{"id":378280,"date":"2018-09-23T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kavanaughs-accuser-agrees-to-testify-before-senate\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T10:07:59","slug":"presstv-kavanaughs-accuser-agrees-to-testify-before-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kavanaughs-accuser-agrees-to-testify-before-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser agrees to testify before Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh\u00a0of sexual assault, has agreed\u00a0to testify before a Senate panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for Ford\u00a0reached a tentative agreement on Saturday for her to publicly testify before the panel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Ford accepts the Committee&#8217;s request to provide her first-hand knowledge of Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s sexual misconduct next week,&#8221; Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, attorneys representing Ford, wrote in a message to the committee.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a brief call late on Saturday between the woman\u2019s lawyers and aides to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Aides to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the committee\u2019s top Democrat, were also part of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>They decided to continue the negotiations over the conditions of the testimony on Sunday morning, according to three people&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/23\/574941\/US-Christine-Blasey-Ford-Brett-Kavanaugh\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh\u00a0of sexual assault, has agreed\u00a0to testify before a Senate panel. The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for Ford\u00a0reached a tentative agreement on Saturday for her to publicly testify before the panel on Thursday. &#8220;Dr. Ford accepts the Committee&#8217;s request to provide her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}