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High-tense process in the whole senate confirmation process, which i do think, this was said after the bourque nomination and confirmation hearings, and it was said there's a confirmation mess and we need to clean it up, and i hope that's the lesson, but i stand totally by brett kavanaugh as a person of dig u dignity. >> every time you come on they know the history, they know brett kavanaugh worked for you during the clinton investigation, and it's notable what kavanaugh argued for, and let me read to you what he wrote in a memo. he said clinton should be forced to account for all of that and ...

Blocking the career crfses because of don't ask don't tell. she has a sterling resume a. top academic, she briefly practiced as a lur and was solicitor general. she is solicitor general now. the hearings for those were a little more than a year ago and it is interesting, she did face tough questioning there but now senators saying it's nothing like what she's going to get this time around because then she was up for a position that's got a finite period of time. this time we're talking about a lifetime appointment. when it comes to questioning and how well she answers that, a lot of nominees i...

Recruiters use to get to harvard students because she opposed don't ask don't tell and calls it a moral injustice to the first order. today on "fox news sunday" we had senator graham talking about the fact that the american people aren't going to understand that. she'll have a lot of explaining to do that on that topic. >> that is going to be the main topic that we'll see unfold over the next few days. i think that's perfectly fair to question her about that subject. she was the dean of the harvard law school. she hasn't been a judge before. she doesn't have a record of opinions that people ca...

Years, conservatives as well as liberals, she spent so many years being careful, trying not to say anything on the controversial topics, she did write an article about the nominating process, itself, where she criticized. >> bret: there it is. the quote. 1995. "the current confirmation mess derives not from the role the senate assumes in evaluating judge bork but the subsequent abandonment of the role and function. when the senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues it takes on an air of farce and the senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or educating t...