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Connecticut just responded moments ago. listen to this. >> from the document dump last night, 42,000 documents that we've been denied any chance to review carefully and deliberately breaks all the norms. invoking executive privilege and hiding documents makes this hearing a charade and a sham and that's why we're going to ask it be postponed. >> jeffrey toobin, to you. is this the norm or anything but the norm? it suppose it depends what side you're on. >> there has never been executive privilege cited in refusing to produce documents from former white house aides like john roberts and elena k...

Reasons that have been outlined well by my colleague senator whitehouse. there is no valid claim here of executive privilege, even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted. the question is, what is the administration afraid of showing the american people? what is it trying to hide? >> mr. chairman, using your own words in the statement you just read, you said i quote, we've had more than enough time to review the documents. sir, we just got a document dump last night, over 40,000 pages. i would venture to say not one senator has had time to read through those 40,000 pages. we're co...

Turn over their staff's communication to anyone, for example we didn't ask that judge kagan's records for her service with then-senator biden with turned over during her nomination and because of attorney clie-- attorney/client privilege everybody has the right to keep communications with their lawyers. therefore we didn't ask for justice ginsburg's documents for her time with the aclu. we didn't ask for judge sotomayor's confidential documents from her time in private practice. it can't be that the senate and the aclu are entitled to more protection than the president of the united states. an...

Colleague, senator whitehouse. there is no valid claim here of executive privilege. even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted. the question is, what is the administration afraid of showing the american people? what is it trying to hide? >> mr. chairman, using your own words in the statement you just read, you said, i quote, we've had more than enough time to review the documents. sir, we just got a document dump last night over 40,000 pages. i would venture to say not one senator here has had time to read through those 40,000 pages. so we are continuing to rush through this pro...