The entire nation watched riveted as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett

Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

We discuss our reactions and share our conversation with Missouri State Representative Crystal Quaid.

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right. You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Hello everybody. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

We spent the day immersed as much of the nation did in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings,

which we are going to talk about. And following that, we're going to leave you with something

more inspiring. We have a conversation to share with Crystal Quaid, a state representative in

Missouri who is really, really intelligent and thoughtful, especially about poverty issues.

And so we will leave you with something inspiring. But first, we will process the events of

the Kavanaugh hearing. Because I got nothing inspiring to say about that. I feel incredibly,

emotionally fragile and exhausted. How about you? I've been all over the place today a little bit.

I started the day with what I would describe as a steely resolve. And I was just trying to really

listen and pay attention and tweet. I was live tweeting and I wanted to really develop for myself

as much as anyone else, kind of an accurate record of what occurred. And then I had to switch to

listening in my car for a bit. And when I think it was Senator Blumenthal said, I believe you,

that kind of broke me. And so then I was kind of a mess for a while. And I feel like I got it

back together. Then I got super angry and yelled at John Cornin in my living room. And that's where I've

been a little bit since then. I started crying the second she opened her mouth, something about hearing

her voice. And you could hear, see, I'm already crying. Y'all just get the claim next. It's going to be

a long ride. I could hear her trauma. I could hear her nerves. I could just hear her not wanting to

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