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Was president of the united states, and that somehow he is unable to make a claim of privilege, or that once the claim is made in consultation with this private lawyer that it would be not respected by the senate -- that's outrageous. i thought we were doing pretty well yesterday. things went off the rails, it looks like, last night. i hope we will return to be hearing process that respects rules and treats each other, and particularly the nominee, with the civility that he and this process is entitled to. i would encourage our colleagues to avoid the temptation to either violate the senate ru...

To because of his committee assignments that i do not have. it's incredible frustrating. in those circumstances, look for a demon. there are demons and the circumstances, they are too numerous to name here. in this circumstance, there is a demon. but that demon is the law of our own creation. it's called the presidential records act. that is the demon that you are after, here. that is the only reason we have got this issue. the custodian of those documents holds and exercises a privilege on behalf of the bush administration. these are documents we would otherwise not have access to because the...

Documents as requested by president bush in consultation with his private lawyer. >> sir, may i respond, sir? no senate rule accounts for bill burke's partisan review of the document. no senate rule and no history of the senate accounts for what is going on right now. that was following this partisan operative, following his involvement in this process, that i think, in my opinion, undermines the process. the idea that we could somehow go through your lengthy process where many of these documents are dumped at us on the last minute -- senator cornyn made a good point. i knowingly violated the ...

That is exactly what has happened. it is what has worked, and what has worked here today. if you're frustrated with the process, let's review the presidential records act. we are just doing what the law allows us here to do. these documents are not ours. they belong to someone else. it is not written to the constitution, on stone tablets anywhere that we are entitled to item's that don't belong to us. the significance that william howard taft and releases presidential papers. robert jackson, having served as the attorney general, didn't release all the papers he had as attorney general. why? w...

And respects the privilege that is accordance to documents that do not belong to us. that's all we are asking. the process is working. let's move forward. >> mr. chairman? on behalf of this side, i would like to say a couple things. there is no process for the committee confidential. it used to be that both sides had to concur, the chair and the ranking member. but now, this is just simply not the case. to some extent, with this kind of thing, committee confidential becomes a kind of a crock. it shouldn't. i think we need to sit down, i think we need to have a rule on how committee confidentia...