Page 50 - Document Dump News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Craigen is not a favor analogy. this is part of the nominee's history that he has said is one of the most formative times. so i would not hire an intern in my office knowing only 90% of their resumé. there is not a person here that would buy a home only seeing 90% -- only seeing 10% of the rooms. i just believe what we're doing here just on the objective view of fairness is sincerely unfair and it's insulting to the ideals that we try to achieve in this -- with some sense of calmity and some sense of rules. but i want to get deeper han that. i'm trying to figure out what the jeopardy would be...

Miffed. why is this acceptable? why is it acceptable to hold back documents that are relevant? >> it shouldn't be and there's a bipartisan standard as joan just pointed out that this violates. when elena kagan was put forward, the obama administration didn't exert executive privilege. the bush library tried to say, look, be as transparent as possible. it's apparently the trump team that dialed that back. the reason -- let's just look at last night's document dump. okay? questions about warrantless wiretapping, water boarding, the selection of two supreme court justices that came up under his w...

Kavanaugh, brett kavanaugh, the president's appointee for the supreme court, what is the first question you would like to ask him? >> well, i don't want to telegraph that, but i do think that what you're going to see is a lot of boiling mad democrats on the judiciary committee. there has been a real banana republic process that has gotten here. those of us who are lawyers think the obvious comparison is to the discovery process in a trial. imagine one party in a trial telling the other party, well, you're due all this discovery, but we're only giving you 10% to 15% of it. and we're going to ma...

Appreciate you being with us. thank you. sam. i want to go back to you on that point, i don't understand why the democrats are showing up. they have been talking about this lack of transparency from the very beginning. they fire on the committee. one of the most important things that came before my committee in my career, which is this kavanaugh appointment, which could fundamentally alter the balance of the supreme court for the next generation, and the republicans refuse to be transparent about it. you know, i would certainly recommend everybody around me not show up for the hearing becaus...

Was one of his most formative times. i would not hire an intern in my office knowing only 90% of their resumé. there's not a person here that would buy a home only seeing -- excuse me, only seeing 10% of the rooms. i just believe what we're doing here, just on the objective view of fairness, is sincerely unfair and it's insulting to the ideals that we, that we try to achieve with some sense of comity and some sense of rules. i want to go deeper than that. i'm trying to figure out what the jeopardy would be, what the jeopardy would be if we just waited for the documents. last night we had a do...