Posted on 09/21/2018 12:31:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Senate Republicans on Friday extended a counteroffer to Christine Blasey Ford to testify on Capitol Hill next Wednesday, amid negotiations over whether Ford will elaborate on her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in public.
It was not immediately clear whether Ford would accept the offer. Fox News was told that the Republican senators want an answer “by the end of the day.”
“We need to hear from her,” said one senior source familiar with the process. “Monday is the preferred date. But we are open to other things.”
A senior Republican source told Fox News “we can’t postpone forever.”
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her while both were in high school. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had invited Ford to testify on Monday and gave Ford until 10 a.m. Friday to respond. That deadline passed Friday without a deal after Ford’s attorneys made clear this week Ford didn’t want to testify Monday but suggested she would another day.
Ford attorney Debra Katz told the Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Ford is willing to appear for a hearing on Capitol Hill as long as senators provide "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety."
Among the terms requested by Ford’s legal team: Only members of the committee -- no lawyers -- can question her; Kavanaugh cannot be in the room at the time; and Kavanaugh should be questioned first, before he has the opportunity to hear Ford's testimony.
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They know the Repub’s on the committee would bring in a female attorney that could grill her unlike the old white men there...
I see firing Rosenstein as more important and this whole circus is delaying that.
Need balls all around here, just do it.
Expect a Allred presser on Monday with new women making claims as the dems ask for more testimony.
What’s the point of a deadline if you’re not going to hold to it? Republicans suck indeed.
This whole episode is a Charlie Foxtrot.
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The parties legal counsel will do the questioning was the counter and the accuser goes first because that is the law of the land .
They will do it on Wednesday .
Yes Beth Wilkinson will do the questioning .
Gop senators will not give Dems and Dem media the photo op .
The RATS don’t want him sitting in the court on Oct. 1 so the court can decide many cases on a 4-4 basis. Time for the pubbies to grow a set of balls, give her an ultimatum. If she appears fine if not move on, this is the Supreme Court not the Venezuelan court.
Another “alleged rape charge”, 40, 50, 100 years after the fact. So, did FDR know about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor or not??? I “think” he did, so let’s get him to testify for the record, that he did not know. That is the way dimwitcrats do business, why shouldn’t we. If FDR knew, we should impeach him, 78 years after the fact. Dimwitcrats would do it if he had been a republican and knew.
So the accuser is now running the Senate?
Thanks for the reply.
The senators will have a female legal counsel do questioning .
Whatever that means .
It may not be Beth Wilkinson .
No the Gop will not give the Left wing media / dems ( they have merged).
the photo op .
“...GOP is going to lose votes in the November elections because they look like jellyfish”
100% correct!!!
The repubs will lose both the House and Senate because of this.
They have really shown that they can not govern to save their lives.
November won’t be a “Blue Wave”, it will be a “Red Evaporation” as a millions of Republicans/Independents won’t waste their time stopping at the polls to vote.
This will be a worse turnout for the Repubs then 2006.
It is going to be a miserable next 2 years.
I just clarified the counter .
What an idiotic idea. Stop letting the enemy talk you into moving the goal post. So to say.
They suck hard.
Thanks...and they have until the end of the day today to respond? So if they fail to respond today, but try another counter on Monday, would it make any difference? Is the committee in lockstep?
United States v. Trump,
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