Brett Kavanaugh’s Change of Heart

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🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has been nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, once made the case for impeaching a president. He now says that was a mistake. Guest: Mark Landler, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, who examines why Judge Kavanaugh’s views have shifted. 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.
0:32.8	This is The Daily.
0:36.0	Today, President Trump's choice for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, once made the case
0:46.7	for impeaching a president.
0:49.2	Why he now thinks that was a mistake.
0:55.0	It's Wednesday, July 11th.
1:04.2	It was the early 1990s, and Brett Kavanaugh was a young, freshly minted graduate of Yale
1:09.5	Law School.
1:10.8	Mark Landler covers the White House for the times.
1:13.5	He grown up in the Washington area.
1:15.8	Right after law school, he got a couple of very prestigious clerkships with federal
1:19.8	appeals court judges.
1:21.6	And then he found his way to the office of the Solicitor General.
1:26.0	This was during the George H.W. Bush administration.
1:29.8	The Solicitor General who hired him was a lawyer named Ken Star.
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