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President trump also ordered the release of unredacted text messages of former doj and fbi officials whom he regularly criticizes on twitter including james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page as well as orr. the white house said the order was made at the request of a number of committees of congress and for reasons of transparency. the justice department said that it has begun the declassification review process to ensure the safety of national security interests. a u.s. official told nbc news that the agencies would not be able to conduct a damage assessment on the text messages be...

X drunk. democrats and several top republicans say they won't be satisfied until they hear from kavanaugh and ford in a public hearing. >> if judge kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. >> reporter: as for the president, he says he wants a thorough process. >> you have to go through this. if it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. >> reporter: top republicans tell nbc news there will be a hearing next monday. ford and kavanaugh will be invited. in a new statement, ka nvanaugh saying he's willing to testify as early as today to clear his name. comi...

Good morning. it is tuesday, september 18th. i'm ayman mohyeldin. republicans called for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford, the woman accusing him of sexual assault, to testify publicly next week at a hearing that could potentially determine the fate of his nomination. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley announced the hearing will be next monday after fellow republicans called for an open examination of the allegations. grassley said his staff tried reaching out the ford, but democrats refused to participate in that process. gop leaders had initiall...

>> do you know if he's offered to withdraw from the process? >> next question. what a ridiculous question that is. [ inaudible question ] >> do you think his confirmation is on trial? >> i think he's on track, yeah. i think he's very much on track. if they delay it a little bit just to make sure everybody's happy -- they want to be happy. i can tell you, the republican senators want to be 100% happy themselves. in an unprecedented move, presumptive nominee is using the power of his office to order the director of national intelligence and the justice department to immediately declassify mate...

Process. one thing i will say is that, as i understand it, judge kavanaugh spent quite a bit of time with senator feinstein and it wasn't even brought up at that meeting and she had this information. so you would have thought certainly that she would have brought it up at the meeting, not wait until everything is finished and then have to start a process all of again. with all of that being said, we want to go through a full process. i have great confidence in the u.s. senate and their procedures and what they're doing and i think that's probably what they're going to do. they'll go through a ...