Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, September 28th. In today's news, with Rod

Rosenstein holding on House Republicans vote to

subpoena Russia investigation records. A terrifying new report finds that

widely used voter machines are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

And the EPA eliminates the office that advises the agency chief

on scientific research.

But first, the big idea. The decision by Senate Republicans to vote this morning to

advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination validates Christine Blasy Ford's

hesitation to publicly accuse him of sexual assault.

After she reached out to a Washington Post tip line, her representatives in Congress,

and her friends, the Palo Alto University professor decided in August that she wanted to stay anonymous for two main reasons.

First, she believed her life would be upended if she shared her imperfect memories of what happened at a house party in

1982 and second she worried Kavanaugh would ultimately get confirmed to the

Supreme Court anyway. But then other reporters who had heard her name through the grapevine started showing up at her classroom and her home.

They reached out to colleagues about her.

So Ford reluctantly decided to go on the record so that she could tell her story on her terms.

Here's a part of her testimony from yesterday.

I am here today not because I want to be.

I am terrified.

I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me

while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school. Ford's first fear has undoubtedly

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