Kavanaugh accuser reportedly says she would testify next week under certain terms

Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, told the Senate Judiciary Committee she is open to testify next week if they can "ensure her safety" and offer "terms that are fair," The New York Times reported Thursday.

Ford's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee also reportedly said that testifying on Monday, as committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, had scheduled, "is not possible," adding that the "insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event."

Ford, 51, alleged in a letter obtained by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in late July that Kavanaugh, 53, had pinned her to a bed, covered her mouth and attempted to take her clothes off while intoxicated at a gathering in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's second Supreme Court, strongly denies the allegations and has said he is willing to testify under oath in a public Senate hearing Monday.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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