Report: FBI interviews Deborah Ramirez, second Kavanaugh accuser

Deborah Ramirez spoke with the FBI on Sunday as part of the investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Ramirez told The New Yorker last week that during a party at Yale their freshman year, Kavanaugh exposed himself to her. CNN reports Ramirez gave the FBI the names of witnesses to the alleged encounter, but it's unclear if agents will speak to those people or if the scope of the investigation allows this.

An attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who testified Thursday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, said she has not been contacted by the FBI. People with knowledge of the matter told CNN that just four people are expected to be interviewed by the FBI: Ramirez, Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth, and Leland Keyser. Ford said Judge was in the room during the alleged sexual assault, and that Smyth and Keyser were both at the party. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations.

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