Confirmation screamings

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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings for the United States Supreme Court began today. Slate's Dahlia Lithwick say they were unlike any she'd seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sarah Cliff, you have been on maternity leave from Vox,
0:03.5	where you usually report.
0:05.5	Yes.
0:06.4	And you are holding a baby named Max.
0:09.3	Yes, this is my baby.
0:10.5	But we're weird if it was someone else's.
0:12.7	It's so weird.
0:13.7	But we're not here to talk about babies.
0:14.7	We're here to talk about quip electric toothbrush.
0:16.7	Yeah, babies don't know teeth.
0:18.2	But I have a quip electric toothbrush.
0:19.9	You got to get quip.com slash explained.
0:21.7	I did.
0:22.4	Perfect.
0:30.5	So, Dialithwick, you report on the Supreme Court for Slate.
0:33.6	You host the Amicus podcast.
0:35.2	We were all watching, following along today.
0:37.5	And I kept seeing people who report on Supreme Court saying,
0:40.6	they'd never seen anything like this before.
0:42.6	The Kavanaugh hearings today, the opening of the Kavanaugh hearings.
0:45.6	Did you feel the same way?
0:47.0	Yeah, we actually at Slate had an under-over
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