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More hearings on the Trump administration’s proposed fuel standards rollback are scheduled to take place in Pittsburg and Dearborn, Michigan. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California and 16 other states have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1923269/california-sues-over-plan-to-scrap-car-emission-standards\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration’s move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the administration is proposing goes way beyond anything that the auto industry has asked for, and really amounts to a form of ideological opposition to anything that might benefit the fight against climate change,” said Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not sit idly by as you propose to flatline our efforts. 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It’s given up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional public comment hearings on the SAFE Vehicles Rule will take place in Pittsburg and Dearborn, Michigan, this week. The public comment period ends in late October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Critics say the rule would undermine California’s efforts to decrease tailpipe emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Would Lose Ability to Set Stricter Standards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s SAFE proposal would also revoke California’s waiver of the Clean Air Act, a long-held special authority that lets the state enact stricter air pollution standards for motor vehicles than those set by the federal government. At least 12 other states and the District of Columbia follow California’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials called on the Trump administration to withdraw the SAFE proposal — and state EPA Secretary Matthew Rodriquez called the administration’s challenge to California’s Clean Air Act waiver “illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge to California’s authority to develop vehicle emissions standards is illegal, and disregards a successful decades-long federal-state partnership,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After delivering their testimony, the California delegation, including Becerra, Nichols and Rodriquez, made statements and took questions from media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is being proposed by the federal government is a non-starter for us. We’re moving forward, whether it’s in court, where we can win, or in the court of public opinion. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 8:32 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh says he isn't considering withdrawing in the wake of more allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago, and proclaimed his innocence in a new TV interview Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process,\" Kavanaugh told Fox News' Martha MacCallum in an interview alongside his wife, Ashley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking for a fair process where I can be heard and defend my integrity and my lifelong record of promoting dignity and equality for women, starting with the women who knew me when I was 14 years old. I'm not going anywhere,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I'm telling the truth. I know my lifelong record, and I'm not going to let false accusations drive me out of this process,\" Kavanaugh continued. \"I have faith in God, and I have faith in the fairness of the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new interview with Kavanaugh comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/23/650979665/kavanaugh-denies-fresh-harassment-allegations-from-college-classmate\">accusations surfaced Sunday night from Deborah Ramirez\u003c/a>, who in a story published in \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> alleges Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a drunken party at Yale when they both attended college there in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing into the allegation by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh groped her and tried to remove her clothes during a party when both were in high school in Bethesda, Md., more than 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford and Kavanaugh have agreed to testify, although California Sen. Dianne Feinstein called for the panel to postpone the hearing following the allegation by Ramirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/09/TCRAM20180924JamaliLevinsonKavanaugh2way.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1020x686.jpg\" Title=\"Feinstein Calls for Postponement of Kavanaugh Hearings\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh has denied the allegations leveled against him by both Ford and Ramirez, and in his interview with MacCallum said he has \"never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not questioning, and have not questioned, that perhaps Dr. Ford, at some point in her life, was sexually assaulted by someone in someplace. But what I know is I've never sexually assaulted anyone,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he \"may have met\" Ford — who went to a private girls school while he went to a private Jesuit boys school in suburban Washington, D.C., during the early 1980s — but that \"we did not travel in the same social circles.\" Ford is two years younger than Kavanaugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh also said he was \"never at any such party\" back then like that Ford has described and that \"I have never had any sexual or physical activity with Dr. Ford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said that, yes, there were parties with alcohol that he attended while in high school, but there was never a time where he drank so much he couldn't remember his actions from the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have always treated women with dignity and respect,\" Kavanaugh repeated several times, and said most of his time in high school was spent studying, playing sports or going to church.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a good person. I've led a good life. I've tried to do a lot of good for a lot of people. I'm not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect...but I've never ever done anything like\" either Ford's or Ramirez's accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Children who played on sports teams coached by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, along with his wife Ashley Kavanaugh and daughters, 2nd right to left, Lisa and Margaret Kavanaugh, and parents Everett and Martha Kavanaugh, attend the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-520x292.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children who played on sports teams coached by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, along with his wife Ashley Kavanaugh and daughters, 2nd right to left, Lisa and Margaret Kavanaugh, and parents Everett and Martha Kavanaugh, attend the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 6, 2018.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashley Kavanaugh also said she believed her husband's denials and said the confirmation process had been hard on their family, including their two daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know Brett. I've known him for 17 years and this is not at all who [he is]. It's really hard to believe,\" she said. \"He's decent. He's kind. He's good. I know his heart. This is not consistent with Brett.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is among the Republicans calling for the committee to look into the allegations by Ramirez. Collins says she has not decided if she will support Kavanaugh and she is looking to the upcoming hearing with Ford and the judge before she makes up her mind.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the committee investigators should reach out to Deborah Ramirez in order to question her under oath about what she's alleging,\" Collins said. \"I'm eager for the hearing to take place this Thursday and hear from both Judge Kavanaugh and from Dr. Ford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters Monday that committee lawyers have been in touch with lawyers for Ramirez and they are talking. He would not say if he expects a public hearing on Ramirez's allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump reiterated his support for Kavanaugh again on Monday, telling reporters on his way into the United Nations on Monday morning that Kavanaugh \"is an outstanding person, and I am with him all the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the charges \"could be one of the single most unfair, unjust things to happen for a candidate for anything.\" The women making the allegations, Trump said, \"were coming out of the woodwork\" and, he said, \"in my opinion totally political.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044339078257356801\">in a tweet\u003c/a> to his more than 50 million followers Monday evening Trump touted the Fox News interview and added \"This is an outstanding family who must be treated fairly!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told MacCallum that Trump had called him Monday afternoon to say \"he's standing by me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4936580-Kavanaugh-Letter-To-Grassley-Sept-24\">In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee\u003c/a> released earlier\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Monday, Kavanaugh called the accusations attempts at \"last minute character assassination\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"These are smears, pure and simple. And they debase our public discourse. But they are also a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country. Such grotesque and obvious character assassination—if allowed to succeed—will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The committee also \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4936720-Christine-Blasey-Ford-Letter-To-Grassley-Sept-22\">released a letter from Ford\u003c/a>, dated last Saturday, in which she said coming forward with her charge was \"something that a citizen couldn't NOT do. I felt agony yet urgency and a civic duty to let it be known, in a confidential manner, prior to the nominee being selected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Kavanaugh's actions, while many years ago, were serious and have had a lasting impact on my life. I thought that knowledge of his actions could be useful for you and those in charge of choosing among the various candidates. My original intent was first and foremost to be a helpful citizen – in a confidential way that would minimize collateral damage to all families and friends involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., also accused Democrats of a \"shameful, shameful, smear campaign\" against Kavanaugh and vowed he will receive an up-or-down vote on his nomination on the Senate floor on \"in the near future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee met Monday evening in McConnell's office to discuss the Thursday hearing. Several members said there was clear agreement that the hearing will go forward. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh has denied the allegations leveled against him by both Ford and Ramirez, and in his interview with MacCallum said he has \"never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not questioning, and have not questioned, that perhaps Dr. Ford, at some point in her life, was sexually assaulted by someone in someplace. But what I know is I've never sexually assaulted anyone,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he \"may have met\" Ford — who went to a private girls school while he went to a private Jesuit boys school in suburban Washington, D.C., during the early 1980s — but that \"we did not travel in the same social circles.\" Ford is two years younger than Kavanaugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh also said he was \"never at any such party\" back then like that Ford has described and that \"I have never had any sexual or physical activity with Dr. Ford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said that, yes, there were parties with alcohol that he attended while in high school, but there was never a time where he drank so much he couldn't remember his actions from the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have always treated women with dignity and respect,\" Kavanaugh repeated several times, and said most of his time in high school was spent studying, playing sports or going to church.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a good person. I've led a good life. I've tried to do a lot of good for a lot of people. I'm not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect...but I've never ever done anything like\" either Ford's or Ramirez's accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Children who played on sports teams coached by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, along with his wife Ashley Kavanaugh and daughters, 2nd right to left, Lisa and Margaret Kavanaugh, and parents Everett and Martha Kavanaugh, attend the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85-520x292.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027913356kavcrew_wide-5be39dcb612c2d7b79ec63a29e1d41fb40658fbe-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children who played on sports teams coached by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, along with his wife Ashley Kavanaugh and daughters, 2nd right to left, Lisa and Margaret Kavanaugh, and parents Everett and Martha Kavanaugh, attend the third day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 6, 2018.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashley Kavanaugh also said she believed her husband's denials and said the confirmation process had been hard on their family, including their two daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know Brett. I've known him for 17 years and this is not at all who [he is]. It's really hard to believe,\" she said. \"He's decent. He's kind. He's good. I know his heart. This is not consistent with Brett.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is among the Republicans calling for the committee to look into the allegations by Ramirez. Collins says she has not decided if she will support Kavanaugh and she is looking to the upcoming hearing with Ford and the judge before she makes up her mind.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the committee investigators should reach out to Deborah Ramirez in order to question her under oath about what she's alleging,\" Collins said. \"I'm eager for the hearing to take place this Thursday and hear from both Judge Kavanaugh and from Dr. Ford.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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And they debase our public discourse. But they are also a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country. Such grotesque and obvious character assassination—if allowed to succeed—will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The committee also \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4936720-Christine-Blasey-Ford-Letter-To-Grassley-Sept-22\">released a letter from Ford\u003c/a>, dated last Saturday, in which she said coming forward with her charge was \"something that a citizen couldn't NOT do. I felt agony yet urgency and a civic duty to let it be known, in a confidential manner, prior to the nominee being selected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Kavanaugh's actions, while many years ago, were serious and have had a lasting impact on my life. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Saturday 8:53 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school, rejected an ultimatum given by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley had called for Ford’s attorneys to respond by 10 p.m. ET Friday to a request for her to testify before the panel next week. If they did not reply, Grassley said, the committee would move ahead with a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Ford called the deadline “arbitrary” and asked that Ford be granted an additional day to consider her options. “[The deadline’s] sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford and deprive her of the ability to make a considered decision that has life-altering implications for her and her family,” attorney Debra Katz wrote in an email to the committee’s Republican staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, Grassley tweeted that he had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043344767684366336\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted an extension\u003c/a>, telling Ford he wants to hear her testimony. He directly addressed Kavanaugh in a tweet, too, saying, “I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043348132657025025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043341000989712384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043344767684366336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee has asked Ford to testify about her allegation on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Ford’s lawyers and Senate Democrats have pressed for more time, arguing the hearing should take place next Thursday, among other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of tweets earlier Friday, Trump cast doubt on Ford’s charge, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioning her by name for the first time\u003c/a>: “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!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to Department of Justice statistics, as of 2016 only 23 percent of rapes or sexual assaults were reported to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Mary Louise Kelly, Kirsten Leimroth, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508344/friend-of-christine-blasey-ford-says-she-struggled-months-before-she-came-forwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a close friend of Ford’s\u003c/a>, said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that things like this have happened to and they don’t talk about it. You’re embarrassed and ashamed and you don’t think people will believe you. So I don’t think someone will believe you … I don’t think it’s unusual at all that she didn’t tell anyone back them. She did … tell a therapist several years ago, and I know that was one of the things this summer, she was waiting to get a hold of them to see if they had written it down, because she wanted something to back up that she wasn’t just making up the story right now. And so I know she was glad that the therapist did have notes on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043130170612244481\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In another tweet\u003c/a>, Trump said that “radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. 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Very hard for me to imagine that anything happened,\" President Donald Trump said Wednesday. \"I think it's a very unfair thing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation has shaken up the battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation, and Republicans are calling for a public hearing with both the accuser and the accused testifying. But lawyers for Ford say that she wants an FBI investigation of her allegation before a Judiciary Committee hearing set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers said in a letter that Ford wants to cooperate with the panel. 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Very hard for me to imagine that anything happened,\" President Donald Trump said Wednesday. \"I think it's a very unfair thing what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation has shaken up the battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation, and Republicans are calling for a public hearing with both the accuser and the accused testifying. But lawyers for Ford say that she wants an FBI investigation of her allegation before a Judiciary Committee hearing set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyers said in a letter that Ford wants to cooperate with the panel. But they say that in the days since she went public with her allegation, she has been the target of \"vicious harassment and even death threats.\" Her family has relocated, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser's Request to Delay Hearing for FBI Investigation\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11693387/kavanaugh-accuser-fbi-investigation-would-be-a-first-step-in-addressing-allegation\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-1027754774kav_wide-73b84f0d39412e7aedf8f8f87c1f6bf1ba6c0cfe-1180x664.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An FBI investigation \"should be the first step in addressing the allegations,\" the lawyers wrote Tuesday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh supporters have called Ford's credibility and motivations into question. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Donald Trump has stated that his vision of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/aug/22/fact-check-what-has-president-trump-done-to-fight/\">great\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/18/how-trumps-wall-has-evolved-despite-his-denials-that-it-has/?utm_term=.faf9dc9869b4\">not penetrable\u003c/a>” wall along the border with Mexico would keep “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/25/417586527/univision-cuts-ties-with-trump-after-comments-about-immigrants\">rapists\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-trumps-mixed-signals-on-immigration-north-korea\">murderers\u003c/a>” and other people from breaking into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection report shows new barriers could fail in that job — at least if they’re based on the steel and concrete barriers that were tested in last year’s $5 million Otay Mesa prototype project. The models were meant to inform future wall designs, combining different features of the prototypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavily redacted government documents reveal every mock-up was deemed vulnerable to at least one breaching technique. The report, obtained by KPBS through a Freedom of Information Act request filed in January, shows the final results of tactical teams trying to breach or scale the prototypes and mock-ups of the wall. During testing, the teams who observed the damage caused by one breaching technique decided to postpone it on other mock-ups. The technique’s nature was redacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (redacted) breaching technique was rescheduled to be last breaching technique on each mock-up, since the technique had the potential to impact the structural integrity of the entire mock-up,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p26/a454445\">report\u003c/a> states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineers interviewed by KPBS said these sections of the report show that the mock-ups were at risk of collapsing due to the redacted breaching technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t intended on their part, but when they ran this test, they must have realized it was causing some kind of major damage to the mock-ups,” said Robert K. Dowell, associate professor of structural engineering at San Diego State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. “And they put it at the end because of that. They thought it was going to collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the prototypes, it’s unclear from the document whether they can be scaled. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p121/a454470\">government redacted\u003c/a> almost the entire section on scaling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report provides no evidence that the government tested how well the barriers resist the creation of tunnels beneath them. Resistance to tunneling was among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4895857-SOLICITATION-OFFER-AND-AWARD.html#document/p62/a454626\">project requirements\u003c/a>. Additionally, most of the prototypes failed to show they could be easily modified in response to different border landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a request for comment on the documented flaws of the barriers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ralph DeSio said the prototypes “were not and cannot be designed to be indestructible.” He said they were instead meant to help create barriers that would “impede or deny efforts to scale, breach, or dig under such a barrier, giving agents time to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also added that no single prototype was “the intended end result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump visited San Diego in March, he toured the prototype site as part of his campaign for still-nonexistent funds for his wall, projected to cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/jan/24/one-year-trumps-presidency-border-wall-remains-que/\">upwards of $20 billion\u003c/a>. He said his wall would stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/257492ff75ff43bd9c92e3152ff75d08\">99 percent of smugglers\u003c/a>, including those he described as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/13/trump_illegals_able_to_cross_border_walls_are_like_professional_mountain_climbers.html\">professional mountain climbers\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling of the prototypes generated a lot of buzz. Fox News, Business Insider and the Los Angeles Times quoted unnamed officials who claimed the barriers had withstood attempts to scale and break them. Some of the headlines included these descriptions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/30/trump-s-border-wall-prototypes-virtually-impassable-pass-rigorous-testing.html\">Virtually Impassable\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-prototypes-withstood-breaching-climbing-tests-2018-2\">Nearly impossible to scale\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-border-wall-test-20180119-story.html\">Wall prototypes pass tests\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a breakdown of the actual results.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Breached? A: They Can Be Broken.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The breaching trials on the mock-ups were \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p31/a454454\">conducted\u003c/a> by the Border Patrol Tactical Unit and military special forces including Marine Special Operations Command and the U.S. Special Operations Command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teams had nearly 60 different breaching tools available to them. Thirteen redacted photographs in the “Border Wall Mock-Up and Prototype Test Final Report” are labeled as “breached,” but it’s unclear how many mock-ups those photos correspond to because of the redactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the prototypes were deemed vulnerable to the breaching technique that was rescheduled to be at the end of each test. Whether that technique was actually applied to the mock-ups is not evident in the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Theron Francisco, public affairs officer with the U.S. Border Patrol, stands in front of border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theron Francisco, public affairs officer with the U.S. Border Patrol, stands in front of border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another change of plans came when one of the mock-ups was so damaged by a technique that not all portions of the testing were conducted on that mock-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p26/a454456\">application of that breaching technique\u003c/a>, “the compromised structural integrity of (redacted) caused by the (redacted) led to unsafe conditions resulting in the technique being stopped and the (redacted) portion not executed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mock-ups were replicas of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693488.pdf\">lowest 10 feet\u003c/a> of each prototype. Unlike scaling tests conducted on the 30-foot prototypes in open air beside existing 10-foot rusting steel fencing, the breaching tests were done on mock-ups of the prototypes November through December in a location described in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p24/a454613\">document\u003c/a> as “Pogo Row,” a dirt road north of the prototypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dirt road is lined on the south by Brown Field Municipal Airport and on the north by stretches of wrecked and dismembered vehicles stacked by auto parts vendors. At the east end of the road, U.S. Customs and Border Protection support facilities lie behind a chain-link fence featuring “No Trespassing” signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tactical teams tested the mock-ups for how well they met the Department of Homeland Security specification in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=151d4eaab6927f4e2d6d396d084c23f1&tab=core&_cview=1\">requests for proposals\u003c/a> to prevent “a physical breach … larger than 12-inches in diameter or square.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During testing late last year, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman told KPBS breaching trials were hidden from public view to keep smugglers from gleaning information about how to break the barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowell of San Diego State University’s engineering department said it was strange that the breaching tests were conducted on mock-ups a third the size of the prototypes. He said that the taller a structure, the more likely it is to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The results at the base, what we call the bending moment and overturning moment at the bottom or footing, would be different… unless they accounted for that by applying different loads,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaching is a widespread problem along existing border infrastructure. The 653 miles of barriers on the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border are marred with cuts and patches. New breaches appear on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf\">daily basis\u003c/a>, with smugglers using axes, torches, battery operated cutting tools and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2017 Government Accountability Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf\">analysis of Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a> data estimates that “illegal entrants breached legacy pedestrian fencing at an average rate of 82 breaches per fence mile, compared to an average of 14 breaches per fence mile of modern pedestrian fencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"Border wall prototypes displayed in Otay Mesa near the existing border fence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-960x678.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border wall prototypes displayed in Otay Mesa near the existing border fence. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said that in five years, existing fencing was breached more than 9,000 times, and two decades of maintenance costs more than $1 billion, due in part to breach repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the tools and all of the breaching techniques are redacted in the report, the document does reveal the use of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p84/a454464\">plasma cutter \u003c/a>and a quick saw. One redacted photograph under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p88/a454467\">quick saw\u003c/a> section is labeled as “breached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Tunneled Under? A: Unknown.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The prototypes were supposed to prevent digging or tunneling for a minimum of 6 feet below the lowest adjacent grade, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=151d4eaab6927f4e2d6d396d084c23f1&tab=core&_cview=1\">government specifications\u003c/a> for construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the final report doesn’t show that the mock-ups were tested for this requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous investigative series, America’s Wall, KPBS and inewsource found border fence construction is correlated with illegal cross-border tunneling. These tunnels, used for drug and human smuggling, tend to concentrate in areas with strong and layered fencing. In San Diego, which has one of the most fortified borders with Mexico, more than 60 tunnels have been found since fencing construction began. One was 90 feet underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573091/u-s-mexico-drug-tunnels-evolving-amid-increased-border-security\">U.S.-Mexico Drug Tunnels Evolving Amid Increased Border Security\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573091/u-s-mexico-drug-tunnels-evolving-amid-increased-border-security\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GalvezTunnel-1180x650.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As tunnels become increasingly plentiful and sophisticated — with lighting, rail and ventilation systems — government methods to detect them remain rudimentary,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/jun/21/us-mexico-drug-tunnels-change-amid-increased-borde/\"> according to Border Patrol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Scaled? A: Some Can.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The prototypes were tested for how well they resisted climbing. That section of the report was too redacted to draw conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on Trump’s comments when he visited the prototypes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/03/13/san-diego-trump-wall-see-through-mountain-climbers.cnn\">“some” of the barriers\u003c/a> can be scaled. “Those are the ones we’re not using,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p126/a454482\">reference\u003c/a> is made to a “two by four wooden board” that was tied to a rope and thrown over the top of one of the prototypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p128/a454483\">report says data\u003c/a> was collected about “the start time of the scale attempt, the ‘scale time’ when scaler reaches the top of the prototype or a note that the scaler could not reach the top.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempts were also photographed and filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Are The Barriers Adaptable? A: Not Entirely.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The effectiveness of border barriers \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-614\">depends in part\u003c/a> on the landscape. Whether the ground is mountainous, flat, coastal, sandy, rocky or thick with desert shrub, it impacts the functionality and constructability of the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the testing results, the prototypes didn’t meet all of the construction and engineering-related requirements intended to ensure their compatibility with variegated border terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five out of eight of the prototypes failed to meet the government specification to “facilitate changes in color and textures” amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p174/a454485\">changing landscapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six out of eight of the prototype designs “require \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p182/a454486\">significant deviation\u003c/a> from the submitted design, resulting in variance in appearance and function,” to meet Border Patrol’s design standards for sliding gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the Government Accountability Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-614\">published a report\u003c/a> indicating that border barrier construction could end up being costlier than necessary because Customs and Border Protection has failed to account for “costs associated with deploying barriers in each location or segment, which can vary depending on topography, land ownership, and other factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report singled out the prototype project, saying their construction was initiated without “key information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Are The Barriers Attractive? A: Yes, To Some.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p166/a454488\">report\u003c/a> analyzed how well the prototypes pleased the eyes of 76 participants, mostly engineers and people in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p165/a454494\">requirements\u003c/a> in the requests for proposals was that the “north side of wall (i.e. US facing side) shall be \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=151d4eaab6927f4e2d6d396d084c23f1&tab=core&_cview=1\">aesthetically pleasing.\u003c/a>” Participants were shown digital pictures of the prototypes to assess “shape, color, and texture, in a way that appeals to the senses and/or emotions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p169/a454497\">report\u003c/a>, the “texture” of each prototype was the most important feature in determining its attractiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some agreement among participants about which was the best-looking, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p170/a454498\">report redacted its name\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prototypes \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/07/here-are-the-winners-of-trumps-other-kind-of-border-wall-design-contest/?utm_term=.78f3da9e2e4d\">were built by\u003c/a> Caddell Construction, KWR Construction, ELTA North America, W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company, Fisher Sand & Gravel, and Texas Sterling Construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was completed on February 23, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t intended on their part, but when they ran this test, they must have realized it was causing some kind of major damage to the mock-ups,” said Robert K. Dowell, associate professor of structural engineering at San Diego State University’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. “And they put it at the end because of that. They thought it was going to collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the prototypes, it’s unclear from the document whether they can be scaled. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p121/a454470\">government redacted\u003c/a> almost the entire section on scaling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report provides no evidence that the government tested how well the barriers resist the creation of tunnels beneath them. Resistance to tunneling was among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4895857-SOLICITATION-OFFER-AND-AWARD.html#document/p62/a454626\">project requirements\u003c/a>. Additionally, most of the prototypes failed to show they could be easily modified in response to different border landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a request for comment on the documented flaws of the barriers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ralph DeSio said the prototypes “were not and cannot be designed to be indestructible.” He said they were instead meant to help create barriers that would “impede or deny efforts to scale, breach, or dig under such a barrier, giving agents time to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also added that no single prototype was “the intended end result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump visited San Diego in March, he toured the prototype site as part of his campaign for still-nonexistent funds for his wall, projected to cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/jan/24/one-year-trumps-presidency-border-wall-remains-que/\">upwards of $20 billion\u003c/a>. He said his wall would stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/257492ff75ff43bd9c92e3152ff75d08\">99 percent of smugglers\u003c/a>, including those he described as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/13/trump_illegals_able_to_cross_border_walls_are_like_professional_mountain_climbers.html\">professional mountain climbers\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling of the prototypes generated a lot of buzz. Fox News, Business Insider and the Los Angeles Times quoted unnamed officials who claimed the barriers had withstood attempts to scale and break them. Some of the headlines included these descriptions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/30/trump-s-border-wall-prototypes-virtually-impassable-pass-rigorous-testing.html\">Virtually Impassable\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-prototypes-withstood-breaching-climbing-tests-2018-2\">Nearly impossible to scale\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>– “\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-border-wall-test-20180119-story.html\">Wall prototypes pass tests\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a breakdown of the actual results.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Breached? A: They Can Be Broken.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The breaching trials on the mock-ups were \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p31/a454454\">conducted\u003c/a> by the Border Patrol Tactical Unit and military special forces including Marine Special Operations Command and the U.S. Special Operations Command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teams had nearly 60 different breaching tools available to them. Thirteen redacted photographs in the “Border Wall Mock-Up and Prototype Test Final Report” are labeled as “breached,” but it’s unclear how many mock-ups those photos correspond to because of the redactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the prototypes were deemed vulnerable to the breaching technique that was rescheduled to be at the end of each test. Whether that technique was actually applied to the mock-ups is not evident in the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Theron Francisco, public affairs officer with the U.S. Border Patrol, stands in front of border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Prototypes-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theron Francisco, public affairs officer with the U.S. Border Patrol, stands in front of border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another change of plans came when one of the mock-ups was so damaged by a technique that not all portions of the testing were conducted on that mock-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p26/a454456\">application of that breaching technique\u003c/a>, “the compromised structural integrity of (redacted) caused by the (redacted) led to unsafe conditions resulting in the technique being stopped and the (redacted) portion not executed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mock-ups were replicas of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693488.pdf\">lowest 10 feet\u003c/a> of each prototype. Unlike scaling tests conducted on the 30-foot prototypes in open air beside existing 10-foot rusting steel fencing, the breaching tests were done on mock-ups of the prototypes November through December in a location described in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p24/a454613\">document\u003c/a> as “Pogo Row,” a dirt road north of the prototypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dirt road is lined on the south by Brown Field Municipal Airport and on the north by stretches of wrecked and dismembered vehicles stacked by auto parts vendors. At the east end of the road, U.S. Customs and Border Protection support facilities lie behind a chain-link fence featuring “No Trespassing” signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tactical teams tested the mock-ups for how well they met the Department of Homeland Security specification in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=151d4eaab6927f4e2d6d396d084c23f1&tab=core&_cview=1\">requests for proposals\u003c/a> to prevent “a physical breach … larger than 12-inches in diameter or square.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During testing late last year, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman told KPBS breaching trials were hidden from public view to keep smugglers from gleaning information about how to break the barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowell of San Diego State University’s engineering department said it was strange that the breaching tests were conducted on mock-ups a third the size of the prototypes. He said that the taller a structure, the more likely it is to fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The results at the base, what we call the bending moment and overturning moment at the bottom or footing, would be different… unless they accounted for that by applying different loads,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaching is a widespread problem along existing border infrastructure. The 653 miles of barriers on the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border are marred with cuts and patches. New breaches appear on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf\">daily basis\u003c/a>, with smugglers using axes, torches, battery operated cutting tools and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2017 Government Accountability Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf\">analysis of Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a> data estimates that “illegal entrants breached legacy pedestrian fencing at an average rate of 82 breaches per fence mile, compared to an average of 14 breaches per fence mile of modern pedestrian fencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"Border wall prototypes displayed in Otay Mesa near the existing border fence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-960x678.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/WallPrototypes-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border wall prototypes displayed in Otay Mesa near the existing border fence. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said that in five years, existing fencing was breached more than 9,000 times, and two decades of maintenance costs more than $1 billion, due in part to breach repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the tools and all of the breaching techniques are redacted in the report, the document does reveal the use of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p84/a454464\">plasma cutter \u003c/a>and a quick saw. One redacted photograph under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p88/a454467\">quick saw\u003c/a> section is labeled as “breached.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Tunneled Under? A: Unknown.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The prototypes were supposed to prevent digging or tunneling for a minimum of 6 feet below the lowest adjacent grade, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=151d4eaab6927f4e2d6d396d084c23f1&tab=core&_cview=1\">government specifications\u003c/a> for construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the final report doesn’t show that the mock-ups were tested for this requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous investigative series, America’s Wall, KPBS and inewsource found border fence construction is correlated with illegal cross-border tunneling. These tunnels, used for drug and human smuggling, tend to concentrate in areas with strong and layered fencing. In San Diego, which has one of the most fortified borders with Mexico, more than 60 tunnels have been found since fencing construction began. One was 90 feet underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573091/u-s-mexico-drug-tunnels-evolving-amid-increased-border-security\">U.S.-Mexico Drug Tunnels Evolving Amid Increased Border Security\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573091/u-s-mexico-drug-tunnels-evolving-amid-increased-border-security\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GalvezTunnel-1180x650.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As tunnels become increasingly plentiful and sophisticated — with lighting, rail and ventilation systems — government methods to detect them remain rudimentary,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/jun/21/us-mexico-drug-tunnels-change-amid-increased-borde/\"> according to Border Patrol\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Can The Barriers Be Scaled? A: Some Can.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The prototypes were tested for how well they resisted climbing. That section of the report was too redacted to draw conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on Trump’s comments when he visited the prototypes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/03/13/san-diego-trump-wall-see-through-mountain-climbers.cnn\">“some” of the barriers\u003c/a> can be scaled. “Those are the ones we’re not using,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p126/a454482\">reference\u003c/a> is made to a “two by four wooden board” that was tied to a rope and thrown over the top of one of the prototypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p128/a454483\">report says data\u003c/a> was collected about “the start time of the scale attempt, the ‘scale time’ when scaler reaches the top of the prototype or a note that the scaler could not reach the top.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attempts were also photographed and filmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Are The Barriers Adaptable? 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Whether the ground is mountainous, flat, coastal, sandy, rocky or thick with desert shrub, it impacts the functionality and constructability of the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the testing results, the prototypes didn’t meet all of the construction and engineering-related requirements intended to ensure their compatibility with variegated border terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five out of eight of the prototypes failed to meet the government specification to “facilitate changes in color and textures” amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p174/a454485\">changing landscapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six out of eight of the prototype designs “require \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4891728-Border-Wall-Mock-Up-and-Prototype-Test-Final.html#document/p182/a454486\">significant deviation\u003c/a> from the submitted design, resulting in variance in appearance and function,” to meet Border Patrol’s design standards for sliding gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the Government Accountability Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-614\">published a report\u003c/a> indicating that border barrier construction could end up being costlier than necessary because Customs and Border Protection has failed to account for “costs associated with deploying barriers in each location or segment, which can vary depending on topography, land ownership, and other factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report singled out the prototype project, saying their construction was initiated without “key information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q: Are The Barriers Attractive? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate Judiciary Committee will move forward with a hearing scheduled for Monday on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, despite a request for further investigation from his accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows the release of a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley from attorneys representing Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assaulting her more than three decades ago when they were teenagers. In the letter, Ford's attorneys said an FBI investigation should be \"the first step in addressing her allegations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys argue that an investigation is necessary so that \"the Committee is fully informed before conducting any hearing or making any decisions.\" Ford's attorneys also say that since she went public with her allegations, \"she has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats.\" They also complained that the committee scheduled Ford to \"testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen U.S. Senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley declined Tuesday night to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The invitation for Monday still stands,\" Grassley said in a statement. \"Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee, so there is no reason for any further delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's decision echoed the sentiment of Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:26 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault more than three decades ago, Christine Blasey Ford, will both testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, Sept. 24. The committee was supposed to vote on the nomination this Thursday, but faced pressure after Ford went public with her allegation over the weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford and Kavanaugh had both agreed to testify under oath before the committee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh looks forward to a hearing where he can clear his name of this false allegation. He stands ready to testify tomorrow if the Senate is ready to hear him,\" White House spokesman Raj Shah said in a statement on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Her recollection of these events is crystal clear,\" Ford's attorney Lisa Banks told \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648670994/sexual-assault-allegation-could-derail-kavanaugh-s-supreme-court-bid\">Morning Edition\u003c/a>. \"She will agree to participate in any proceedings that she's asked to participate in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was scheduled to speak by phone with Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday. Democrats on the panel refused to participate, arguing that the FBI should investigate the allegations stemming from an incident Ford says happened at a party in the early 1980s when they were both students in high school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault accusation, made privately in July, took on new weight over the weekend when Ford went on the record with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_kavanaughwoman-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.9ecb946a4dbf\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described a high school party in the early 1980s at which a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, attempted to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth as she tried to scream. She said she escaped after Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, jumped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh, who was at the White House on Monday, continues to vehemently denied Ford's account. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a completely false allegation,\" he said in a statement issued through the White House on Monday morning. \"I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had issued a similar statement on Friday, before the identity of his accuser was made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump defended his nominee, noting that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI on half a dozen occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh is one of the finest people that I've ever known\" Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. \"Never had even a little blemish on his record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump expressed regret that the allegation against Kavanaugh had surfaced so late in the process, but said he wants the Senate to satisfy any lingering questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. It shouldn't certainly be very much,\" Trump said. \"I'd like everybody to be very happy. Most importantly I want the American people to be happy, because they're getting somebody that is great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president stood behind his nominee, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also took pains to display concern for Kavanaugh's accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored,\" Conway \u003ca href=\"http://video.foxnews.com/v/5835806063001/#sp=show-clips\">told Fox News\u003c/a>. \"This woman will be heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Judiciary committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday that Ford \"deserves to be heard,\" but complained that Democrats failed to share information about the allegations when Ford sent a letter to the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">Rep. Eshoo: Kavanaugh Accuser's Decision to Go Public a 'Tremendous Act of Courage'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692960/rep-eshoo-kavanaugh-accusers-decision-to-go-public-a-tremendous-act-of-courage\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-1027782116-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether phone interviews would be sufficient to address questions of some of Grassley's GOP colleagues. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1041719261142679553\">tweeted Monday\u003c/a> that Kavanaugh and Ford \"should both testify under oath before the Judiciary Committee.\" As one of only a handful of GOP women in the Senate and a key undecided vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, Collins' views may carry outsized weight with Grassley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the judiciary committee, joined Democrats in saying the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination may have to be postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further,\" Flake told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-say-kavanaugh-letter-wont-hold-up-confirmation-process/2018/09/16/cbee4b4c-b9b9-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?utm_term=.b5694fa9f18f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Monday Feinstein pressed for a hearing before any committee action on the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Sen. Flake that we should delay this week's vote,\" Feinstein said. \"There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was scheduled to speak by phone with Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday. Democrats on the panel refused to participate, arguing that the FBI should investigate the allegations stemming from an incident Ford says happened at a party in the early 1980s when they were both students in high school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assault accusation, made privately in July, took on new weight over the weekend when Ford went on the record with \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_kavanaughwoman-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.9ecb946a4dbf\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described a high school party in the early 1980s at which a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, attempted to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth as she tried to scream. She said she escaped after Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, jumped on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh, who was at the White House on Monday, continues to vehemently denied Ford's account. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a completely false allegation,\" he said in a statement issued through the White House on Monday morning. \"I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had issued a similar statement on Friday, before the identity of his accuser was made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump defended his nominee, noting that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI on half a dozen occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Judge Kavanaugh is one of the finest people that I've ever known\" Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. \"Never had even a little blemish on his record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump expressed regret that the allegation against Kavanaugh had surfaced so late in the process, but said he wants the Senate to satisfy any lingering questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. It shouldn't certainly be very much,\" Trump said. \"I'd like everybody to be very happy. Most importantly I want the American people to be happy, because they're getting somebody that is great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president stood behind his nominee, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also took pains to display concern for Kavanaugh's accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This woman should not be insulted and she should not be ignored,\" Conway \u003ca href=\"http://video.foxnews.com/v/5835806063001/#sp=show-clips\">told Fox News\u003c/a>. \"This woman will be heard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Judiciary committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday that Ford \"deserves to be heard,\" but complained that Democrats failed to share information about the allegations when Ford sent a letter to the committee's top Democrat, Sen. 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Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who sits on the judiciary committee, joined Democrats in saying the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination may have to be postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further,\" Flake told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-say-kavanaugh-letter-wont-hold-up-confirmation-process/2018/09/16/cbee4b4c-b9b9-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?utm_term=.b5694fa9f18f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>. \"For me, we can't vote until we hear more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Monday Feinstein pressed for a hearing before any committee action on the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree with Sen. Flake that we should delay this week's vote,\" Feinstein said. \"There's a lot of information we don't know and the FBI should have the time it needs to investigate this new material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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She was weighing her desire and her belief that she had a civic duty to provide this information to those making the decision about Brett Kavanaugh with, frankly, her fear about coming forward, and there was going to be great personal risk to her and her family in doing so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"515\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vGW0oEiLpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh weathered another long day of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was pressed once again for his views on presidential power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sought a promise from Kavanaugh that he would be willing to serve as a check on the president who nominated him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us some reassurance about your commitment to the democratic institutions in this country, in the face of a president who seems prepared to cast them aside,\" Durbin said. \"Whether it's voter suppression, the role of the media — case after case, we hear this president willing to walk away from the rule of law in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"I've made clear in my writings that a court order that requires a president to do something or prohibits a president from doing something under the Constitution or laws of the United States is the final word in our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. They also complain that classification decisions were made by former President Bush's attorney, William Burck, a former deputy of Kavanaugh's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. 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John Cornyn, R-Texas, who called them \"irresponsible and outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is no different from the senator deciding to release classified information,\" Cornyn said Thursday morning. \"No senator deserves to sit on this committee, or serve in the Senate, in my view, if they decide to be a law unto themselves and willingly flout the rules of the Senate and the determination of confidentiality and classification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834231-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Hirono\">the documents released by Sen. Hirono here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834307-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Leahy\">the documents released by Sen. Leahy here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the theatrics on both sides, the debate over documents fizzled by Thursday afternoon, once it became clear their release had been authorized by Bush's attorney overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker's staff asked us to,\" Burck said in a statement. \"In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an aide to Grassley told NPR that \"counsels for the senators who requested waivers last night/this morning for particular documents were notified that their requests had been honored beginning at around 3:50 this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokesperson for Hirono said the senator was not informed that the documents released by her office Thursday morning had been approved to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear whether Booker knew the documents he released had already been approved before his statements Thursday morning at the beginning of the hearing — when he said that his decision to release the documents was a form of civil disobedience and that he was aware he was risking expulsion from the Senate for making the documents public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory said this morning that he was releasing committee confidential documents, and that's exactly what he's done,\" Booker spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said in an email to NPR. \"Last night, he was admonished by Republicans for breaking the rules when he read from committee confidential documents. Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. Others in the White House suggested racial profiling might be legally justified if it enhanced security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addressed a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had sidestepped questions from Booker on Wednesday night about the circumstances in which government can and cannot use race-conscious measures to address past discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that hopes he expressed nearly two decades ago for a color-blind society have not been fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see on an all-too-common basis that racism still exists in the United States of America,\" Kavanaugh said. \"Our long march to racial equality is not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times\u003c/a> reported on leaked emails from the \"confidential\" file. One is an email drafted by Kavanaugh in 2003, in which he questioned whether the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. 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Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. 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Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. 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One is an email drafted by Kavanaugh in 2003, in which he questioned whether the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. 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