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PHOTO: Judge Brett Kavanaugh looks on during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Sept. 4, 2018 in Washington.
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The committee leadership and Ford's lawyers have also agreed that her attorneys can be seated at the table with her during her testimony, according to the source. And a security detail has been assigned to protect her.

Ford, 51, a psychology professor, claims Kavanaugh assaulted her at a house party in Montgomery County, Maryland, around 1982 when he was a 17-year-old student at Georgetown Prep in North Bethesda, Maryland, and she was attending all-girl Holton Arms School in Bethesda.

She was 15 years old at the time.

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PHOTO: Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a party in the 1980s,
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In an interview with The Washington Post, published a week ago, Ford claimed that Kavanaugh and another male teen, whom she identified as Mark Judge -- both \"stumbling drunk\" -- cornered her in a bedroom and Kavanaugh pinned her on her back on a bed.

She said Judge watched as Kavanaugh groped her over her clothes and attempted to remove her clothes and the one-piece bathing suit she was wearing underneath, according to The Post. Ford said that when she tried to scream, Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth. She said she managed to escape when Judge piled on top of them, sending the three tumbling.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter. I go through this with them every single day in D.C.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
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PHOTO: Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley listens during a markup hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2018.
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President Trump weighed in last week, questioning why Ford or her parents had not gone to authorities when the alleged assault happened 36 years ago.

I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
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PHOTO: President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 6, 2018.
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He has also continued to praise Kavanaugh, calling him \"a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left-wing politicians who don't want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay.\"

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PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Sept. 21, 2018, in Springfield, Mo.
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Kavanaugh issued a statement saying, \"I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation.\"

\"I did not do this back in high school or at any time,\" he said.

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