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Lee Zell your congressional reporter here at Vox just a few weeks ago you're in here reporting on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings

And now there's this whole new element to Kavanaugh's confirmation and it starts with a letter

There's a bombshell that's been dropped on the confirmation

Basically sexual assault allegations that have been brought against Kavanaugh by a woman who knew him in high school

And those allegations first came in the form of a letter that was sent to congresswoman Anna S.U. and Senator Diane

Finesign and now this letter has been released. We know it was written by a professor named Christine Blasey Ford

Right people have the letter a source read it to CNN

So no copies have been shared with the public that have been reported at least

But somebody has

Disclose the contents in more detail and I actually have it in front of me if

You'd like me to read it. Yeah, okay dear senator Finesign

I am writing with information relevant in evaluating the current nominee to the Supreme Court as a constituent

I expect that you will maintain this as confidential until we have further opportunity to speak

Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually assaulted me during high school in the early 1980s

He conducted these acts with the assistance of redacted

Both were one to two years older than me and students at a local private school

The assault occurred in a suburban Maryland area home at a gathering that included me and four others

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