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branches. should supreme court justices be held to the same standard as any and all other public servants? the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the ethical standards or lack thereof for supreme court justices a topic that has come up in light of new reporting on repeated failures by justices to disclose details of lavish vacations, travel, gifts, even real estate transactions, testifying on behalf of democrats, a former federal judge and group of legal experts, guests invit...

Matthew, before i go on, i want to ask you about the reporting, but -- >> this isnt the first time this kind of mistake has happen, and god bless the incompetence. because really -- we were in a meeting on a conference call on something totally unrelated, one of my colleagues figured out the redaction issue, and heeverybod got excited. >> it worked out in your favor. this is what "the new york times" is reporting tonight. that both manafort, rick gates, they transferred data to konstantin kilimn...

Matthew, before i go on, i want to ask you about the reporting, but -- >> this isnt the first time this kind of mistake has happened, and god bless the incompetence. because really -- we were in a meeting on a conference call on something totally unrelated, one of my colleagues figured out the redaction issue, and everybody got excited. >> it worked out in your favor. this is what "the new york times" is reporting tonight. that both manafort, rick gates, they transferred data to konstantin kilim...

Intelligence. with me now is danny, let me start first with what we learned yesterday from this accidental redaction issue. how, when this happened, how easy is it for something like this to happen. how much can you experienced accidental unredactions like this. >> there has been a shift from paper filing to electronic filing. you create them on your computer, create a pdf, and electronically upload it. in the old days people used markers, they drew lines through what they didnt want to appear. ...

Job is to deal with the documents that are -- have been responsive to the goodlatte subpoena. there is a loft documents that are being reviewed. we need to do a better job at looking at those more quickly, addressing the redaction issue in those and getting them over to the committee. ainsley: do you believe that congress has a constitutional right to oversight and if you do, how is it possible that the doj is refusing to hand over these documents? >> yeah. and so, look, to be clear, refusing to...

Some time is, you know, reviewing all the teeferls to look for relevance. but then to figure out what materials need to be redacted out of there. and so the additional folks that have been added is going to be helpful. bret brit i understand you are just coming on. you understand this process has been going on for a long time. >> right. >> bret: up until you. >> right. >> bret: here is trey gowdy up on capitol hill. >> if there is a national security issue, we want it redacted. but, most of what...

Be fair and to be safe. is that going to be -- is that going to seem more dramatic if theres black bars through this document? >> well, it may. there are kind of two categories of redactions that may come out here. one is the needed redactions that apparently the democrats have already asked the fbi and d.o.j. separately to weigh in on to make sure source ands methods are not compromised. its a big deal to allow out a summary of classified information. you really do have to make sure you are not...