to republican administrations. joining us, senior editor and legal correspondent. thank you for being here. >> confirmation hearings have ended. how did they go? >> if you start from the proposition that all he had to do was tell truth. there was very little. he could have right up to shooting somebody on fifth avenue. and he had the votes. to just get time and time again into these kinds of nested lies within lies or just these new standards, i can't talk about politics, i can't even condemn charlottesville nazis. just the level to which it seemed as though he took that which was uncomplicated and made it harder and squirrely. and by the way, it doesn't help, the drip, drip, drip of these documents. it was such a great thing, right?