Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. Yesterday on the pod we broke down all of the testimony

by Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasiford. Blasiford, as you remember, accused him of sexual

assault when they were in high school. He vehemently denied it. Today we're focusing on

the political impact and fallout from that. I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Danielle Kertzlavin, political reporter. I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress. And I'm

Tamara Klamantin, our political editor. Let's get cut up on a very intense week of news.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the

second time in response to allegations from Christine Blasiford of sexual assault. The hearing

went on all day and Senate Republicans and Democrats heard dramatic testimony, both from

court and Kavanaugh. Emotions ran high. On Friday, the Judiciary Committee began to assemble

with a plan to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination. And there was a moment where it looked like

everything was full steam ahead and a protester, a rape survivor, cornered Senator Jeff Flake

as he was getting on an elevator, presumably to go vote in favor of Kavanaugh to vote

him out of committee. Yeah, he had said earlier in the day he was going to vote for Kavanaugh.

There was a statement that he put out and it looked. Actually, I talked to Republicans

at the beginning of the day who were bullish. He thought that things were moving along

exactly as they expected. And then this happened.

I have two children. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years, they will have to have

someone in the Supreme Court who has been accused of violating a young girl.

I just want to take a moment to reflect on that. This protester, she was just one of so

many people who have been affected by the conversation that happened in that hearing, by what is

being discussed right now. I mean, I think that there is a conversation that is being

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