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Them pump the brakes, even though you would think with approval ratings where they, are they would be a little careful. >> big swings, so, when i hear you say that, my mind immediately went to the affirmative action case. is that one of the things that you are thinking about? >> i think its almost impossible to imagine that they are not going to go big on affirmative action based on what we heard in oral argument. so this is both harvard and u.n.c., challenges to affirmative action in higher edu...

Knows that he cant, as you -- to use your words, magically declassify, how much does that play into the dojs case? >> well, a lot, because, i think a key ingredient in determining the intent with which a person acts is consciousness of guilt. and if a person acts with consciousness of their own guilt or consciousness of their own potential wrongdoing, that demonstrates that if they go forward, nonetheless, theres intent. and you know, my understanding is that there were hundreds of documents tak...

Allegation involving then vice president joe biden. wray offered to let you and comer view the document and do it in a secure location, comer wants it physically turned over to the full committee. what are your thoughts. youre the ranking democrat on that committee. >> so the fbis coming tomorrow tocomer and me the document theyre looking for. so in other words, the republican chairman on the committee is getting everything theyre asking for in terms of seeing the document, by the way, which the...

A clean debt can ceiling? maria: right. >> should we have been able to take the victories -- maria: listen, i know you have a victory, i said is it at the top of the show, congratulations. ive got to get your ache on the fbi because here, too, you got pushback. you want this document from christopher wray. he says hes going to deliver it tomorrow. if he does not allow the entire committee to see it, where are we? what happens then? >> well, again, maria, lets look at where we first started. when...

A clean debt can ceiling? maria: right. >> should we have been able to take the victories -- maria: listen, i know you have a victory, i said is it at the top of the show, congratulations. ive got to get your ache on the fbi because here, too, you got pushback. you want this document from christopher wray. he says hes going to deliver it tomorrow. if he does not allow the entire committee to see it, where are we? what happens then? >> well, again, maria, lets look at where we first started. when...

Taken, many of them were classified. some of them were top secret. and yet they were deliberately withheld. and if the prosecutor jack smith has information to that effect, that is very serious business. >> i want to ask about something that youre dealing with on the oversight committee. republican chairman, jame comber, said he would hold fbi director chris wray in contempt over an fbi document containing a bribery allegation involving then vice president joe biden. ray offered to let you and c...

Him, held him in contempt. all the votes he had to go through to get speakership. this was a threat to his speakership and he came out of it just fine. >> often underestimated by the press. days away from a government default tomorrow. has the media kind of cast the president and the speaker as the grownups in the room? >> absolutely. i think that it was necessary. joe biden has had a long-standing history of compromise. he has done it for decades now. we have so many people who, honestly though...

Authorities what discussions cut our state department tablet trying out they do this? >> the best interpretation as they are trying to take daily temperature. they are worried about a miscalculation or miscommunication that could lead the pla to invade taiwan and we stumble into a war which we are on prepared. the fighting understand they dont understand and that language of tweets or nice diplomatic communiqués. communist leaders respect only firmness that is what famous soviet said about the ...

Say theyve already seen. and yet theyre still talking about holding the director of the fbi in contempt even though theyre getting exactly what they want and the fbi has been overwhelmingly cooperative and accommodating to this request. so that demonstrates to me that what theyre really interested in is in holing the fbi director in contempt, not in getting a document that theyve already seen and i dont know what that document is because the majority has closed us out. the democrats reason the c...

The former president in a town hall with fox news said that he has no knowledge of this july meeting, and they say that they still dont know, obviously, where this document is that prosecutors are so interested in. the thing is, anderson, the bottom line here is that prosecutors throughout months have insisted that they believe trump has -- continues to possess classified documents that must be returned. so, theyve gone to court trying to force the president to be found in contempt, and so far, ...