Weekly Roundup: Thursday, September 20

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🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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After days of back and forth over the terms of a hearing, attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting, have begun discussing her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. Plus, President Trump attempts to declassify materials related to the Russia Investigation. And we take a step back and look at how women are shaping politics in 2018. This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Asma Khalid, political editor Domenico Montanaro, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, Congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Helen. I'm in Pyongchang, South Korea, just about 180 miles from Pyongyang, North Korea,
0:07.5	where the historic inter-Korean summit is underway. This podcast was recorded at 5-12 pm on
0:15.2	Thursday, September 20th. Things may have changed since this was recorded. Here's a show.
0:24.5	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with our weekly round-up of political news.
0:29.8	Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault, but how the Senate will
0:35.2	deal with the accusations, which he denies, before they vote on his confirmation is still to be
0:40.2	determined. And is this yet another me-to-moment? How is it impacting the midterm elections?
0:46.4	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress. I'm Dominican
0:50.3	Montenoro, political editor. And I'm Kerry Johnson. I cover the Justice Department.
0:54.2	All right, Kelsey. So when last we had a podcast, there was a hearing scheduled for Monday, where Christine
1:02.8	Blasie Ford and Brett Kavanaugh were supposed to testify. She had accused him of attacking her
1:09.9	sexual assault at a high school party some 36 years ago. He categorically denies it.
1:16.0	Okay, so that was Monday. What has changed? Between now and then we have had a
1:23.7	flurry of letters going back and forth between people on the committee, senators on the Senate
1:28.5	Judiciary Committee and the attorneys for Christine Blasie Ford. And they'd all kind of
1:32.6	culminated in just about an hour or so ago. There was an email from Blasie Ford's attorneys
1:38.3	to the committee saying that they're willing to have her come testify just not on Monday as Senate
1:43.2	Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley wanted. Now, they're saying that she wishes to testify,
1:48.8	but that she has been receiving death threats and she is, you know, in fear. She had to flee her house
1:55.5	and she wants some specific protections that they don't outline in this very short email. But they
2:00.8	asked to set up a call to discuss the conditions under which she might appear sometime later in the week.
2:05.8	Well, and Grassley had set up sort of a deadline of 10 o'clock Friday morning that she needed to have
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