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In the hearing. so long as is a reasonable request, no guarantee that the we will be able to use them. but to submit the ones we ask questions about, you will go back to president trump, go back to president bush for review. now, i see that plainly. if i could just finish my point, we have a number of those documents released to us the night before. to think that we could somehow ask you about the documents, revealed to you what questions we wanted to ask, and its not even your determination. it...

Republican or democrat, will have an opportunity to do what they want to do today. because this is the last day hes going to be here, so i hope you dont invoke the two hour rule. if you want to talk now before i start to ask my questions, i will do it. senator whitehouse was the next one, then senator hannity. kennedy. >> im in a similar situation. >> senator whitehouse. i think he asked before you did. >> the chairman, you recognize me for 30 seconds and i will take 30 seconds. left silence imp...

Nomination and nominate judge watford to the supreme court, i would certainly ask judge watford about his relationship with judge krasinski." thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> senator booker, before you speak, i hope that you are not going to say that we have not gotten the documents you want and all that sort of thing. my staff was here until three trying to accommodate everybody who asked for documents. would you proceed please? >> i appreciate that, sir. sir, the very section of the proce...

Process is finished, i am going to release the email about racial profiling. i understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the senate. if senator cornyn believes that i have violated senate rules, i openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now. i am releasing it to expose that emails are being withheld from the public have nothing to do the national security. nothing to jeopardize the sanctity of those ideals that i hold dear. instead, wha...

Accept that im under any obligation. i have not made a big fight about this. i have gone ahead with my questioning. again, left silence imply consent. i think that rule is ineffectual as if we had unilaterally repealed the law of gravity. it simply isnt so. i havent agreed to this rule, i havent voted on this rule, this rule does not exist in our committee or senate rules. i will leave it at that. i am not willing to concede that there is any legitimacy to this entire committee confidential proc...

Was president of the united states, and that somehow he is unable to make a claim of privilege, or that once the claim is made in consultation with this private lawyer that it would be not respected by the senate -- thats outrageous. i thought we were doing pretty well yesterday. things went off the rails, it looks like, last night. i hope we will return to be hearing process that respects rules and treats each other, and particularly the nominee, with the civility that he and this process is en...

To because of his committee assignments that i do not have. its incredible frustrating. in those circumstances, look for a demon. there are demons and the circumstances, they are too numerous to name here. in this circumstance, there is a demon. but that demon is the law of our own creation. its called the presidential records act. that is the demon that you are after, here. that is the only reason we have got this issue. the custodian of those documents holds and exercises a privilege on behalf...

Documents as requested by president bush in consultation with his private lawyer. >> sir, may i respond, sir? no senate rule accounts for bill burkes partisan review of the document. no senate rule and no history of the senate accounts for what is going on right now. that was following this partisan operative, following his involvement in this process, that i think, in my opinion, undermines the process. the idea that we could somehow go through your lengthy process where many of these documents...

That is exactly what has happened. it is what has worked, and what has worked here today. if youre frustrated with the process, lets review the presidential records act. we are just doing what the law allows us here to do. these documents are not ours. they belong to someone else. it is not written to the constitution, on stone tablets anywhere that we are entitled to items that dont belong to us. the significance that william howard taft and releases presidential papers. robert jackson, having ...

And respects the privilege that is accordance to documents that do not belong to us. thats all we are asking. the process is working. lets move forward. >> mr. chairman? on behalf of this side, i would like to say a couple things. there is no process for the committee confidential. it used to be that both sides had to concur, the chair and the ranking member. but now, this is just simply not the case. to some extent, with this kind of thing, committee confidential becomes a kind of a crock. it s...