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But they still want to -- they have a legitimate concern they were expressing based on the document dump, and they wanted people to know about it and to wake people up. it's hard to break through in this environment. >> i love lindsey graham's statement toward the end of the hearing where he was talking do you suddenly expect a conservative president is going to choose a liberal justice? it's okay for hillary clinton to talk about she has a litmus test on upholding roe v. wade, but donald trump can't? to me, it's just, again, it's the minority speak up with the only voice they have. >> lindsey...

Document dump, if that's what it was, as inappropriate? >> well, i don't know if it's inappropriate. i think that calling out about the documents is kind of a smoke screen. they have 300 opinions to refer. to i understand their complaint. they're in the minority. and if you want to pick judges, you got to win elections. what i really want to see is more and more of these protests during the hearing. i want to see more of that. i want them to wear their pink hats. i want them to embarrass themselves. >> you think it has -- >> the opposite effect. normal americans see that as ridiculous. they se...

I have every reason to believe. donald trump won the election and we should know what we are getting. >> here won and he gets to appoint the people he wants to appoint. >> thank goodness democrats woke up and many democrats were happy to see them with more pep in their step at the hearing. i disagree with you. i think seeing them active and seeing protesters is going to get a lot of people out and excited about the elections in november. >> on our side, absolutely. >> we will see in november. we can place a wager on it. elections have consequences and that's a point they are making. look, they...

>> the idea behind this is this is a time appointment. he is 53 years old and will sit on the court for the next 30 years and impact all of our lives in ways we cannot even imagine yet. there should be a full and thorough airing of what his views are and how he will see the law. i do understand and this is true of both democrats and republicans. nobody wants to answer specific questions of how they will rule on hip thetical or existing facts, but there has to be more of a conversation on people's values and legal views than we have seen. >> no one wants that conversation until they are in the ...

Kavanaugh could make in the hearing would be one if he were to cross conservatives or give them pause that's something that could affect his future but otherwise republicans seem extraordinarily bent on pushing this through. declined to delay the hearing despite the document dump that democrats complained about all day yesterday and mitch mcconnell wants the vote on kavanaugh's confirmation before the midterm election. so again, unless there's an objection from republicans, that's not a lot that democrats can do and you have seen many trump nominees march right on to the courts. this is, you k...