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But they still want to -- they have a legitimate concern they were expressing based on the document dump, and they wanted people to know about it and to wake people up. its hard to break through in this environment. >> i love lindsey grahams statement toward the end of the hearing where he was talking do you suddenly expect a conservative president is going to choose a liberal justice? its okay for hillary clinton to talk about she has a litmus test on upholding roe v. wade, but donald trump can...

Document dump, if thats what it was, as inappropriate? >> well, i dont know if its inappropriate. i think that calling out about the documents is kind of a smoke screen. they have 300 opinions to refer. to i understand their complaint. theyre in the minority. and if you want to pick judges, you got to win elections. what i really want to see is more and more of these protests during the hearing. i want to see more of that. i want them to wear their pink hats. i want them to embarrass themselves....

I have every reason to believe. donald trump won the election and we should know what we are getting. >> here won and he gets to appoint the people he wants to appoint. >> thank goodness democrats woke up and many democrats were happy to see them with more pep in their step at the hearing. i disagree with you. i think seeing them active and seeing protesters is going to get a lot of people out and excited about the elections in november. >> on our side, absolutely. >> we will see in november. we...

>> the idea behind this is this is a time appointment. he is 53 years old and will sit on the court for the next 30 years and impact all of our lives in ways we cannot even imagine yet. there should be a full and thorough airing of what his views are and how he will see the law. i do understand and this is true of both democrats and republicans. nobody wants to answer specific questions of how they will rule on hip thetical or existing facts, but there has to be more of a conversation on peoples...

Kavanaugh could make in the hearing would be one if he were to cross conservatives or give them pause thats something that could affect his future but otherwise republicans seem extraordinarily bent on pushing this through. declined to delay the hearing despite the document dump that democrats complained about all day yesterday and mitch mcconnell wants the vote on kavanaughs confirmation before the midterm election. so again, unless theres an objection from republicans, thats not a lot that dem...

Craigen is not a favor analogy. this is part of the nominees history that he has said is one of the most formative times. so i would not hire an intern in my office knowing only 90% of their resumé. there is not a person here that would buy a home only seeing 90% -- only seeing 10% of the rooms. i just believe what were doing here just on the objective view of fairness is sincerely unfair and its insulting to the ideals that we try to achieve in this -- with some sense of calmity and some sense...

Miffed. why is this acceptable? why is it acceptable to hold back documents that are relevant? >> it shouldnt be and theres a bipartisan standard as joan just pointed out that this violates. when elena kagan was put forward, the obama administration didnt exert executive privilege. the bush library tried to say, look, be as transparent as possible. its apparently the trump team that dialed that back. the reason -- lets just look at last nights document dump. okay? questions about warrantless wir...

Kavanaugh, brett kavanaugh, the presidents appointee for the supreme court, what is the first question you would like to ask him? >> well, i dont want to telegraph that, but i do think that what youre going to see is a lot of boiling mad democrats on the judiciary committee. there has been a real banana republic process that has gotten here. those of us who are lawyers think the obvious comparison is to the discovery process in a trial. imagine one party in a trial telling the other party, well,...

Appreciate you being with us. thank you. sam. i want to go back to you on that point, i dont understand why the democrats are showing up. they have been talking about this lack of transparency from the very beginning. they fire on the committee. one of the most important things that came before my committee in my career, which is this kavanaugh appointment, which could fundamentally alter the balance of the supreme court for the next generation, and the republicans refuse to be transparent abo...

Was one of his most formative times. i would not hire an intern in my office knowing only 90% of their resumé. theres not a person here that would buy a home only seeing -- excuse me, only seeing 10% of the rooms. i just believe what were doing here, just on the objective view of fairness, is sincerely unfair and its insulting to the ideals that we, that we try to achieve with some sense of comity and some sense of rules. i want to go deeper than that. im trying to figure out what the jeopardy ...