He is cohost and executive producer of the circus. Cofounder and ceo of axios jim vandehei, editor and chief of law fair benjamin wittis and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kc d. C. Kasie hunt is with us. Thank you for coming in. We will start with this complicated story this morning, the author of a confidential letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of Sexual Assault more than three decades ago identified herself on sunday. Christine blasey ford a 51yearold Research Psychologist in Northern California spoke publicly for the first time about the allegations in a report by the Washington Post. Ford alleges one summer during high school in the early 1980s kavanaugh and a friend drunkenly corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a home in montgomery county, maryland. She alleges kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her over her clothes grinding his body against her and attempting to pull off her bathing suit while his friend watch