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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 of people that had been pre-screened by the federalist...

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 already indicated that he's concerned about whether or not a sitting president has indic...

That starts with a thorough review of his records, including 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, ap...

List is committed to overturning health care rights for tens of millions of americans. so the question then becomes, how do you pick under those circumstances? and donald trump picks the nominee, picks the person who says, you know, it would be a total disaster for the united states of america if it turned out that the president of the united states got indicted. now, the reason this is so important is, look at what he did with the consumer agency. look at what he did with the environmental protection agency. he didn't limit himself to say, hey, listen, let's stick with a strict reading of the...

Figure out what stops this president from getting rid of mueller. what stops him is rod rosenstein, and jeff sessions to some extent, but mainly rosenstein, who appointed him. is that true, and is that why the republicans on your committee and elsewhere seems to be always targeting rosenstein from a variety of directions? >> first, chris, they're trying to put an asterisk on this investigation should it bring more indictments, especially against the president or his family. but what stops the president is public sentiment. he wants to be popular. he wants to be liked. that is more important th...