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$960.00 the Patriot truth matters. News this hour from Town Hall dot com I m Rhonda watch for the woman at the center of sexual abuse allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be on Capitol Hill Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee staffer assuring Christine blazin for its attorneys that they ll do everything they can to provide a safe comfortable and dignified form for her to testify about what she says was a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were both teenagers in the 1980 s. But in an e-mail exchange attained by the Associated Press the counsel for Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley writes that the committee will decide who testifies in water order and how they will be questioned and those terms are non-negotiable Ben Thomas Washington. Meanwhile the New Yorker magazine posted a story on its website tonight that Senate Democrats are investigating a 2nd woman s accusation of sexual misconduct by Kavanagh this one dates back to the 1