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Forth, check this out. you agree or disagree that the student groups actions are acceptable if they resort to violence to prevent a speaker from speaking? 81% disagree. that the student groups actions are acceptable. yeah, that is a good deal. they shouldnt be violent. i think young people, frankly, with their head screwed on straight, most of them know that. rudy, close it out. >> exactly. this gentleman was 35 years old. hes not a child. we didnt see them earlier in the day, it is not like we ...

Were discussing policy issues and policy disagreements that the anonymous author seems to have with president trump, particularly on his handling of russia. that doesnt fall into the realm of classified information. i thought it was a notable effort on the part of the white house press corps to get sarah sanders to articulate by what legal standard the justice department would even look at this. as you know, you dont just send things over to the justice department and say, hey, guys, you know, c...

>> theyre putting this on national security. nothing was classified. nothing that would even affect national security. is that what this is all about? >> well, no, its not what its all about. as you know, the national security element of the op-ed were discussing policy issues and policy disagreements that the anonymous author seems to have with president trump, particularly on his handling of russia. that doesnt fall into the realm of classified information. i thought it was a notable effort on...

The trump administration pulling $25 million in funding from palestinians in east jerusalem hospitals. do you expect to use your position in congress along with those that you have said to create some kind of impactful change on some of these policy issues, on foreign policy issues? >> i know the human impact. my family members still live in the west bank. i know what it means to live in those kind of conditions, to not have access to those quality of life concerns. theres values we have to unde...

The white house counsel, who was squiring or shepherding the judge through these hearings. as you look back on this aspect, as somebody who is has picked and help ed judges. >> absolutely and hes someone worked on policy issues and issues like this one the judges that will become legacy issues for donald trump. so when the federalist society was coming up with a list of approved judges that donald trump would pick from, don was involved in that process once it reached the white house. and it was...

You cant turn the channel. they did get to some substance. what were your main take aways? >> history happening in front of us. my main take away, this is more political circus. this is not a constitutional inquiry. the fact that they keep asking general policy-based hypotheticals proves they are not interested in whether we have a candidate that is constitutionally fit to be a justice. heather: you were saying your opinion shows they dont understand the role of the supreme court. >> what we hav...

Its real important. that was a proposal to be considered. it was not a constitutional position. i did not take any constitutional position on the issues youre raising. i want to underscore that. if a constitutional question came to me, i would have an open mind and decide that. on your point -- >> but there isnt any clear text in the constitution that speaks to the question. so instead, these are your own recommendations based on your own views and experience. would that be a fair characterizati...

Public. of course, i think think all should be maybe public, the ones that -- and i dont like this committee classification, what happened, but the chairman did allow me to make those public. and in those documents, in one e-mail from march 2002, you discuss limits on contributions to candidates saying, and i have heard very few people say that the limits on contributions to candidates are unconstitutional. although, i for one tend to think those limits have some constitutional problems. i just ...

Case, so i cannot talk about it. >> okay. this is just my concern because of this expansive view of executive power, where it brings us and where we end up. i want to move on to some consumer issues. in 2016, you wrote an opinion which was later overturned by the full d.c. circuit in which you found the consumer financial protection bureau unconstitutional. the majority recognized that millions of people were devastated by the financial crisis, and they upheld this bureau and we know now in real...

An umpire, whos not wearing the uniform of one litgator or another, one policy or another. someone who reads the law as written, informed by history and tradition in precedent and constitutional cases. the law is written, informed by the cannons of construction that are settled in statutory cases, that treats litigants with respect, that writes opinions that are understandable and that resolve the issues. i think civility and collegiality help make a good judge. a good judge understands that rea...