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If Brett Kavanaughs confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, Womens Rights and Voting Rights for decades to come. All i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. In the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. You live in unusual times as i do. You should get mo...

We are back. the nominee is seated and we believe senator richard durbin of illinois takes up the questioning for the democrats. >> -- set down and cleared with you their decision on the release of documents? >> no. i was not involved in the documents process or substance. >> no one told you you would be the first supreme court nominee to assert executive privilege to limit the access to 100,000 documents relating to your service in the white house? >> senator, a couple things packed in your que...

Archives have done the initial review. >> mr. chairman, the national archive stated publicly the way we are handling the records for this nomination are unprecedented and it had nothing to do with it. they have asked until the end of october to produce records. they have been told that we dont need you. well finish this hearing long before then. i would like to ask to be placed in the record of the statement from the national archive related to the records related to judge kavanaugh. >> yes, wit...

I think senator leahy had two goals there. one, perhaps to create smoke around these issues of the stolen e-mails and when did judge kavanaugh know of the list program. watching here, i said, wow. does he have it? does he really have him nailed and a document? he didnt quite have it. the suggestion, a little smoke. perhaps he didnt know, maybe a reason he should have known or maybe turn add blind eye. those are the question, was it unusual to be asked to someones home as you were apparently and ...

Think that thats something that i did on my own. we had previously sent out a letter, and only senator klobuchar at that point had taken advantage of the letter to be able to ask for documents that were committee confidential so that they could use them at the hearing, and the only thing ive done for senator leahy that wasnt already in that letter was to remind people that we did the same thing for the gorsuch nomination to the supreme court and its policy that senator leahy, when he was chairma...

If brett kavanaughs confirmed to the supreme court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, womens rights and voting rights for decades to come. all i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. in the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. you live in unusual times as i do. you should get mo...

Administration? could they potentially be on the chopping block or sidelined? well have to see. >> a beautiful day in washington, kristen welker, thanks. we want to show, folks, heading to a break, chairman grassley is back from what combination of senate votes and lunch he has enjoyed. thats him, just him so far. he likes to keep to the clock. they have not gavelled back into order. he needs at least one or two members of the committee to do that. the entire gallery is out. the nominee is not t...

Democratic senators we think have been given a pass by chuck schumer more interested in holding the senate and not voting against this nominee. indiana, north dakota and -- >> give us the view of chairman grassley. getting so much television time and new pairs of eyeballs who dont normally watch proceedings like this, and not only that, is this a level of intensity youve never seen before on a hearing like this? >> absolutely. yesterday was so rough. senator grassley has had a pretty much good w...

Dont want to have a cloud over the nomination, i am prepared to ask the committee, humbly, withhold further hearings until you disclose everything. why dont you do that. >> senator, i do not believe thats consistent of what prior nominees have done thats been in this circumstance. it is a decision for the senate and the executive branch. justice scalia explained it clearly in his hearing. >> are you happy of that decision? >> i do not. >> this is the long-term interests of the senate and the exe...

>> they did as they -- ill tell them what they told me. they gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. >> i just wish if we -- could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up. is that asking too much? so what kind of country have we become? none of this happened just a couple years ago. its getting worse and worse and worse and all of us have an obligation to try to correct it where we can. row...