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Played out along the lines that sadly have become somewhat ordinary around here. there were excuses for delay. those fell flat. there were gross distortions of judge kavanaugh's record that were batted down by outside fact checkers. and there were all the usual phony apocalyptic pronouncements that are shouted whenever a republican president nominated a supreme court justice. happens every time. hostile to women, hostile to vulnerable people, hostile to workers, same old tricks, same old playbook. but here was the problem. the old plays weren't working. the distortions were being literally dro...

Out along lines that sad sadly become ordinary around here. there were excuses for delay, those fell flat. there were gross distortions of judge kavanaugh's record that were batted down by outside fact checkers. and there were all the usual phony apocalyptic predictions. hostile to women, hostile to vulnerable, hos tritile to work same old tricks, same old playbook. but here was the problem, the old plays were not working. the distortions were being literally drowned out by the facts. senators received and reviewed more pages of background materials on judge kavanaugh's nomination than for eve...

Ordinary around here. there were excuses for delay, those fell flat. there are gross distortions of judge kavanaugh's record that were batted down by outside fact checkers. and there were all the usual phony apocalyptic pronouncement shouted when a republican president nominates a supreme court justice. happens everywhere. hostile to women, vulnerable people and workers, same old tricks and same old playbook. but here was the problem. the old plays weren't working. the distortions were being drowned out by the facts. senators received and reviewed more pages of background materials on judge ka...

President trump. >> all right. let me go to you, ari. same question, what do you think about today? >> what was most significant was that jim comey, unle many other participants in this drama, was willing to come out der his own name, under oath, and testify. he also has some background materials. i didn't find it all that notable whether he used other people to distribute things. a lot of senior owe fishlfficia accustomed to having aides so to speak. what he said was backed up by other officials at the fbi that this effort to stob the flynn investigation was problematic so much so they took a...

People who don't fit into civ civilian justice in the united states and they don't fit into geneva con conveniences. >> that's right. but when the war ends, whenever we declare it over, hagel has made the point, we no longer can keep these people in guantanamo as combatants. this may be laying the groundwork -- i can ask bob something i've been curious about? "the washington post" came out with a story this morning with a treasurer trove of notes and background materials that bergdahl wrote and he sent them to a woman, a friend of his, back home. they show, first of all, he was in the coast gu...