 Investigators with the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two previously undisclosed accusations of sexual misconduct during a phone call Tuesday, according to a transcript of the call released Wednesday night. An anonymous woman wrote to Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-Colo.) office on Sept. 22 alleging that the Supreme Court nominee shoved another woman “up against the wall very aggressively and sexually” in 1998 after leaving a bar where both had been drinking, the transcript states. One of the new claims, first reported by NBC News, stems from an anonymous letter sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado. Story Continued Below 
 
 “It's ridiculous. Total twilight zone. And no, I've never done anything like that,” Kavanaugh told Judiciary panel staff when asked about the anonymous complaint on Tuesday, the transcript states. Gardner said in a statement Wednesday evening that his Denver office received the letter on Monday, and it "contained no names, no address, and no contact info." Kavanaugh also was asked about, and categorically denied, an allegation made by a Rhode Island man -- whose name was redacted from the transcript -- raised in a call to Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's office "concerning a rape on a boat in August of 1985." He will face lawmakers on Thursday morning following testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who will testify that Kavanaugh assaulted her in the early 1980s. "No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend," Kavanaugh said. In her affidavit as released by Avenatti, Swetnick alleged that she has witnessed Kavanaugh's involvement in multiple episodes of sexual misconduct, charging that he was present at parties where girls were sexually assaulted, including herself. Separately from the inquiry into Swetnick's claim, an attorney representing a former girlfriend of Mark Judge, the Kavanaugh friend whom Ford claims was in the room during her assault by Kavanaugh, told the Judiciary panel that her client would be willing to testify if need be about her comment to the New Yorker concerning Judge's alleged excessive drinking and sexual conduct. While new potential interviewees came forward, both parties rush to build their cases — legally and politically — ahead of the Judiciary Committee's scheduled Thursday hearing about Ford's sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh, which dates back to their high school years. Kavanaugh has denied three other allegations against him, all involving women who have come forward publicly, and he testified Thursday in a hearing that also featured Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who has said he sexually assaulted her while he was drunk at a party in their high school years. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Republicans to suspend the nomination proceedings and for Kavanaugh to withdraw after the new allegations surfaced. But first comes Thursday’s critical hearing, which will offer each senator only five minutes each to question Ford, then Kavanaugh.
– Brett Kavanaugh firmly denied a fourth and a fifth allegation of sexual misconduct—one of which was later recanted—in a Tuesday conference call with Senate Judiciary Committee investigators, according to a transcript released late Wednesday. In one claim, made in an anonymous letter sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, a woman alleged that her daughter saw an intoxicated Kavanaugh push her friend up against a wall "aggressively and sexually" in a bar in 1998, when he was an attorney working on the Ken Starr investigation, CBS News reports. "No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend," Kavanaugh said when asked about the claim. "It's ridiculous. Total twilight zone. And no, I've never done anything like that." (He used the same "twilight zone" phrase in regards to a third accusation.) Another accuser alleged in a call to Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse that his friend had been sexually assaulted on a boat in Rhode Island in 1985 "by two heavily inebriated men she referred to at the time as Brett and Mark," and he recognized Kavanaugh as one of the men. Kavanaugh denied the "completely made up" claim. The accuser withdrew the allegation in a tweet Wednesday night, saying, "I have recanted because I have made a mistake," CNN reports. A Senate Democratic aide tells Politico that some Democrats worry that Republicans are "now releasing anonymous allegations in an effort to make all allegations look frivolous. We're focusing on the ones that have names attached." (President Trump says Thursday's hearing could change his mind on Kavanaugh.)