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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Law Podcast. I'm June Grosso. Every

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Speaker 1: day we bring you insight and analysis into the most

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com Slash Podcasts. As Republicans pushed

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Speaker 1: to confirm Brett Kavanaugh before the next Supreme Court term begins,

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Speaker 1: Appeals Court judge of sexually assaulting her when they were

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Speaker 1: in high school in the nineteen eighties. Speaking with CNN

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Speaker 1: last night, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins responded to the news, well,

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Speaker 1: I obvious surprised, and uh, it's an issue that I

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Speaker 1: brought up with him last Friday, and um he denied um,

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Speaker 1: as he did an this written statement. Kavanaugh issued another

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Speaker 1: statement today saying this is completely false allegation. I have

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Speaker 1: never done anything like what the accuser describes to her

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Speaker 1: or to anyone joining me. Is Steve Sanders, professor at

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Speaker 1: Indiana University Mara School of Law. Steve has the response

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Speaker 1: to the accusation changed since Ford went from being an

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Speaker 1: anonymous woman to identifying herself. Well, I think it depends

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Speaker 1: on who you're thinking about is doing the responding. Certainly

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Speaker 1: the White House and the most partisan supporters of the

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Speaker 1: Republicans in the Senate, and if Kavanaugh really haven't changed

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Speaker 1: their position, which really positions it seems to be one.

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Speaker 1: This has come up so late that that it's not

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Speaker 1: fair to include it in what we're considering. Another angle

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Speaker 1: We can't judge by the credibility. We can't judge the credibility.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think so. I I think the you know,

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Speaker 1: the most serious responses coming from those in the middle,

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Speaker 1: this media environment, who say these are serious accusations. They're

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Speaker 1: not yet proven, they're not solid, but they need to

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Speaker 1: be investigated, and we need to keep an open mind

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Speaker 1: and do as much as we can. That is the

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Speaker 1: and that is making careful assessments of evidence and credibility

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Speaker 1: a Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley said he plans to

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Speaker 1: start with follow up calls to Kavanaugh and Ford rather

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Speaker 1: Democratic senators on the committee are seeking a delay. In

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Speaker 1: have to be hearing. So as of this morning, uh,

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Speaker 1: miss Ford, the the alleged victim in this case, has

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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, UM Jeff Lake, has also suggested he thinks

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Speaker 1: this issue has been fully aired. Now. Brett Kavanaugh has

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Speaker 1: hired Beth Wilkinson from the law firm Wilkinson Walsh and

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably a wise course. Anytime anyone is

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Speaker 1: We can't help miss not miss the comparisons to the

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Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas has been under some kind of a cloud

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Steve, and let's talk some more later

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Speaker 1: about what's going to happen um with Judge Kavanaugh tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Steve standers, He's a professor at Indiana University Morrow School

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Speaker 1: of Law. Last Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team scored

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Speaker 1: a significant win as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort

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Speaker 1: my guest, as former federal prosecutor Robert Mint's a partner

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Speaker 1: And we know that before the plea there were proper

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Speaker 1: Now that useful information can go in any number of directions,

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Speaker 1: some other entities that were involved in this, one of

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Speaker 1: commented on Manafort specifically so far, But will this heighten

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Speaker 1: the legal pressure on Trump? Well, it really all depends

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Speaker 1: safely assume that whatever he does know, he's giving up now.

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Speaker 1: So what that is and what kind of conversations that

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