Yamiche Alcindor:

The White House currently is standing very, very firm with Brett Kavanaugh.

The president gave very vigorous defense of him. And the White House today was sending out statements from Brett Kavanaugh's friends and former classmates at Yale. They all say that Brett Kavanaugh didn't black out drunk when they knew him. They also said that he treated women very respectfully.

But that, of course, is in direct contrast with other Yale classmates of Brett Kavanaugh who say that he did get very drunk and that he was very aggressive. All that's happening while the president is also saying that he doesn't want to look at any people — he doesn't want to look at any replacements.

But we all know that there's a long list of people that he, that the president put out of about maybe 10 names of people who could possibly be other people that he would nominate. So just out there, the president has that.

The other thing that's really important is, the president said that he was very surprised by how vocal Brett Kavanaugh was about his drinking. And the president made sure to note that he himself has never even drank a beer.

And that's again showing that Brett Kavanaugh is a very different person to Donald Trump, whose older brother Freddy Trump died in his 40s from alcoholism. So there's a real personal connection there with President Trump and drinking that could open up the door.