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Right away. that is judge kavanaughs view of the consumer financial protection bureau. what do you think it would mean to the future? >> he already said he thinks it is unconstitutional because it has a single director rather than multiple directors, which its not the only agency that has a single director. in fact, the environmental protection agency is another one that has a single director and we have the officer of the controller of the currency. heres what troubles me about it, though. i lo...

To retain their health care protection. so i think those are two issues that are going to be powerfully important to senator collins, to senator merkowski, but i think they should be important to every senator. i think every single senator has a responsibility as they prepare to vote on this nomination to look at the question of what it will mean for a womans constitutional right to choose. what it will mean for health care for tens of millions of americans, what it will mean for having a justic...

That starts with a thorough review of his records, including his years in the white house. when brett was nominated for the appellate court and approved, they did not look at the literally hundreds of memos he wrote as a senior aid to president bush. i think it is very important for the committee, for this life appointment to make these important decisions for them to see the full record here. what kind of memos did you write to president bush? what positions did you take on legal issues? what d...

List is committed to overturning health care rights for tens of millions of americans. so the question then becomes, how do you pick under those circumstances? and donald trump picks the nominee, picks the person who says, you know, it would be a total disaster for the united states of america if it turned out that the president of the united states got indicted. now, the reason this is so important is, look at what he did with the consumer agency. look at what he did with the environmental prot...

Figure out what stops this president from getting rid of mueller. what stops him is rod rosenstein, and jeff sessions to some extent, but mainly rosenstein, who appointed him. is that true, and is that why the republicans on your committee and elsewhere seems to be always targeting rosenstein from a variety of directions? >> first, chris, theyre trying to put an asterisk on this investigation should it bring more indictments, especially against the president or his family. but what stops the pre...

Afraid of what trump would put. thats their redline, i dont know if they can enforce it. >> congressman, that-tas were g warned the producers, were trying to figure out what stop this is president from getting rid of mueller? what stops him is rosenstein and jeff sessions but mainly rosenstein who appointed him. is that why the republicans on your committee seem to be targeting rosenstein from a variety of directions? >> theyre tries to put an asterisk on this investigation should it bring more ...

Retirement from the supreme court. we are scrambling to get -- i think we have hans nichols standing by. anthony kennedy has been on the court since 1988. remember, it was ronald reagan who appointed him. it sounds like we have pete williams now standing by. pete williams, this is a seismic announcement. >> so im having a little trouble hearing you, but ill just tell you justice kennedy of the supreme court today just handed us this letter dated today from justice kennedy. ill read it to you. it...

A show boat as the president has said. but its also true that he speaks from a deep ethical place and hes saying things he thinks americans need to hear. >> we hear it all the time, its a forest fire. hes someone whos lived it. >> its not only that hes seen it, but he has a moral campus, and people who have known him in the past, even newt gingrich who appointed him. he has a reputation of being a truth teller, you may not like his show boating, but at his core hes a deeply ethical american whos...

Commodity, somebody who is disciplined and buttoned down. is there a reason to hope that maybe he understands that his chaos has led to historically low ratings? >> well, trump was generals well. he had an eye for mattis, appointed him. its been probably his most successful appointment. its interesting that jared kushner is the special advisor, also defers to those generals, and interestingly, mattis has insisted that rex tillerson will be united with mattis on every policy issue. so i think you...

Supposed to be about funding but we guess it will go into other territory. jeff sessions testifies to the senate intelligence committee later this afternoon in an open hearing. there is no denying the hot water will be wading into. he will be wading into it. lets bring in judge andrew napolitano. good to see you, judge. you said yesterday this was a dangerous position for him to be in testifying under oath and in open setting now. how do you feel today? >> i feel the same way today because he is...