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And my chief of staff of 33 years tells me that weve tried to recruit women and we couldnt get the job done. >> you think they dont want to be on the committee? >> well its a lot of work. dont forget, compared to a lot of committee meetings, we have an executive every thursday. so its a lot of work. maybe they dont want to do it. >> all right. so less than 24 hours later grassley walked back his remarks while mitch mcconnell said that republicans are currently trying to recruit more women for th...

This is cnns manu raju with the judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley. >> i get mad at people downstairs doing that so -- >> can you talk about the process that got us here? regrets about the nature of it? >> yes, that we couldnt keep on the qualifications of the man going to be on the supreme court. i think should have been focused on that. and for two months it was, and when that didnt work, they dug up everything they could, include ug the legitimate accusation of sexual assault. >> sen...

It up with one sentence, what i should have said, it is hard to get men, and three people are on the economy because the leader had to talk to them about being on the committee because nobody wants to serve to be on the commit for two reasons. one, it has executive session every thursday. at least most thursdays. and another thing, it is so ide logically divided. >> do you need more women on the committee? >> i would encourage women to get on the committee. but i asked a woman yesterday, if she ...

Follows. >> as consent reading the names be waived? >> without objection. >> legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak their end for up to ten minutes each. >> without objection. >> so, mr. president, i ask you now to consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 11:00 a.m. thursday, october 4th. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired. the journal of proceedings be approved to dat...

Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 11:00 a.m. thursday, october 4th. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired. the journal of proceedings be approved to date. the time for the two leaders be reserved for use later in the day and morning business be closed. finally following leader remarks, the senate proceed to executive session to resume consideration. >> all right. theres senator mcconnell. don, i wanted to bring you back in here. you...

Told manu raju this afternoon that after this report, the president may have to give up those returns. do you think youre finally going to get them? >> well, i would like very much if the republicans and chairman hatch would do what i asked for a year and a half ago. i asked the chairman -- there is a very specific process for our being able to obtain the returns and to look at it in executive session. the president -- excuse me, the chairman was unwilling to do that. maybe hes opening up the do...

A lot of twists and turns. today the original calendar thrown out the window with the announcement of yet another fbi probe. well break down the next steps of what happens by the numbers. >> shannon, senate action on the nomination of brett kavanaugh started like this. >> i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 1127. >> all in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. >> senates now officially debating the nomination. the original plan had the se...

Thomas, there were still a few democrats were saying they are for thomas and they will be for him. now its more what is susan collins do in maine. >> much trickier for them. the white house is trying to keep it from private. that will never work. >> if the white house says and theres reports today indicating they want to have this done in executive session, in private or in conversations on the phone, if they do that, the democrats will hold their own hearings and have empty chairs for the repub...

How do you balance those two challenges, one, someone who doesnt want to go public as a witness but seems to have important information, and what would you tell a potential witness like that. >> oh, my goodness, thats such a hard question, lawrence. i think first of all its important to honor the wishes of someone in that circumstance, they dont want their name to be known. but its important to an executive session or closed door meeting to consider matters that arent in the public demesne. i th...

Around the president of the united states. mitch mcconnell knows this kind of attitude about the danger posed by the president has been expressed to mitch mcconnell by people around the president. the same with paul ryan. what we need here are, finally, i think, some hearings on -- congressional hearings, in which an executive session or open session, those around the president of the united states are questioned about the fitness of donald trump to be the president of the united states. thats w...