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And sexual assault will testify at a public hearing before the senate judiciary committee next monday. the woman, christine blasey ford is a professor in california, training graduate students in clinical psychology. her allegation was first revealed anonymously last week. she went public yesterday. she said she didn t speak about the alleged incident for years, but described it in therapy sessions in 2012 and 2013. according to the washington post, she declined to speak on the record, as she struggled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family and her duty as a citizen to tell the story. back with kirsten powers, amanda carpenter, and carrie severino. carrie, the white house clearly seems to be taking a different tone here. as you mentioned, kellyanne conwayish and did i mentioned, kellyanne conway saying the accuser shouldn t be ignored and the president saying this should go through a full process. it s certainly different than the way that the preside ....
Corroborate this, who could, you know, somehow offer a different perspective. so, look, i think that if we knew for a fact that this happened, then i don t think he should be on the supreme court. and i ve said this before. i think i ve heard some people saying, well, he was 17 and he was drunk and people change and i don t disagree with that. i think that people can do bad things when they re 17 and they can go on and lead, you know, very good lives and be contributing members of society. but the supreme court is such a rarefied area in our country and i do think that it would send a terrible message to teenagers to say, well, as long as you end up being a good member of society, you know, we ll look the other way if you do something like this in high school. and so the question then becomes, did he do it? and i don t think we re going to be any closer to knowing for sure whether or not he did it because of this hearing. carrie, as a supporter of judge kavanaugh and his nominati ....
Dr. ford and the members of the senate and the american public if he rushes to judgment here without an investigation. and it will cast a shadow and a stain on judge kavanaugh, if he is confirmed, as a result of this broken process that shattered the norms. it will cast a shadow on the supreme court as an institution. senator blumenthal, i appreciate your time. thank you. joining me now, cnn political analyst and usa today columnist, kirsten powers. cnn political commentator and former communications director for ted cruz, amanda carpenter. and carrie severyno, chief counsel and policy director with the judicial crisis network. kirsten, the fact that there s now going to be this public hearing on monday, where both judge kavanaugh and ford will be able to testify under oath, it s obviously a hugely significant development. what are your concerns? well, i think the concerns, you know, the he said/she said aspect of this, that it s just going to be two people basically disagree ....
carrie, eyewitness to kirsten s point, eyewitness testimony even from a recent incident is difficult, you know, is in court, can be faulty. from something so far back is obviously even more difficult. does that make it even more important that other people that are also anybody else who was alleged to have been in the room or alleged to have been told over the years, that they also testify? well, look, part of the problem, and i think kirsten s just exactly right, the nature of these allegations makes it very difficult to do, because this isn t something that there were a lot of witnesses to. she claims there were two witnesses and both of them deny it. so what we re looking at is looking way back, about allegations that she didn t tell anyone for 30 years after the fact. so, you know, having even that testimony, that doesn t really tell us a lot. it s going to be inherently difficult to get at that. but the reason we should or should not believe either of the witnesses isn t ....