From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

More than 20 million people watched last week's testimony by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blazy Ford, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault

that allegedly occurred 36 years ago. CBS News says that's about as many people who watch a

playoff football game or the Academy Awards.

There were moments that were hard to watch, and others that were so gripping, you couldn't

look away. 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.

What is the strongest memory you have?

Strongest memory of the incident,

something that you cannot forget.

Take whatever time you need.

Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two,

and they're having fun at my expense. This onslaught of last minute allegations does not ring true.

I'm not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time.

But I have never done this.

To her or to anyone,

that's not who I am.

It is not who I was.

I am innocent of this charge.

I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford and her family.

The other night, Ashley and my daughter, Liza, said their prayers.

And little Liza, all of 10 years old,

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