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That has not been the case here where 147,000 pages have been designated by bill bourke as outside the reach of the american people and the senate judiciary committee. that's a further example of why this whole process is gone astray and i think your explanation ignores that. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. chairman? >> who wants the floor? >> the new senator. >> go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, can you tell me again how many documents have been produced? >> 488,000 other than 28,000 pages that justice kavanaugh included his own opinions. >> are we in executive session? >> we're hav...

Neglect to mention that the republicans asked for four minutes from her work at a civil rights work in the 1980s, long before she was ever even considered as a judge. you asked for that and we got it for you. that's the difference. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. chairman? >> before senator klobuchar speaks, we have 488,000 pages of documents. go ahead, senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. few points here. number one, justice sote owe my i don't remember never worked in the white house so none of these privileges that we've been discussing are relevant. number two while i appreciat...

Background, i started talking about 100 million pages. then when we finally get 488,000, then i could say, well, i got about 48% of what we ought to have. but there's a good explanation why we don't have it. so i want to read. some of my colleagues keep saying that we have only 6% of judge kavanaugh's white house records. but that 99% of justice kagan's records were made public before the hearing. this is fuzzy math. my colleagues calibrate their phony 6% figure on two inaccurate numbers. first, their 6% figure counts the estimated page count by career archivists at the national archives based...

Requested. you probably heard the first sentence of something i said after our break and that was that i could -- i first started talking about expecting a million documents and we end up, i think, with 488,000, but then i went on to explain that the process with all the software and everything else that can speed things up, duplicates were eliminated and et cetera, et cetera, and so we've gotten all the documents i requested. just to correct you. >> sir, and to my understanding -- >> go ahead with your opening statement. >> i just want to make a point to that if you don't mind. you requested ...

What you have done in a lower court, that's the best basis for knowing whether or not you ought to be on the supreme court. so we have 307 cases that this nominee has written decisions on as a basis for that. and we've had 488,000 other pages and maybe the senators haven't read them but their staff is fully informed because last night before 11:00 on the 42,000 pages that have come to our attention, the staff on the republican side has gone through them. >> bret: why did you ask for the without counsel documents, why would you ask for them? >> that's a rate of 7,000 pages per hour. that's supe...