details of the allegations emerged when christine blasey ford told her story to us media last week of an incident, which she says happened at a party in 1982 when they were teenagers. mr kavanaugh has denied the allegations. our washington correspondent chris buckler has more. the senatejudiciary committee had set a series of deadlines to try to get a firm answer from christine blasey ford about whether or not she was prepared to give evidence. now, we have had a letter from her lawyer to the committee and in it she says specifically that she is prepared to provide what she describes as first—hand knowledge of brett kavanaugh's sexual misconduct. now, judge kavanaugh denies any suggestion that he was involved in sexually assaulting her some 36 years ago at a party. but she continues to make these claims and she will now do so, it seems, at this hearing. that's provided a number of terms and conditions are met. she's understood to be concerned, first of all, that brett kava naugh