Subject: Daily Skimm: Let's start at the very beginning
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 06:27:47 -0400 (EDT)

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OCTOBE= 5, 2018

REA= IN BROWSER

Skimm'd after hanging out wit= Katie Couric

QUOTE O= THE DAY

"There is no need to call law enforcement" – =a href="https://link.theskimm.com/click/14657499.2676356/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2l=bXRoLmlzLzJ5YkkxeEk/5bae7b412ddf9c633bb801b8Bce45470a" target="_blank" s=yle="color:#00b2a9;text-decoration:none;">A Minnesota police department<=a> wants people to stop bothering them with reports of drunk birds. There'= no such thing as a DUFly.

VOTING TIME

The Story

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation saga might be coming to an end.

10 second recap.

Trump nominated Kavanaugh to fill the empty Supreme C=urt seat. He had his confirmation hearings, the GOP liked him. It was all =a href="https://link.theskimm.com/click/14657499.2676356/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2l=bXRoLmlzLzJPQ2RVZDA/5bae7b412ddf9c633bb801b8B668c7de6" target="_blank" s=yle="color:#00b2a9;text-decoration:none;">going smoothly. Then Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, and a fourth unidentified person accused Kavanaugh o= sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh . He and Ford testified publicly. And the Senate Judiciary Committee clear=d him for the next stage of the confirmation process – but gave th= FBI a week to do some more digging on all this. Now, we're here.

So what's the latest?

Today, the Senate is holding a cloture vote.

What even is that?

Think of it as a pre-vote vote. If there are 51 votes for it, senators have top= 30 hours to debate. Basically it makes it so a party can't pull off a fil=buster and delay things indefinitely. If they get cloture, the vote to con=irm Kavanaugh could happen tomorrow. But one Republican senator can't make=it – he has a thing.

So...are there even enough votes for this?

Unclear. Eyes are on a few senators who are still may=es – like Sen. Joe Ma=chin (D-WV) who's up for re-election in a red state. And Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) – w=o sometimes switch it up and vote with the Dems. Plus Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who's retiring and has=a little more flexibility to do what he wants. He's also the one who calle= for the FBI investigation.

Yeah, how'd that go?

We don't know, because this was an FBI background che=k and it's illegal to share that info with the public. That's why senators=were going into the Chamber o= Secrets all day yesterday to read the literal one copy of it.

Ok, but reactions?

Flake and Collins called the report "thorough," hinting they might be ready to =ote yes. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp<=a> (D-ND) – who used to be a 'maybe' – came out against hi=. But it's because she thinks he showed questionable "temperament, honesty= and impartiality" at last week's hearing. Other Dem senators said the report seemed "incomplete" an= "smacks of a whitewash." Ford's attorneys said, 'um...forgetting someone?'

You mentioned temperament...

Yup – Kavanaugh was visibly angry during last=week's testimony. Democrats, more than 2,400 law profes=ors, and retired Justice =ohn Paul Stevens have called Kavanaugh out for his heated exchanges wi=h Dems last week and questioned whether he was fit to be an impartial judg= on the court. Yesterday, Kavanaugh came out with an op-ed saying 'I hear you, I got a little heated= but I'll be a fair judge.'

What happens if Kavanaugh gets confirmed?

Get ready for his name to have the word "Justice" in =ront of it.

What happens if he doesn't?

Back to the drawing board. President Trump nominates =omeone new – or he could re-nominate Kavanaugh. And this whole process starts again.

theSkimm

This has been a heavy couple of weeks for Americans o= both sides of the aisle. And has only widened the partisan divide. The de=ision that senators make this weekend could affect the country for generat=ons to come.

<=>PS: In case you haven't been keeping close tabs on this story, we got=you. Get caught up here. =/i>

REPEAT AFTER ME...

What to say when your co-worker won't let you borrow the=r phone charger...

How about sharing? Today, Denis Mukwege and Nadia Mur=d both won the Nobel Peace Pr=ze for their work to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. Mukwege's=a Congolese gynecologist whose hospital has treated thousands of sexual as=ault victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Murad's an Iraqi human r=ghts activist who was forced into sex slavery after being captured by ISIS=in 2014. She's also apparently the second youngest prize winner at age 25.=They beat out more than 300 n=minees, including Pope Francis, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and So=th Korean President Moon Jae-in, and President Trump. The awards committee=says Mukwege and Murad have helped give "greater visibility" to an importa=t issue.

What to say when you get an ad for something you talked =bout…

Who's listening? Yesterday, a report dropped alleging that China's been spying =n Amazon, Apple, and other tech companies through its servers. And that th= US gov has been looking into this since 2015. Here's what happened: China=s gov has allegedly been gathering details on US companies' IP and trade s=crets by slipping microchips into their 'Assembled in China' servers. Snea=y, sneaky. The US companies are saying 'whoa, whoa, whoa this never happened.' In other news of thin=s acting kinda shady, Russia. Yesterday, the DOJ indicted seven Russian of=icers for their involvement i= cyberattacks. Think: allegedly trying to hack a nuclear energy compan= in PA, and hacking Olympic athletes' medical records. Other Western allie= also had a bone to pick =ith the Kremlin. Keep your friends close and your cyber data closer.

Who people are talking about…

Marion "Suge" Knight. Yesterday, the former rap mogul=– behind albums from Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac – was sentenced to 28 years in pri=on for a deadly hit-and-run.

What to say when you hear about the latest salmonella recall…

Where's the beef? Hey, Yankees and Red Sox.

SKIMM READS

"The Buck=t List" by Georgia Clark

You've heard of a bucket list. Now, meet the boob buc=et list. This one's about a 25-year-old woman who finds out she has a brea=t cancer gene mutation and struggles with the decision of whether or not t= get a double mastectomy. In the meantime, she makes a "boob bucket list."=Read to find out how she live= her breast life.

=strong>PS: Take a look at all our Skimm Reads here. Happy weekend.

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