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Arizona to what is signed by the president, it is what has gone through the senate and the house and that is the law. but also as a practical or functional matter, i think having seen the legislative process, i know how compromises come together and the house and senate, within the senate, within the house, there is negotiations late at night over precise words and compromises inevitably. the constitution compromise, legislation is compromise and we depart from words that are specified in the text of the statute, we're potentially upsetting the compromise that you all carefully negotiated in t...

The federalist society and you said in that speech, it is a matter of constitutional principle, it is simply inappropriate, we believe, to afford any outside group a quasi official role in the president's nomination process. how do you square those two comments about the role of the american bar association and the nomination process with the role of the federalist society and your nomination process, assuming that mr. mcgahn was speaking accurately when he said they about been in-sourced to the white house for this process. >> ki speak to the ada part of that. president bush, in 2001, had to ...

One is i described the process i went through with mr. mcgahn, the president and the vice president. >> yep. >> and the selection and that is what i know about my process. two, on the ads, there are a lot of ads against me, as well. and i've seen those. you know, our family has seen those and then there are ads for me, and we've seen those, too. chief justice roberts said it is a free country and this are ads for and against -- >> do the citizens know who they are, who is funding the ads as matter of citizenship? >> i think that is first and foremost a policy question for the congress to decid...

>> so, two things, senator. one is that i described the process i went through with mr. mcgahn, president, the vice president, and that's what i know about my process. two, on the ads, there are a lot of ads against me as well. and i have seen those. and our family has seen those. then there is ads for me, and we have seen those, too. as chief justice roberts said in his hearing, it's a free country and there are ads for and against. >> should we as citizens know who they are, who is funding the ads, just as a matter of citizenship? >> first and foremost, i think that's a policy question for t...

Draft speech for attorney general gonzalez or white house counsel gonzalez. probably white house counsel gonzalez to deliver to the federalist society, and you said in that speech, as a matter of constitutional principle, it is simply inappropriate, we believe, to afford any outside group a quasi official role in the president's nomination process. how do you square those two comments about the role of the american bar association in the nomination process with the role of the federalist society in your nomination process, assuming that mr. mcgahn was speaking accurately when he said they had ...