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Interesting. >> clearly, ariane, put a lot of time and thought in interviews with you and others, frustrated when asked that question but here he gives a lot of time for the president to make that choice, if the president chooses to take that time. it appears theyre not, on the senate judiciary committee, to have a meeting on the books to come up with a confirmation strategy. what more can you tell us about that strategy? >> reporter: dick durbin is meeting 11 members including him on this commi...

New day. a new opportunity to overturn existing precedent that i find offensive. and not aligned with the constitution. hardiman who there are suing begs he may be more like john roberts who balances precedent a bit more. >> kavanaugh has a record of threading the needle as it were. that can frustrate conservatives. can make conservatives happy at times. but that would actually make him harder to confirm because he has such a paper trail which leads me to my question for you, jeffrey, whats the ...

>> and the willingness to have these comments published. >> congressman, these are democrats coming out saying this. are you saying that democrats chuck schumer, democrat senator blumenthal are in coordination with the white house? >> no, im saying it might have been quite calculated in terms of what judge gorsuch said. it may have been very well choreographed. he may have had very specific intention to use those terms knowing that essentially they would be leaked to the press. that might have b...

Interviews prior to the election. more than 200 people since the election have sat down with what we call our tiger teams for full vetting and full review. im happy to say the american interest in this administration has been overwhelming. over 4,000 candidate referrals. on the eve of the inauguration, our beach head teams are ready to land and go to work in these various agencies of the incoming administration. on legislative affairs, we organize more than 90 volunteers to create and execute a ...

Election have sat down with the tiger teams for full vetting and full review. im happy to say the interests of the american people in this administration has been overwhelming. more than 86,000 resumes have been submitted to the transition and over 4,000 candidate referrals. on the eve of the inauguration our beachhead teams are ready to land and go to work in these various agencies of the incoming administration. on legislative affairs we organized more than 90 volunteers to create and execute ...

The other thing i told you last week was that this was a bit like a game of cricket. there will be a score. dont ask me about whats going on, and dont ask me about the score and well have a clear winner. a real buzz. were outside the office where theyre negotiating and we believe well have news for you in the next few hours. >> ive got a questions about score and cribbinget and everything else, but ill wait. ill hang on to those questions. paula, appreciate it. thank you for the latest developme...

Sector, compensated in a manner consistent with other people who did the kind of work that i did in the industry. >> paul: were back with dan henninger and james freeman and wall street editorial board member. what did we learn about his tenure at citi? >> almost nothing. its amazing, he didnt have an opinion 0 that, chief operating officer and running before and during the crisis, overseeing a lot of important stuff. the financing of the divisions, the legal, et cetera. but i think its basicall...