into his second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out the statement.
Sanders tweet
The announcement is a dramatic concession from Trump, who had strongly endorsed Kavanaugh in the wake of the judge's incendiary testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee a day earlier.
A visibly furious and emotional Kavanaugh had denied Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s when they were teenagers.
Minutes before Sanders' tweet, Kavanaugh released a statement through White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah on Friday:
"Throughout this process, I've been interviewed by the FBI, I've done a number of "background" calls directly with the Senate, and yesterday, I answered questions under oath about every topic the Senators and their counsel asked me. I've done everything they have requested and will continue to cooperate."
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