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Things about your nomination is the broad bipartisan support that you have received. youve learned great praise from individuals who are not staunch supporters of the president but who strongly supported your nomination. yesterday we heard from one of them, president obamas former solicitor general said you, quote, will not compromise principle to favor the president. in 2006, former colorado senator salazar, a democrat, said that you have, quote, the sense of fairness and impartiality that is a...

The broad bipartisan support youve received. youve earned great praise from individuals who arent exactly staunch supporters of the president but who strongly supported your nomination. yesterday we heard from one of them. president obamas former solicitor general said you will not, quote, compromise principle to favor the president. in 2006 former colorado senator salazar a democrat said you have, quote, the sense of fairness and impartiality and senator rosen praised you for your independence....

What my studying, thats what my zeal is, is to answer those type of questions. >> and recently, franklin has had some big questions to answer. he has pled guilty to rape by force, sodomy of a helpless victim by force, robbery, and illegal use of a firearm. hes awaiting sentencing but has recently received new charges of rape and other alleged crimes in a neighboring county and must soon answer those accusations as well. first hes confronted with another question. >> youre saying this is youth mi...

Supreme court. >> so what is the potential about a potential filibuster even? >> well, you know, it -- its hard to tell. and it depends how hard they will go at him in these hearings. youll know theres a ritual that goes on in these confirmation hearings. the senators try to get him on hot button issues, abortion, gay marriage, immigration. hes likely to dodge those kind of questions, to guard his impartiality. but when we see the tenor of the democrats monday and really tuesday, well get a sens...

Those investigations will be both aggressive and independent. that said, nobody seems to be biting on the republican side on your idea of an independent commission. should we be worried these wont be independent investigations? >> yes. im the worried because the trump team and many of my colleagues have failed to show impartiality on this issue. as each day goes by, as we roll into another election, we know russia is sharpening their knives and other adversaries will look at what is the united s...

As a non-partisan independent thing. i think my take on this increasingly and as far as i can tell from feedback from my viewers, people who i talk to, i think a pretty widespread feeling about this investigation is that if it is conducted by the justice department, which is run by trump campaign official jeff sessions, if it is run by the intelligence committees which are run by two trump campaign officials in richard burr and your chairman in the house, theres not much confidence that those in...

Failed to show impartiality on this issue. as each day goes by we know russia is sharpening their knives. thats a finding in the intelligence report and we know other adversaries with similar capabilities will look at what is the united states going to do? i have to give credit to one republican, walter jones, hes joined our call for an independent commission and hes put country before party before. he was the first one to speak out against the iraq war. >> one of the things im starting to feel ...

Jeff sessions, if it is run by the intelligence committees which are run by two trump campaign officials in richard burr and your chairman in the house, theres not much confidence that those investigations will be both aggressive and independent that said, nobody seems to be biting on the republican side about your idea of for independent commission. should we be worried these wont be independent investigations? >> im worried because the trump team and many of my colleagues failed to show impart...

For him to come back to the committee? >> if he has no credible explanation and hes offered none so far he must resign. the letter he spent us, which, by the way, is unsworn, as you know, was equivocal and evasive. senator franken called it insulting and i believe that it only deepens the need for him to be brought back to the committee if he fails to do so and offer a credible explanation i believe he must resign. >> youve been vocal in saying you will not support his confirmation unless he ple...

Know, was equivocal and evasive. senator franken called it insulting and i believe that it only deepens the need for him to be brought back to the committee if he fails to do so and offer a credible explanation i believe he must resign. >> youve been vocal in saying you will not support his confirmation unless he pledges in advance to appoint some kind of special prosecutor respond to the argument he made that it would be improper of him before taking the job and examining the evidence to make t...