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Senate Republicans make counteroffer to Kavanaugh accuser for Wednesday hearing
| Fox News ^ | September 21,2018 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 09/21/2018 12:31:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Senate Republicans on Friday extended a counteroffer to Christine Blasey Ford to testify on Capitol Hill next Wednesday, amid negotiations over whether Ford will elaborate on her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in public.

It was not immediately clear whether Ford would accept the offer. Fox News was told that the Republican senators want an answer “by the end of the day.”

“We need to hear from her,” said one senior source familiar with the process. “Monday is the preferred date. But we are open to other things.”

A senior Republican source told Fox News “we can’t postpone forever.”

Ford has accused Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her while both were in high school. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had invited Ford to testify on Monday and gave Ford until 10 a.m. Friday to respond. That deadline passed Friday without a deal after Ford’s attorneys made clear this week Ford didn’t want to testify Monday but suggested she would another day.

Ford attorney Debra Katz told the Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Ford is willing to appear for a hearing on Capitol Hill as long as senators provide "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety."

Among the terms requested by Ford’s legal team: Only members of the committee -- no lawyers -- can question her; Kavanaugh cannot be in the room at the time; and Kavanaugh should be questioned first, before he has the opportunity to hear Ford's testimony.

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To: Mase

Does someone have a graphic of a trembling house cat along side a hungry rat the same size that we can label Republican pussies and Demoncrat rats? That is what our Senate is.


21 posted on 09/21/2018 12:39:29 PM PDT by Colo9250 (Send Army Corps of Engineers to build wall and Marines to protect them, NOW!)
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To: keat

It’s not over till Trump sings.


22 posted on 09/21/2018 12:39:33 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Hojczyk
There are seats available tomorrow morning on the Silver Streak California Zephyr from California to Chicago, connecting there on the Capitol Limited to DC. She could make it by Tuesday if she wanted to lie under oath in return for the desired delay. No risk to her. Perjury is only prosecuted when conservatives do it, not when operatives for the Deep State commit that felony.
23 posted on 09/21/2018 12:39:56 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Electric Graffiti

What changed ?


24 posted on 09/21/2018 12:40:09 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: Hojczyk

Just keep backing down until you give them everything they want, right?

So sick of the feckless republicans.


25 posted on 09/21/2018 12:40:50 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Hojczyk
nothing more than a bunch of gutless, trough-slurping pansies .. spit !
26 posted on 09/21/2018 12:41:22 PM PDT by tomkat (devout curmudgeon)
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To: Hojczyk

A senior Republican source told Fox News “we can’t postpone forever.”

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Yes they can. They are Republicans.


27 posted on 09/21/2018 12:41:42 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Hojczyk

I hope this is the final offer, it’s time to vote!


28 posted on 09/21/2018 12:41:54 PM PDT by relee (Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Hojczyk

These people are idiots.
If they were working in the private sector, they would have been walked out of the building decades ago.
How stupid do you need to be to be a Senator?


29 posted on 09/21/2018 12:42:24 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Hojczyk

The GOP is the biggest group of fools in HISTORY

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The moniker “The Stupid Party” is reinforced virtually everyday. The Gutless Old Party.


30 posted on 09/21/2018 12:43:05 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Hojczyk

“Wednesday is definitely the last date. Well, we won’t trifle over little things ... Friday. Definitely Friday. Maybe next Thursday at the latest, but not a minute longer than February.”


31 posted on 09/21/2018 12:43:25 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: keat

Don’t forget them putting the Kavanaugh family through her jumping onto EVERY damned TV show over the next weekend AFTER she testifies!!!


32 posted on 09/21/2018 12:43:51 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Truth29

The GOP beclowns itself.

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Again, and again, and again. Gutless fools who stand for nothing.


33 posted on 09/21/2018 12:44:08 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Hojczyk

Damn it.

Sorry, pardon my french.


34 posted on 09/21/2018 12:44:16 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: rktman

This whole thig is what “professional politicians” do so well...Obfuscate, delay, change schedules, find myriad excuses...Makes no difference which party...They are all together with kind of Bull Sh!t....it is nothing we haven’t seen before...

They act all so serious and *harumph* important ....They are ALL full of it...

I am so damn tired of Washington DC political dwellers!!!!!


35 posted on 09/21/2018 12:44:53 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

The folding begins.


36 posted on 09/21/2018 12:44:57 PM PDT by con-surf-ative
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To: Truth29
if I may:

the GOP is going to lose votes in the November elections because they  ARE  jellyfish

37 posted on 09/21/2018 12:45:20 PM PDT by tomkat (devout curmudgeon)
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To: ncalburt

So are the ancillary terms off the table?


38 posted on 09/21/2018 12:46:29 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: keat

I thought Kavanaugh is coming in Monday.


39 posted on 09/21/2018 12:46:30 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Trump w/ Cabinet to the press:"You're free to stay or to go, as I believe in a free press." lol)
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To: ncalburt

“Laura Ingrahm said Flake was the hold up on her radio show.”

...and if it wasn’t Flake, it would be corker, murkowsky or collins.


40 posted on 09/21/2018 12:46:39 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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