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The excitement builds as we approach the Kavanaugh vote.

Mitch McConnell has now filed for cloture.

That means the vote on Knail will likely take place

on Saturday. Perfect. I'll be off. So I won't even know what happened. The suspense will kill me on Saturday. Once again, God coming between me and the news. But, you know, that's just the way it works around here. A bunch of announcements to make up top here before we get into the latest. And today we're going to go through a lot of

material, including the supposition that Brett Kavanaugh committed perjury on the stand, which is the new angle that's being taken. We'll talk about all of that. But first, I want to announce that tonight, I'm kicking off my YAAF tour, Young America's Foundation tour at University of Southern California. It starts at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific, so you can watch me take on the left, both in person and online.

Come be a part of this Falls speaking tour. We have a bunch of universities. We are going to bring your tumblers before the tear harvest is upon us. So that is exciting stuff. We are expecting that there will be protesters. There's actually some talk about violence, which obviously we hope does not occur. People have been going nuts over this speech, which it's always puzzling to me. Me? Really? I feel like I'm a nice guy. But, you know, I'm admittedly biased. Also, we really appreciate you tuning in and sharing the podcast with your friends. If you enjoy what we're doing, please subscribe to the Ben Shapiro show on iTunes. Go over on your iTunes right now and subscribe.

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Here was Mitch McConnell. We are not going to allow the Democrats to filibuster the Kavanaugh nominee, and that means that by Saturday, the full Senate will be voting on Brett Kavanaugh.

Here was Mitch McConnell yesterday announcing that he was going to file Klocher on the floor of the Senate.

There will be plenty of time for members to review and be briefed on the supplemental material before a Friday cloture vote.

So I'm filing cloture on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination this evening so the process can move forward, as I indicated earlier. And the process should move

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