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12:05 PM ET, October 5, 2018

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Brett M. Kavanaugh / Wall Street Journal:
I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge  —  Yes, I was emotional last Thursday.  I hope everyone can understand I was there as a son, husband and dad.  —  I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump's nomination …
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Wall Street Journal:
Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement  —  At issue is statement to committee that she knew nothing about alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh.  —  A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford's allies to revisit …
Charles Ludington / Washington Post:
We were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies.  We don't think he should be confirmed.  —  Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher attended Yale University from 1983 to 1987 with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.  —  We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Mike Allen / Axios:
2. “We don't have 50”  —  Sources involved with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation were nervous going into today's 10:30 a.m. test vote, Jonathan Swan reports:  — Four senators are undecideds: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Complete National Disgrace  —  The Kavanaugh hearings as American nadir.  —  Over the past few years, hundreds of organizations and thousands of people (myself included) have mobilized to reduce political polarization, encourage civil dialogue and heal national divisions.
Washington Post:
Vote ‘no’ on Kavanaugh  —  AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they evaluating?  Is it the steady, conservative jurist he was reputed to be before his confirmation saga?
Anna Staver / Denver Post:
Colorado's Cory Gardner reviews FBI report on Kavanaugh after listening to sexual assault survivors  —  A Politico report late Thursday featured a statement that said Gardner “remains supportive of Judge Kavanaugh's nomination.” … Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, hasn't decided how he'll vote …
Discussion: Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Terminal Demo Request  —  The headlines alone are dizzying.  Since the New York Times reported allegations of serial predation by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein a year ago, at least 425 prominent people across industries have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct …
New York Times:
How Brett Kavanaugh Failed  —  And why the Senate should vote to keep him off the Supreme Court.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
GOP nervous ahead of Kavanaugh vote: “We don't have 50 right now”  —  Sources involved with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation are nervous going into today's 10:30 a.m. test vote.  —  Four senators are undecideds: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
Gregg Nunziata / New York Post:
FBI's Kavanaugh investigation was by the book — just like Democrats demanded … Gregg Nunziata is a lawyer in Washington, DC, who previously served as chief nominations counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.  —  The FBI has completed a supplemental investigation into recent allegations …
Stephanie Gutmann / USA Today:
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
Discussion: Instapundit and National Review
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘Grow up’: Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him
Discussion: Vox, Axios and Townhall
Aaron Mesmer / FOX13news:   Man threatened to kill members of Congress over Kavanaugh votes, deputies say
Roxane Gay / New York Times:   I Thought Men Might Do Better Than This
USA Today:
Vote no on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation
Discussion: New York Times
Lulu Ramadan / mypalmbeachpost:
Retired Supreme Court Justice: Kavanaugh does not belong on high court
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump calls Kavanaugh protesters ‘rude elevator screamers’
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and CNN
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Christine Blasey Ford Changed Everything
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
Adele Scalia / The Federalist:   I'm An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats' Treatment Of Kavanaugh
Gregory Eady / Washington Post:   Trying to understand how Jeff Flake is leaning?  We analyzed his Twitter feed — and were surprised.
Michael Lista / New Yorker:
The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh
Discussion: TheBlaze and Chicks On The Right
Salt Lake Tribune:
Tribune editorial: Hatch attack on alleged witness is despicable
New York Post:   End the farce and confirm Kavanaugh
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Trump mocks Al Franken over resignation: He folded ‘like a wet rag’
Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart and TheBlaze
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this?  —  Lindsey Graham learned the benefits of acting audaciously at a young age.  —  As a boy, no older than 6, he hung around his mom and dad's bar in Central, S.C., dressing up as a cowboy and yukking it up with drunks for laughs.
Discussion: Political Wire and Splinter
Don Palmerine / Washington Post:
I watched a rape.  For five decades, I did nothing.  —  Many men have stories to tell and confessions to make.  This is mine.  —  Don Palmerine is a former reporter and columnist living in Pittsburgh.  —  I was both an observer and a participant in a teenage rape.
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Governors: Rating Changes Four States  —  If political geography is helping Senate Republicans, it isn't doing much for the party's quest to hold their losses in gubernatorial contests to a minimum.  There are a handful of races in very red states that have inched from the Likely …
Chris Baynes / The Independent:
Interpol chief missing: French police launch investigation into President Meng Hongwei's disappearance  —  Meng Hongwei, 64, has not been heard from since travelling to China in late September  — {{#singleComment}}{{value}} comment{{/singleComment}}{{^singleComme nt}}{{value}} comments{{/singleComment}}
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Associated Press:
Interpol president reported missing during trip to China
Discussion: Reuters and The Week
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Mitch McConnell's Legacy Is Riding on Kavanaugh's Confirmation  —  Picture this: Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. Early July 2017, a punishing 86 degrees.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walking alongside his wife, Elaine Chao.  His casual comment to her, overheard by a reporter …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
The Kremlin's For Kavanaugh: Russian State Media Back Trump's Supreme Court Nominee
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth slumps in September, but the unemployment rate hits the lowest level since 1969  — The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since December 1969 and one-tenth of a percentage point below expectations.
Associated Press:
Still Anonymous: White House hunt for op-ed author fades  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember Anonymous?  —  One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secret “resistance” …
New York Times:
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Yazidi Activist and Congolese Doctor  —  In the midst of a global reckoning over sexual violence, a Yazidi woman who was a captive of the Islamic State and a Congolese gynecological surgeon were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their campaigns to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
 
 
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