and persuade folks both in our caucus and nationally that the right to vote is too precious a thing to allow it to be taken away by state legislatures around the country. senator chris kunz, appreciate your time. thanks. thank you, anderson. next, breaking news in what we ve just learned about house speaker pelosi plans to investigate the january insurrection in the face of republican opposition to an independent commission. also, with all the talk about so-called ninjas and their so-called suspicions of ballots in arizona, some facts. later, this is striking, the cdc director said today that nearly every adult covid death that takes place now is, quote, entirely preventable if people just get vaccinated. with that in mind, we ll talk about the biggest threat right now to the unvaccinated, the delta variant, and how quickly it s spreading in america.
thought he didn t have a right to put out those documents. i don t know what to make of it. charlie, with thanks very much for your reporting on. let s listen in again. senator kunz of delaware is asking about the mueller investigation. wrongly decided? i ve said stfit was one of t four greatest decisions and correct decisions in terms of the specific relation at issue in the case and the court s holding in the context of a criminal trial subpoena that the subpoena for the information, the tapes was enforceable if that context. and that s what i ve said before, publicly, about the nixon case. and that 1999 sou you would agree that it was correctly decided? did i just hear you right? yeah, of course. when i say something s the greatest, that means i agree with it and the point was, under the specific regulation at issue in this case, a criminal trial
this is delaware senator chris kunz questioning brett kavanaugh. i want to bring harry litman in, an assistant attorney during the clinton administration. this is an interesting conversation they re having about documentary evidence of something that brett kavanaugh said during the investigation into president clinton that he said that he meant in a certain tone and someone else has said, he actually this was his position. what do you make of that back and forth? well, i think it s a very interesting discussion and kunz now h coons has a huge opening, but i don t if he ll take it. judge kavanaugh has said he personally believes that u.s. v. nixon was correctly decided. it was decided around the same time of roe v. wade, before other cases as to which he steadfastly said he won t discuss whether he believes they re correct or not. this is what s so important about some of these documents that are coming out now, they give personal views, the sorts
of that, senator chris kunz, delaware, sent a letter to senator chuck grassley saying these deeply concerned that based on new information we learned this week, donald trump jr. provided false testimony to the senate judiciary committee, saying he wants to renew his request to be called to return and testify before the committee in open hearing. what he s talking about is testimony in which donald trump jr. was asked the following question in front of congress. did other foreign governments offer to provide assistance to the trump campaign? don jr. answers, none that i know of. did other foreign nationals offer to provide assistance to the trump campaign? no. did you directly or indirectly seek foreign government or foreign nationals assistance for the trump campaign? no. are you aware of anyone else seeking foreign government or foreign national assistance for the trump campaign? i m not. did you ever tell anyone you d be receptive to assistance from northern governments or fo
michael cohen that seems to be ongoing right now. but i find this to be actually a very significant report today. and paul, again, that other piece of it too there with donald trump jr., we mentioned that reporting about the contacts with foreigners. the new reporting about contacts with foreigners. you now have chris kunz, democratic senator from delaware, saying that he wants more testimony now from donald trump jr., suggesting at least he misled in his initial characterizations here. donald trump jr., that name sort of re-entering the conversation with some prominence here. yeah. so, steve, both trump junior and kushner, the son-in-law, have serious short-term memory issues. kushner junior can t remember all of these meetings he had with the russians. and now we see trump doesn t remember this very dramatic and illegal meeting where foreign operatives offer to help his dad get elected president. there comes a time when a prosecutor wonders is this just