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Firing to the russia investigation. heres one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing, with trump and russia is a made up story, its an excuse, by the democrats, for having lost an election, that they should have won. >> and the second instance, a draft letter, the president intended to send to comey, listing the reasons t...

Comeys firing to the russia investigation helped spark this counterintelligence probe. here is one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> the second instance is a draft letter that president intended...

Ill let you know because youve been reading through this in recent days, snatching a draft letter that was ending the u.s. south korea trade deal. there was actually a copy of the letter in there. what more might come out because we know woodward now has to follow omarosa who i think rewrote the standard of introducing a new book. >> yes. >> shall we say. >> yes. i think that the difference, theres a big difference between her book and his book, one, because shes just a celebrity. she just wants...

Leahy. this is from "the washington post" on friday. kavanaugh was not truthful about democratic documents. leahy said friday that kavanaugh was not truthful when he denied knowing that he had received documents that leahy said had been stolen from him and other democrats. kav knanaugh knew or should hav known. took from a computer. jointly shared with democrats. there were numerous e-mails sent to him that made it clear it was stolen information. including a draft letter from me. mr. kavanaugh ...

Since he wrote that, theres now another vote to overturn roe versus wade. with a fifth vote, i think it is certain that a justice kavanaugh would look at the issue very differently than a judge kavanaugh because once youre on that supreme court, you get to make the call. >> i want to play a clip. this is the ranking democrat, are the top democrat on the judiciary committee, senator diane feinstein, who said this on this sensitive issue of roe v. wade and kavanaugh. listen to this. >> so thank yo...

Democrats needing -- knowing they dont necessarily have the votes to stop brett kavanaugh -- >> diane feinstein is reading an important e-mail having to do with roe versus wade. >> if you could, do you believe it is correctly settled? >> thank you, senator feinstein. in that draft letter, it was referring to the views of legal scholars. i think my comment in the e-mail was that might be overstating the position of legal scholars. so it wasnt a technically accurate description in the letter of wh...

Since the court can always overrule precedent. democrats saying it called into question kavanaghs view of whether the abortion law could be overturned, an issue that could turn key votes against him. kavanagh on thursday denied that was the case. >> in that draft letter it was referring to the views of legal scholars. >> reporter: and returned to a familiar refrain, roe versus wade was precedent and could go no further. late wednesday night senator harris pressed kavanagh about whether he had di...

Probably not. >> the democrats are in some cases breaking the rules to make public e-mails that the republicans want to keep confidential. the big question unless theres a surprise, can you get murkowski or collins, two moderate senators of alaska and maine respectively to break? if you cant you dont have the votes. then theres a separate question of red state democrats to support him. thats later. the big controversy today is does this e-mail in which kavanaugh says im not sure that all legal s...

Draft letter on a trade deal. its been done for about two minutes. but that was another thing in the book that was just totally false. >> totally false and no documents. >> right. he said it was phony. here it is. heres the letter. ive read the book. its in the book. its absolutely real. >> look, whats critical about this is that it explains, it makes the case as you said according to woodwards book. this wasnt just one person, this was a group of white richd. by the way. and said he stands by a...

What legal scholars refer to. so please once again tell us why you believe roe is settled law and if you could, do you believe it is correctly settled? >> so thank you, senator feinstein. in that draft letter, it was referring to the views of legal scholars and i think my comment in the e-mail was that might be overstating the position of legal scholars. so it wasnt a technically accurate description in the letter of what legal scholars thought. at that time i believed chief justi justice rehnqu...