Kavanaugh accuser wants FBI to investigate sexual allegations before she testifies

Judge Brett Kavanaugh pauses while delivering his opening statement during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. 

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh pauses while delivering his opening statement during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. 

The woman who has accused President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault said an FBI investigation should be “the first step” before she testifies to the Senate.

California professor Christine Blasey Ford, 51, came forward on Sunday and publicly accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault during a drunken encounter when they were both teenagers.

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