From the New York Times, Unleicable Barrow, this is the day of the

Today. The White House response to the impeachment inquiry has been to dismiss the allegations

to deflect the facts and discredit the Democrats. It's the same approach used by Republicans

in 2018 to push through the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. My colleagues

Kate Kelly and Robin Hogwart, the authors of the Education of Brett Kavanaugh, talked to

the Republican strategist who wrote the political playbook used then and now. It's Thursday, October

10th.

Robin, Kate, how did you first come to hear the name Mike Davis?

So we were looking back on the events of 2018 that were just so seismic for the country

and trying to really slow down time and figure out very much from a 360 degree perspective.

Who were the key players in that drama? Obviously you had then Judge Kavanaugh, you had the

women who had accused him of sexual misconduct and lawyers on both sides. But the political

machinery, who were the important members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and everyone

said we should talk to this one operative that he was at the center of everything and

that operative's name was Mike Davis.

Hey, is that Robin or is that Kate? That was Kate just now, but Robin's right here.

Hello.

And everybody told us that he was sort of an unabashed advocate for Judge Kavanaugh and

really sort of the torch carrier politically through this process. And what he did in terms

of not just managing the technicalities of the Senate investigation and the Senate process,

but also waging this sort of cultural war for conservatives that was crystallized during

the Kavanaugh confirmation process and is now being deployed as a defense against impeachment.

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