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"I do not believe Brett Kavanaugh was his assailant," said Maine Republican Dana Bash of CNN on "The State of the Union" in an interview published Sunday. "I think she was assaulted, I do not know who, I do not know when."
Ford accused Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her while she was in high school, causing a delay of one week in Kavanaugh's confirmation authorizing the FBI to conduct an investigation into the alleged incident. . Kavanaugh denied all the allegations.
Collins told Bash that, although she found Ford's testimony "heartbreaking", the fact that Ford and Kavanaugh claimed to be "100% sure" of their statement meant that she had to turn to to the FBI for further corroborating evidence.
"I found Dr. Ford's testimony heartbreaking, painful, convincing and I believe that she believes what she said," Collins said. "But we also had a case where Judge Kavanaugh came forward and said," I'm 100% sure that it did not happen ", so you have two people who are all at 100% some of what they say under pain of It was therefore necessary that I look at the other pieces of evidence to find corroborating evidence, and that is why I insisted that the FBI do a further investigation on antecedents. "
In the White House on Sunday, Trump praised Collins' hard work and his "passionate" speech Friday in the Senate, announcing how she would vote.
"I thought Susan was amazing yesterday, you could see how hard she worked, how hard she worked, and she did not stop," Trump said. "And I know it because I talked to her, she did not stop, she gave a wonderful and passionate speech yesterday, and it came from the heart, it was from the heart."
"I have a lot of respect for Susan Collins and I have always done it," he added.
Liz Stark from CNN contributed to this report.
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