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The campaign. and we know that the investigation is not example of the everyone who's talked about this or briefed on it has said there's more to do, and we're pursuing this investigation. bret: mollie, let me ask you about the democrats, they're going to move on something, stand united and say special prosecutor or we're not moving forward. they're going to do a host of things probably starting tomorrow into tuesday. >> obstruction has worked out well. at the same time, i'm not sure if that's the most brilliant idea because i think republicans would like to see a consensus pick, they would li...

Would that be possibly something that should be a consensus pick, suggested by both parties in the judiciary committee. >> lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we've seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn't treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, ...

Judiciary committee. >> lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we've seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn't treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, you know, i think more than ever now we need that kind of consensus pick, but what we've not seen f...

Make this stuff up. i think it's -- i have concerns about the fbi sh so that's why i believe we need a special prosecutor. but boy oh, boy, lawrence, more than ever, this senate investigation, which i've been frustrated sometimes at our pace. but it becomes more absolutely essential than ever. and we've got to keep it as much as possible bipartisan and we've got to follow the facts because this is now been elevated to a -- you picked the defcon level than it was. earlier in the day, as we heard, an update on this investigation and we had not actually director comey appearing before our committ...

From a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, merrick garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. >> martha: gorsuch has the same description. >> i don't doubt that you could argue that bashar gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. i wanted to pick on something --dash go >> martha: that is why they didn't vote for him? >> the point was that they denied. this is the power -- the point i wanted to pick up. this is the power of obstruction. the republicans obstructed pr...