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1980s and that case, the Supreme Court instructed federal courts to defer an agencys interpretation of the law if the law is quote ambiguous, unquote. Some of your academic writings express skepticism about the Chevron Doctrine and concern that it allows an ad men straegs to impose its policy preference by avoiding the political process. I can understand why this is appealing to an administration. I also think its a threat to the separation of powers because it transfers power fro the congress a...

You testified, and you testified repeatedly, that you had never received any stolen materials, you knew nothing about it to the public. you testified that if you had suspected anything untoward you would have reported it to the white house counsel, or would have raised it with senator hatch, especially as mr. miranda had worked for him. at the time we left it there. we didnt know any better. today, with the very limited amount of your white house record that has been provided to this committee a...

Night one night with your staff. im sure we did talk about what other senators thought. that was the airline bill where as i think you recall speaker hastert was involved and we were out there with the l & b team. with that i worked hard with your staff. it struck me as not uncommon at all to be talking with your team what both sides think. it doesnt strike me as it was armed camps. >> no, and oftentimes it was not. here you are getting obviously very private democratic e-mails. you werent conce...

Judicial nominees? >> senator, let my contextualize, let me see what you are putting up here. >> that question -- >> that, whats up there is 100% accurate. thats my memory. >> okay. so let me ask you this, thats -- >> never knew or suspected, true. never suspected anything untoward, true. and i suspected had i suspected something untoward i would have talked to judge govenz or senator hatch. thats all 100% true. >> thats what i already said. but did mr. miranda ever provide you with highly speci...

>> why dont take one that you do have? you do have this information from mr. miranda and the very limited amount of material that the republicans are allowing us to see of your information about you, that at least did come through. but in journal 2003, let me go to something very specific, mr. miranda afforded you a letter from me and judiciary democrats to then majority leader tom daschle. the letter was clearly a draft, it had typos and it wasnt signed. somebody eventually, we never put it out...

Team. this is, in fact, in this process. its common to hear. this is what senator x is interested in. this is what in y is focusing -- >> is it common to have copies of a private e-mail sent to a particular senator? >> copies of a private e-mail sent to a particular center? >> yes. wouldnt that just out at you? >> what are you referring to in. >> mr. miranda is telling you about e-mails sent to me the night before, there would be no way that he would even have that unless he stole it. did that r...

That the meetings with senate staffers and white house and justice departments -- >> im asking you about one particular one with mr. miranda. >> yes, sometimes, usually it would be at the white house or the senate. i think sometimes wed meet or doj, but sometimes it could be somewhere else. >> did he ask to meet with you privately to give you information about senator biden and senator feinstein? >> im not remembering anything specific, but thats certainly possible. again, senator, i just want t...

Doing preparing. im not asking about that. im asking you why before this did mr. miranda send you an e-mail asking you on july 19ing, 2002, asking you and another bush official why the leahy people were looking into financial ties between two special interest groups and pursuant to a particular controversial nominee to the fifth second quarter? you would handle that nomination as you know as a judge, you had received a lot of contributions. did mr. miranda send you an e-mail asking you why the l...

An environmental law. a senator is concerned about your past work for this client and thats very common kind of discussion. >> did you ever ask, had you meet him not at the white house, not at the capitol, but at his home? >> i dont remember that. >> okay. >> did he ever ask to meet you outside of the white house or the capitol? >> i cant rule that out. but again that wouldnt have been typical. >> did he ever hand you material separately from what would be e-mailed back and forth? >> im not reme...

Recollection or understanding at the time because i wouldnt have said who signed this if it was, if i thought it was a draft. my e-mail says who signed this? >> sow den realize what you had was a stolen letter signed by me that you had a letter that had not been sent to anybody fought made by the public in. >> all i see is a letter that says who signed this? thats all i see. >> let me ask you some more. so much of this came from mr. miranda, who was a republican staffer, who what was as we now k...