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About their judicial philosophy instead of the republicans? joining us now is democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. shes a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, thank you for joining us on this busy day. >> its great to be on again. >> it seems to me that senate democrats may be trying to use these hearings to demonstrate to the country, make a case to the country about what it means to have a very conservative court. what sort of rulings you get when you have a conservativ...

Followed the lead of jeff sessions. not in warnings about liberalism but in trying to use these hearings as an opportunity to make a broader case to the nation about the judiciary, about the courts. specifically about the judiciary that weve got and the courts weve got right now, specifically about the john roberts supreme court and the corporations that love it too much. >> there is such a thing as judicial activism. there is such a thing as legislating from the bench and it is practiced repeat...

Case. but i think its going to be very interesting because in her hearing when she was up for the solicitor general job, she was fairly open, answered questions well and so i think youll hear a lot of good questions on both sides of her on all these issues. but again, your point, one of my favorite examples of this court was the exxon valdez case, which is incredibly relevant today, where 32,000 plaintiffs, it took them years and years to even get any payouts, these fishermen, 8,000 of them died...

It is something "the new york times" touched on and the associated press hit on it over the weekend in pretty stark detail. when a bunch of people start chasing the story, ultimately you all turn up enough details that if you combine them, you can get a pretty clear story. and in this case, you learn something amazing about bp. over the last three years, bp made about $58.5 billion in profits. i said $63 billion earlier, that was wrong. $58.5 billion in profits over the last three years. so thin...

Than his. i knew that my god was a real god and his was an idol. >> i knew that my god was bigger than his. general boykins remarks in 2002 and 2003 proved to be too much even for the bush administration back then. the pentagon made clear the general was out of bounds and the president distanced himself from the my gods bigger comments. general boykin retired in 2007. whats he been up to since? well, hes the guy senate republicans announced would be in their first round of witnesses to testify a...

Them. the twin cities have more older workers per capita than almost any other city in the nation, and yet in 2009 in a case called gross, the roberts court made it easier for corporations to fire older americans and get away with it. there is a pattern here. each of these decisions was won with five votes, and each of these decisions, that bare majority, used its power to help big business. >> senator al franken of minnesota. senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island hammered the same point ho...