Kavanaugh Again Accused of Sexual Misconduct; Rosenstein Remains Deputy AG For Now

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🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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**This episode contains explicit details about alleged sexual misconduct and may not be suitable for all listeners** Deborah Ramirez has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her during a drunken party at Yale. Kavanaugh denies the accusations, and Republicans are calling it a smear campaign. Plus, amid rumors that he suggested wearing wires around the president, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's future in the job is in question. This episode: political reporter Asma Khalid, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, Congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Kagan from Utah and right now I'm sitting with my husband Jason our
0:04.6	box seats at La Scala Opera House in Milan Italy where we're enjoying our very
0:08.9	belated honeymoon. This podcast was recorded at 2.38 pm on Monday September 24th.
0:16.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear it. All right here's the show.
0:23.3	Hey there it's the NPR Politics podcast. Yesterday another woman came
0:28.0	forward with an accusation of sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett
0:32.0	Kavanaugh and today Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went to the
0:36.2	White House where he was expecting to be fired. I must m'holl it I cover politics.
0:40.3	I'm Kelsey Snell I cover Congress and I'm Mara Laiassin National Political
0:44.0	Correspondent. Let's start with the latest allegation against the Supreme Court
0:48.0	nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Over the weekend a woman by the name of Deborah Ramirez
0:52.8	came forward to the New Yorker magazine and you know she decided to share her
0:58.0	story of an incident that she says occurred during her college days in the
1:01.9	early 1980s when she knew Brett Kavanaugh there. She said she was at first
1:06.5	hesitant to talk about this all publicly partly because her memories contained
1:10.9	gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident and I
1:14.9	should point out that Kavanaugh has denied that this incident ever occurred but
1:19.9	I'm gonna share some details of what she described to the New Yorker magazine.
1:23.3	She says that Kavanaugh exposed himself a drunken dormitory party and now I'm
1:28.2	gonna quote exactly what the New Yorker described that he thrust his penis in
1:33.3	her face and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.
1:37.4	The details are shocking but even more than the first allegation there is no
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