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| FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND | Thursday, September 20 | | |
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| Threats are pouring in for key players in Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. |
| They've come to Sen. Susan Collins, whose vote may seal Kavanaugh's judicial fate. They've come to Kavanaugh's wife, per CNN. And they've come to Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who claims Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her about 35 years ago. |
| Ford's attorney, Debra Katz, revealed the concerns her client faces after coming forward this week. |
| "As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home," Katz said in an email to the senators overseeing Kavanaugh's confirmation. |
| "She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety." |
| This is OnPolitics Today. |
She's willing to testify, if it's 'fair.' |
| That's right: Ford is still willing to testify if the conditions are "fair." Chuck Grassley, head of the Senate committee overseeing the nomination, previously told Ford's attorneys to have her prepared testimony submitted by 10 a.m. Friday if she wanted to speak. Grassley said he doesn't doubt Ford's sincerity, but a tweet from his aid suggested he wants Kavanaugh confirmed regardless of what Ford says. "Unfazed and determined," tweeted Mike Davis, Grassley's chief counsel. "We will confirm Judge Kavanaugh." He later deleted the tweet. |
| Meanwhile, Ford's claim that Kavanaugh groped her as a high schooler has raised the question: Is what someone does at age 17 relevant? Psychologists say the assault Ford described falls clearly outside anything resembling youthful indiscretion. |
Facebook helped Trump win the White House, a staffer said. It won't help him like that again. |
| Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump's digital campaign director, once told CBS News that Facebook's provision of on-site support for the campaign critically helped Trump take the White House. "Embeds" from Facebook helped Trump's team target voters and even shape his message on the platform. The same won't happen ahead of 2020 . Instead, the social giant will funnel support for all campaigns into a single site, Politics.FB.com, after Parscale's comments led to criticism from Congress, one of several questions tied to Facebook and the 2016 election. |
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