The Blasey-Kavanaugh Hearing
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:25.6 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. |
| 0:32.6 | This is The Daily. |
| 0:39.6 | Today she gave a raw, reluctant account of sexual assault. |
| 0:46.8 | He gave an angry outrage deny that it was him. |
| 0:51.6 | And once again, the United States Senate must take a side. |
| 1:02.6 | It's Friday, September 28th. |
| 1:07.6 | Kate, give us the mood as this hearing opened up on Thursday morning. |
| 1:15.7 | We've only been anticipating this moment for, I guess, a week by now, but it feels like |
| 1:20.1 | this moment has been really long in coming. |
| 1:25.1 | Kate Surnickie covers politics for the times. |
| 1:28.9 | We're in this crowded room and there's cameras and all this bustle and all these people |
| 1:33.1 | around this woman who we've heard a ton about, but we've never actually seen. |
| 1:38.6 | And so there's sort of this revelation, who is this woman, Christine Blasiford, who we've |
| 1:42.3 | been talking about so much for last week. |
| 1:44.9 | And as she looks out, if we look at it from her perspective, she's looking out on this |
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