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Watch: Activists Blast ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape on Loop at Capitol to Protest Kavanaugh

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 4, 2018 at 3:05pm

By Thomas McKinless

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The women’s advocacy group Ultraviolet played the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape on a loop in front of the Capitol on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The group plans to play the footage from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the eve of the Senate’s planned cloture vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination Friday.

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