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Skullduggery

The Kavanaugh Firestorm

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Their newly released book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, has caused quite a stir bringing forth a previously unreported allegation against Kavanaugh prompting several Democratic candidates to call for his impeachment from the Supreme Court. Isikoff and Klaidman challenge Pogrebin and Kelly as they take a deep dive into the material to find out what sticks and what doesn't.

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0:00.0

It was a book launch that triggered a political firestorm.

0:06.0

On Sunday, the New York Times published an opinion essay by the authors of the Education

0:11.0

of Brett Kavanaugh, describing some of their findings from a ten-month investigation

0:16.6

into the sexual misconduct allegations against the now Supreme Court justice.

0:22.5

The authors mentioned a previously unreported allegation of Kavanaugh as a young Yale University

0:27.7

freshman exposing himself while his penis was thrust into the face of a female co-ed.

0:35.0

And the authors wrote they had found new corroboration for a similar incident involving yet another

0:40.4

Yale student.

0:42.3

Immediately, Washington went wild.

0:44.6

Six Democratic presidential candidates called for Kavanaugh's impeachment.

0:48.9

But how solid were these new allegations?

0:51.7

After the piece was published, the New York Times read an editor's note, pointing out that

0:55.9

a crucial piece of information from the book had been left out.

0:59.2

But the alleged victim of the new allegation doesn't remember the incident at all.

1:04.8

Did the authors overstate what they had actually uncovered and did the New York Times screw

1:09.6

up, handing a huge gift to President Trump and his Senate Republican allies?

1:14.4

We'll talk to the authors of the book, New York Times reporters Robin Pogherman and Kate

1:19.5

Kelly on this special episode of Skullbuggery.

1:25.9

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well,

1:33.2

I'm not a crop.

1:34.2

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

1:37.4

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

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