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That committee choosing to reject senator sessions' nomination to the federal bench. now after i questioned senator sessions about his claim of personally handling these four civil rights cases, senator cruz decided to weigh in on my line of questioning. he said i had intended to undermine the nominee's character and integrity and that my questioning was, not backed by the facts. senator cruz then proceeded to discharacterize and attack mr. hebert whom he described as, quote, an individual who testified falsely before this committee. let's talk about that back in 1986, mr. hebert and his super...

Incorrectly stated that when he was a u.s. attorney, senator sessions pressured the fbi to stop a voting rights investigation. now that was not the case. it wasn't senator sessions who did that. mr. hebert's supervisor got it wrong. he misremembered. when committee staff next deposed mr. hebert, he was asked whether he observed senator sessions interfere with doj cases. and mr. hebert replied, quote, i only know what happened with our conoco county case but my supervisor is in a better position to talk about that than i am. mr. hebert continued. he and i both have a very fuzzy recollection abo...

That perhaps senator sessions or the transition team was attempting to revise some of that history and to recast him as a civil rights champion. and as it turns out, that's exactly what was going on. three attorneys who worked on three of those four cases wrote an op-ed stating that senator sessions had no substantive involvement in the cases that he listed as being among the top ten that he had personally handled during his entire career testimony to that, i fect. one of them, jerry heeber, spent 21 years in the justice department's civil rights division. during time which he litigated cases ...

Again happened o very short notice, mr. hebert and his supervurd to doj and pulled the records from the case, from those cases. they themselves discovered their error and they both immediately filed sworn declarations making clear that they were mistaken and that senator sessions did not interfere. it was senator sessions predecessor who had interfered. mr. hebert and his supervisor did not recant their testimony. they simply corrected their testimony in writing in advance of the committee's vote on senator sessions. and mr. hebert's case, that meant he submitted a declaration in which he corr...

Inappropriate. >> i think the senator from texas doesn't get the message from the chairman. >> you put the chairman in an awful bad position at this point because i'm not sure that i know where i'm going. i don't disagree with anything senator cornyn said but'm not sure i want to rule anybody out of oer but could you please leave personalities out of it? >> senator cruz did the very thing that senator cornyn is accusing me of doing. in my absence, he misrepresented me. he misrepresented mr. hebert. he personally went after me. he personally imputed my integrity. you didn't object then. >> i'm ...