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Disingenuous in some of his answers today. for example, when he was, as andrea pointed out, when he was asked about some of the, his memoranda and the torture memo thing and he said i haven't seen that. they've been in the newspapers. clearly his aides, his handlers have that material, so it can't be that he hasn't seen that material. he also said when asked about for example campaign finance law, he said that there was a lot of room to regulate expenditures and there really, i have to say as somebody who reads these opinions, i think the supreme court has said congress cannot regulate expendi...

Illegal collection of thousands of americans' communication. now many of us felt it was a direct violation of our surveillance laws. the justice department attorney john yew testified about the program. he said the statutes passed by congress cannot infringe that the president's inherent power under the constitution to conduct national security searches. so do you believe that president bush's warrantless surveillance program is justified because the president had, quote, inherent power to override our surveillance laws to conduct national security searches? >> senator, as a judge, before i ev...

We see under the aca, that the rate of increase -- nobody wants to see increases, but that's the reality of health care, the way it is right now -- is less than it was before the aca. not in florida because you guys didn't embrace the law the way you could have if you expanded medicaid. now you're doubling down on your own problem. right now you get about 61 cents on the dollar reimbursement from the federal government. you're going to cut that. you're going to reduce the number of dollars but say to people they'll be able to get more care. how? >> you're referring to a decision that was made ...

>> absolutely not because his declarative statement was he did not have any communications with the russians. not only did he have it in his capacity as a senator, but also met with the russians using campaign funds of his own at the rnc convention. so he was caught red handed either way. that's why he needs to resign. i'm on the house judiciary committee. we have oversight over the partment of justice and congress cannot conduct effective oversight if executive bran officials are going to lie to congress. that's why there's an entire law, not just on perjury, but on executive branch officials...

>> you're saying as it stands it's not clear whether or not it was perjury, it would have to be litigated, and the answer certainly isn't a home run one way or another. >> right. >> who would actually take the initiative of bringing this case? >> it would have to be the department of justice and of course mr. sessions is at the top of the department of justice. unless he appoints special counsel to investigate not just the russian connection, but whether or not his testimony before congress was perjury, then nobody is going to look at it because even though the statement was made to congress, ...