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Nominees had extensively worked in the white house, had a long record in washington and there was no issue in terms of receiving all of the documentation, all of the records from her time working in the administration you. whats the justification for treating elena kagan completely opposite from how theyre treating judge cab anyhow? >> there is absolutely no principled explanation for it. and the only reason is that the republicans obviously want to rush through this nomination. they have not on...

Manafort teams turn it to call witnesses who could clear their clients name. he thinks today was a good day for the former trump campaign chairman. >> mike: another fascinating day in federal court. the first batch of documents from supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has been released, posted on the senate judiciary committees website. they are gleaned from 125,000 documents given to the committee on a confidential basis by a lawyer from the former presiden president. democrats say republican...

Scope of the documents to exclude all the relevant paper and communications involving brett kavanaughs service in the bush white house as staff secretary but theyve also turned over the screening process to a team of republican lawyers headed by a lawyer who was, in fact, kavanaughs deputy in the bush white house. and now is serving as a lawyer to a number of people in the bush administration or formerly in the bush administration like brett kavanaugh and they are cherry picking, pre-screening, ...

Maria and aleksandr torshin are friends. theres lots of things about dogs, about russia, about families back and forth. theres plenty of things and they occasional talked american politics and talked russian politics. so again, this is an example of cherry-picking. and i think when all of this is put in con contetext, the end o day, the government after surveilling her for 18 months, they cant come up with anything she did. there havent been any dead drops anywhere, it appears she went to a bunc...

And remember, this did not begin -- the russia investigation probe did not begin, according to intelligence communities, with the dossier. it began with information about george papadopoulos, who in his own right, was talking and being imper tuned by people from russia about getting information from a candidate. so its about the chicken and the egg game. and by cherry picking where you wanted it to start, it fuels your narrative. but the accurate information is when it started with george papado...

Markets behave as they would. >> neil: yeah, seem to roll the dice on the markets referring that that and the improving economy, lindsey, has been i think -- the term he used with the cnbc interview was the banks money. thats what weve got going for us. given the earnings that are better than expected, eight out of ten companies have reported, what do you make of that? >> i think definitely the market is focusing on the green shoes, that cherry picking through the data. this is nothing new. back...

Was a disgrace to our country. >> reaction to his testimony has been swift and largely broken down along partisan lines. republicans are offering nearly universal condemnation in line with the president. but many democrats are coming to his defense. blaming the gop colleagues for the circus -like atmosphere that prevailed at the hearing. >> character assassination, demagoguery, connecting dots that are not meant to be connected. generalizing an isolated incident, cherry picking facts. sometimes ...

Indictment says half a million u.s. voters had their data stolen by the russia military intelligence hacker who managed to get into various state election boards. elizabeth: jennifer with the greatest. thank you so much. leland. leland: the issue of russia is certainly on everyones mind. thursday, this is as republicans and democrats still arguing who won last weeks battle royale during fbis peter strzoks testimony. and here is andrew, and payton. nice to see you both. rob, i guess in a sense yo...

The media which didnt happen. >> if you had wanted to harm and interfere with the election of president trump, you could have leaked information that the investigation was ongoing, but none of that came out. >> character assassination, connecting dots that are meant to be connected, generalizing from an isolated incident, cherry picking facts, sometimes fabricating facts, its astounding, a new low in the united states congress. what a shame. >> one of the reasons lisa page is on capitol hill tod...

Connecting dots thats not meant to be connected and cherry picking facts and fabricating facts. it is astounding and a new low in the united states congress. what a shame. mr. strzok, you are under oath. my understanding is the big republican beef in order to discredit you and the fbi and theyre by hoping by their point of view undermine the muellers investigation hinges on the fact that you sent out personal e-mails on the 2016 election, is that correct? >> sir, thats my understanding. >> the f...