Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh

Washington Post senior politics reporter Aaron Blake and Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast and Yale Law School fellow, discuss the news from the weekend, including the voting on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

.@emilybazelon: There's a distinction between overturning Roe v Wade outright and limiting women's access to abortion. There's a lot of room to limit without overturning. Collins brushes past all of that.

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 8, 2018

.@AaronBlake: Real argument that Avenatti made it harder for the Democrats to prevail, tho difficult to say that things would be different had he not come forward. Swetnick's allegations were most dramatic & had not been vetted by media. Became rhetorical advantage for Rs

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 8, 2018

.@emilybazelon: Collins made a big deal about condemning the person who leaked Blasey Ford's letter. Blasey Ford herself has never condemned the leaking. All of Collins' finger pointing... it seems like she was the one who didn't want letter to become public.

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 8, 2018