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Ep. 290: How the Kavanaugh Hearings Are Going

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Wednesday was Day 2 of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. Senators probed him on a range of hot-button issues, including Roe vs. Wade. Heritage legal fellow Elizabeth Slattery joins us to discuss how the hearing is going. Plus: The woman sitting behind Kavanaugh gets accused of white supremacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, September 6th. I'm Kate Trinko.

0:10.0

And I'm Daniel Davis. Wednesday was day two of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court.

0:16.0

Senators probed him on a range of hot button issues, not least of which was Roe versus Wade.

0:22.0

We'll sit down with Heritage Legal Fellow Elizabeth Slattery to discuss some

0:25.6

key moments. Plus, the woman sitting directly behind Kavanaugh got accused of white supremacy.

0:32.0

Apparently, she wasn't sitting correctly.

0:34.5

We'll unpack what happened.

0:36.2

But first we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

0:39.0

Well, the president has long made known his concerns about internet censorship.

0:45.0

Now the Justice Department is looking to make some moves on the issue.

0:49.0

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has scheduled a meeting with State Attorneys General later this month

0:54.2

to discuss a growing concern that tech companies, like Twitter and Facebook, may be

0:59.6

stifling the free flow of ideas.

1:02.4

Those two companies have denied ever censoring speech

1:04.9

though many conservative outlets outright disagree. And so too I'm sure some

1:11.1

liberal outlets.

1:12.8

Well, President Trump reacted Wednesday

1:14.8

to veteran journalist Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, Fear,

1:18.6

about his administration.

1:20.0

Here's what he had to say.

1:21.6

Book, you mean the mean on the book?

1:23.5

The book means nothing.

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