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Covered in the past? >> i think it's different in degree, but not kind. these hearings have been aisha raid for a je charade for a generation. presidents bring it on. journalists bring it on. but the responsibility lost in the supreme court itself by getting involved in so many key, social and political issues they raise the stakes in confirmation hearings, and, therefore, presidents have more cynical vetting. and senators will do, what you saw, to try to get an omni vote. two years ago, it was republicans who wouldn't give merritt garland, president obama's nominee, there's plenty to go aroun...

Resign and sign your name to it? >> right. and this is why presidents get so angry about leaks with the same problem. speak up. put your name on it. don't say something on back ground to "the washington post" or "the new york times" or cnn or anyone else. i was in the first bush white house and president h.w. bush was seasoned and not like president trump and there were a couple times he launched mini leak investigations or had the investigations launched within the white house because he was so angry that something on background out in the press. it ended up going nowhere. he didn't put any -...

In my mind i did not know the details about that meeting and i should not have encouraged any reporter. the lesson i learned. i'm not certain even on back ground i should not be asking reporters to do investigateddive work when i'm not sure. howie: does did bother you that a lot of reports say lanny davis confirmed this then backed off and recanted. lanny: it does bother me because recanting isn't ease yesterday. i disclosed myself as a source. and i was very unclear in that. so yes. but i thought it was important not to blame cnn or anyone other than myself. i even wrote a book about taking r...

Not being more clear. in my mind i did not know the details about that meeting and i should not have encouraged any reporter. the lesson i learned. i'm not certain even on back ground i should not be asking reporters to do investigateddive work when i'm not sure. howie: does did bother you that a lot of reports say lanny davis confirmed this then backed off and recanted. lanny: it does bother me because recanting isn't ease yesterday. i disclosed myself as a source. and i was very unclear in that. so yes. but i thought it was important not to blame cnn or anyone other than myself. i even wrote...

Discussions. does predominantly young this group, or representation from all walks and ages? >> reporter: it's both. the confrontation i was talking about, some of the students came over and engaged some of the counterprotesters here, many of them from local pro-gun organizations just simply talking about the gun debate and where they can find common points of consensus. there were discussion about gun checks and back ground. that's a discussion that i think a lot of these students hope can be held on a more national legislative level. >> thanks. he lived high on the hog and wound up in deep...