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To delay the proceedings. chuck schumer once again accusing republicans blocking access to documents from brett kavanaughs time in the george w bush white house. >> any fair-minded observer would be hard-pressed that the review of brett cavanaghs record has been transparent, open and fair. it has not been. >> we are back -- what do you expect? >> i feel sorry for chuck schumer, looks like he is going through the motions. nothing matters except republicans have vote and with john mccain after dea...

Because they argue hundreds of thousands of pages of kavanaughs work product are still out there. >> it is so wrong. any fair-minded observer would be hard pressed to say the review of judge kavanaughs record has been transparent, open and fair. it has not been. >> the gop strongly contests that. the senate judiciary committee says they just dropped 85,000 more pages of info about kavanaughs time as a lawyer in the bush white house for 287,000 of material for anybody to read in congress. republi...

Special counsels office, and you dont typically do that unless the special counsel is interested in what you have to say. the second true thing is that donald trump may actually believe that don mcgahn has nothing damaging about him to say. those two things may be true. however, what trump may be ignoring is as an observer and as a lawyer don mcgahn may have seen and heard things that are significant to him but not significant to the president, who doesnt seem to take a tremendous amount of inte...

Happy birthday, john. you have earned everything youre experiencing right now, and i will be there sooner probably rather than later given my familys history. but between now and the time -- my time is up, im going to use every day, every hour and every minute to try and make this country stronger and safer and make this world better. and the best way i can do that is take the values of john mccain and mix it with the personality of lindsey graham and do something about it. rather than being an ...

Trump. >> funny how the feds showing up at your door can change your long-held practices of friendship. >> your deeply-held beliefs. >> your deeply held beliefs of loyalty. that has a persuasive impact. >> thats what flipping is about. the reason why law enforcement has been so successful in using lower-level people to testify against higher ups is because they recognize that loyalty to the higher ups 1 of no value when youre looking at 10, 20, 30 years in prison. >> chris cillizza, youre a gran...

To mr. weselberg. >> weisselberg. >> weisselberg. i always have a problem with -- >> you suggest your client michael cohen has information that will be very useful to the special counsel, robert mueller. what is that information? >> well, i pick my words carefully. im not quibbling. i said would be of interest. that i believe that he observed and saw mr. trump being aware of the use of e-mails to damage hillary clintons campaign. that could only have been derives through illegal hacking from a r...

Presidency. it started out. talked in the show about it, he was fiercely loyal. the kind of person he is, and obviously that changed over time, and i believe histories will look kindly on michael cohen. he obviously pled guilty to those counts and wants to focus on counts seven and eight. lanny davis mentioned yesterday, he really is looking forward to talking with mueller. mueller reaches out to him in corroborating stories that michael i believe will be able to tie trump to those meetings and ...

Found guilty of eight counts. he could spend the rest of his life potentially in jail. its pretty extraordinary when you think about it. >> youre an astute observer of donald trump. you have been for years. we know how he consumes media and headlines and coverage. imagine being him today, watching these headlines ripping across the screen of these people who, yes, he had a much closer relationship to michael cohen than paul manafort but this was the chairman of his campaign through its most tric...

Constitutionally empowered to fully control? >> they dont. in fact, they really cant tell exactly whats happening behind the walls. once they close those walls everything is done in secret. and they only know what the intelligence agencies tell them. >> tucker: that is by definition an assault on our democracy, isnt it? >> it is. they have no effective way of finding out and verifying what they are being told is true. this is true for the fisa court too. as early as august of 2002 the fisa court...

Fully control? >> no, they dont. once they close the doors everythings done in secret and only know what the intelligence agencies tell them. >> tucker: thats by definition an assault on our democracy, isnt it? >> it is. yes, they have no effective way for finding out and verifying what theyre told is true. this is true for the fisa court too. as early as august of 2002, the fisa court discovered the fbi lied to them for over 75 warrants and have no way of verifying them. >> tucker: this is the ...