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High-tense process in the whole senate confirmation process, which i do think, this was said after the bourque nomination and confirmation hearings, and it was said theres a confirmation mess and we need to clean it up, and i hope thats the lesson, but i stand totally by brett kavanaugh as a person of dig u dignity. >> every time you come on they know the history, they know brett kavanaugh worked for you during the clinton investigation, and its notable what kavanaugh argued for, and let me read...

Blocking the career crfses because of dont ask dont tell. she has a sterling resume a. top academic, she briefly practiced as a lur and was solicitor general. she is solicitor general now. the hearings for those were a little more than a year ago and it is interesting, she did face tough questioning there but now senators saying its nothing like what shes going to get this time around because then she was up for a position thats got a finite period of time. this time were talking about a lifetim...

Recruiters use to get to harvard students because she opposed dont ask dont tell and calls it a moral injustice to the first order. today on "fox news sunday" we had senator graham talking about the fact that the american people arent going to understand that. shell have a lot of explaining to do that on that topic. >> that is going to be the main topic that well see unfold over the next few days. i think thats perfectly fair to question her about that subject. she was the dean of the harvard la...

Years, conservatives as well as liberals, she spent so many years being careful, trying not to say anything on the controversial topics, she did write an article about the nominating process, itself, where she criticized. >> bret: there it is. the quote. 1995. "the current confirmation mess derives not from the role the senate assumes in evaluating judge bork but the subsequent abandonment of the role and function. when the senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issue...

At harvard, then on to columbia to complete her legal education. that means, wolf, nine ivy league law school graduates on the court, and tr that point ever view, i dont think thats enough converse are diversity. many would like to see broader reach. very good law schools. im proud both of them, even so, i think thats less diversity than we like over time. >> spoken by someone who went to -- i believe duke law school? >> no, harvard. >> went to duke undergraduate. >> no. yale under2k3wr5d. >> yo...

Judiciary committee, theres a lot of questions, people staying away from substantive issues, but for elena kagan it will be different. in 1995, a book she wrote as a forward to the confirmation mess, a book by steven carter, she talked about the fact that the questioning needs to be tougher. weve got a quote, she said open exploration of the nominees substantive views enables senators and constituent toss engage in a focus of constitutional values to ascertain the values held by the nominee to a...