Who Is Believed and Who Is Blamed?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Across the country, the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh has set off a highly personal debate among women about credibility and culpability. We sit in on two of those conversations. Guests: A group of teenagers in Brooklyn, who shared with us their reactions to the accusations against Justice Kavanaugh; and the reporters Susan Chira and Ellen Ann Fentress, who spoke to Lovetta Green and Crystal Walls, two friends in Mississippi with very different political views. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:35.6	Today, across the country, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh has set off a highly personal
0:47.0	debate among women about who is believed and who is blamed.
0:53.4	We sit in on two of those conversations.
1:00.4	It's Wednesday, October 10th.
1:10.4	Am I too close to you?
1:20.4	No.
1:21.4	I sat down with a group of teenage girls in Brooklyn to discuss their reaction to Kavanaugh's
1:39.4	confirmation.
1:40.4	I just wanted to start by asking you all what your understanding is of what happened over
1:48.6	the past few weeks, what your sense of it is.
1:51.8	We can start anywhere.
1:52.8	It's my understanding that this man is being allegedly accused of doing something awful
2:00.2	to a girl in high school at a party, I believe.
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