Trump doesn’t think the Federal Bureau of Investigation should get involved in Kavanaugh allegation

Speaking to reporters on Monday, President Trump said, “if it takes a little delay, it’ll take a little delay”.

The testimonies “would be added to the very considerable mountain of evidence and considerations that folks will have when they weigh whether or not to vote for judge Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court”.

“It wouldn’t bother me other than the FBI, Jon, said that they really don’t do that, that’s not what they do”, said Trump.

But the president says Kavanaugh’s nomination is “on track”.

“That’s very puzzling to me”, she said about the uncertainty of Ford’s appearance.

Schumer said Democrats want more than two witnesses, including Mark Judge, who Ford has said was a Kavanaugh friend present during the alleged assault. “But Judge Kavanaugh is anxious to do it”, Trump said.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked both Judge Kavanaugh and Christine Ford to testify on Monday but it’s not known yet whether Ford will appear.

With their narrow Senate majority, Republicans could ram through Kavanaugh’s nomination without any Democratic support, but doing so might prove risky in a year that has seen a surge of women, motivated by their opposition to Trump, vote in primary and special elections.

Committee chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley, said his office has reached out to Ford several times about the Monday hearing and has not yet heard back.

Grassley, Iowa Republican, has said he plans to have Judge Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford as the only two people called to testify.

Ford went public after Feinstein released a statement to the media last week saying she had forwarded information about Kavanaugh to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is on the committee, said she believes Ford is telling the truth, and emphasized that “the American public deserves to know the character of someone who will serve for his entire life on the highest court in our country”.

A Judiciary committee statement Sunday accused Democrats of hiding Ford’s allegations until the eve of the committee vote.

Grassley said details about how the hearing would be conducted had not been worked out, including parameters for panel members posing questions or the possibility that committee Republicans could choose a single questioner. Ford is anything but a Trump supporter, and if one’s predilections can influence one’s memories, and, according to behavioral psychologists, they certainly can, her essentially uncorroborated tale remains suspect.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the committee, said he would welcome hearing from Ford.

Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, urged Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans not to ” rush the hearings”.

“We do, in 2018, get it”, said Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University.

She said that she was 15 and the then-17-year-old Kavanaugh was drunk when he held her down, covering her mouth with his hand as he attempted to take off her clothes. I hope her therapy is successful for her, and I hope, for the sake of the nation, that Brett Kavanaugh is speedily confirmed.

She said she locked herself in the bathroom and listened until she heard the boys “going down the stairs, hitting the walls”.

While she attended Holton-Arms in the early 1980s, Ford alleges Kavanaugh assaulted her at a house party.

In a statement issued by the White House, Mr Kavanaugh denied the allegation and described it as “completely false”.

All that Brett Kavanaugh said, in his lengthy hearings, and in his more than a decade on the bench, indicates that he understands that.

Sen. Jeff Flake, another Republican on the committee, went further, saying he would not vote to approve Kavanaugh without first hearing from Ford.

“After reports of the letter surfaced last week, Feinstein released a statement, saying she had received the letter”.

The President also once again lamented Sen.