Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., told reporters Monday in Burlington he believes that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath during his confirmation hearings.

When asked if he thought Kavanaugh lied under oath, Leahy responded: "I want the rest of the records. I wonder why they are hiding 90 percent of his records because they would show whether he has or not. I feel he has."

Leahy is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that on Sept. 28 sent the nomination to the full Senate on a party line vote.

"I've never seen anything like this," Leahy said of the confirmation process that continued this week with an FBI investigation into allegation of sexual misconduct against the Trump nominee. According to Leahy, the scope of that investigation requested by the committee "will have no restrictions."

The investigation followed a hearing on Sept. 27 in which Christine Blasey Ford testified that she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh when both were teenagers. Kavanaugh vigorously denied the allegation.

Leahy said on Monday that he believed Kavanaugh gave "misleading testimony" when questioned about handling information the senator says were stolen from Democrats, including himself, when he worked in the administration of President George W. Bush.

"These are emails and tapes stolen from Democratic members on the Senate Judiciary Committee," Leahy said.

Kavanaugh worked in the Bush White House from 2001 to 2006 when he was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

As the Washington Post reports: "Leahy’s charge stems from an infamous episode between 2001 and 2003 when a Republican counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Manuel Miranda, learned that Democrats on the panel had put documents on a computer server shared with Republicans. Miranda said in an interview that he read them to learn about the party’s strategy on judicial nominations coming before the committee."

Leahy in 2004 questioned Kavanaugh about the documents during his unsuccessful confirmation process for a seat on the federal appeals court, and again in 2006, when he was confirmed to the court.

At both hearings, Kavanaugh said he learned about how Miranda obtained the documents from news reports.

In September, when Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., asked if he knew he was dealing with stolen property, Kavanaugh answered, "No."

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. released a statement Saturday also drilling down on Kavanaugh's honesty.

"A fundamental question the FBI can help answer is whether Judge Kavanaugh has been truthful with the committee. This goes to the very heart of whether he should be confirmed to the court," Sanders wrote in the statement.

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