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SCIUTTO: Here with us to discuss is Democratic senator from New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen. She's a member of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee.

Senator Shaheen, thanks very much for taking the time this morning.

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D), NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good morning.

SCIUTTO: So let me ask you this. You of course is a member --

SHAHEEN: Good morning.

SCIUTTO: Good morning. You, of course, as a member of the Senate, you're going to have a vote as soon as next week on this Supreme Court nomination. Senator Grassley has set this 10:00 deadline tomorrow for Ford to respond to requests to testify, either in public or in private, by Monday. Is that a fair deadline?

SHAHEEN: Well, I hope Christine Ford does come and testify. I think it's important for the public to hear her story. I understand why she's reluctant to do that because she's already been the subject of death threats and sadly we see that this is an example of why sexual assault is so hard to get our arms around because the victims are blamed often, and they're not believed, and that's why they're reluctant to come forward.

This is an artificial timeline that has been set by Senator Grassley but it's an indication that the fix has been in --

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