Jane Mayer is the award-winning journalist who, with Ronan Farrow (also an award-winning journalist) broke Sunday night’s story of a second accuser. Deborah Ramirez, now 53, alleges, among other charges, that as a Yale freshman Brett Kavanaugh shoved his penis into her face and “caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away,” the story in The New Yorker reveals.

Monday morning, Mayer added background supporting her reporting.

“We found classmates had been talking about this for weeks and months since July,” she told CBS News, speaking about the allegation Kavanaugh had shoved his genitals into the woman’s face.

“There’d been an email chain of Yale classmates of Kavanaugh talking about ‘Will this thing come out?’ long before Christine Blasey Ford came forward,” Mayer added.

She also reports she spoke with another woman, also a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh, who does not know, Deborah Ramirez, the accuser. This unnamed woman “remembers hearing about it that night or the next day,” and told Mayer about the incident. Their stories were “identical,” Mayer reports.

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“We found classmates had been talking about this for weeks and months since July. There’d been an email chain of Yale classmates of Kavanaugh talking about will this thing come out? long before Christine Blasey Ford came forward” says @JaneMayerNYer pic.twitter.com/SkPdQRBv1r — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) September 24, 2018

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