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The Byron York Show

E26. Mollie Hemingway On The War Over Kavanaugh

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Nobody knows more about the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight than Mollie Hemingway, co-author of "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court." Now, a new book by two New York Times reporters tries to throw more dirt at Kavanaugh — and Hemingway has taken the lead in debunking its new, […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York show.

0:16.5

If you've listened you know this is the No Chit Chat podcast.

0:20.3

We'd like to get right into it and we're getting it right into it today with our guest Molly Hemingway of the Federalist and Fox News and perhaps most important the co-author of the new bestseller Justice on Trial the Kavanaugh confirmation and the future of the new bestseller, Justice on Trial, the Kavanaugh confirmation, and the future of the Supreme Court.

0:35.9

Molly, thank you for joining us.

0:37.3

It's great to be here.

0:38.3

I love this podcast.

0:39.3

She is here. So many people have said, please have Molly Hemingway on your podcast.

0:44.0

So obviously in your book, your book with Carrie Severino,

0:50.0

you were extremely well sourced on the whole Kavanaugh fight, but mostly on the

0:57.6

Kavanaugh side with the candidate, with the nominee, with the people in the Senate with the activist groups with just

1:05.3

everybody who was involved in it's the White House and you knew the whole time

1:11.7

you guys were writing that there were these two New York Times reporters who were working on their own book, right?

1:19.0

Yes.

1:20.0

And did you ever have a sense of trotting the same ground?

1:26.2

You guys obviously won by months, you know, you won the publication contest.

1:32.3

But did you ever have a sense that somebody else was kind of

1:34.9

treading on this ground? There are three books that are being written or have been written by

1:40.9

anti-Cavanagh journalists, by which I mean they were participants in the

1:45.4

anti-Cavanagh battle when it was going on, albeit from their perspective as

1:51.2

either opinion, journalists or otherwise otherwise and this is just one

1:54.8

straight news they would say well what we used to call straight news they this is one of them

2:00.1

the one that just came out is by these two New York Times reporters.

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