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Has nominated a potential justice who will cast the swing vote on issues relating to his possible criminal culpability. in fact, whether he is required to obey a subpoena to appear before a grand jury, whether he is required to testify in a prosecution of his friends or associates or other officials in his administration and whether, in fact, he is required to stand trial if he is indicted while he is president of the united states. there is a basic principle of our constitution and it was artic...

Will cast a decisive vote in his own case. that is a reason why this proceeding is so consequential. senator sasse urged us to do our job. i agree. part of our job is to review the record of the nominee as thoroughly and deliberately as possible, looking to all the relevant and probative evidence. we cant do that on this record. mr. chairman, you have said multiple times that your staff has already reviewed the 42,000 pages of documents produced to this committee at 5:41 p.m. yesterday. both sid...

Korea that he felt could endanger and others felt could endanger national security, so they basically took it off his desk and john porter was complicity in this, the former staff secretary who then was asked to leave for other reasons, but you have this sense of people trying to save the presidency or save the president from himself or try and protect him from bob mueller, which is what -- you know, which is what they were -- which is what they were trying to do if that conversation took place ...

That so many americans believe that the law which i think all of us revere has become politics just pursued in another way. its not the way its supposed to be, judge. thats not what im looking for. now, im going to end -- ive still got plenty of time left, i think i have two hours allotted, mr. chairman. somebody talked about they had seen this movie before or commented to my friend this thing is as long as a movie. these are the words of justice curtis, in 1857 when he dissented in the dread sc...

Answering that question, first they said they felt it would violate the cannons of ethics, there are no cannons of ethics that preclude a response. then they said that they felt a decision might come before them, an issue in a case that might arise, and more recently theyve adopted the mantra that they think all supreme court decisions are correctly decided, but you are in a different position. youve been nominated to the highest court in the land and your decisions as a potential swing vote cou...

Something to be constitutional does not make it so. whats your reaction to that? >> well, you know, there are times when thats true. the supreme court has said some pretty terrible things in the past. the dread scott case saying that the supreme court has the final word temporarily but because of what people generally understand the constitution to mean makes a different. because the constitution can be amended, i think what rand paul said, as throwing down the gauntlet, i think hes quite right....

youre a democrat or a republican, maybe not so sure. its a good opportunity for you to hear from these candidates in extended form as they offer a presentation, answer some questions. the republican congresswoman, michele bachmann of minnesota is here. the georgia businessman herman cain, the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. the texas congressman and libertarian ron paul and the former massachusetts governor, mitt romney all appearing at senator demints at this forum in sout...

It could be done in libya. the united states had an opportunity. >> this is located in between egypt and tunesia. he was very specific about the problem being the flood of refugees, over those particular borders, which could indicate another situation with another refugee movement that wouldnt be as strategically important as refugees flooding into tunesia or egypt at this fragile point in the aftermath of their revolutions. >> i think the refugees point was sort of -- it led to the more specifi...

Thats not what i mean. what i mean is in america birth right citizenship is always about race. in 1857 in dread scott case, when the u.s. supreme court decided he had no rights, that a white man was bound to respect, it was a decision that though scott was born here in the united states, he was not a citizen under the constitution. in 1866, after the end of the civil war, and just before passage of the 14th amendment, birth right citizenship in the civil rights act of 1866 establishes american c...