Trump says he wants to hear from Kavanaugh accuser

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday called for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, professor Christine Blasey Ford, to appear before his committee next week.

He added there would be a public hearing next Monday “to give these recent allegations a full airing”. The impassioned statement is surely far from her last. Richard Blumenthal of CT, said staging the hearing without the FBI investigation would make it a “sham”. She says that ever since she has spoken about the “truth”, she has been receiving death threats and hate online. “He stands ready to testify tomorrow if the Senate is ready to hear him”, the White House said before Grassley’s announcement. “I did not know if it was credible”, she told reporters. Why would Ford be unprepared to testify, as Lindsey Graham noted yesterday, if her attorneys arranged a polygraph examination for her a month ago?

“Asking her to come forward in four or five days and sit before the Judiciary Committee on national TV is not a fair process”. “What about other witnesses like Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge?”.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Feinstein is playing a central role in the battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The argument is that a Kavanaugh defeat would badly demoralize the Republican base in advance of the 2018 midterms – and that depression coupled with Democrats’ huge enthusiasm to vote would flip control. Flake’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

“Nothing of substance and nothing legitimate can happen by Monday”, Lisa Banks, her attorney told CNN, referring to the next hearing of the judiciary committee hearing.

“I’d have the professionals go in there, seek corroborating evidence, talk to the people involved, certainly talk to the third person who they claimed was there and that hasn’t been done”, Democratic Sen.

Republicans, he says, feel that this is in their grasp and they do not want to do anything to cause things to go off the rails.

“I don’t think the Federal Bureau of Investigation should be involved because they don’t want to be involved”, Trump told reporters at the White House. But he said that should be done immediately, “so the process can continue as scheduled”. Judge Kavanaugh has also said he is willing to testify.

Yet a few Republicans have suggested there may have to be a delay, at least in the Judiciary vote on the nominee – which was scheduled for this Thursday – in order to hear from Ford. The GOP goal is to have Kavanaugh confirmed by October 1, the start of the next Supreme Court term. “If they don’t have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong, then that’s a problem”.

On the one hand, the steely Republican leader is determined to act as quickly to confirm Kavanaugh as he was to delay and destroy Garland’s nomination. Only after the details of her experience were leaked did Dr. Ford make the reluctant decision to come forward publicly. Lewis said she voted for de Leon in the California primary but will now back Feinstein in November. “This is a situation that is stacked.She’s already been attacked, had to move out of her house”.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me”, the Post quoted Ford as saying.

The Post said it viewed notes from that session and an individual therapy session the following year.

“If she shows up, that would be wonderful”.

“My advice is to push the pause button on this hearing, get the information together, bring in the experts and put together a hearing that is fair, that is impartial, that is not biased by politics or by myth, and bring this information to the American public”, she said. He has been a federal appeals court judge since 2006.

Grassley was more definitive in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Tuesday morning.