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🗓️ 4 October 2018
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0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
0:05.8 | 2002 for Thursday, October 4th. In today's news, a federal judge blocks President Trump's latest effort to |
0:15.8 | deport immigrants who are in the country legally. Democrats plan to get Trump's |
0:20.9 | tax returns if they win control of the house. |
0:23.8 | And Russia's ongoing influence campaign is using troll farms to push pro-Cabiner messages on social media. But first, the big idea. Around 3 a.m. today, |
0:40.6 | the White House announced that it had turned over the FBI's completed report |
0:44.7 | on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate. In anticipation of the report's |
0:49.4 | arrival Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky, teed up a key vote on Wednesday night to advance Kavanaugh's nomination. |
0:57.0 | That vote will take place Friday. It's called cloture. |
1:00.0 | That will set up a final vote on Saturday afternoon. |
1:03.7 | Until that vote, senators will be rushing in and out of a secure facility at the Capitol |
1:08.2 | to review the sensitive FBI report that the Bureau has compiled. |
1:12.1 | They have to look in groups. |
1:13.5 | Republicans and Democrats will take turns having access to the document, |
1:17.4 | one hour at a time. |
1:19.0 | The report comes as Senate Democrats opened a new front |
1:21.9 | in their objections to the investigation of |
1:24.0 | Kavanaugh's conduct. They suggested last night that past FBI background checks of |
1:28.8 | Kavanaugh include evidence of inappropriate behavior without disclosing specifics. |
1:33.9 | Republicans say that's not true. |
1:36.0 | But even before the report was formally sent to the Senate, |
1:38.4 | lawyers for Christine Blasy Ford, the first woman to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual |
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