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Collins. when you are on the supreme court, the supreme court is not like lower courts. they always are able to overrule their precedent. and here in these emails at least it looks like they tried to suppress a document in which judge kavanaugh said, you know, as a white house staffer, it's not settled precedent. >> let's put that on the screen so our viewers can see it. this is an email from kavanaugh on roe v. wade back from 2003. he said, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer it roe as settled law of the land at the supreme court level since the court can always overrule its precedent...

Settled, quote, important precedent. nbc news, as you're aware, has obtained a committee confidential documents. that's how these documents are labeled. an e-mail that kavanaugh wrote in 2003 that's challenging roe v. wade as settled law of the land. he wrote in part, quote, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer to roe as the settled law of the land since court can overrule its precedent and three current justices on court would do so. senator feinstein of california, she asked him about this a short time ago. here's the response. >> in that draft letter, it was referring to the views of...

Nominees in which he wrote, i am not sure that all legal scholars refer to roe as the settled law of the land at the supreme court level since court can always overrule its precedent. here's what kavanaugh had to say about that this morning. >> in that draft letter, it was referring to the views of legal scholars and i think i was saying that may be overstating the statements of legal scholars. >> joining us now is "new york times" washington correspondent and msnbc contributor, charlie savage, who's been covering this hearing and broke the story for the newspaper. he's also the author of "pow...

Letter in your inbox before anything had been said about it publicly. did you find it at all unusual to receive a draft letter from democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public? >> the only thing i said on the e-mail exchange if i'm looking at it correctly, senator, is who signed this. which would imply that i thought it was a signed letter. >> it was sent to you. were you surprised to get it. >> it is obviously a draft. it has typos and every else. were you surprised that a draft letter circulated among democrats ended up in your inbox? >> i think the premise of ...

But here's the thing, you had the full text of my letter in your inbox before anything had been said about it publicly. did you find it at all unusual to receive a draft letter from democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public? >> well the only thing i said on the e-mail exchange if i'm looking at it correctly, senator, who signed this is this which would imply that i thought it was a signed letter. >> it was sent to you. were you surprised to get it? it's obviously a draft. it's got typos and everything else, were you surprised a draft letter second quarter lated...