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>> completely chilling, jon. as i have been around promoting my book like you said at the beginning of the segment i have been talking to people and i had so many people come up and say id always thought about running for political office but i dont know if i want to now, im talk about democrats and republicans, i think we can agree, jon, that we dont want this to be politicized, we dont want issue like rape to be politicized, we dont want women to be exploited for politicization and we certainl...

Campaign. jon: so presidential appearance tonight and a senate vote on a supreme court nominee in the next week or so could change this race. >> yeah, it could, joe manchin is in a tough position on that because as i said earlier, most west virginians support the kavanaugh nomination, they want to see him confirmed, well f joe manchin votes with the democrats on that to not confirm, morrisey is going to be on that right away but at the same time does manchin want to be the only democrat who woul...

To answer, theres still the power of subpoena, theres a procedural question of whether it has to be returned from the entire senate back to the committee but they certainly have the power at that point to subpoena judge. so he has a strong reason not to find fault with the questions but to really answer them. when they ask him, do you have any documents to try to lead the investigators to documents, once you have documents, they may tell a very different story just like judge kavanaugh has his o...

From the federal government. this is a federal government issue. >> the federal government is paying for the tab, for the national guard on the border. second, the reason why im work to go make sure that we do secure the border is because i want to go after the human traffickers, the sex traffickers and cartel members, those who threaten us like gang members, the rise of ms-13 of gang members in the state of texas, i want to do something to put a stop to that. jon: latest polling show abbott lea...

Hacked? >> thats right and so this vulnerability was introduced in 2017. facebook noticed it in mid-september, after that they started to address the issue and have fixed the vulnerability out there but whats interesting about the 50 million mark, if they had been exploiting for a certain period of time it would have been a smaller number. we are looking if the a longer-term breach and what youre seeing with larger organizations, like facebook, can can impact millions and millions of people beca...

Politicize the appointments of judge kavanaugh? >> i think we saw just record levels of partisan a little bit on both sides, jon, i mean, this is -- this as unprecedented as we have ever seen a time in american politics, and the republicans made a very smart move, i was praying, hoping that the republicans would allow the weeks investigation for the fbi to conduct a further background check because dr. ford obviously definitely deserved that but it also gave them the ability to continue to show ...

Compelling when they gave testimony, so hopefully this will shed more light on what happened 36 years ago, the character -- jon: if anything? >> yes. [laughter] jon: go ahead. i didnt mean to -- >> the character of brett kavanaugh as mr. katz there are questions from testimony, his demeanor and he was partisan in his testimony and that is now another issue that has been raised, judges are supposed to be impartial and it was quite shocking to see him talk about a left-wing conspiracy and the clin...

This. even though he would like to get rid of rosenstein, maybe he believes now, as we were also told friday, i was told by a source, that the president didnt want to do anything about this until after kavanaugh issue was resolved, that he didnt want two big messes on his hands at the same time. which is why we have seen his restraint on rosenstein on twitter. so its an incredibly chaotic situation. kelly and rosenstein have been close. and im told by one source that, you know, kelly has protect...

Congress, perhaps he will see action by the president. >> shepard: effectively, whether this is the goal or not is another matter, im not inside his head, i dont know, but the effect of this has been to make the base turn on jeff sessions, which they have. they used to love him. now they dont. i read it. im sure. >> turn on the justice department and turn on the fbi and turn on an investigation that the president wishes to discredit. because it is moving towards him. or maybe its not. we dont kn...

Attack on law enforcement and to obscure the real issue, which is what did russia do with the 2016 election? >> frank, just in a couple of seconds, its from your perspective the declassification order? >> reporter: yeah, look, at best, its a disgraceful attempt to distract from the russia investigation and from the caf knauss matter. at worst, it is that furtherance of obstruction and tampering with an ongoing investigation with the president. deaths could occur from the exposure of sources and ...