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Know this nominees views on issues that are so profoundly important, like race and the law, torture and other issues. >> mr. chairman, may i read the senator rule 295, standing rules of the senate? any senator, officer or employee of the senate who shall disclose the secret or confidential business or proceedings of the senate, including the business and proceedings of the committees, subcommittees and offices of the senate, shall be liable if a senator to suffer expulsion from the body and if a...

>> punishment or contempt. >> bring it. bring it. >> all of us are ready to face that rule. >> well come back to this in a moment but a new statement just released by the first lady of the united states on a separate issue. you are aware a "the new york times" anonymous essay of a senior trump administration official calling the president amoral, temperamental. a network of people within the administration who essentially are resistance movement to the president. they dont implement the policies...

Nominees views on these issues are so profoundly important, like race and the law, torture, and other issues. >> mr. chairman, may i read the senate rule 29.5, the standing rules of the senate, the vented dough-like benefit of all senators? and a senator, officer, or employee of a son who shall disclose the secret or confidential business proceedings of the senate, including the proceedings of the committees, subcommittees, and offices of the senate, shall ber exposure from the body, and dismiss...

This is not just about filling of the key vacancy on the supreme court, but no vote which made to side life and death issues on important cases. it is more than a question of release of documents. it really goes to the heart of where we are in america at this moment. you have been nominated to be a justice on the united states supreme court. by president donald trump. we have to take your nomination in the context of this moment in history. we are at a moment where the president has shown contem...

Nominees views on issues that are so profoundly important. like race in the law, tor fture and other issues. >> mr. chairman, may i read the senate rule 29.5, the standing rules of the senate for the benefit of all senators? any senator, officer or employee of the senate who shall disclose the secrets or confidential business or proceedings of the senate including the business and proceedings of the committees, subcommittees and offices of the senate shall be liable if a senator to suffer expuls...

Down in alabama. >> he has hatred and contempt for my people, and, yes, my people, places that i grew up in and was raised and went to school in, in one of the great state schools in america, alabama. now, let me get to the question. >> uh-huh. >> what was your big takeaway from the book? a certain story? a certain element that struck you? >> id say one. after a series of books, the president, when hes on tape with woodward, oh another one of these bad books. hes had a bunch of bad books. "fire ...

Calling southerners stupid? or is it just my friends from alabama that he keeps calling stupid? because he keeps -- i know he believes it, but he keeps calling my friends from alabama stupid. he calls -- he insults my school as a second rate school. its a constant attack on the great state of alabama, roll tide, number one. >> joe, its not easy for me to defend alabama, but i have to. im forced to out of solidarity. im so sick of these dumb southerner comments and attacking our accents which i t...

Committee proceedings on nominations when documents have been denied on two occasions from senator sessions, then senator sessions and senator kyl. those requests were granted. were asking simply that that precedent be followed, mr. chairman. far from mob rule, far from contempt of the process, were simply asking for respect here to the normal regular order. >> mr. chairman? >> yeah. go ahead. >> mr. chairman, id like to address this committee confidential issue one more time because youve expla...

Been denied on two occasions from senator sessions, then senator sessions, and senator kyle. those requests were granted. were asking simply that precedent be followed, mr. chairman. far from mob rule, far from contempt of the process were simply asking for respect here to the normal regular order. >> mr. chairman, i would like to address this committee confidential issue one more time because you have explained your point of view. here is what we know. the chairman grassley, who is my friend an...

Sitting next to each other who believe in madisonian democracy, checks and balances, constitutional norms. it was extraordinary. there you see lynne cheney next to al gore. you see, of course, democratic presidents next to republicans. but they came together in a building to celebrate the life of one man who defied the first president, who had contempt on those values whether talking about an independent judiciary, or checks and balances, of free press and an independent department of justice or...