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Out of fear and insecurity, and i put that in the context of the dissent you wrote in the affirmtive action case involving the university of michigan, and you wrote that race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silents judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts, i do not belong here, and i thought this was not something that you found in a law book. this is what you had lived. >> it is what ive lived, and as you know, from my own nomination process, there were critics...

Have it fully within their power to say we are not going to fund the justice department while its fake attorney general is at its helm. we are going to fund parts of it. they have all sorts of things like that. and number three is the courts. and there are litigants every day in this country who face adverse justice department action, criminal testifies, civil, all sorts of things. and any of those people can sue. senators can sue saying, look, my job. but the reason i ran for office is because ...

Some mechanisms around which the president can keep whitaker in office for at least some amount of time. and if he ultimately does nominate someone while that person is going through the nomination process, whitaker can be there for longer. there are some who say this is because the president knows or thinks something is coming from robert mueller, and he would rather have whitaker on the -- at the head of the justice department while that happens. yes. and if were suspicious of president trumps...

Straight ticket my entire life. >> the senator who is but a disaster. >> he also tweeted, since as vicious and totally false statement about ron jackson, the respected white house doctor, jon tester looks to be in big trouble in the great state of montana. he behaved worse than the democratic mob did with justice k when he became the president no money for secretary in april, he went public with unproven allegations of wrongdoing involving alcohol and drugs. >> the white house to calm the candy ...

Democrat mob did with justice k. but tester told me that it wasnt him. >> i didnt see the presidents tweet but i didnt make those statements. those are accusations that came from military people, both active military and retired. he with drew his name from the nomination process after those accusations were made. >> tester wants to leave the ronny jackson saga in the past to focus on the future. matt rosendale isnt ready to let it go and he now says that testers treatment of ronny jackson gave d...

Are paid protesters. i dont know that their energy is great. i can tell you the energy on the republican side, i dont think its ever been greater. >> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp voted against brett kavanaugh. i spoke with her just before air time. >> senator heitkamp, the president called the protesters a mob. he said some were paid professionals who were unhappy because they hadnt been paid. does any of that make sense to you? >> i think one of the most important things we can do now th...

>> north dakota democratic senator heidi heitkamp voted against kavanaughs confirmation knowing it could be political peril for her re-election bid. i spoke with her just before air time. >> senator highlight kamp, the president has called the protesters last week at the capitol a mob. he said some of them were paid professionals who were unhappy because they hadnt been paid. does any of that make sense to you? is that what you saw? >> i think one of the most important things we can do now that ...

Associate justice, brett kavanaugh, heard his first cases today. it came after last nights ceremonial swearing in at the white house, where the president apologized to justice kavanaugh on behalf of the nation for what the president called the painful nomination process, earlier calling it a democratic hoax. today, justice kavanaugh hearing oral arguments in two cases, and he engaged quickly, asking more than a half dozen questions. we have new reporting here tonight after that horrific limous...

Legitimate? >> listen, he just watched that hearing unfold like everyone at home. and what i saw was that the republican majority was not letting kind of the process play itself out and that the fbi investigation wasnt thorough. we didnt hear from all the witnesses. >> so youre happy with the way your party handled it? >> the whole thing im not happy about. im not happy the guys on the court. im not happy how the whole thing went down. i really wish we could have had a more sober nomination proc...

Republicans. 55% disapprove of senate gop. 56% disapprove of senate democrats. thats a virtual dead heat, right? did both sides come out of this wound wounded? >> absolutely. its hard for me to imagine that anyone looks at the senate judiciary committee or the leadership in either party as having conducted a supreme court nomination process that is something that the country can be proud of. both sides will forever look back on this incident, this chapter in our political history, with a great d...