Christine Blasey Ford's opening statement in full

The 51-year-old California university professor testified that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teenagers

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Below are the full opening remarks to the US Senate judiciary committee from Christine Blasey Ford:

Thank you, Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein, members of the committee. My name is Christine Blasey Ford. I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. I won’t detail my educational background since it has already been summarized. I have been married to Russell Ford since 2002 and we have two children.

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