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Sitting president, he would be in conflict with judge kavanaugh. >> he would, but this article which largely says that congress should find a way to exempt the president from even being questioned clearly was eye candy for donald trump and said he would be simpatico with his position. i agree. if he flips all the way over and says trump in fact legally is protected, that would be a change in position. but i think that's why question number one should be, what were you asked about this article? what did you say? what assurances did you offer? what kinds of things did the white house want to kno...

That's the principal way. >> i want to go to something right away. that is judge kavanaugh's view of the consumer financial protection bureau. what do you think it would mean to the future? >> he already said he thinks it is unconstitutional because it has a single director rather than multiple directors, which it's not the only agency that has a single director. in fact, the environmental protection agency is another one that has a single director and we have the officer of the controller of the currency. here's what troubles me about it, though. i look at it this way. donald trump had a list...

Made clear that he's not a supporter of the health care bill and the rights of americans to retain their health care protection. so i think those are two issues that are going to be powerfully important to senator collins, to senator merkowski, but i think they should be important to every senator. i think every single senator has a responsibility as they prepare to vote on this nomination to look at the question of what it will mean for a woman's constitutional right to choose. what it will mean for health care for tens of millions of americans, what it will mean for having a justice that has...

His years in the white house. when brett was nominated for the appellate court and approved, they did not look at the literally hundreds of memos he wrote as a senior aid to president bush. i think it is very important for the committee, for this life appointment to make these important decisions for them to see the full record here. what kind of memos did you write to president bush? what positions did you take on legal issues? what do the folks who made this pick know that we don't know. the federal society put him on this list, appointed him. they know who he did as a bush aid. we don't. th...

Says trump in fact legally is protected, that would be a change in position. but i think that's why question number one should be, what were you asked about this article? what did you say? what assurances did you offer? what kinds of things did the white house want to know? he is the only potential nominee on trump's list who explicitly wrote the president should have protection from investigations. that definitely had to raise questions in the process. >> but that means he's also the only one who specifically wrote that only congress can provide those protections. the supreme court cannot. >>...