When the father of a school shooting victim held out his hand to Donald Trump’s nominee for the supreme court on Tuesday, Judge Brett Kavanaugh looked at him, then turned without saying a word and walked out. 
 
 “I put out my hand and I said: ‘My name is Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was murdered in Parkland,’ and he walked away,” Guttenberg said in an interview with the Guardian. 
 
 The moment was captured in dramatic photographs, as well as on video from several different angles. In a statement after the incident, a White House spokesman said that “an unidentified individual” had approached Kavanaugh as he was preparing to leave for the confirmation hearing’s lunch break and that “before the Judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened”. 
 
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 “If you watch the video, you see that’s not the case, ” Guttenberg said. “What the White House said was not true.” 
 
 Kavanaugh made eye contact with him “long enough for me to say who I was”, Guttenberg said. “He could have absolutely shook my hand and said: ‘I’m sorry for your loss.’ I mean – if nothing else.” 
 
 In an email, the White House spokesman, Raj Shah, wrote: “I stand by my tweet/email on this topic,” when asked about video of the interaction that appears to contradict the White House’s claim that security had intervened “before the Judge was able to shake [Guttenberg’s] hand”. 
 
 Kavanaugh, a champion of gun rights, has been backed by the National Rifle Association, which announced in August that it was spending at least $1m on a national advertising campaign to support the judge’s confirmation to the supreme court. 
 
 In the video advertisement released by the NRA, an announcer warns, “Four liberal justices oppose your right to self-defense. Four justices support your right to self-defense. President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to break the tie. Your right to self-defense depends on this vote.” 
 
 An NRA spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on the interaction between Kavanaugh and the father of a school shooting victim. 
 
 Guttenberg has become a prominent advocate for gun control, including stricter regulation on military-style “assault weapons”, after his 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was shot to death in her school hallway this February with a legally purchased AR-15-style rifle. He said he had attended the hearing in hopes of making Kavanaugh consider the consequences of his position on the second amendment. 
 
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 “I wanted to be there to make sure he understands what he’s being asked to do has real-world consequences,” Guttenberg said. “As he sat there thinking about his beautiful family, I wanted him to know that my family was torn apart by gun violence, preventable gun violence, the kind of gun violence that people can do something about, and he doesn’t believe that.” 
 
 Kavanaugh wrote in a 2011 dissent that the District of Columbia’s assault weapon ban was unconstitutional, because the weapons were already “in common use”. He argued that there was no “meaningful or persuasive” distinction between semi-automatic handguns and rifles, and noted, correctly, that handguns were more frequently used in crime than rifles are. 
 
 Gun control advocates say that if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the supreme court, which is currently divided between justices who support gun rights and gun control, he may serve as the swing vote to make state and federal assault weapon bans unconstitutional, as well as to tear down local restrictions on carrying guns in public. 
 
 Earlier in the day, Guttenberg said, he had been publicly introduced during the hearing by Senator Dianne Feinstein, who had invited him as her guest. He said he thought Kavanaugh would probably have been able to recognize who he was from that introduction, even before he introduced himself again. 
 
 Asked if he thought the NRA’s backing of his confirmation might have played any role in Kavanaugh’s choice not to speak to him or shake his hand, Guttenberg said: “You know what? I don’t know. I don’t put myself in other people’s heads.” 
 
 After lunch, when the hearing resumed, “security came and took me out of the room and they kept me out for 15 minutes, questioning me”, Guttenberg said. “They took my license and wanted to know why I was there.” 
 
 Afterwards, he said, he was allowed to return as the hearing continued. 
 
 Guttenberg added in an interview with CNN on Tuesday evening that he thought security took him out of the room after the break because Kavanaugh pointed him out to them and asked them to. 
 
 Gun control advocates, including some student survivors of the Parkland shooting, argued on Tuesday that Kavanaugh’s refusal to greet the father of a gun murder victim showed a lack of character, as well as reflecting his strongly pro-gun legal views. 
 
 Andrew Pollack, another, more conservative father of a Parkland gun violence victim, publicly defended the judge on Tuesday. “Judge Kavanaugh was not responsible for the Parkland school shooting that killed my daughter,” he said, placing blame instead on local law enforcement and school officials. “Judge Kavanaugh is a decent man and should be confirmed. Stop weaponizing Parkland to advance a dangerous political agenda!” ||||| Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim, Jaime, tries to shakes hands with Brett Kavanaugh: "My daughter was murdered at Parkland." White House says an "unidentified individual approached" Kavanaugh, but "before the judge was able to shake his hand, security had intervened."pic.twitter.com/IerpDMOW0h ||||| John Dean, former Counsel to the President President Richard M. Nixon, speaks to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final stage of the confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Supreme... (Associated Press) 
 
 John Dean, former Counsel to the President President Richard M. Nixon, speaks to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final stage of the confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo... (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 
 
 4:45 p.m. 
 
 The confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has ended with a testy exchange between Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana and John Dean of Watergate notoriety. 
 
 Kennedy told Dean he only did the right thing in Watergate "when you were cornered like a rat." 
 
 Dean responded that President Donald Trump has also called him a rat. He added: "I tried internally to end the cover-up. I didn't succeed." 
 
 He offered to send the senator his book to give "him some insights of what really did happen in there." 
 
 Dean cooperated with prosecutors during the Watergate investigation and served four months in prison. 
 
 Invited by Democrats, Dean testified Friday against Kavanaugh. He warned about creating a Supreme Court that takes an expansive view of presidential powers. 
 
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 3:35 p.m. 
 
 John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, is taking a swipe at the vetting of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
 
 Dean says he's surprised that Kavanaugh "is not demanding every document that he's ever handled be reviewed by this committee, unless of course there's something to hide." 
 
 Democrats have complained that they have been unable to adequately vet Kavanaugh because key records have been withheld. They have asked that the hearing be delayed, but Republican Chairman Charles Grassley rejected that request, saying large number of documents have already been released. 
 
 Dean was speaking Friday on the final day of Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. 
 
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 2:05 p.m. 
 
 A student who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is urging senators to reject the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
 
 The student, Aalayah Eastmond, says that if Kavanaugh doesn't have the decency to shake hands with the father of a shooting victim, he shouldn't be able to "make life-changing decisions" affecting real people. 
 
 She is referring to Fred Guttenberg, who tried to shake hands with Kavanaugh earlier in the week. Guttenberg's daughter, Jamie, died in the February 2018 attack at the high school. 
 
 Guttenberg extended his hand Kavanaugh, but the judge did not. A White House spokesman said security intervened before Kavanaugh could take his hand. 
 
 Kavanaugh this week told senators he's "very aware of the real-world consequences" of gun violence. 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, predicts the nation will have the most "pro-presidential powers" Supreme Court in modern history if Donald Trump's nominee is confirmed. 
 
 In written testimony submitted before Friday's Senate confirmation hearing, Dean predicts that with Brett Kavanaugh on the high court, it will become "a weak check, at best, on presidential power." He calls the scenario "deeply troubling," adding that there is "much to fear from an unchecked president who is inclined to abuse his powers." 
 
 Dean, a critic of Trump, is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the invitation of Democrats. 
 
 Dean cooperated with prosecutors during the Watergate investigation and helped bring down Nixon's presidency. He served four months in prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice. 
 
 10:30 a.m. 
 
 Members of an American Bar Association committee have given Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh their highest rating of "well qualified" based on his integrity, competence and judicial temperament. 
 
 John Tarpley, the lead evaluator in the review, says it was clear based on interviews with peers that Kavanaugh learned integrity at an early age. He says Kavanaugh received high praise for his knowledge of the law and for his judicial temperament, with reviewers saying he was affable and kept an open mind. 
 
 Tarpley says the ABA panel would have been hard pressed to come to any conclusion other than Kavanaugh showed "exceptional professional competence." 
 
 Republicans embraced the evaluation, though they have at times sharply rebuked the ABA for giving low ratings to some of President Donald Trump's other judicial nominees. 
 
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 9:50 a.m. 
 
 Senators have begun the fourth and final day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
 
 On the schedule Friday are more than two dozen witnesses on both sides of the nomination fight. Democratic witnesses include John Dean, Richard Nixon's White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors during the Watergate investigation, and Rochelle Garza, the legal guardian for a pregnant immigrant teenager whose quest for an abortion Kavanaugh would have delayed last year. 
 
 Kavanaugh finished two marathon days in the witness chair Thursday. He avoided any serious mistakes that might jeopardize his confirmation and appears to be on his way to becoming the court's 114th justice. 
 
 Republicans hope to confirm Kavanaugh in time for the first day of the new Supreme Court term, Oct. 1. 
 
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 1:35 a.m. 
 
 Senate Democrats worked into the night in a last attempt to paint Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a foe of abortion rights and a likely defender of President Donald Trump. But after two marathon days in the witness chair in a Senate hearing room, Kavanaugh appeared to be on a path to confirmation as a Supreme Court justice. 
 
 The 53-year-old appellate judge stuck to a well-rehearsed script, avoiding any serious mistakes that might jeopardize his chances at confirmation. 
 
 Senators will return for a final hearing day on Friday along with more than two dozen witnesses on both sides of the nomination. 
 
 Republicans hope to confirm Kavanaugh in time for the first day of the new Supreme Court term on Oct. 1. ||||| Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, accompanied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, center, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, during a Senate... (Associated Press) 
 
 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, accompanied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, center, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, during a Senate Judiciary Committee markup meeting on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Washington. The... (Associated Press) 
 
 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, accompanied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, center, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, during a Senate Judiciary Committee markup meeting on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Washington. The... (Associated Press) Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, accompanied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, center, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, during a Senate... (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 
 
 1:20 p.m. 
 
 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn) says she's notified federal investigators about information she received concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
 
 The California Democrat says in a statement that she "received information from an individual concerning the nomination." 
 
 Feinstein isn't saying who that person is or describing the information in any way. She says the person "strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision." 
 
 Feinstein — who's on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which just finished confirmation hearings for Kavanagh — says she has "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities." 
 
 Another committee Democrat, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, says the matter has been referred to the FBI. 
 
 Republicans are pushing to confirm Kavanaugh to the court by Oct. 1, when the 2018-19 term begins. 
 
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 11:05 a.m. 
 
 Republicans have rejected an effort to subpoena documents on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's job as staff secretary in the George W. Bush White House. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee say the documents are needed to vet the judge's record. 
 
 The panel's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn) of California, said Thursday senators "should be able to see this record." Feinstein says it makes her wonder "what in Judge Kavanaugh's records are Republicans hiding?" 
 
 Republicans on the panel rejected the motion on a party line vote. 
 
 The Republicans declined to pursue Kavanaugh's staff secretary documents as too cumbersome, focusing instead on his White House counsel's work. 
 
 President Donald Trump's nominee for the court is the first with a lengthy email trail. Democrats say the records they've seen are insufficient. 
 
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 10:50 a.m. 
 
 Democrats have tried to adjourn the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing to consider Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but Republicans have rejected the motion. 
 
 Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut protested as soon as the hearing gaveled opened Thursday. He says the nomination will be "tainted" and "stained" by the unusual process for vetting President Donald Trump's nominee. 
 
 Democrats say Republicans, who have the majority, are rushing the proceedings. 
 
 Blumenthal says, "We lack the time. We lack the documents." He calls it a "badly broken process." 
 
 Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he already agreed to hold over the vote on Kavanaugh for one week. 
 
 The panel will vote next week on whether to recommend Kavanaugh for confirmation. Republicans hope to confirm him to the court by Oct. 1. 
 
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 12:40 a.m. 
 
 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he would have shaken the hand of a man whose daughter was killed in a Florida high school shooting if he had known who the man was. 
 
 A photo of Kavanaugh appearing to refuse to shake Fred Guttenberg's outstretched hand last week went viral. 
 
 Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee he assumed the man who approached him was a protester. He says if he had known who Guttenberg was, "I would have shaken his hand, talked to him, and expressed my sympathy. And I would have listened to him." 
 
 Kavanagh's explanation was part of a 263-page response late Wednesday to some 1,287 written questions from senators. 
 
 The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to meet Thursday to consider Kavanaugh's confirmation.
– "Chaos" is the word being used to describe the first day of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and now new labels are being applied to Kavanaugh himself, including ill-mannered and "coward." Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland shooting, said he approached Kavanaugh during a break in Tuesday's hearing to introduce himself. "I put out my hand and I said: 'My name is Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was murdered in Parkland,' and he walked away,'" Guttenberg tells the Guardian, adding on Twitter: "I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence." Videos from various angles are circulating, showing Kavanaugh stare at Guttenberg, with his extended hand, for two seconds before walking away. It's not clear if Kavanaugh heard Guttenberg's introduction. White House spokesman Raj Shah says "security … intervened" when an "unidentified individual" approached Kavanaugh, an explainer Guttenberg is refuting. "Incorrect. I was here all day and introduced by Senator [Dianne] Feinstein," who invited Guttenberg to the hearing, Guttenberg tweeted. The Parkland father said he'd simply wanted to speak to Kavanaugh, father to father, to let him "know that my family was torn apart by gun violence," and he dismissed theories that, although he doesn't support Kavanaugh's nomination, this was intended to make Kavanaugh look bad. Per the Hill and the Washington Post, Guttenberg says he was questioned by Capitol Police for about 15 minutes, then allowed to return to the hearing—and he thinks Kavanaugh is the one who pinpointed him to security. "He could have absolutely shook my hand and said: 'I'm sorry for your loss.' I mean—if nothing else," he tells the Guardian.