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Collins. when you are on the supreme court, the supreme court is not like lower courts. they always are able to overrule their precedent. and here in these emails at least it looks like they tried to suppress a document in which judge kavanaugh said, you know, as a white house staffer, its not settled precedent. >> lets put that on the screen so our viewers can see it. this is an email from kavanaugh on roe v. wade back from 2003. he said, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer it roe as se...

Settled, quote, important precedent. nbc news, as youre aware, has obtained a committee confidential documents. thats how these documents are labeled. an e-mail that kavanaugh wrote in 2003 thats challenging roe v. wade as settled law of the land. he wrote in part, quote, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer to roe as the settled law of the land since court can overrule its precedent and three current justices on court would do so. senator feinstein of california, she asked him about this...

Nominees in which he wrote, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer to roe as the settled law of the land at the supreme court level since court can always overrule its precedent. heres what kavanaugh had to say about that this morning. >> in that draft letter, it was referring to the views of legal scholars and i think i was saying that may be overstating the statements of legal scholars. >> joining us now is "new york times" washington correspondent and msnbc contributor, charlie savage, w...

Letter in your inbox before anything had been said about it publicly. did you find it at all unusual to receive a draft letter from democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public? >> the only thing i said on the e-mail exchange if im looking at it correctly, senator, is who signed this. which would imply that i thought it was a signed letter. >> it was sent to you. were you surprised to get it. >> it is obviously a draft. it has typos and every else. were you surprise...

But heres the thing, you had the full text of my letter in your inbox before anything had been said about it publicly. did you find it at all unusual to receive a draft letter from democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public? >> well the only thing i said on the e-mail exchange if im looking at it correctly, senator, who signed this is this which would imply that i thought it was a signed letter. >> it was sent to you. were you surprised to get it? its obviously a ...

Cabinet officials suggesting that president trump is dangerous and not up to the job temperamentally. gary cohn the former economic counsel director seeing a draft letter that he considered dangerous to national security in the oval office desk would have withdrawn the u.s. from a critical deal with south korea, it would in his views jeopardize a national security program to detect north korean missile launch within seven seconds. woodward report, i stole it off his desk, i wouldnt let him see i...

Witness, you cant supervise the case. i know that not every line in the law is that clear, but this one seems that clear to me. now, rod may be privy to stuff we just flat out dont know. but from where i sit, where i s a witness and he should recuse himself. >> frank, thanks for sticking around with us from the 1:00 p.m. hour. do you have an idea of why rod rosenstein would still be in the position hes in? >> i think chuck raises an interesting point and it may be the reason why rod has not yet ...

Egotistical and maniacal. sunday shows with presidential aides or officials, these are conversations with policy matters, conversations about important topics, but instead miller kept going back to how powerful the president is, how successful he is. it was clearly a show for one man, clearly the president liked it. but i think the rest of us learned a lot about how unusual and how dysfunctional the white house still is. >> yeah, miller got that atta-boy from the president via tweet. saying he w...

To implore him not to follow what the law requires him to have done which is to recuse himself which he did properly. that speaks to pressure that page is talking about that really doesnt belong in the criminal justice system because it undermines the integrity of that system. when you have grassley and graham sending a referral to the fbi and the first and only referral being that of the author of the steele dossier, it creates all sorts of appearances that make this appear to be political and ...

Did it anyway. i want to bring in national security reporter kenny d., ken delanian. as well as my panel, obrien, quinn. what have you sources told us about this? walk us through. >> a u.s. official has partially confirmed to us, reporting what first broke last night in "the new york times," which is before jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation in march, white house counsel dan mcgann and other white house officials called him to try to persuade him not to do that. "the tim...