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Chuck Grassley maintained the hearing would take place Monday morning after Ford’s lawyers demanded an FBI investigation
Senate Republicans are refusing to delay a high-stakes public hearing with supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who accused him of sexual assault, as Donald Trump offered a vigorous defense of his embattled nominee.
The hearing was thrown into doubt when Ford’s lawyers demanded an FBI investigation as a pre-requisite to her appearance on Capitol Hill on Monday, setting up a showdown with Senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley. He said on Wednesday that the hearing would take place on Monday at 10am in Washington, as scheduled. In a letter to Ford’s lawyers, he gave her until 10am Friday to submit her biography and prepared remarks “if she intends to testify”.
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