President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is sworn-in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday.

Monday Morning (Kavanaugh) Politics

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 1, 2018

As the new Supreme Court session gets underway with only eight justices, the FBI begins its one-week investigation into charges against nominee Brett Kavanaugh in a compromise deal between the Democrats and Rep. Sen. Jeff Flake.  Dahlia Lithwick, reporter covering courts and the law for Slate and host of the “Amicus” podcast, and John Avlon, senior political analyst and fill-in anchor at CNN's New Day, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast and author of Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations (Simon & Schuster, 2017), talk about the latest news on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to be a Supreme Court justice.

 

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