#MeToo in Politics: Then and Now

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sam talks with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg and PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor about sexual assault and harassment in politics and #MeToo now and in the 1990s, when Nina broke the Anita Hill story. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:07.4	Every Tuesday we have an in-depth conversation with one person or on one topic.
0:12.5	This week we are talking about the politics of the Me Too movement.
0:16.3	From the time of Anita Hill to now, Anita Hill was a young lawyer who back in 1991 went
0:22.9	public with sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas.
0:26.4	Yes, that Clarence Thomas, current Supreme Court Justice, back in 1991 he was still waiting
0:32.8	to be confirmed for that seat.
0:35.2	NPR's very own Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg broke this story and she was
0:39.8	a person that Miss Hill trusted her story to.
0:42.8	So I wanted to talk with Nina about that.
0:44.9	This kind of Me Too moment before we actually had a name for it and I also wanted to bring
0:48.6	another person into this conversation.
0:50.8	PBS White House correspondent Nyemi Shalsendor.
0:54.2	Nyemi Shalsendor got to know each other covering the election in 2016 and she's been
0:58.1	covering the Me Too movement and how it's playing out on Capitol Hill now.
1:03.1	So the three of us get into a lot in this chat.
1:05.6	What is different about Me Too and politics and how these issues play out in DC compared
1:10.7	to other industries and places.
1:13.1	We also get into some generational differences between women and how they view sexual harassment.
1:19.0	And I'm warning for parents if you normally listen to this podcast with kids just a heads
1:23.8	up.
1:24.8	This entire conversation deals with sex and sexual assault.
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