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No Spin News Summary– October 1, 2018

How the FBI Investigation Will Be Conducted:

The FBI will "go out and conduct these interviews in a thorough manner as quickly as possible and they will report – no opinion – they will report that to the people on the committee.

President Trump ordered the FBI investigation after Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. On Saturday, Trump said he is confident the FBI is doing a "great job."

The FBI has "free reign," Trump said. "They will do what they have to do -- things we haven't thought of and hopefully at the conclusion, everything will be fine." 

Warren Flagg noted on CBS Evening News that Judge Kavanaugh has gone through six FBI background checks, each one more "extensive" than the one before.

Judge Kavanaugh told the Senate panel that he had gone through six background checks, "six separate FBI background investigations over 26 years." 

CBS News has learned that as part of the investigation, the FBI has reached to Deborah Ramirez, the second woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault. 

Deborah Ramirez has claimed that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her while they were both students at Yale University in the 1980s 

Warren Flagg said the polygraph that Ford said she took will not be admissible. "It can't be used in a criminal case, it's an investigative tool," Flagg said. 

Arguments that the White House is Limiting the FBI Investigation:

The question of whether the White House was interfering with the FBI investigation dominated Sunday talk shows. The White House said it was not.

"I'm very concerned about this because the White House should not be allowed to micromanage an FBI investigation," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on CNN’s "State of the Union."

With a one-week deadline looming over the investigation, some who say they have information relevant to the F.B.I.’s probe are suspicious that the investigation will amount to what one of Kavanaugh’s former Yale classmates called a “whitewash.”  

Debra Katz, the lead attorney for Dr. Ford, said that her client, too, had been willing to cooperate with the F.B.I.’s investigation, but as of Sunday the F.B.I. had not contacted her.

F.B.I. officials referred questions to the White House. The White House spokesman Raj Shah defended the process and released a statement that placed responsibility for any limitations on the Senate. 

“The scope and duration has been set by the Senate. The White House is letting the FBI agents do what they are trained to do,” his statement said.

NAFTA Deal:

President Trump held a press conference at the White House at 11:00 to discuss the new deal.

The U.S., Canada, and Mexico have agreed on a trade deal that would save the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral bloc. The new trade deal is called, USMCA.

Hours before the midnight deadline, the two countries agreed to a framework for a renewed trilateral agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Newly dubbed the “USMCA” — the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Both President Trump and Robert Lighthizer made it known last week that the US was prepared to move ahead with a bilateral deal.

“USMCA will give our workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses a high-standard trade agreement that will result in freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth in our region,” the statement read. “It will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home.”

But on Friday, the US and Mexico agreed to hold off publishing the bilateral text, in the hopes of using the weekend to hammer out an agreement between the US and Canada to update the decades-old NAFTA.

The U.S. wanted greater access to Canada’s dairy market, and according to senior Trump administration officials, they won “a good deal for American farmers” on that front. The deal also calls for the elimination of Class 7 milk pricing, a new class of dairy Canada created that US dairy farmers said decreased their ability to export to Canada.

Canada wanted to preserve NAFTA’s Chapter 19, an independent panel set up to resolve special trade disputes. Though it’s renumbered in the final USMCA agreement, the provision stays mostly intact.

Ottawa also wanted some protections from Section 232 tariffs — the mechanism the Trump administration used to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on countries, including Canada.

Senior Trump administration officials said accommodations would be made to protect Canada from tariffs on automobiles. Canada did not get guarantees over those over steel and aluminum tariffs, and they’ll be dealt with separately. Now a deal has been reached, and both sides notched victories. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it a “good day for Canada.”

Trump, tweeting Monday morning, congratulated Canada and Mexico and called it a “great deal for all three countries.” 

Senior Trump administration officials are calling this a big win for the US, Canada, and Mexico and say the deal “represents fulfillment of one of the president’s most important campaign promises.”

CBS News Poll: Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford hearing spurs more division

This CBS News/YouGov Poll was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 2,485 U.S. adults between September 28-30, 2018.

Views on Kavanaugh confirmation: Should the Senate:

• Confirm: 35 percent
• Not confirm: 37 percent
• Too soon to say: 28 percent

Answer broken down by Party:

• Republicans:
• Confirm:75 percent
• Not confirm: 9 percent
• Too soon to say: 16 percent
• Democrats:
• Confirm: 10 percent
• Not confirm: 68 percent
• Too soon to say: 22 percent
• Independents:
• Confirm: 37 percent
• Not confirm: 32 percent
• Too soon to say: 31 percent

Saturday Night Live Takes on Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

Saturday Night Live kicked off its new season by taking aim at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Matt Damon played Kavanaugh in the 13-minute opening sketch, depicting him as an angry party guy who still managed to see the "keg half full."  

"I'm here tonight because of a sham," Damon's Kavanaugh said. "A political con job orchestrated by the Clintons, George Soros, and Kathy Griffin."  

Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday to answer allegations by professor Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her while in high school. Kavanaugh denies the allegations but the White House delayed a confirmation vote for a one-week FBI investigation.

The SNL skit also featured Cecily Strong as Dianne Feinstein. Strong ended the skit by asking Kavanaugh "after all of this, do you really think you have the right temperament and demeanor to be on the Supreme Court." 

"I went to Yale. I worked my butt off to get here -- I busted my buns, I lifted weights," Kavanaugh replied before listing off his friends who support him. "Am I angry? You're damn right. But if you think I'm angry now, just wait until I get on that Supreme Court -- because then you're all going to pay."

Kanye West Made SNL Stars 'Uncomfortable' with 'Surprise' Trump Rant

Kanye West got a lot off of his chest during his appearance on Saturday Night Live and ended up making some of the show’s stars uneasy, a source tells PEOPLE. While wearing a Make America Great Again hat, the rapper, 41, wrapped up the show’s season premiere with a third musical performance and a lengthy speech about his support of President Donald Trump that did not make it to air. “He made it uncomfortable for the cast and [host] Adam Driver by calling them back onstage and not saying why and then went off on them,” the insider tells PEOPLE.

“The show had been supportive of all of Kanye’s visions throughout the week, even giving him the opportunity for the third song during the goodnight [portion],’ and then he surprised everyone,” the source adds.

Although West’s rant wasn’t televised, the show wasn’t trying to silence the outspoken musician. “The show was already off the air when he started his rant. It goes off at 1,” the source shares, adding that West’s specific claim that he had been “bullied backstage” about wearing the MAGA hat wasn’t accurate.

John Oliver Exposes the Utter Hypocrisy of Pro-Lifers on Brett Kavanaugh

John Oliver broke the “Last Week Tonight” format and turned the entire show into “one long recap of one very long week.” 

The main topic was the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and the sexual assault allegations against him. But what really stunned Oliver was the fact that so many on the right were willing to support Kavanaugh even if he was guilty because they believed he will help overturn Roe vs Wade and restrict abortion rights.  

Oliver summed it up saying, “It’s fine to appoint someone who has committed sexual assault to the Supreme Court as long as they will curtail abortion rights. It’s a stance that prioritizes human lives, as long as you think life starts at conception, stops right before a sexual assault and then starts right back up again right after that assault is over.” 

Oliver played a clip of Kavanaugh getting teary-eyed while testifying about exercising with his high school friends.

“Yeah. He’s crying at the memory of lifting weights at his friend Tobin’s house,” Oliver pointed out. “I hate to say it, but I’m starting to think that men might be too emotional for the Supreme Court.” Oliver also described Kavanaugh as “Trumpian” for citing conspiracy theories that blamed “left-wing opposition groups” and “the Clintons” for the accusations against him.