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Welcome everyone to another episode of The Damage Report. I'm John at Rola and we are now in day

three of the Kavanaugh hearings and just in the time when we're doing our production for the show,

things have really heated up with calls to bring it, which we'll be breaking down.

But it's also been hot from the first day when I believe 72 protesters were arrested at those

Kavanaugh hearings. And I am thrilled that we are joined in studio by one of perhaps the most

high profile of those arrestees, actress and activist Piper Pervot is joining us in studio.

It is great to have you here. I've been following you and your social media activism for quite a

long time and you've actually put your body on the line in this case because of your concerns about

Kavanaugh and what he would represent on the Supreme Court. So we've got a lot that we're going to

talk about today, not just with Kavanaugh but many topics. But on Kavanaugh, I do want to start with

your experience. What was your goal in protesting his nomination hearing?

I felt like because Trump is an unundited co-conspirator in a felony charge that he shouldn't be

allowed to appoint judges right now and they're rushing this through and we don't have the votes to

stop it. And so I had to do something and you can't just sit on Twitter and say you disagree.

Eventually you have to do something. And an activist that I know, Adi Barkin,

had said to me one time, getting arrested is a privilege because it requires citizenship and

bail and time and you have to be okay missing work. And so ever since he said that to me, I thought,

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