A Mother Talks to Her Sons About Brett Kavanaugh

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, “The Daily” is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened since the stories first ran. In October, we sat down with a group of teenage girls in Brooklyn to talk about their reaction to the accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. After that conversation aired, we received dozens of emails from listeners who wanted to hear the same questions posed to a group of boys. Guests: Ann Powers, a listener in Oregon, interviewed her two sons and one of their friends. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.7	This is a daily.
0:40.4	This week, the daily is revisiting our favorite episodes of the year, listening back, and then
0:45.7	hearing what's happened in the time since the first round.
0:49.2	Today, a new episode, inspired by one of those shows, about one of the biggest stories
0:55.2	of the year, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
1:00.2	At the center of that process was the accusation from Dr. Christine Blasiford that Kavanaugh
1:06.0	had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school, and accusation he denied.
1:11.7	They're closely watched testimony, fueled a national debate about who is believed and
1:17.4	who is blamed.
1:20.2	In October, I sat down with a group of teenage girls in Brooklyn to discuss their reaction
1:37.4	to his confirmation hearing.
1:39.3	You know, I have friends that have had something like this happen to them or worse, and they've
1:44.2	only gone to me and a select group of people about it.
1:47.8	Because of the fear that nobody is going to believe them, that their parents are going
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