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Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on...

Bush looks like when hes not telling the truth and the duggar family has a new defense lawyer, megan kelly. Im running for president in 2016, if i run. Jeb bush has not actually announced his candidacy. Its pretty obvious that youre running for president. I would like to run, but i havent made the decision. Even hillary would like youre raising huge amounts of money. Do you feel that you have violated that . Of course not. The family name may be affecting jeb bush. My brother is not going to be ...

Youre raising huge amounts of money. Do you feel that you have violated that . Of course not. The family name may be affecting jeb bush. My brother is not going to be a problem at all. Time has made george bush look better to people. Call it the United States of amnesia. Jeb bush said this weekend he has learned from his brothers successes. I havent even learned about his brothers successes. So the senate floor could be held hostage by president ial politics. Weve got some people running for Nat...

Making sure we are not making a mistake. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as attorney general, you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last, let me just say in my six years here, in addition to not working with us on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform, you have been one of the few senators to the president were to attempt to overriled that, what actions would y...

Of that geniality weve come to know. And, really, it underscores how divisive and intense the fomoods right now among democrats to try and oppose donald trump in absolutely any way they can. It was striking to see all of the chairs in this Committee Room on the democratic side empty today. They used that tactic to delay these votes from yesterday by saying using an obscure rule in the committee that requires at least one democrat be present. Essentially the republicans flipped farther into the r...

That committee choosing to reject senator sessions nomination to the federal bench. now after i questioned senator sessions about his claim of personally handling these four civil rights cases, senator cruz decided to weigh in on my line of questioning. he said i had intended to undermine the nominees character and integrity and that my questioning was, not backed by the facts. senator cruz then proceeded to discharacterize and attack mr. hebert whom he described as, quote, an individual who tes...

Incorrectly stated that when he was a u.s. attorney, senator sessions pressured the fbi to stop a voting rights investigation. now that was not the case. it wasnt senator sessions who did that. mr. heberts supervisor got it wrong. he misremembered. when committee staff next deposed mr. hebert, he was asked whether he observed senator sessions interfere with doj cases. and mr. hebert replied, quote, i only know what happened with our conoco county case but my supervisor is in a better position to...

That perhaps senator sessions or the transition team was attempting to revise some of that history and to recast him as a civil rights champion. and as it turns out, thats exactly what was going on. three attorneys who worked on three of those four cases wrote an op-ed stating that senator sessions had no substantive involvement in the cases that he listed as being among the top ten that he had personally handled during his entire career testimony to that, i fect. one of them, jerry heeber, spen...

Again happened o very short notice, mr. hebert and his supervurd to doj and pulled the records from the case, from those cases. they themselves discovered their error and they both immediately filed sworn declarations making clear that they were mistaken and that senator sessions did not interfere. it was senator sessions predecessor who had interfered. mr. hebert and his supervisor did not recant their testimony. they simply corrected their testimony in writing in advance of the committees vote...

Inappropriate. >> i think the senator from texas doesnt get the message from the chairman. >> you put the chairman in an awful bad position at this point because im not sure that i know where im going. i dont disagree with anything senator cornyn said butm not sure i want to rule anybody out of oer but could you please leave personalities out of it? >> senator cruz did the very thing that senator cornyn is accusing me of doing. in my absence, he misrepresented me. he misrepresented mr. hebert. h...