Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

Alright, depending on when you download this episode, you may have heard an ad for the

new HBO movie Confirmation that movie tells the story of Supreme Court Justice Clarence

Thomas and his intense confirmation battle back in 1991.

That was when a former employee Anita Hill claimed he sexually harassed her.

So we have nothing to do with those ads you might have heard about the movie, but we

wanted to do an episode about what happened in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings

and why it still matters in a year with a Supreme Court seat up for grabs.

Fair warning, we will talk candidly about multiple sexual harassment allegations, so this

might not be a good episode for young ears.

I'm Sam Sanders, Campaign reporter.

I'm Usma Khaled, also Campaign reporter.

I'm Carrie Johnson, the Justice correspondent.

And I'm Legal Affairs correspondent Nina Tottenberg.

Welcome Nina.

Thank you.

So gotta say no one at HBO asked us to do this.

They don't even know that we are doing this, but there is a big reason that we're doing

this because Nina, you broke this story.

Yeah, I did.

And when I die, it doesn't matter what I will have done.

The lead will say Nina Tottenberg and PR Lee, a affairs correspondent who broke the Anita

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