Watch: Christine Blasey Ford’s Full Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee – Roll Call

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Watch: Christine Blasey Ford’s Full Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee

By D.A. Banks

Posted September 27, 2018 at 4:22pm

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I am here today, not because I want to be — I am terrified, said Christine Blasey Ford before a panel of senators and the eyes of the world. Watch Blasey Ford’s full, unedited opening statement given to senators as part of a hearing for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a 1980s gathering in a Washington-D.C. suburb when the two were high school-age teenagers.

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