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Is that the way you see it? >> it is, senator. if i were to start telling you which were my favorite precedents or least favorite precedents or viewed precedents in that fashion i would be tipping my hand and suggesting to litigants i already made up my mind about their case. that's not a fair judge. i didn't want that kind of judge when i was a lawyer and i don't want to be that kind of judge now and made a vow to myself i wouldn't be. that's the fairness problem and the independence problem. if it looks like i'm giving hints or previews or intimations how i may rule i think that's the beginn...

Future litigants. is that the way you see it? >> it is, senator. if i were to start telling you which are my favorite precedents or which are my least favorite precedents or if i view precedent in that fashion, i would be tipping my hand and suggesting to litigants that i've already made up my mind about their cases. that's not a fair judge. i didn't want that kind of judge when i was a lawyer. and i don't want to be that kind of judge now. i made a vow to myself i wouldn't be. that's the fairness problem. and then the independence problem. if it looks like i'm giving hints or previews or inti...

>> i think it's true that american support the notion of having a better vetting and -- safety. maria: for sure. >> the problem is having a fairness problem. they support doing this across the board not targeting specific places and specific people. >> but what we know is that isis has made very strong claims that they're going to infiltrate the syrian refugee program to the point where they want to import their terrorism. maria: they have a passport-making machine. awe want to get back to president trump demanding congress investigate alleged wiretapping at trump tower by the obama administra...

What they're really thinking? >> i don't think so at all. i think the obama campaign works hard and worries every day about where this is going. the whole lesson in politics is you can't take anything for granted. that doesn't mean you and i can't sit here and talk about the weaknesses of mitt romney who is short of some malign turn of events will have a hard time winning this election. he's got a character problem. he's got a flip-flop problem. he's got a jobs problem. he's got a fairness problem. those are very big thing ons the table and the president's strengths happen to be the opposite o...