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Now, you all must face a choice. be courageous or be complicity. if you vote to confirm senator sessions, you take ownership of everything he may do or not do in office. he has no track record of fighting for justice for minorities despite the characterizations that you have heard from others today. he and his supporters have told you that he is a champion for civil rights and ekbault, characterization and revisionist histories are not the same things as facts. he is on the record on numerous is...

If you vote to confirm senator sessions, you take ownership of everything he may do or not do an office. he has no track record of fighting for justice for minorities, despite the characterizations that you have heard from others today. he and his supporters have told you he is a champion for civil rights and equality. characterization and revisionist histories are not the same things as facts. he is on the record on numerous issues. ive i provided just a few exams today. lets think about this l...

Tape now by access hollywood. lets listen to that exchange now. >> you -- shortly after the tape came out -- and i realize in explanation here, you said i dont characterize that as sexual assault. but then you said later the weekly standards characterizations comments made following seasons presidential debate is completely inadequate. my hesitation is based solely on the content of the tape, and the question of the reporter which was asked in a chaotic environment. of course its crystal clear t...

The campaign. michael, where do you stand on this? >> i wouldnt have and we did not use that word but its important to talk about why we decided that wasnt the thing to do. everybody has to edit their own publications. i have enough trouble with the decisions we have to make at npr. but i think the most important thing for us to do, and i think its more important now than before the election, is to make sure that the fact-based journalism, based on reporting, reaches people. the problem is, when...

Surrogates spent months denying those characterizations from people on the left and even people on the right. we have seen firsthand activists and journalists be physically and verbally assaulted at these rallies and out on the trail from supporters of donald trump. he says that they changed, and it will be interesting to see how things move going forward from that their poin-- from thi. >> one reporter had an empty water bottle thrown. you know, obviously well have to continue to monitor how th...

You want somebody to bring the national security experts, the secretary of defense and state, the national security council and reach consensus on very tough issues and often with the pressure of time. you dont want another volatile personality guiding the way of already an impetuous president-elect. >> we get vague characterizations of what happened during his tenure. he was there from 2012 to 2014. he was asked to leave. you have the seat on the intelligence committee and obviously have your f...

You dont want another volatile personality guiding the way of already an impetuous president-elect. >> we get vague characterizations of what happened during his tenure. he was there from 2012 to 2014. he was asked to leave. you have the seat on the intelligence committee and obviously have your finger on the pulse on what is happening in the intelligence agencies. what can you tell us about why exactly he was asked to leave and what went wrong, what his colleagues at that agency thought about h...

Has expressed, and to have the national security adviser on this is alarming, and the tenure is especially alarming. i think what was found and he exhibited on the campaign trail. this is somebody who is often erratic and shoots from the hip and a volatile personality. you want somebody to bring the national security experts, the secretary of defense and state, the national security council and reach consensus on very tough issues and often with the pressure of time. you dont want another volati...

On just a week ago. we are done with the election and its time to move forward and mr. trump talked about being a president who will bring people together. >> here took steps to unify the country, but its often actions, not words. this selection of steve bannon, a person who is tightly aligned with the alt right who some suggest has not just white nationalists, but anti-semitic views. doesnt that haunt the message that you and others suggest that donald trump is trying to deliver of a greater un...

Curt just had two big swats against donald trump in the form of "newsweek" koifr stories over the last several weeks. well, tonight, we have got scoop number three. and we have got it exclusively. this, ready? this is the cover story breaking tomorrow. why the russians are backing trump. and then you see the sub head there? inside putins complex gambit to weaken the nato alliance. once again and we have obtained an advance look at some of this story. some of its lead and some of its details. i h...